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".
主角光环，开挂战斗。好久没看这么长的电影了，3个小时。赤手空拳，单挑老虎。老虎做的太真啦，合成也很棒。男主身材太好了，全是肌肉呀，力量超强。这哪是警察呀，这是战神吧！种族歧视，反抗斗争。吃饭不要用左手。
“I’ll miss you”, “good bye” “good bye”
“Hoping is waiting for someone else to do it. We’d be much better off without it.”真的能说绥靖是争取了时间吗？（演员真好）
電影構建了一個比較正面的張伯倫，和一個人性化的希特勒。
剧情非常契合今天的夜宵烧烤暴力事件，结局是男女老幼所有人都获得了枪，每个人都该有把枪。不常见的南印度泰卢固语，抛开开挂问题，动作设计特别有意思而且很燃。每次起跑出拳都要匀速慢镜头特写让人以为动作指导是扎克施耐德。
很精致的片子，在真实历史的框架里展示不同人的各种抉择，很精彩
我们的世界历史课本上写着张伯伦是一个愚蠢软弱的绥靖主义者，而其继任者丘吉尔则被赞为力挽狂澜的英雄，而这部电影则给了我们另一个角度来看待这位即使是丘吉尔上台后依然不敢怠慢的历史人物。
不同的角度，edge of the war
他们能做出这种事，就能做出任何事。
别让结果作为动力 更勿因依恋而不作为
2.2022年了，看到傲慢的英国人说着强盛的大英帝国，咋那么想笑呢，啊哈哈哈哈哈！
印度版的勇敢的心，印度往事，印式主旋律，你能看到很多电影的影子，但也能一眼看出这就是典型的印度大片，也算是印度的超级英雄片了，两人摧毁一支军队，本质上还是一部爽片，无论是人物的塑造，气氛的渲染，分镜设计，还是节奏，完全按照典型的装逼片的模式（也好久没有看到这么老派的镜头语言了），你能猜到剧情如何发展，但你却没想到导演的下一步还能这样，特别是最后的那场大战，两人的配合还真有意思，真佩服导演的想象力，也把我看乐了，那些逻辑什么的，还重要吗哈哈哈。7.2
前十分钟同族自相残杀的暴力画面看得我差点退出，挺过去之后，才是我想看的印度电影——最喜欢的就是印度片这种“真实题材乱入神话感的感觉”，给你“人即神”即视感，还总有幽默感渗透其中。唱着歌，跳着舞，耍着帅就把事儿给办了，放狮子老虎那场大戏太有趣了。以及不得不说，印度舞的下盘真是太厉害了，稳得像练家子，而且这个国家本就有灵性传统，什么打着坐飞起来，光脚从雪山出来，而自从了解到印度的一种武术，那种克里亚瑜伽精神、力量感与身体几何，就更知道了，所以放别的地方不成立的拍法只有放在印度毫无违和，这就叫风格。
Paul真的好美貌☺️😋
7.最后面这个毗湿奴（看前面的评论是罗摩，搞不明白，印度神太多了）有点骚啊！还有那军装上，赤裸裸的嘲讽，笑死了！
印度大片就是这个味。明明预算拉满场景都很精美，但是人物就是很浮夸，有些道具特效就是带点假，然后看着又巨爽。抵抗殖民的故事我们应该都能有所共情，类似于曾经中国的霍元甲黄飞鸿电影。最追求的是动作视效，其次是民族心，功夫是真是假刀剑棍棒能不能打赢枪炮都是次要的。
一份有麻有辣有奶油有咸鱼有番茄酱有樱桃有小龙虾有臭豆腐的豪华大披萨！这片要是中国拍的票房绝对捧到100亿啊
Spy thriller 的紧张感拉满，观影感受💯
类型：剧情/历史/爱情/（以及神话..）
今天看这部电影给人以强烈的政治现实感。当年由德英法意四国首脑签署的《慕尼黑协议》，同意割让捷克的苏台德领土给德国。英首相张伯伦的绥靖政策并没有阻止Hitler 的扩张野心，协议只维持了一年，战争爆发。最近的俄乌之战，Putin又是个什么gui呢？
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