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".
这一部围绕两个故事线展开，人物安排没有上一部那样精巧了，出现很多背景板。
目前为止最喜欢的一个主题
看到这些人的时候，记忆还是能回来，虽然十分陈旧。可惜物是人非，故事已经不是原来的故事了。唐顿的热闹，只是电影里的热闹，和拍电影人的热闹。老太太走了，让人一通好哭。
电影版都看了，圣诞版也都看了，唯独电视剧版，停在大小姐速度周旋在两个男人之间，以及各种糟心的剧情。再看此片，情怀都在。依旧不喜欢司机，他简直是在编剧笔下开挂的命好，原因是去世的三小姐爱上了他。我甚至为托马斯开启“下一站人生”而欣慰。是的，在这残忍的世界里能尽量幸福！父亲大人一如既往抓我眼球，哭泣那段演的真好啊！希望还有续篇：南法度假篇（让我联想到阿婆的推理剧），玛丽跟导演再续……想不到已经十二年了，第一次看此剧是2010年。
归宿都有了，结局一眼望到头了，就这样吧（言外之意，不要再拍了！）
这一部突然发现老爷和Mary都有了不少岁月的痕迹，开始变老，想起当年追第一个圣诞特辑的种种回忆，这么多年对Mary的欣赏一直未变，她是一个就算独自一人也会永远潇洒优雅扛起全家的那个人，以及Violet / Maggie，我依然无法想象不再有你的那一天。
"stop that noise,I can't hear myself die"
少年独自走向未来，存在失衡瞬间，缤纷并非总是美好，褪去色彩，感知纯粹自我，因知内心所向，迈向无边界未来。
本以为第二部不如第一部，没想到更好。无声转有声的故事融合的很好，剧本缜密，人物鲜活，全员演技在线。国内公映版删掉的五分钟应该就是电影明星和管家的基情戏吧。其实咱们的乡村爱情故事效仿一下，拍成电影版，也不会差！
觉得没有第一部好看，更没有原剧好看，期待大失望也有点大，但总体来说还是很不错了，想给个3.5。
即便都已预料到，但最后一场戏还是哭死，一个时代的终结，和新生命的开始。抛开粉丝滤镜，这片最多值三星，真的拍得不像电影，Downton始终还是适合电视剧，我不能说它拍得粗糙，服化道还是一流的，但整个摄影剪辑就非常简单，流水线制作感。剧情上两条线之间也没关联，每一个角色都各司其职，现在Downton真的越来越好猜了，粉丝想要什么抓马，它就喂给你什么。
老爷居然还经历了一场身份危机2333小管家的感情线都快删没了QAQ最后莫名其妙就离职了。婚礼开始，葬礼结束，死亡与新生，默片与有声电影的更替，A New Era很点题了
元电影这层处理地很有意思。双线叙事增添了不少乐趣，可惜没多大关联。
合集，跟着科普来的，还是想说日漫的产业工业的强大，期待国漫也跟上
里面提到了由默片向有声电影的过渡期，展现出了做默片的电影人的窘境，让人想到了那个法国电影《艺术家》（仅为个人切入角度）。
看到他们又有新的生命诞生，又有人喜结连理，也又有人离去，仿佛也感受到自己作为它们的一员，又陪着这个家族迈向了new era。看着小西比小乔治长大，自己的年华也在悄然流逝了。
还是熟悉的贵族庄园调调，这些年也对英式旧庄园和交际更熟悉了一点，看得更心领神会有趣得很。庄园出租拍电影，美国女演员的粗俗和口音真是惊到了所有人，奶奶还说她讲得很musical，英式拐弯抹角和讽刺好好玩，变成有声电影后时代默片女星当然被淘汰。另外一拨人去了南法，光是想想英国跟南法的温度差就替剧中人热死了。唐家屯这么多年了居然又出了一部！开心。巴罗先生老了不少。
距离唐顿庄园开播已经十二年了啊，完结的电视剧还能时不时出电影版发发福利，看看老朋友的感觉真好。Goodbye my lady
即便都已预料到，但最后一场戏还是哭死，一个时代的终结，和新生命的开始。抛开粉丝滤镜，这片最多值三星，真的拍得不像电影，Downton始终还是适合电视剧，我不能说它拍得粗糙，服化道还是一流的，但整个摄影剪辑就非常简单，流水线制作感。剧情上两条线之间也没关联，每一个角色都各司其职，现在Downton真的越来越好猜了，粉丝想要什么抓马，它就喂给你什么。
野猪好可爱啊哈哈哈。黄毛在这篇里更可爱。为了保护祢豆子被揍得好惨哈哈哈哈哈。然后其实还挺强的啊。
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