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".
不愧是视觉导演出生，有些场面确实不错。很喜欢影片塑造的原始暴力感。不过这爹妈人均神经病的王子（或者说贱民）复仇记，怎么看着这么像《鲁鲁修》……？安雅出现的每一帧都是靓爆镜的存在。
推荐所有人去看尚气！作为爆米花电影，故事把西方个人价值和东方文化气韵结合的非常顺畅！特效镜头制作精良，且中有我认为影史最美的XX！而且实话实说，这样的电影被好莱坞先拍出来，作为中国电影人是有点惭愧的。
是王子复仇更是自我救赎，约等于看了两个小时神神叨叨画面很美的北欧摄影大片集锦。
这难道不是最强文化输出？girl power点赞。
雄性荷尔蒙爆炸！大概是今年最神奇的观影体验之一，再次证明世上没有老套的故事，只有老套的讲述方式
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哈姆雷特（2022限定北欧神棍版）
在美国的电影院，看一部美国主流电影，听着大段大段的中文，旁边的美国人却要看字幕，真的是很神奇的体验。
冲着北欧海盗的凶悍残忍野蛮去的，可电影并没有在这方面带来冲击力。有些武打设计让人出戏，感觉很不专业。对比《启示》差的不是一点半点。修改版的哈姆雷特剧情，倒也新颖，正邪难辨的主角与反派的纠葛挺让人着迷，尤其是最后两败具亡的决斗。让人心有所动，这也算是本片唯一的亮点了。
为啥西方老爱翻来覆去拍哈姆雷特，这次还拉上北欧神话一锅炖，看起来一派庄重史诗，然而打来打去目测不过几十人，顶多算农村械斗。当然，两大男主都演过极冨魅力的吸血鬼，肉也露得很有诚意，当属实浪费。还不如正正经经写个剧本专聊皇后这类妇女被抢拐的悲剧。顺说，影片开头显示了时间为公元895年，同时期中国为晚唐，两者文明差距明显。
梁朝伟很稳，剧情合理，中国文化能够很好融合到好莱坞电影，终于，漫威get到中国文化了。
非常罗伯特风格、非常莎士比亚。服装设定细节很棒了，包括Valkryra的“牙套”，很多人可能觉得可笑，但实际上冰岛和Gotland考古发现就是这样的。导演考古和神话结合非常棒了。
是那种饱含着动物性的人性，粗莽炽烈却被缚，永不熄灭且永远无法熄灭。审美真是绝了。
只有预言的自我实现。
摄影很棒，画面很美，但不如之前的《女巫》和《灯塔》（剧透：Valkyrie的镜头全在预告里了）
野蛮血腥 但总觉得差口气 类型片文艺片有点两边不靠 不尴不尬
如果是舞台剧还行，电影的话，太冗长，太无趣了
泰姆瑞尔人兼冰岛迷当然狂喜。风光大片。但是故事么...嗯...其实并没有忠实于原著，但又非常轴地一定要体现悲剧本色，就朗诵多过对白了
在妮可基德曼出场的一瞬间就猜到了妻子与兄弟私通的秘密，可见艾导虽对电影质感有种仪式般的虔诚和执着，故事的处理却很简单粗暴，所以他的电影都很挑人，电波能对上就会很喜欢，对不上就会感觉莫名其妙。另，大量中全景横移调度，侧面全景镜头的处理让电影高度拟剧化，Northman在血亲和雪恨之间挣扎，又在复仇的主客体之间徘徊，可以说是莎翁得不能再莎翁，概括来说整部电影就是莎翁模型的北欧神话叙事
制作考究，影像风格突出，却没能达到理想的高度。一方面是影片具有的丰富意象，神话与宗教、命运与抉择、复仇与死亡、野兽与人性等等，另一方面却是影片简单直白的叙事和人物自白，很大程度上消解了那厚重的意象，淡化了作者性的表达。
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