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".
艺术是昂贵的，梦想更是，功能名就之前，需要付出的不仅仅是金钱，还有大量的时间和精力，甚至牺牲与身边人正常相处的模式。也正因为这样，梦想实现的时候，才显得那么美妙。可惜这个世界大多数时候都是庸俗的，你的作品很好，但太过文艺，无法变现，你唯一的办法就是继续下去，不断地写新作品，直到等来被大众接受的那天。Jon是个英年早逝的天才，是悲剧也是幸运，还有多少为艺术付出一生的人在被生活逼到最终绝境的那一刻，依旧在角落里默默无闻，唉。
809｜这个我也看过了，可是我的标记又不见了。草。
鬼灭为了怀旧，瞎出剧场版啊，但是总是有人买账，好吧
三代音乐剧人的交织啊，天才惜天才。知道rent的创作者很早过世但竟然是首演前一晚？这也太鲨了……看见桑爷爷别说乔纳森了，我都想哭。LMM、大姐二姐的客串好惊喜，嘻嘻。哭了27号，桑爷爷去世了……刚刚还看到一个背后故事，桑爷爷角色是Whitford演的，但老爷子看过片子之后觉得味道差点意思就修改了台词并且亲自帮忙录制了给加菲的那段话，哭了
九柱集结，阵仗颇有点权游中各族联合对抗异鬼之势。只不过鬼灭的这一场是审判。产屋敷的门下用数字 9。无惨的门生用数字 12，还分为上弦下弦。都是传统文化中的经典数字。
30岁生日第一天看也太巧合了 前面20分钟一直想要呐喊谁在偷拍我的生活 然而后面的成功部分就与我无关了呵呵呵呵 总之是一个很棒的传记作品，就算是音乐剧形式也并不难接受，而且确实和人物很贴合
同样也需要愿意写作并且生活的艺术家们。
LMM首次做導演能有這個水平，他真的很有才華。這電影形式眼前一亮，展現musical行業的艱難，並致敬了LMM的知音Johnathan Larson。Broadway充滿有才華的演員，但有幾個能以此為生，感謝這些堅持夢想的人們❤️
梦想与爱情，配上音乐是绝佳的组合。
生活都被写进剧里，生活本身也自然被掏空。
EP.22-26 《柱众会议》
很多镜头都感觉在rent里似曾相识，不过这电影里的歌感觉和rent里的歌相比没那么好听，这部Superbia到底是讲什么的真的很想看啊
结果Stephen Sondheim这就去世了。他给Jon的电话留言，突然觉得，真的是应该多给别人一些善意和鼓励，简单几句也许会对那个看重你的人有意想不到的作用。歌都好好听。
追求梦想真的不易，ps在看完的凌晨看到了史蒂芬桑德海姆去世的消息🙏
那田蜘蛛山篇的后续，柱们的出现为本作增色不少！
主角们成长的过程，夸张又卖萌的轻松剧情，无限列车前篇。
不跟《爱乐之城》比较就还可，一旦比较就立刻千疮百孔。音乐、调度、编舞（如果有）和剧作人物一样既没有整体感也没有层次感，文本本没有足够丰富的情绪，却要塞入大量的唱段和内心戏，只会显得絮烦甚至有点傻。唯一真正让我喜欢的点是刻画创作焦虑的感觉是对的，但作为内卷时代的“后浪”看他们的焦虑真的难以抑制的有种嫌弃感。大概这位新导演以为引入同性、有色裔再来谈梦想就是跟上了时代，呵呵这不叫创作，这叫他妈的投机取巧！Shame on you！！！
PS：我要为加菲爆灯！！
虽然有鬼杀队十个等级的设定，但就用过2次，最初根本没有提到过柱。9柱也就这么聚首过一次而已。话说这几个人要不是主角团队，都已经死了好几次了吧。
以及，最喜欢的曲子是Therapy
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