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".
20211010 | 金逸•保利mall | 重映（黑白转彩色修复）
易烊千玺很出彩
比想象中好看不少，除了被剧作、真挚而伟大的革命爱情和无畏的献身精神感动之外，还有一个原因就是它很像一部电影。我的意思是，在那个让电影承载了沉重而庄严的意识形态，更像是一个政治宣传品的年代，让一部电影很像一部电影，是非常不容易的。
缅怀一下老电影，虽然那时候的欣赏习惯和拍摄手法现在有点过时，主角动不动就摆戏剧化的poss挺傻的，但它真的激励了一代又一代人，革命先烈永垂不朽
我对老电影有种特别的感情。当时觉得特好看，现在竟想不起完整的剧情了。
故事和叙事工工整整，放现在看不算新颖，剧情也不够波折，三星吧。最后，致敬李白烈士，感谢千千万万个地下工作者的付出！
中国电影资料馆修复版本+影史导映
故事讲得很完整，虽然很多地方很稚嫩，但是感染力十足。通过科技穿越时空。
另有一个不很重要的细节，是在何兰芬去接李侠出狱的时候，一对夫妻匆匆走过她的身后，只听丈夫说“住监狱就跟住宾馆一样舒服”。他们转瞬即逝，脸都看不清，这句男人用来安慰妻子的话却太清晰了。就是这些不少人都毫不关心、会被忽略的细微努力，结结实实地打动了我。
为了孙道临先生看的，虽说不能以现在的标准评判当时的意识，但是女演员的表演也太浮夸了吧？！
经典谍战片，塑造了中共地下党的坚定信念和献身精神，后来看了很多真实史料很是感动和敬佩，要有多么坚定的信念和不屈的意志才能忍受那些我连看都不敢的酷刑，向所有英雄烈士致敬！
孙道临一开始看着不像干革命的，后来就觉得“好棒啊！李侠！”
把经典黑白电影修复重映当然是好事，当片头八一制片厂的经典音乐响起时，仿佛自己穿越回了那个时代的影院。但可能黑白电影看黑白的要好些…举其中一个让我出戏的瞬间：前一秒看着唇红齿白柳妮娜抽着烟和中村说着话，下一秒鲜艳的口红就不见了…
没有狗血的爱情也没有逆天的反转和戏剧，只是平淡的写实与牺牲，却足以令人动容。致敬李白烈士。
影片还是可以的。剧情丰富，波折较多，最后的结尾实现升华。
修复得很清晰，当时很用心拍的一部主旋律电影。
彩色修复版，太舞台剧化了，不像是在看电影，也不适合。
死了两个连的人炸桥，美军用飞机就把桥修好了，有点替他们不值得。大过年看的哭兮兮
作为一部主旋律影片，在艺术上也有可取之处的，首先编剧功底很强，破题很快，节奏鲜明，如李侠熟悉上海环境获得社会身份的过程通过剪辑压缩了，对于时间的表现非常凌厉，如随职业从书画先生转为电器店主再到糖果店老板，时间感很清晰。从重庆与日方谈判到1949年，中间直接以叠印方式跳过抗日胜利，前后对比，表现了姚与柳二人战争油子的特点，从叛党到复归也体现出国民党自上而下紊乱的军心。姚在影片中与李甚至有种跨党知音的感觉，他欣赏到李侠点化清晰的发报节奏，直接表现了对他的赞扬，因为无论是强权面前的不屈，还是压力底下的从容，都是自己所欠缺的。谍战剧中对自己身份的隐藏依靠孙道临的精湛表演诠释出来，最后被捕视死如归嫉恶如仇的表演确实令人震撼，整个是一个理想主义的剧组，他们相信黎明终于到来了。月亮家人电报机宝塔山女工。
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