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".
His indifference to her effervescence is colder than the wintry air; her strength to endure the frustration is greater than the cloistered castle she has to bear. Hiding her masochistic pleasure in the dark, while seeking a silver lining in the past, she lets her dilatory compliance fly in the face of anachronisms. If she can sprint to a family party in her stilettos, why can't she flee to the future of self-reconciliation?
没看懂安妮博林这个意象，戴安娜和安妮有什么相似的地方吗？以小见大当然不错，可是戴安娜去世也没多久，电影和历史形象的差距有点远。心理描写刻画得不错，那种压抑的氛围真是太好了，短短三天，真度日如年
还蛮能理解为什么对K的表演会这么两级分化，她演绎的这个被逼入绝境随时摇摇欲坠的戴安娜确实很像一个美丽的神经病。但是我确实get到了整个影片传递的情绪，以至于最后做回真正的Spencer还有些泪目。然后好喜欢画面的色调哦，清新的复古感
穿越时空后竟然那么儿戏，不过对于这种合家欢片子看个乐就行了，也不用讲究那么多，何况连光剑都出来了。。。
我最爱的球星 都是一些早就耳熟能详的故事 但在一幕幕情节里让扬尼斯一家人的经历渐渐立体化。四个孩子一同挤在一张床上 兄弟二人共用一双球鞋 打球之余还要抽空去卖东西补贴家用 因为没有国籍整日东躲西藏…… 家人的爱一直支持着他 所以他努力 勤奋 坚强
把光剑还有打斗的部分去掉，增加一些家庭戏会更好一些
Netflix大数据流水线电影，看着小贱贱手里的武器，可见他对星战系列的光剑爱的有多深沉。这就是那种专供打发无聊时间的糖水片，可以让你短暂地忘掉自己还有脑子，你看不看也都没什么损失。
推荐指数：🌟🌟🌟
瑞安死侍后，几乎清一色嘴炮角色，演什么都一个样，这回平行时空的穿越题材，也无法突破甚至超越此类题材的经典作品，借助科幻外衣，只停留在浅显的亲情家庭的省思与改变，自己遇见自己还是可预料的嘴炮十万个为什么，外部浮皮潦草，内核老套无新，而且网络电影投资真的看得见少，硬核动作场面非常克制，偏儿童电影的面相，并无多少深度，也无多少创意，流水线上的产物，爆米花系列的下三路。★★
这就是失败的意义失败是成功之母
这是一个美国梦吗？是。但是这个梦，他去了西班牙也一样能实现，只是可能没有在美国挣得多，他家人最终是否能顺利移民希腊或者西班牙也未可知，毕竟，全世界的政府都只会锦上添花，不会雪中送炭。
网飞能用这卡司拍出这种水准的电影肯定是洗钱了。小贱贱什么烂片都接看样子是真缺钱，另外最近看的三部他主演的电影都有daddy issue，莫不是大数据算出来的？
你有多久没看过这样老少咸宜的大片了？不用追求什么深刻的内涵，全身心投入进去，被感动
为了跟上颁奖季而看 知道会没啥意思 确实也没啥意思 怕是专门为斯图尔特冲奖拍的🤔
整部电影过于平淡，虽然是真实事件，但既然不是纪录片是电影就应该有一定的戏剧性，至于参加NBA选秀的过程也像儿戏，不知道真实情况是否如此
并不注重于字母的个人成长，而是讲了一个家庭如何互相扶持成功的励志故事，怎么不让人爱呢
电影过于流水账，但的确被字母哥一家的故事打动了。
网飞能用这卡司拍出这种水准的电影肯定是洗钱了。小贱贱什么烂片都接看样子是真缺钱，另外最近看的三部他主演的电影都有daddy issue，莫不是大数据算出来的？
Saldaña还是美，却总接一些遮脸的角色太惨惹。Netflix狡猾，死侍、浩克、卡莫拉都是漫威人设，省去性格塑造直接放到自己的电影里，可以的。
根据现雄鹿34号字母哥杨尼斯.阿德托昆博 故事改编
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