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".
重看比之前看剧版哭得还惨。不习惯看音乐剧的人也许确实会觉得尴尬吧？我真的很投入…
故事很新颖，两大影后在其中只是配角却能抢了所有光芒，男主角有种说不上来的牛，不是演员却好像身经百战。音乐很平和，是一部真情流露的歌舞片。
唯一的高能就是内谁内啥了
虽说网上对此片评价不高，但是我觉得还行，可以在看musical之前预习一下
很少给这么低
导演和剪辑都给我去死啊，把我最喜欢的剧改成这样
和音乐剧相比，某些部分讽刺意味更强，某些又削弱了。在想演员的年龄外形是不是可以稍微改一下故事背景。不过有些歌曲还是一如既往的动人。
感谢电影 终于把一直想补但是只有盗摄的DEH给补上了 Broadway的音乐剧就是可以用最简单的故事传递最浅显的道理但总能让人感动 里面有首歌 Words fail 确实 音乐剧的歌曲力量真的比任何words都强大 我太爱musical了
除了evan老了一些些，又一次哭哭笑笑上头。
虽然是歌舞片 但是题材还是有点压抑 还有点沉闷 多多做好身边的事吧
我只能说现实主义题材音乐剧还是不适合拍成电影在大荧幕上放，这电影就像所有歌的mv荟萃集锦，而且还是特尴尬的那种。电影拍的平淡如水，剧情不行，场景调度不行，剪辑不行，有的人演技不行，有些歌唱得也不行，真就全靠音乐剧的底子勉强维持一丝体面了。
为什么一定要一直重复在树林里跑的镜头啊！！！！！！！！
再多给一颗🌟给结局的改写。后半部分拯救了全片。
无功无过吧。当年看剧的时候惊讶于Ben的“手指纠结”、“原地徘徊”大法的表现，肢体动作让人一下子就能get到人物纠结的内心，电影在展现这个部分的时候还是习惯性的推特写，加上演员这个部分基本在唱歌，表现力被吃了不少。
卡司很不错，歌曲也都还动听，音乐剧没看过，就电影来说，片长稍微有点长，其实直到明白主角手臂伤也是因为自杀造成，才明白了那么一点。要是抑郁此类疾病真的可以容易治就好了（其实也不知道自己能坚持多久），有个能倾听和陪伴你的人是很好的，起码你会觉得生命中或许还有些意义！
似乎是认定了看这部电影的只有音乐剧观众了。
Even when the dark comes crashing through, when you need a friend to carry you, when you broken on the ground, you will be found.
音乐剧舞台上营造出的隔绝感在电影中看不到，特别是男主在学校边唱边走的段落，完全表示不出社恐，更像疯狂英语-别管什么环境，都能想来就来一首。
几乎喜欢每一首歌😢
沿用舞台原版的男主到电影当中，对这个角色确实是驾轻就熟。作为歌舞片，里面的几个唱段是相当好听，不过观众还是当普通剧情片在看本片，期间影厅里有人喊“stop singing! ”。确实够催泪，尤其结尾处的三连催泪弹，到后来我也没扛住流泪了。作为一个社恐的人看本片，得到的启示原来是谎言可以拯救社恐……
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