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".
皮儿太厚了，有点儿反英雄的影子，但始终接受不了中间破案的一个小时。
2022-04-13
节奏很舒缓很老派，不像是这个年代的电影更像有上个世纪的风范，但并不觉得很漫长，只是正反派都缺少一点魅力，神探狄仁杰辛苦了，为国为民的。
上映的时候因为疫情电影院都关了，现在一想好在关了
三星半。稍微冗长了一些，能感觉出Matt Reeves想拍出点不一样的东西，但呈现上还是没能逃出大行其道的诺兰式风格的窠臼，剧本、人物也都还是有些差距。配乐还不错，用得很满，除了咣咣咣的氛围音乐，好几段旋律都很有复古气质，贯穿全片的洗脑主题旋律特别像星球大战达斯维达主题卡带了……
影片实在有不错的地方，融合了漫长的万圣节的悬疑气氛并且以蝙蝠侠出道第二年的第一人称视角进行讲述，对电影来说很新颖，也看得出编剧十分下功夫。但可惜故事没有更多的悬念与惊喜，人物的挖掘也因为各种原因没有达到我的预期。有一些片段展现出蝙蝠侠的精神，但随后又会失神。
2022-03-19 怜认也要讲 < ? >
A rather mediocre war-time spy thriller
我觉得还可以，寻思再探究探究，结果这评论区啊，简直没眼看……拿颜值肌肉啥的比来比去的有劲儿吗？
万万想不到最后能在影院里看到新蝙蝠。。。摄影风格和something in the way好搭啊，一秒戳中！都挺好，就是感情线真的尬，嫩牛五方的嘴巴和牙齿本来就不好看，还非要亲，看得我想捂眼。
热知识：DC=Detective Comics
一大堆罗里吧嗦的台词，解密元素和打斗场面少的可怜，看的人心里直刺挠
我心目中蝙蝠侠漫改电影的样子，大洪水和张献忠在遥远的国度爆发前，先在black lives matter的哥谭市预演了一遍
视听语言无懈可击，音乐音效超级用心。就是画面太昏暗，加上影院侧面的位置看了快三小时有点坐不住。结局有点落俗。
很noir的名侦探中二蝙，能看出导演为了跟之前蝙蝠侠电影做出差异化下的功夫，但是真的不用那么长，腰痛耳朵痛，有些悬疑音效可以省一省。很想采访猫女戴小偷头套出场的时候不会想要暴揍造型师吗?
Rob Pattinson的蝙蝠侠是个摇滚明星
叙事则打破以往身份神化的惯例，而将角色弧光下沉至凡人视角，借由谜语人所伸张的real change，追问侠影背后的unmasked truth，在不断解析推进的破案中，拼接出主角的身世与观念。
对蝙蝠侠侦探设定的还原是惊喜，但是走悬疑路线最怕的就是节奏疲软，除此之外谜语人的反派人格有些剑走偏锋，那些脑洞大开的经典小游戏才是谜语人本体而非Joker式暴徒，最后就是能感到帕丁森演的很用力了，但角色形象还是跟白特曼略有差距，偶尔会出戏。ps：DC你好好坚持做一个项目行吗，无限重启只会消磨IP剩余价值。
热知识：DC=Detective Comics
温馨提醒：事前需充足睡眠，方可有更佳观影效果。节奏缓慢，文艺蝙蝠侠。
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