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".
好故事，不过感觉节奏有问题，而且表演好浮夸…
新歌挺好听的，Connor好帅。
前面我都没分清楚到底是哪条时间线，题材很好，但是不够深刻，水过鸭被的感觉。他们的感情，我没看出来有这么深厚，很抱歉他们的痛苦，没能感同身受。
音乐剧改编，关注青少年心理健康的现实题材，音乐很不错，朱利安摩尔和艾米亚当斯两位“妈妈”是演技担当……但是，只不过是一部青春文艺片，看过不就就会忘却。
虽然被剧迷骂得狗血淋头，但没看过的朋友我还是会推荐吧，毕竟也没有官摄也等不到现场，每次听到you will be found都哭得稀里哗啦，所有的歌都是la la land的词曲人写的，尤其是anonymous one那首原创，因为在音乐剧里没有，单方面认为是全电影最自然又不用力的表演了，结尾的新歌a little closer顺带加入了一个新情节，我觉得这应该是最好的结局了。
全员演技OK，整体凌乱且太平淡了。震后创伤和社会福利保障题材好加一星，故事却没讲好。
所以不要对舞台剧改编的电影再抱有过高期望，除非这个电影是Chicago。
音乐剧不会也是这样吧？这电影确实没啥意思，主角的错误很难被原谅，观众怎么可能因为你有心理问题就宽容你呢？
救。。。说实话咩姨一嗓子出来我是真的被惊呆了
虽然他做了难以挽回的事情，但是他发出的诘问值得我们深思……针砭时弊，如果我们也有这种电影就好了
音乐剧改编电影真的很难改得好看，还不如直接搬stage version；而且恕我直言Ben Platt就不适合大银幕，在电影版本的青春洋溢的配角的映衬下更显得。。。julianne moore和amy adams在这里根本就大材小用，为什么要把我的laura小姐姐换掉QAQ！
题材立意很好的，就是内容拍得薄了点了！社会保障很深刻的社会问题呀
东日本大地震9年后的宫城县，发生了连环杀人案件，在警察笘篠（阿部宽饰）的追查中，因为帮朋友而引发纵火伤人事件入狱，现在刚出狱不久的利根（佐藤健饰）成为嫌疑人。在没有决定性证据的情况下，又发生了新的案件。
标记的1000部是去年此时看的音乐剧的电影版！本以为BenPlatt要开始EGOT之路，结果27岁高龄演17岁男高，看起来他从《完美音调》大学生毕业前得了些精神疾病。一边感叹科技日新月异像是经历了《惊奇队长》里寇森/局长式减龄后，一边感受到的现场就有疑惑的问题在影版更加突出：精神疾病的刻画不能用“刻板印象”来一言以蔽之，试图营造出来“泡泡感”到最后幻灭更加显得悬浮；社交网络生态捕捉的戏剧性好像在这个碎片化短视频时代有些过时。不过影版的歌曲似乎经过了处理而更加流行顺耳，稍稍消解了充斥全篇仍有的拧巴。“渴望被看到”是唯一get到的感动点，其他青春疼痛都是音乐版“不发火当别人傻子啊”。另外首次发现家族好友的身份，还有之前略有好感的SincerelyMe确实最适合影像化。Amy Adams实在是好棒，Enchanted2麻烦米老鼠爹地速速上线D+！！！
小干一出现就猜中了整个剧本。不过没想到对贪腐的表现很隐晦，只影射到不作为。
片子挺好的，虽然前面沉闷了一下，反映的现实也没有过分煽情
社会福利如何保障贫困人口，不至于因没钱买食物而饿死，如何让底层老百姓有投诉的地方，如何不让僵化的制度引出无谓的人祸，而不至于做出报复个人的行为，一切都值得深思……just can’t help associating with the current Shanghai……
我后半段埃文的转折还是有点生硬。歌曲本身还是比较突出，其实真相前后的对比还是很讽刺吧
为什么大家会喜欢看awkward high school kid的故事 电影拖的好长啊啊啊啊 说一句话停顿三次。also, evan is srsly a little piece of shit 心疼两位妈妈
这是21 Jump Street串场过来冒充高中生的吗
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