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".
不过，导演应该借鉴了很多日本剑戟片的拍摄和叙事风格，所以有些地方会感觉怪怪的。但已经很值得鼓励了，现在顶着武侠的烂片烂剧真的太多了，这样脚踏实地的网大已经算是小小的清流了。
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谢苗换成张晋就好了。。。【做梦呢】
怎么说呢，说他不新，他倒是给你拍了个原创新故事。你说他新吧，怎么有人在2022年文艺复兴拍张彻啊（不）
国外的无脑快节奏爽片Johnwick和慢节奏爽片座头市都各成体系 本片节奏介于两者之间 小屏幕动作片新典范
卯足了劲讲个故事，但终究做戏而已。太过于符号化，最终也就只留于形式。
怎么说呢，说他不新，他倒是给你拍了个原创新故事。你说他新吧，怎么有人在2022年文艺复兴拍张彻啊（不）
故事简单，时长仅70多分钟，剧情也并非毫无破绽，但是胜在节奏紧凑不拖沓。作为一部网大，能看出成本很有限——没有大场面、全是影视城的景，但却一点也没摆烂，导演显然在摄影构图、叙事氛围上是有自己的美学思考的，更为难得的是拍出了最近几年影视剧里少有的“侠以武犯禁”的江湖气。比一众S+，也比好些院线电影都好看。
最后30分钟，导演一面在剧情及打斗上进行了“缩水”，另一面却加入了突兀的日本武士风，画蛇添足差点把控不住。
纯粹简单诚意，动作设计、剧情节奏、摄影调度、画面、音乐（那口哨致敬）、氛围，干净利落，非常喜欢，导演编剧演员各方面都很好地诠释了李太白的《侠客行》，我要打满分，我要支持！
少年带着无知无畏的勇气闯进了这个混乱的社会，他们自信满满以为能出人头地，最后被干的遍体鳞伤。
总的来说，前半段铺垫很不错，后面除了火刀惊艳到之外，张力不够，BOSS战草草了事。
好久没看这么过瘾的武侠了，剧情虽然偏弱，但是范儿是真的足，镜头是真的美，谢苗是真的帅！过瘾！
不管赢多少，能带走才是你的钱。杀一个人要偿命，杀一万人就不用了。恋爱中的白富美想要天上的星星，舔🐶去盗墓盗得大明珠奉上，又怕被嫌晦气杀了所有盗墓人，追杀逃跑的监工至家中杀了新婚妹妹的夫婿强奸了善良美丽勤劳致富的妹妹。有没有人心疼这里的世家门阀子弟，那么可怜要去做舔🐶依靠裙带关系稳固地位🐶🐶🐶，一点人格都没有，当然他还一点人样都没有。想起了张彻的电影，简单的行侠仗义的故事，虽然差点意思，当然现在也不推崇这样的行侠仗义，分分钟进去了。甩刀灭🔥那里真的帅了。
强权势力下，替人盗墓的监工一家被灭门蒙冤，大侠就是见不得不公道，不光眼睛见不得，心里也见不得。所以片名是真好，拍的也真的是好，只是剧作太单薄。男主为了一个萍水相逢的人，杀了一堆人，把琴娘的命也搭进去了，并找不到男主扎实的动机，看不到萍水相逢的那个人给了男主多大的力量。男主最后和马说道：你也喝人家酒了。这一句台词忽然把一个行侠仗义的故事扭转成了还人情的故事，基本上推翻了所有前面建立起来的对男主的敬仰之情……。有一些《北斗神拳》的味道，并且感觉可以无限续集地拍下去。
很意外居然节奏、演技、运镜、服化道都值得一提，尤其最后那个漆黑的夜里煞白追光下快意恩仇的一刀，颇具写意，嗯……如果不去想古代哪来的追光这件事的话。就是可惜了琴娘，但没有用琴娘做人质，倒是让瞎子可以无所顾忌地挥刀。
雪中复仇，无论从构图，光影，配乐，还是动作，都呈现出比昆丁塔伦蒂诺杀死比尔的雪中决斗，更具东方韵味的艺术之美。
好久没看这么爽的国产武侠片了，虽然是快进看完的，但不妨碍给5星
剧本俗是挺俗的，但当武侠片把剧情做复杂了，反而不一定所有人都喜欢。武侠讲究武力与侠义，这片子都对味了。而且还学会了刀配角，挺狠的。干净利落，没有慢动作，是优点，剪辑、摄影都在线也是优点，谢苗的功夫不用说，还有，但化妆特别是那个胡子最好再讲究一下，看不出沧桑不符合长相。
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