Martin (John Amplas), a young man who looks around 20-years-old, boards a train in Indianapolis, Indiana for New York. At night, he breaks into a sleeping car and sedates a woman with a syringe full of narcotics. She struggles, but he tells her not to struggle or be upset because she wont feel pain. After a few minutes, the woman falls asleep, and Martin has sex with the unconscious woman. Afterwards, he slices her wrists with a razor blade so he can drink her blood. The woman bleeds to death in her sleep.
In the morning, the train stops in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania where Martin disembarks. He is met by Tata Cuda (Lincoln Maazel) an elderly and hostile old man who claims to be his cousin from the Old World. Together, they travel by another train to the town of Braddock, a dying industrial suburb. They walk to Cuda's large house where he shows Martin his living quarters. Cuda then accuses Martin of being an 84-year-old vampire from his old country. He has taken in Martin because he is family, but tells him, "First I will save your soul. Then I shall destroy you." Martin denies being a vampire and implies that Cuda is merely his uncle rather than his cousin. Cuda then puts up strings of garlic on the doors to his and his granddaughter's room, and then holds up a small cross when Martin approaches him. Martin takes away the cross, and even takes a bite of the garlic mocking these attempts by saying bitterly, "There's no real magic... ever". Cuda tells Martin that he can come and go as he pleases. But he also warns Martin that he will kill him if he kills anyone in Braddock. He also tells Martin to stay away from his granddaughter Christine (Christine Forrest), whom arrives home from her job that evening.
Cuda introduces Christine to Martin, but also warns her to stay away from him. But Christine instead strikes up a friendship with Martin who confides in her about his vampire heritage. When Cuda later confirms Martin's claims to be a vampire, Christine, not surprisingly, refuses to believe either one. She thinks that Cuda and the other members of her family have driven Martin to insanity by making him think that he is a vampire. It is never revealed if Martin really is a vampire, or just a shy and lonely youth with troubled issues. Christine is the only person that Martin gets the courage to talk to. When Christine's boyfriend Arthur (Tom Savini) arrives at the house for dinner, Martin stops talking and backs away despite Arthur's attempt at a conversation. Christine later confides in Martin that she hopes to leave Braddock someday with Arthur, even though Martin points out that Arthur treats her badly and is both verbally and physically abusive towards her.
When Christine sees that Martin won't talk to anyone else, she buys him a phone which he installs in his room. Martin begins to repeatingly call a radio talk show where he describes what it's like to be a vampire. He becomes known on the radio as "the Count" to all the listeners. But the patronizing host (Michael Gornick) thinks he's just crazy.
Martin gets a job at Cuda's grocery store of stocking shelves, hauling boxes around, and even gets to be a delivery boy for some of the customers. One of his customers is a certain Abby Santini (Elyane Nadeau), who becomes taken in with Martin. She is a very friendly young woman who is depressed when she tells Martin that her husband is unfaithful. But Martin still does not have the nerve to talk with her, so she is happy to have someone to confide in with her life problems. Martin phones the radio show host to describe his infatuation with the housewife and senses that she wants to have sex with him. When the radio show host asks Martin if it is a sexual problem that he has involving women criticizing him during sex, Martin replies that he has never had sex with a woman who was awake.
One day, Martin travels by train to outside Braddock to look for victims. At a supermarket, he follows a young woman (Sarah Venable) home to her posh suburban house. He sees the woman's husband (Richard Rubenstein) leave for a long business trip, and Martin decides this would be the right time for more feeding. Martin returns to the house after dark and breaks in through the garage door. But it is Martin who gets the surprise when he bursts into her bedroom to find her in bed with her adulterous lover Lewis (Al Levitsky). After a vicious struggle, Martin jabs both of them with hyprodermic needles with narcotics, and waits for the drugs to take affect. He drags the unconscious body of Lewis from the house to a clump of trees across the street where he kills him by shoving a broken tree branch into his neck and drinks his blood. Martin returns to the house where he has sex with the unconscious woman. But out of compassion and pity, he decides to let her live.
Martin begins to have romantic monochrome visions of his vampire past (real or imagined), where he drained blood from a young woman and was chased through the streets of a nameless European town by a torch-lit mob.
During one Sunday at church, Cuda brings home Father Howard (George A. Romero) who asks him about the possibility of exorcism and demon possession. Father Howard calls upon the elderly Father Zulemans (Clifford Forrest, Jr.) over at Cuda's request. Together, Cuda and Zulemans confront Martin his bedroom and attempt to perform an exorcism on him. At this point, Martin remembers (another real or imaginary flashback), in the Old Country of people trying to perform an exorcism on him, and he flees them. Martin then flees from Cuda and Zuelmas as well. A little later that night, Martin terrorizes Cuda in a children's playground when he puts on a Dracula cape and puts false fangs into his mouth to pretend that he really is a vampire.
One day, Martin finally musters the courage to talk with Mrs. Santini during a routine delivery to her house where he tells her that he's aware of her attempts to seduce him and wants now to have sex with her. After having sex for the first time, Mrs. Santini becomes more depressed for she tells Martin that her husband just left her because she discovered that she cannot bear children, and that her desires towards him are based on sex and nothing else. But Martin wants to stay with her and help her move on with her life. Martin tells the radio show host about his affair with the housewife and that he no longer has the urge to attack other women.
Meanwhile, Arthur meets with Cuda and tells him that he wants Christine to leave town with him so they can get married and start a family. But Christine becomes angry at Cuda when he tells Arthur that insanity runs in their family and he shouldn't consider having children with her. Shortly afterwards, Christine packs up and leaves Braddock for New York with Arthur despite Martin telling her that Arthur is abusive towards her. But her mind is made up. Before leaving, Christine tells Martin that she really has no ill feelings towards him and just wants to make a fresh start with her life. She says goodbye to him and promises to write. But Martin knows that with an abusive and possessive man in Christine's life, she probably won't.
Depressed over losing his one true friend, Martin phones the radio show host and tells him that he's getting "shaky" and wants to go out looking for more victims. That night, Martin travels to a rough crime-ridden area of Pittsburgh and attacks two derelicts in a alley, injecting them with narcotics. He kills one of them by silting the bum's wrist and drinking his blood. Martin is about to kill the second one when a police car shows up and gives chase. Martin narrowly escapes during a long chase on foot which leads from the garbage strew streets and through a local store. Martin runs into an old warehouse where a drug deal is going down. A shootout between the two cops and the three thugs begins where all of them are killed, leaving Martin as the sole survivor who casually walks away from the carnage.
One day, Martin finds Mrs. Santini dead in her bathtub, after she had slit her writs with a razor blade. Martin anonymously calls the police to report the body and leaves. He phones the radio show host one final time to say that he really doesn't need friends or people to talk to for he is his own person. But when Cuda learns about Mrs. Santini's suicide, is mistakenly thinks Martin killed her and made it look like a suicide as he's done before. Cuda walks into Martin's room while he is asleep and kills him by hammering a wooden stake through Martin's heart.
Cuda buries Martin's body in his back garden, while over the closing credits various voices from people are heard talking to the radio show host asking the whereabouts of "the Count".
20210804周三晚 分2次看完，标准娱乐大片，带孩子看吧，然后给迪士尼乐园创收
全片充斥着一种傻乎乎的正能量，细节精彩丰富，看得叫人开心。不是每部电影都需要有意义有逻辑的。
觉得挺爽快的纯粹商业电影，啥元素都有。巴西，亚马逊，女权，硬汉，软蛋，丛林，玛雅，大航海，惊悚。被激光IMAX音箱差点没震聋。
这，导演是看了周星驰的美人鱼吧，，，，10块钱我命都给你好不好
木乃伊＋夺宝奇兵＋加勒比海盗的结合体，但是三个系列的精髓是一点也没有体现，最大的看点是女主演得不错
全年龄向丛林冒险故事，完全符合老美对亚马逊的所有幻想，特效和剧本都不错，可惜强森不适合这个角色（你见过这么五大三粗一嘴美式英语的西班牙绘图师么），布朗特在女生里算高壮的了（不妨碍她是我的女神），跟强森啃上的时候依旧充满违和。反而配角都很出彩，两个反派都演得很好，基佬弟弟也戏精十足，肥肠适合合家欢观看，不得不说迪士尼这个广告打得完美，看完又想再去玩一遍丛林奇航项目了……
EB扮相很英气，喜欢～（就是看到和巨石的感情戏要心梗了
幼稚版加勒比海盗？我不管，巨石强森很可爱哈哈哈
--2021.08.29 Edgartown
anyway，我喜欢女主
典型的看了和没看一个样的女杀手动作片，人物关系塑造过于僵硬，转变也很突兀，甚至这个一马平川的剧情让人觉得90分钟以内就可以说完，也就偶尔几场打斗戏勉强可一看。
虽然本片也是好莱坞难得的商业大片里的原创电影，但看着就是给人感觉不像是原创...一切都是那么似曾相识...
感觉还不错呢。合家欢，爆米花，没有太过恐怖的情节，节奏又比较快。惊情四百年的真“石头”强森，啧啧这个口味重一点。艾米丽布朗特这片子里也挺美。
幼稚版加勒比海盗？我不管，巨石强森很可爱哈哈哈
意外好看，老少皆宜的爆米花片，节奏很稳，不愧是加勒比海盗团队（ip来自迪士尼乐园的一个项目）还真有几分神似
美国版盗墓笔记。制作水平一流。国产盗墓剧集有这种制作就牛掰了。有《加勒比海盗》，《夺宝奇兵》的影子，女主还谈了一场人鬼情未了，挺好。“世界对你来说很新鲜，对我而言是老生常谈。”
看的时候就说，这个电影好适合主题公园，结果才发现原来就是主题公园改的电影。就还有点无聊，中间停了好几次，但又不算难看……
迪士尼老套冒险片，连细节几乎都差不多，看开头猜结尾，他们家的电影总有一种“一本两拍”的既视感，全在意料之中，但偶尔也不乏一些有趣的部分以及漂亮的女主。★★☆
不无聊，但是真的很难想象与接受强森的暧昧戏。3.5星。
Kirsten Dunst的老公果然很有特点，让人一见难忘。迪士尼合家欢，我就知道。哼休想赚我的眼泪。
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