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".
确实比第一部好很多。围绕着人物，特别是即将离世的老妇人的“秘密”的揭秘，完美地给这个早已经逝去的贵族时代划上了句号。新事物“有声电影拍摄”的“入侵”，世袭身份的变迁，“同性”的认可等等，都标志着New Era的到来。善意的编导给一切都安排的Happy Ending过于完满了，怀旧的“唐顿庄园”系列应该真正结束，希望不要为了“赚银子”，再给它画蛇添足、拍3拍4喽！
更进一步，仆人成了维多利亚时代的老爷太太们。戏装里的求婚，语音直播。
气质接近 S2 圣诞特辑；叙事密度与效率皆胜电影前作。Through the unexpected, “be as happy as our cruel world allows you to be.” 新潮旧梦砥故园。敬船长一杯。
近15年内最好的作品 情节好故事好音乐好画面好作者习性也好
想象不出來萬壹有個萬壹，他們以後知道了會多內疚……沒有送他最後壹程💔
“I love you before you love me，u need money , I have ,then love comes”
克隆体融入现实生活，这样替代品还是不错的选择。
Do what you need to do
唐顿真正的「情节」在第二季就结束了，拖着一口气靠层出不穷的日常插曲和幽默讥讽的台词一直撑到现在。最多能说是电视加长番外篇，即使以默片进入有声时代，楼上楼下阶层挪移的设计嵌入电影内部拍摄电影的互文结构，本片依然是一场呵护保守主义，凌空时代病症的美梦，和电影没有任何关系。英式贵族文化的奇观消费从立意上就和无情解剖等级制度的原作大相径庭，失去能裹挟群像推进的主线剧情之后，进入「养老」模式的唐顿和满足风情观光的观众达成共识，于是病态促成于传统价值「大团圆」的结局成了剧本的唯一要务。每一个角色都值得幸福——是的，多达四十个的人物之中有一半都始终坚信侍奉主人致死是最完美的人生，这张泡沫巨网十多年坚韧如初。
婚礼开始，葬礼结束，看着演员肉眼可见的老去。
“I love you before you love me，u need money , I have ,then love comes”
从4月初因为置身县城，唯一影院关停而丧失了影院消费习惯后，直至5月底才看到这个。绝对是困难时期以优秀故事让人情感满足的好片。A New Era始终好过past
《Moon River》每个人的人生就是一条条河流，或汹涌澎湃，或平静流淌。
一个作品被多次分割成不同的作品片段来播放，真会赚钱啊orz。
【YVR-5th】两条主线，加上各种人物的小支线，让本片显得有些匆忙，如果没有看过剧集的话，更会让人觉得莫名其妙。但如果看过熟悉剧集的话，则会各种会心一笑。虽然命名为new era，但各种结局，不论多么温馨，都彰显着一个时代的结束。看这个架势，如果票房好的话，可能还会有一部；但哪怕没有，也算是一个完美的结局了。
婚礼开场，葬礼结尾，就像19年第一部电影看完后我写的短评，果然迎来了一场告别。然而生命纵然有逝去亦有新生，如同片名，告别过后，Downton也迎来了new era【预告片里出现的老夫人继承了南法别墅的那段mysterious past都在意料之中，但不知道为什么我看的时候总会想起隔壁fb3里的那句台词If you listen carefully enough，the past whispers to you【还有我觉得Lady Mary掌家其实真的不错，她说起Matthew的那段不知道为什么看的我有点想哭【有关拍电影的最后一个情节的设计我非常喜欢，楼上和楼下的大家组成了一整个Downton【Downton真好啊，但是这一次是真的要告别了吧…Farewell，Downton Abbey
@@@（2021-09-12）鬼滅の刃 浅草編（鬼灭之刃 浅草篇）
婚礼开始，葬礼结束，看着演员肉眼可见的老去。
Ali表演深度又细腻,催生而出的强烈契合代入感#生命的终结与延续的另一种演绎
不管，唐家屯就是无脑五星了。年初才把唐家屯从头到尾加上上一部电影版连着复习了一遍，无法不想念老太太一针见血的毒舌，小火车也终于找到了另一半
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