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".
从club之后就不是我喜欢的青春片了，但我也接受这样疯狂的青春。
年轻实力派演员吴磊、张子枫+老戏骨郝蕾以及最喜欢的导演，这部片子是我近期看过最棒的一部青春电影！
整个电影充满动感，运动王国的氛围打造得相当真实，不少fancy cut还是能吓你一跳的。可惜故事跳不出俗套，训练过程冗长，显疲态。桑德勒依然不错。
即便早先就被透露了片中的麦格芬，却也并未影响观影时的流畅与新鲜。流畅的，是较为真诚的生活节奏；新鲜的，是毫不土气的青春质感。无论从单纯的校园心思，还是到宏观的成长认同，影片在日常逻辑上都能自圆其说，能支撑于此的，显然不止钻研审查的算计而已。
或许是近年来最好的国产青春片了，有关高考，有关家庭，以及有关爱恋，“MING”的性别模糊化与其说是在规避审查不如说是对青春期的迷茫，对未来迷失方向，《盛夏未来》这个片名也很贴切，唯一的遗憾就是吴磊饰演的“郑宇星”这个角色没有展开来讲，有点可惜吧
校园永远都是美好的，社会永远都是残酷的。我们在爱情的道路上兜兜转转，绕不开那些不经意中的沟沟壑壑，享受过幸福，看破过红尘，一个人暗自过神伤，也在寂寞的黑夜中哭到天亮……我们一直在憧憬着未来，相信那不是一个梦，我们愿意长眠在这个自己虚构出的梦中。年度最喜欢的“荧幕CP”之一，吴磊的桀骜不羁，配上张子枫乖乖女的形象，有一种心生怜爱的反差感，两个人搭配在一起确实给人带来很强的好感度；电影的剧情也基本符合青春疼痛电影的定位，暗恋的人未必喜欢自己，喜欢的人终究不能在一起，那些年少的鲁莽和冲动，也会成为未来我们最甜的回忆。陈正道在电影之中依旧影射了一些LGBTQ的人物关系，很有趣，开放的校园环境更多的选择了包容，这也应该是现代社会应该可以做到的。
隔了近一个月，我才在影院看到这部暑假值得一看的青春片。青春或许总是会留有遗憾的，像郑宇星对ming深沉的爱却爱而不得，又像陈辰对郑宇星两年的暗恋到一步步的试探接近却无果而终。“我要是能喜欢你就好了”，显示出爱的人不爱自己的遗憾与痛苦。看到最后，我觉得ming是男是女都无所谓了，ming更像是人们对于美好爱情所寄予希望的一个象征。比起《盛夏光年》对于好朋友的暗恋却没有勇气在一起的遗憾，这部在陈辰告白后各自都学会了成长与放下，接受爱情里的错位与缺失，无论是对于父母还是对于自己。
审查的原因，同性的线索给的太少，导致磕cp的磕的有多high，摔的也多惨，但好在让人愉悦的成长多过于甜甜的化学反应，整个观感很舒服。
故事虽然俗套，但每次看到这种真情实感去讲相信奇迹的故事，都会被感动。任何时候，梦想都不会也不应该廉价。
真的没人对张子枫的台词有意见吗？咬字上有意无意的拿腔作调，下次请好好说话。电影本身有好的地方也有不如意的地方。有几个镜头蛮好看也有感动，还有一些关于学生时代的描写也挺熟悉。但是！再一次理解到上学时候老师讲的，推拉镜头的效果确实很low，low到等于摁着观众头去“领会”导演的意图（出戏），而不是被演员和气氛所带动（入戏）。
如果能够不为规避审查，直接说清楚陈辰和郑宇星之间的关系就好了。那他们之间很多戏看着会更有青春的感觉（比如屋里弹琴唱歌那场戏）。
高中生的小打小闹……抹去了身份/性别的MING就像所有被抹去被消声的🌈群体一样。
完全没想到近两年一直走下坡路的 Netflix 能发这么一部优秀的运动电影，比隔壁《King Richard》强到不知道哪里去了（可惜了大小威的传奇故事）。不看篮球如我都看得热血沸腾，后面 credit 看到一堆本人出演可想而知球迷会多激动。角色都超可爱，尤其是二男主 Bo 这个角色又闷又有激情虽然台词不多但非常饱满。剧情也在张弛有度跌宕起伏的同时没有恶意刁难也没有故意 drama，点到即止的相忘于江湖的克制看得非常舒服。唯一不满意的是结尾的高潮没有推到头，不够过瘾虎头蛇尾。
明知道简单得像童话，但还是很喜欢这种清甜的感觉。编剧用心。节奏有些慢，但导演对情绪的把控还是到位的。张子枫迷人。
3星半。充满了年轻的躁动，朦朦胧胧纯爱的粉红泡泡，电音的激情，精准对标年轻人市场，但是缺乏更广泛的共鸣，不过是一场年轻的梦。子枫妹妹的定位太模糊了，一会演大人，一会演小孩，对观众来说真的挺难代入的。
不必 真的大可不必
就像他们上课时一起听的那首歌，《Moments》，就是一个个灵动的青春的碎片。我很喜欢这种有氛围感的故事。前一小时专治尴尬癌，好笑好看的同时，突然羡慕起郑宇星了，他的人格真是非常健康，为人开朗又坦荡，这种人是构建安全型关系的基石。完美得不真实。
实在没有意会到“盛夏”的含义，满屏都是清新的自然风，难道是我之前低估了吴磊好张子枫的演技吗，这里面竟然竟然觉得两人还有点儿CP感。
明知道简单得像童话，但还是很喜欢这种清甜的感觉。编剧用心。节奏有些慢，但导演对情绪的把控还是到位的。张子枫迷人。
三星半，还不错的青春电影。Ming是那个“她”，唱《拥抱》的时候还纳闷了一下，这首歌放在这合适吗，原来是导演夹带私货。子枫很用心地把自己代入陈辰的角色里面，然而很多时候她还是张子枫，再看郝蕾在陈辰妈妈这个角色里的时候，郝蕾这个人就消失了，所以妹妹还要继续加油。当郑宇星给陈辰放那首remix的拥抱的时候，一下子就击中了我的心巴。唯一想吐槽的是导演不能多买几首歌的版权吗，既然有电音元素，好的音乐就更容易给电影加分了，来回就是那两首，太抠搜了。
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