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".
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音乐剧人致敬音乐剧人，本片也改编自拉森的音乐剧自传。节奏和情绪演绎（真人与音乐段落跳接）很有趣，可惜没在大屏幕看，但感觉看现场最合适。印象最深是和女友争吵那场戏。
百老汇音乐剧这玩意应该是西方戏剧文化的衍变产物，看不懂，不过豆瓣分数一直都超高，大概有一些流行的附魅因素。
柱众会、鬼弦会、武技锻炼，颇有趣味的一部分段总集编。三星半
渐入佳境。前半段过于凌乱，穿插过于密集，最后30分钟节奏进入正轨，情感浓度上升。（怀才不遇的追梦故事实在是缺乏新鲜感，我反而更好奇《傲慢》的故事
碎片剪辑叙事有些不连贯，但就如听音乐一般。梦想和现实、情感的碰擦在女友肩上的手指节奏上达到顶峰
艺术就是绝望中的灵感+永不熄灭的创作激情，这值得吗？可能只有艺术家自己才知道吧。
这种形式的musical还挺想看现场的呢 加菲唱功一般般容易出戏 音乐剧改编电影总归有点尴尬 老实说感觉音乐也一般 只是因为是和本人经历有联系所以觉得歌的内容不错
有个很喜欢ttb的朋友哈哈哈 刷了好多遍音乐剧当然是为了集卡的那种忠粉 还挺想看的/1.3今年第一部 隔离的时候看的 我朋友说喜欢larson的话会喜欢这个 然后说看过影版也不需要去看音乐剧了 还挺喜欢这个故事的 所以说打动我的还是这个故事 给我哭的眼泪哗哗的 看完就很想去看rent 而且剪辑确实非常纯熟 妥妥的商业片 然后倒数的声音真的会让人有种很急迫的感觉 就想着时间一点点在流逝 如果现在不做就来不及了
也是合集，炭治郎和弥豆子被带回本家，第一次见到了全体柱与大当家...又在病房和身心受到重挫的善逸和尹之助重逢，三人慢慢的复原加修炼，待接到新任务离开时，面对他们的应该是更加严峻的战役了吧...
很工整的一部电影，加菲及各演员的表现都很棒，音乐也还行。节奏来说稍微有点紧，叙事很复杂的情况下加入了歌舞，总觉得很赶。那段爱情真的很可惜。
不是一个完美的结尾却是一个好的结尾，梦想不会因为失败而停止。主题很喜欢，但是摄影拉跨音乐拉跨演员拉跨，跟«爱乐之城»比真的就太不精致了，加菲真不适合演这种片，他和高斯林的气质一个天上一个地下。
很像火影！但依然好看！
柱众会、鬼弦会、武技锻炼，颇有趣味的一部分段总集编。三星半
三星半，算是很工整的歌舞片吧，但是裡面的歌舞編排只能説普通，各位演技都還算在線，只是故事本身過於波瀾不驚，沒有什麽記憶點，感覺過幾天就忘光了……
一开始不喜欢蝴蝶忍我道歉。她超好啊！蝶屋的每一个都好可爱！三小只太萌了哈哈哈哈。很好看啊这一篇。为什么分数最低嘤嘤嘤。原来男主是撩柱哈哈哈哈哈全撩一遍。而且蝴蝶忍对男主真的好好哦！
天才早逝。一个热爱音乐剧、希望将其作为毕生事业的年轻人整日在经费不足、灵感难寻、好友挚爱愈发不理解的夹缝中生存，眼瞅即将跨过30岁大关，却还没有拿得出手的作品让世人铭记。当一切成为过往时，他可以用戏剧化的语言、歌曲去调侃，而那些所能展示出的纠结、痛苦恐怕已不及百分之一。作为百老汇与好莱坞炙手可热的当红炸子鸡，导演在片中埋了不少彩蛋，只可惜阅历不足，无法全面体验那份惊喜和感动。以及看起来有必要补一下《rent》了。
音乐好听，主演的代入感不够，始终没有全景。最后的感动还是很让我泪目了。
7/10。直接用传主本人的作品为题材拍摄传记片，情怀和致敬的成分点满。原声音乐不搭景和抓耳对于音乐片而言是很大的问题，但Jonathan Larson的故事以及加菲锦上添花的表演依然足够打动人心。（P.S.演示会上的reserved seat一段太容易跳戏到La La Land，原来过期糖还是挺好嗑）
70，字面意义上的疯狂堆情绪，本来应该是个挺容易共情的，事儿，搞的这么自怜，自我，唧唧歪歪，就有点。PS：一个歌舞片，唱的段落竟然听的我想快进。
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