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".
观感四星半，梅姐的性格和主要人物立住了，但的确也没有表现出更多的人物或者时代精神了。新录的曲子和原唱一有交叉，差距就显现出来了，我感觉那么努力演了这么多戏，还不如原唱透出的坚毅气质更令人信服，这也是穿插真实片段的短处。Eddie线还是挺妙的。
所有流泪的时刻，只是因为被唤起记忆。
传记电影区别于纪录片，最大的一点就在于前者更注重情感，更会在合理范围内展开浪漫的描写。就像这部《梅艳芳》，用近乎沉浸式的视角，带我们体验了一把90年代的香港，90年代的华语乐坛，是多么的风华绝代。
太浅薄了，连梅艳芳为什么是梅艳芳这个最基本的问题都没解决，女主确实有几分像情绪爆发点也能不拖后腿，但眼神里没内容，演演二十多岁的梅姐还可以，岁月完全没在她身上留下痕迹
音效和服化道很棒 能把人带进去 但整个影片都浮于表面 真正让人感动的还是梅艳芳本人 此外还有哥哥的选角呃…无力吐槽了
揣着巨大的可用素材量，剪辑却稀碎，尤其是声音剪辑，真人原音很多时候渺小得像画外音，就为了衬主演，有点弄反了。
传记电影区别于纪录片，最大的一点就在于前者更注重情感，更会在合理范围内展开浪漫的描写。就像这部《梅艳芳》，用近乎沉浸式的视角，带我们体验了一把90年代的香港，90年代的华语乐坛，是多么的风华绝代。
舞台仍犹在，不见故人来。
看预告真的有种看梅姐的感觉//20211204。一个好人。希望你能在天堂得到安息。
该着力刻画的部分匆匆掠过或语焉不详（猜测既是因为利益的掣肘，也是时代氛围），又在很多没必要的表面信息和资料上空自堆砌，根本没拍出梅艳芳生命历程的厚度。布景风格虽然相对统一，却实在假，对香港甚至没有风貌上的还原，更不要说香港精神，那么所谓香港女儿到底意指什么、内涵为何？结尾的声明不仅体现不出用心和尊重，反而显示出创作的潦草和不够勇敢。
还是推荐的，人物是立体的，但情节有点平，甚至没有撒故事，辉煌香港已经远去，还不如像无双一样，把故事讲成传奇，但梅艳芳没有做到。
不知道该如何评价。优点缺点都挺明显，更像是一份精美的纪念梅姐的纪念品。电影上来说，能表达的重要节点都表达了，不能表达的也没办法。当然也没必要，毕竟不是纪录片。能被梅姐的经历以及每个人物所感动。但是这种什么都想兼顾的故事线，最后的感觉就是没有一个内容是深刻的。每个细节都做到了尽量的真实和还原，正因为如此，艺术性上就削弱了很多
影片就如同一个大事年表，割裂迷离，被感动到的是那个时代可以被称为传奇的人们带有的人物魅力，我愿为此致敬和缅怀。
不肯 绝对不肯接受命运 宁愿一生与它对抗 都不许造物弄人
导剪版有着巨大的容量，可以从戏台后的小姑娘讲到告别演唱会，从伊丽娜姐妹讲到两段恋情，从卡拉OK耳光事件讲到回港投身慈善，内容越多，越是感觉梅姐四十岁一生匆匆，就连导剪版都无法挽留，演员与实录资料的穿插，差别就在那里，很难去重叠。
很想看到她的电影
梅艳芳的一生，光辉灿烂，也有很大的坎坷遗憾。我不是她的粉丝，但是喜欢她的很多歌，她的人生故事我是第一次这样了解，整部电影看完，真的很容易让人泪流满面。她一生的灿烂，也是香港娱乐圈的灿烂，华语歌坛的灿烂，同时也是我们很多同时代的人青春记忆里的灿烂。那些我们大家都熟知的事件，那些我们都曾见过的画面，不仅是属于梅艳芳的重要人生记忆，同时也是我们共同的记忆。王丹妮把梅艳芳这个人物演的很好很饱满，气场很稳，演技不错。张国荣的选角差了好多，是个遗憾。这是一部值得多看两遍的电影！
1）张国荣好出戏。找了个神似张新成的演员，气质也迥异。
真的会看哭，但不算好电影。拼凑感很强，把阿梅一生的重大时刻和经典事件都压缩到两个小时里走了一遍，剧情过于稀碎，人物情感流于表面，手法稚嫩（例如彰显她恨嫁就让她羡慕地看一对老夫妻，这种处理很浅）。也很犯规，中间夹了很多真实影像镜头，看到那些历史中的面孔就不自觉会触动和想哭（特别是哥哥），所有原唱音乐出来你也会忍不住哭。一旦抛开这些煽情画面和bgm，影片本身真的很平，走马观花。女主形似，但神不似，能感觉到她的努力，但是还是稚嫩了一点，没有阿梅那个“杀气”。最后，张国荣选角真的让人出戏！！！（再补充一点，虽然成品一般，但是剧组初心是好的，也没有消费梅艳芳，值得鼓励，加一星）
唯一能对得起“香港的女儿”的塑造，是梅艳芳出身于街坊邻里，之后又无论何时都能从舞台走下来成为左邻右里。这也是我对旧时香港娱乐圈的好印象：庶民味、市井味，艺人、记者和观众处于一个圈层不分家，而且基本上每个香港艺人都有一个艺人、记者、观众之间默认的绰号。对香港人来讲，梅艳芳就是“阿梅（妹）”、“梅姑”。
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