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".
一想到女主现实中的男朋友是肖恩就非常的羡慕妒忌恨
男人之间的剑拔弩张，collateral damage都是女人在承受。
比原版好很多，起码视听语言是电影逻辑了。可惜从械斗那场戏之后就开始变得非常混乱，但仍然，比原版好很多。
这种圣诞暖心电影不打满分的真的是冷血动物了
有一点，对道德感更严的中国观众来说难以接受，那就是在哥哥死后，玛利亚的“表示”力度不够，仅仅骂两句东尼是不够的，而她也更不应该用上床的方式去安慰他。另外就是当哥哥的女友回到家，她不该用步步紧逼的姿态来表现自己和东尼之间的爱情，那只会让观众觉得她无情残酷，为了爱情抛弃亲情（虽然其本意是爱情高于一切，嫂子之所以答应她也是因为两人在对爱情的态度上达成一致）
看了1/3不到就已经城堡抠好了。这年头怎么还有这么无脑尬的言情片？而且no offense，jimmy o yang演言情我真的不可。
虽然是cheesy套路完全不真实的圣诞电影，但看着还有点感动…Paxton还是帅的，不过不留胡子更帅
如坐针毡，完全没看出作为电影必须存在的意义在哪里，不如重映修复的老版或直接看舞台剧的录像。老斯当然有资格任性，观众也当然有资格惋惜，这样好的调度却存在于这样的作品里。
勉强看完前一个小时，后面看不下去了，比较无聊
笑点还是不少 女主身材好棒 欧阳的哥哥很抢戏
请教朋友怎么欣赏音乐剧电影，他说“语言无法表达时就唱，唱歌无法表达时就舞，赏心悦目就好”。在没有看过老版的情况下，本片观赏性还是挺强的，光影和色彩俱佳，有色裔演员们的唱跳好听好看，大师级别的运镜锦上添花，纽约西城罗密欧与朱丽叶的故事，莎翁每个板斧都按部就班地砸台子上了，要说有点失落的是期待斯皮有不同时代语境下的改编算是落空了。
这个剧本也太烂了吧 主角们还都是小学生吗？
没什么太新鲜的但演的不错 在一些（许多）小地儿悄悄讽刺LA人有被攻击到
现在才发现罗密欧与朱丽叶有如此现实意义。斯导状态依旧在线，只是剧本太过老气，与先进的拍摄手法多少有点不搭。部分剧情逻辑稍显狗血了，缺乏情感铺垫。现在这种舞台剧式的歌舞片能看到不多了，即更多依靠演员本身的动作和有限的道具交互，而非依靠视觉和听觉上的华丽刺激，这一点还是挺欣赏的。
Jian Yang都能和Nina组CP了……我就不明白为什么2021年了，网恋奔现前就不能先视个频吗？
歌舞调度很好，可惜这个以《罗密欧与朱丽叶》为蓝本的故事最最需要的男女主角的个人魅力和化学反应约等于没有，而且两人身高十分不协调（充分说明所谓的“身高差”、“小鸟依人”过了头就是美学灾难），让整个故事根本站不住脚，男女主一见钟情就爱得死去活来的情节令人压根无法共情，看了只想翻白眼，最高潮部分男主死了也激不起什么情绪波澜。
前半段节奏紧凑，从中间开始垮掉，变慢了，爱情发生得非常草率，没有突出男女主角除了一见钟情是怎么培养感情的，人物成了棋子机械地唱词
瓊瑤阿姨都汗顏
网飞能用大数据算法砸钱拍爆米花动作片，就也可以同样套路地拍合家欢节庆片。去年的那部虽然是拉拉情侣但家庭戏处理太糟，这一次同样pc的亚男配白女，但显然剧本上稳妥了很多。白眼虽然还是没少翻，但也可以打发时间看一下。
原作就不是什么”珠玉“，事实上老版电影在平衡舞台感和电影媒介上做的非常失败，Spielberg明显注意到了这点，所以在新版上不仅修改了编舞的调度和细节使之更适合大荧幕，也在cinematography上下足了功夫。Mise-en-scene相对于老版的丰富其实也一定程度上体现了电影工业的发展。然而影片本身也只是三星水平（原作放在现在来看是比较overrated 的musical），好在casting拉回来了一把：虽然Ansel Elgort不出所料很拉垮，但Rachel Zegler的唱功简直惊艳；Ariana DeBose在The Prom时期就很有亮点，到了Anita这个全剧最出彩的角色上，她更是如鱼得水。本片邀请了老版Anita的扮演者Rita Moreno回来助阵，更是安排了一首solo，在情怀上倒是诚意满满。Overall，如果不带着包袱与滤镜，这个版本的”西区“确实不算差。
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