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".
话剧+商业片+诗性电影缝合产物，几段意识流还不错。动作戏没钱完全可以不拍、、
画面很美，意境很高，水下镜头更好看，不用低饱和调色也能表达这些，可能是为了让断肢不那么血腥。
就真的还好 影像上是有些有意思的想法 不过也不能指望主旋律有多少出格吧
整体阴暗潮湿平淡，偶有场景印象深刻。蛇、溪水、林间、水下、洞中、芦苇荡。每个人都是人，会冷血也会动恻隐之心。不是黑白，饱和度极低的色彩。
不管怎么雕琢形式，主旋律的原罪人物形象的单薄依旧无法避免，甚至给洪启辰打上象征真理与正义的光更加剧了这种本质主义思维的蛮横，知识分子味的说教实在令人难以接受，似乎影片中表现一切人物的人性与犹疑只是树立一个个该被打倒的标靶。
是一个好的突破和尝试，刚开始总是比较艰难和难以实现的，相信导演自己也还有很多遗憾吧，但是可以慢慢来嘛，这是个开始……（受不了点映结束之后观众发言的空话套话，搞得我好想逃离😅）
战争会把我塑造成哪一个自己呢？
整体来说形式远远远远大于内容 水中戏 山洞煽动戏的调度还挺喜欢的
这部片子的战斗场面还是不错的，也足够残酷。形式确实很新颖，仔细看还是挺好看的
学校点映，形式大于内容，制作粗糙，舞台既视感无比强烈，血色的雨还不错
(ps：刚开始一个人在影院看这个片，冷气配电影贼阴森，后来来了个大哥在前排狂嚼爆米花，有人气多了。
前面觉得一般，结尾还是有被震撼到。美院也是把风格化做出来了。还有，终于懂为什么北影节要把“红军与白军”改成红与白了。
再前门这里看￣ ￣)σ的镜头很美，叙事完整，讲述的是一个战士执行任务炸弹药库的故事，故事由此开始由此结束。
黑白格调奠定了以浓重悲情色彩为基础，淡化了战争冲突，严格来说质感和美学之间并没有想象中精致，镜头平移频繁切换视角把小人物弧光提高了好几个层面，非主旋律那般牺牲，却也因为叙事过于依赖氛围铺垫导致不够特别，且在两者之间没有一个妥协性~
人物形象的刻画一般，表演还有待加强，剧情太简单，由于成本有限好多戏没能拍到位，给人的震撼不够，代入感就不强。最后芦苇荡里的戏可以拍的再好一些，现在这样给人一种很随便的感觉
不管怎么雕琢形式，主旋律的原罪人物形象的单薄依旧无法避免，甚至给洪启辰打上象征真理与正义的光更加剧了这种本质主义思维的蛮横，知识分子味的说教实在令人难以接受，似乎影片中表现一切人物的人性与犹疑只是树立一个个该被打倒的标靶。
单位组织观看的。感受就是故弄玄虚，这啥呀这是，啊？
可以看成一次主旋律和艺术性还不错的尝试，但是含糊不清的主题表达，和反主流主旋律的任务片呈现，让整部影片暧昧不明，配音的尴尬让对白成为念白的存在，水平欠佳的枪战戏只能靠昏暗的树林和摇动的芦苇荡来遮羞。 不过获得天坛奖也真的是应该的，哈哈哈。装逼诗意战争学院片
挺写实的拍法，开头很恐怖，人性表现的不错，很接地气
这部影片给人一种梦幻般的听觉感受，空灵而悠远，蛮特别的，是在看战争片，也是在看艺术片。
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