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".
新版和老版的区别就是画面清晰度更高，舞台表演痕迹弱了，技术更好而已。斯皮尔伯格完全是为了完成自己童年的梦想，再加上现在也确实拍不出什么新东西了。碰巧奥斯卡评委跟他有一样的童年情结，所以拿了个提名。美国人最爱的歌舞片对于咱们来说只能排在《音乐之声》《雨中曲》甚至《爱乐之城》之后了！
形式是很华丽的，但是这个“芯”实在是很难让人共情。男女主的表演堪称灾难。
America，这段舞蹈，全片精华之精华，其他部分随便糊弄都无所谓啦，最佳女配果然不是盖的。女主也不错值得看
看來六十年前的經典精品還是經典，連大師都沒辦法做到等量齊觀，算是交了白卷。
掀开历史上的黑暗章节，监视与被监视，伪装与拆下伪装。角色经历的心态变化与暗处波云诡谲般的对抗，借由主演出色的演绎变得异常生动（并且弥补了节奏拖沓的毛病）；许多近景的给予也都在渲染这份窒息。没有高能转折，也并非激烈对峙；即使并不了解（或是知道）原型故事的来源，铁幕之下的风云变幻依然可以从中充分的感受- -可参考为更为冷静的《气球》。
很不如老版且改编点不咋出彩没啥必要的一次翻拍 放普通导演这叫无功无过但对斯皮尔伯格这就有点…尤其是主角的感情线 两位的演技呀实在让我想笑尤其男主脸也丑唱功也弱还是个烂人 我简直如坐针毡 另外老版鲜艳丰富的颜色搭配也变得暗黑了起来反倒让Anita这个满是戏点的配角更加亮眼 Ariana的表演十分出彩 奥斯卡最佳女配非她莫属
斯皮尔伯格的旧瓶装旧酒是视觉上和场面调度上的提升，有些地方是独属歌舞片，甚至是舞台剧般的乐趣，作为歌舞剧爱好者自然乐在其中。而且，虽然已经在别处看过很多次，也曾数次思考这个故事里愚蠢的地方，但我还是觉得，莎翁关于罗密欧与朱丽叶的故事，简直是包含了所有爱情里最纯真，最美好，最动人的部分。
史匹堡行活儿，歌舞场面还是很丝滑的，都得益于出色的调度能力，但这个种族冲突的故事并未演绎出新意，男女主表演一般，女二还不错，几个关键场次表现出了张力。
Literally WTF. Ridiculous storyline… Ansel Elgort’s performance… and the gangsters in the 60s sashayed like they were Mama Ru’s children? But also, such great supportive acting, dance numbers, and production design. Alas, a long sigh.
演员没什么问题，是题材不好吗，感觉拍的也有问题
6.5/ 恋爱脑女主 冲动小白脸男主 尬的不行的trans 白男核心的身份认同 是时代的肤浅缩影 新瓶旧酒似乎也没在新时代给人更多的印象与思考
3-21、22 2月底就有片源了，竟然拖拖拉拉到现在才看完。经典故事加成出错的概率不大，这版钱多了，灯光画面舞蹈服饰都太精美好看了。还是掩不住悲剧的内核，在打架那里竟然暗自希望能改故事，但是如果改了其实后半部电影就完全不存在了，也失去了它该有的意义了。因为自己看着看着也意识到，后半段的悲剧才是让这个故事重新升华的地方，所有的恨和爱交织在那几个角色短暂的两天时间里。
最震撼我的是斯皮尔伯格的摄影，影机的运动行云流水，动若脱兔，举重若轻。斯老师很有点得道成仙的味道
从61版相对大胆舞台化的艺术片过渡到了成熟的商业片，把本就存在的社会问题更加尖锐的凸显了出来，这也是斯皮尔伯格擅长的意识形态运用。相比61版也强调了暴力元素，个人觉得这样更好。美中不足的可能就是结局略有仓促，关于“仇恨”的演说被砍掉了很多，缺少了逻辑和说服力。
相比之下，题材有些相近的《身在高地》则十分不幸，舞美未能攫住观众眼球，剧本的弱点便显露无疑。
3.0。出色到近乎超現實光影和調度無不昭示著，斯皮爾伯格尚有能力執導一部中游水平的商業片。因而更加不明白為什麼他要花精力改編這個極為平庸舊作。最大敗筆在於毫無火花的男女主角——讓baby演這種角色足見斯皮爾伯格現在的選角能力還不如埃德加賴特，相較之下女配甚至過於亮眼了。
25.12.2021 | @ Regal Majestic | 实力太硬了！太久没看Spielberg真是都忘了好的电影是这个样子的。我对于Ariana DeBose就是成长粉，真是越来越好了！Mike Faist这玩世不恭的颜给我往死里磕！
妈呀写完短评更气了想打1星呵呵哒
正负美国梦，情歌百货店，警局阿飞传；精致，老派，奢侈，希望以后有机会能大银幕补习61年版
但是，終於，老狗玩不出新把戲……沒想到是通篇照抄，卻也抄不到更好的成績，遑論歌曲唱功、場景調度、角色顏值、拍攝手法、表演才藝……居然都遜色原作好幾籌，心中根本激不起半點漣漪。
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