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".
又是一部北欧题材的影片，又是阴郁压抑的氛围。根据真实故事改编的电影，虽然节奏慢，但是还看得下去，在面临绝境的时候，人的求生欲望，以及友情，爱情对人意志的支撑都很让人动容。但是总感觉对极地生活的艰辛描述得不够，只有一头北极熊光顾，再就是男主生病产生了强烈幻觉，跟荒野猎人比还是差点意思。
有点无聊 劣质励志 那种人在遭遇奇迹之后会吓到 会怀疑 变或不变会反映在他之后的样子 还是满口脏话 顺嘴得不得了 那就是没变 编剧怕观众太智障 就把自己变成智障 写成了他外在没变的剧情 太扯了
然而，值得欣赏他的恰是这些角色，可能就有他的某些本色，那种总是不言败的挣扎，沧桑中从未自卑自怜。这是什么样的一种挣扎啊，与他的愁眉和额头皱纹那么不大搭配，当多少观众已随他一起变老并似乎躺平在无奈的生活中等人提醒已经pass your prime ，而马克还在荧幕上，始终有那种不会消散的力气，那一昧的闯劲直到在《斯图神父》中，因为找到精神的力量，他的面容终于获得了难得一见的平静。
不够有吸引力，主角和那种极端恶劣环境的对抗不够，内心的幻象和最后的现实重合又太夸张。
劲无聊，雪橇狗狗给多1星，作死系列，没有任何值得可怜...
宗教传记影片，但个人觉得导演的重点并非宗教宣扬，我看到的是信仰之光。无论是否信教、无论是有神论或无神论，信仰存在于没个人心中，上帝只是斯图信仰的寄托，因为有了信仰，他才得以悔过、解脱和坚强，并把他的路带给有神或无神的“信徒”。我也是无神论者，我不是个宗教小白，但还是觉得此片很带感，感谢导演。
景色不错，人与大自然对抗太难，还弄死了唯一的朋友狗
马克沃克伯格一定有专门的编剧，要不然怎么他演的每一部电影都有一样的节奏和分幕结构？美国电影就是依靠这样的价值观去渗透其他国家。
年轻时期的女主是真的好看，不过说真的2000年初左右一个标准的美国大金毛有个黑人闺蜜可真是稀罕事，就像女主苏醒后她的闺蜜第一时间在纠正她关于用词的标准性一样，真是赤裸裸的政治正确的讽刺。当然女主也足够努力，毕竟36岁要演出17岁并不容易。20年时间足够让政治正确毁掉大部分的正确生态环境，剩下的都是空洞的口号和主义，当然你也可以看到一个学校在20年之间的人口肤色种族的变迁史。用啦啦队做开头然后用啦啦队做结尾挺好的。这部电影说真的，情节还是其次，政治嘲讽的价值更大。
基于真实故事的改编，将近3年的探险极地求生，能活着已经是最精彩的部分。
-Man don’t lose when he gets knocked down, but when he won’t get up.
可以算是美版的活着吧，只是对于基督教实在是不感冒
前半段看的很感动，后半段实在没拍好。一个teenager都不知道什么是自己，又怎么做自己呢？立意和冲击感都有了，但是逻辑并没拍的很顺畅。好在演员演的都不错，除了没完没了的澳洲口音！
这美式青春剧多少年了还是没变，只不过时代变迁加入了一些可供调侃的政治正确元素，最后落点还是否了prom queen，专注于个人个性与魅力。
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故事开头设定给的期待值过高，中间后面就平平并且转折特别硬……父亲和两个发小太好了，独领风骚女主角的客串还是有惊喜的。女主角演员瘦好多啊！但是看她胳膊皮好松……不是说减肥瘦下来皮不会松嘛……
我不信任何高高在上的神灵，可清醒的知道我们都是那群在后知后觉中于认定里咬着牙继续前行的傻瓜…
我跟Father Stu一样，冲着女主来的，那个演玛利亚的也好看，关注了！没想到梅尔吉布森也在里面，他仿佛还是我最爱的那个《致命武器》里的Riggs,在房车里握着酒瓶颓废醒来，突然感觉这片可以做《致命武器5》,Riggs跟老婆生了两个娃，结果夭折一个，另一个也很操蛋。结尾曲蛮好听，有个像《好莱坞往事》桥段一样的彩蛋
The bear. The bear! One shot. Don't miss.
生命中的矛盾无处不在，生命中的倔强难能可贵。编剧导演奉献了一个深刻的故事，Mark也奉献了精彩的演出，除了Mark的少部分情节和台词过于硬以及吉布森老爷的角色气质不对之外，整部戏故事走心，音乐用心，演员费心。评分可以更高。
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