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".
时长不算短，但给人的感觉还是有点匆忙。一些段落看着都很有感觉，片子整体还是差点意思。75
若不是前两位蜘蛛侠的回归，这电影也没什么特别，依然是经典的nb-sb-nb套路
除此之外，它又太像一首诗了。这首堆砌了无数暗色辞藻，如同波德莱尔《恶之花》的诗篇，全是涩嘴的囫囵味儿，说不清道不明，但就像是夏天傍晚做的阴仄仄的长梦，透着一股子邪意，让人怀疑到底是现实照进了梦境，还是梦境嵌套着现实。
最老的蜘蛛侠被叫Peter 2很没必要。官方吐槽最为致命，但乐趣也仅此而已，时光回不去，这种又想凸显多元宇宙又想拨弄情怀的组合，不太接受。
怪力乱神与符号化的象征寓意。阴暗面向。想象力无敌飞。视觉特效惊人，有那么一瞬间，想到了2001太空漫游的精彩瞬间。看的困。觉得好漫长。是个循环。
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跟小儿子看的第一部电影，他很喜欢，看得都湿透了裤子。
敢情看了个MIT招生宣传片。这牵强的剧情和老好人的设定。九敏…放过dr strange吧。
就很工业化，视效方面有些亮点，演员马马虎虎，小虫还是年轻人的成长戏码，多元宇宙的这些设定，都是剧本上的偷懒，老反派都拉出来，没啥特别趣味，因为不吃蜘蛛侠情怀，所以三虫同框也不是很惊喜。
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《蜘蛛侠1、2》中，钢铁侠给蜘蛛侠提供了许多帮助，以至于很多人吐槽蜘蛛侠完全是靠钢铁侠。
打怪部分不是很喜欢...三个蜘蛛侠真的很犯规...康伯巴奇是漫威2.0时代的新iron man了是嘛
三虫对五反，这已经是完结篇能放出的最大招了，一代老于一代，关于能力和责任的大言一直没变，反派逐个亮相，所有人搅一块儿，不是为了谁死，而是修复，把反派都洗白，让情怀泛滥，有些人舍不得忘，但又不得不说再见。
It’s so looooonnnng that I feel like I’ve been dangled over the Grand Canyon for 12 hours
漫威版的蜘蛛侠终归只是个少年，虽然经历了很多很多，但看着依旧长不大。因为不够成熟惹出了很多乱子，这次梅姨又被刀了，那句“能力越大，责任越大”也终于出现了，希望他这次长大了，也期待下一次出场蜘蛛侠不再是个长不大的孩子
沒想到因種種原因停了兩個月沒看電影，看的第一部竟是這個。也算催人淚下吧（估計今晚做夢會比較豐富）框架還是那個框架，元素的古老依然是古老，能開出很多解讀議題的方向，但似乎沒有什麼必要，畢竟自我毀滅抑或被殘酷摧毀之後的生只是一個滯後的永恆循環。
还是比奇异博士要好玩一点，不过也只有一点点。威廉达福和章鱼博士的表演有加分。奇异博士真是个危险分子，因他而起的事故感觉有很多，而蜘蛛侠只是一个心大的小屁孩，经常做一些蠢事。
想象力丰富，制作精妙，但只是奇观的杂乱堆砌，像预告片那样剪剪就得了，作为长片根本没有在视觉逻辑和叙事逻辑上达成协调、统一的效果。真人出镜的段落更是尴尬。于是越看到最后，创作者越不在乎自己要表达什么，观众也越不想知道这部片子想表达什么。所谓制作了三十年，无非只是一场过分自我沉溺但又不知所云的怪异噩梦罢了。
但1小时55分二代表演带来的差距感是很重要的一个原因，这个真的是心碎
情怀让人哭着买单。年轻人终究会为天真和无知付出成长的代价，主题挺不错的
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