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".
三星半。被影评吓坏了非常低的期待去看的，所以感觉还行，说比《猫》差是真的过分了。电影版的窒息感更强了。ben演高中生倒没那么夸张，而且电影版最开始想要帮助Murphy一家的动机比较明显，而不是一紧张说瓢了嘴。Alana的形象讽刺意味少了，但是合理了很多，妹子原来是《饥饿游戏》里演Rue的小妹妹。Connor的颜值还可以。Jared变gay和Larry变继父的设定都还可以。ben和AA唱歌是有预期的，Julianne比较惊喜。最后还是想感叹()的社恐真的毫无活路，我想要逃避世界的时候并找不到一个没人的果园或者森林公园…
舞台剧的震撼—即使是Bootleg—也无法抹去。不该是这样的，这不该是HSM式的梦幻校园（校园配色，设计，甚至连mascot都如此一致…）Conor 不是一个孤僻天才，他和我们一样，只是一个无法逃避自己的囚徒。在这部改编里，他的声音越来越小了，甚至开始有些莫名其妙，我们不能再听到disappear里他一次次说着” No one deserves to be forgotten” 然后让Evan一路走向“You will be found” 的启示。我们也听不到Good for you 里大家压抑的爆发，而是变成拉拉队的背景音乐…那个永远到不了的果园，那个没有回答的下午，Evan 终于明白自己写下句子意义的那一刻，消失了。这部电影的失败是失去了现实的张力，变成了半童话的青春片。
改编算是及格，虽然故事被简化了不少，但核心保留了。DEH本就是近几年少有的比较深刻的戏，其直面死亡与秘密，全戏几乎所有的感人画面都来自于谎言，Best case，已经在戏中呈现，可是大多数情况下，死亡依然孤寂，秘密则永远被埋葬。Ben、摩尔的表演很精彩，妹妹的饰演者也逐渐成熟了。虽然是无法进剧院的解渴之作，但还是要感慨，电影比起戏剧来。能呈现的内容实在少太多了，正如戏剧与文学相比时一样。
虽然结局想得到，但对于一个小女生要把三个成年男子绑架杀害还是心存疑惑，虽然片段有拍了点，气喘吁吁又拖又拽要避开监控一路拖到目的地实在不可思议了。全员演技在线看得很爽，最后砂糖对着宽叔讲述当年没有救他儿子那段，宽叔的演技真神了，从愤怒到释然，几个眼神太到位。
该怎么说呢...对热爱原剧很期待电影的人：降低期待值吧没那么好。对外网的疯狂吐槽和差评：倒也没那么烂。三星半吧
Thanks for casting a sexy Connor, not cool for a dull Jared
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21.10.10: 其实这个剧情真的就很无语，但是歌都很好听。之前一直在摩尔粉丝群里听别人说so big so small是她的重头戏，但我觉得实际上也没多重头，真可惜deh拍出来的效果不好…
美式正能量 如同裹脚布般臭又长 实在太无聊… 只有摩尔咩里咩气的so big so small让我很是意外。虽然也是在破音的边缘来回试探 但至少应该是没有降调的。我以后再也不说她五音不全了 只保留四肢不协调。
全程泪目的一部片，看完眼都快哭肿了，从第一首歌开始就能对少年的心境感同身受。充满谎言和爱的青春，每个人都有不可说和不被理解的伤痛。两位母亲的表演真是太抓人，眼神抓住一切情绪你能从中看到心碎的样子。好想去看原版…表演:3 剧情:1.5 视效:2+1音乐 总体:7.5
211115 - 没有预期中那么糟呀，感觉推上好多巨好笑的差评纯粹是玩梗博眼球。Waving Through A Window还是那么动人，Ben Platt演高中生固然是年龄大了，但是也没有很出戏吧……最遗憾的是父母的歌被删了部分，其它部分的话，比如剧情，有硬伤和有点无聊之类的是音乐剧本来就有的问题，所以我感觉还成了。
和音乐剧不同，也没有办法，毕竟电影不可能完全一样。电影就一般吧。歌曲听过太多遍，依然好听。
近乎于令人生气，啥玩意。希望出官摄，这种改编的水平拉低了DEH原本的好，该被钉在耻辱柱上。
一场地震改变了一切，脆弱的保障体系值得深思
非常多熟悉的演员，没想到艾米和摩尔阿姨会以这样的角色出现在同一部电影里。个人感觉这个题材和电影本身的社会意义要大于剧情。原本看不进去歌舞剧的我在高中校园的剧情包装下也看完了，虎头蛇尾是最大的感觉，明显越到后面越崩了。
非原著粉，很喜欢这个故事，第一次拥有这种悲伤的同时感到快乐的感觉。
个体很小，无能为力，灾难面前，真的渺小，分线叙述感观不错，女主的情感转变差点意思，破案过程也蛮无聊的。灾后重建，也难以平息人的创伤。
叛逆愤怒的人却有着善良柔软的内心，福利院的工作人员却冷若冰霜。只能说这个世界让太多不该活着的人活着，太多不该死去的人死去了。
节奏太慢了，而且杀人动机也太勉强了。谁都没有错，制度的错吗？
阿部宽真的太像加贺了，但我也真的对加贺无感dbq）我其实一直搞不懂濑濑敬久的风格 《友罪》和《乐园》其实和这个都总让俺有种似曾相识的感觉，演员演技和本子质量都没啥问题，但就总觉得差点什么 （但是这个电影里的kaya演的好好
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