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".
法庭上那段言语羞辱真是把中世纪欧洲的男权扒的体无完肤
2021/06/04@あべのアポロシネマ。浪客剑心系列最大的魅力之一就是写出了新旧交替的时代背景下，不同的人对新时代的不同解读和反应。有人执念于过去而对新国家产生了应激，有人因为始终怀有不依存于环境与他人的信念和希望，当新的时代来临时，可以靠信念生活下去。这个系列的眼光永远都放在新未来、新国家，是一个讲述有着信念的人在救赎那些被时代抛弃而痛苦挣扎灵魂的故事。虽然未来不代表都是光明，可是能够向未来而生的人是永恒的。剑心就是这样，在幽暗中看见微光，在旧时代实现自我认同，在新时代完成了自我迭代，从微光变成了暖阳。
zzzq到像样板戏，好在视效足够华丽，满足了一部分我对于中世纪领主生活的幻想。小变态真适合古装，活脱脱油画里走出来的。真实事件改编和结局加一星。
感觉可以拍得更好 但我也不懂 总之起码看完了那就说明值得四星 否则压根就弃剧了
历史照进现实啊，一部女性追求公平正义的影片，从铺垫到最后决斗的高潮，看得人血脉贲张。
一个很水的故事说三遍，和《金刚川》有什么不同吗？凭什么得这么高分？画面暗的让人抑郁，差评！
受害者有罪论不可取 维权成本过高 代价太大 如果结局是马特达蒙输了 又会是何种景象 但是明知不公 依旧不能停止发声 只有争取 才能有获得公平的机会！！
说句题外话，女主比在失控玩家里漂亮不知多少级
最后8分钟的决斗一气呵成，我个人从情感上希望看到卡鲁日获胜，而从剧作上希望看到勒·格里获胜。不过现在的剧本也给到了一个足够具有反思性的结尾，勒·格里直到死前都不相信“强奸”真实发生过。你是什么，便看到什么
小伙伴说全剧最感动的地方竟然是再一次见到鸟羽伏见 // 砂糖跟江口叔的年龄感很难被convince这是背负的过去。巴毫无角色发展，村花本身的人设又八字不合，再再再再再次感叹为什么不是优来演...以及我对红狼的滤镜也撑不住了。相较之下最终章的两部很难讲哪一篇更糟糕，心情大概就是啊终于结束了 // OOR也不再是那个OOR了 // 7月31日网飞
小伙伴说全剧最感动的地方竟然是再一次见到鸟羽伏见 // 砂糖跟江口叔的年龄感很难被convince这是背负的过去。巴毫无角色发展，村花本身的人设又八字不合，再再再再再次感叹为什么不是优来演...以及我对红狼的滤镜也撑不住了。相较之下最终章的两部很难讲哪一篇更糟糕，心情大概就是啊终于结束了 // OOR也不再是那个OOR了 // 7月31日网飞
我曾看过太多所谓的史诗电影，但那宏大的战争场景却总是让我觉得乏味。
雷德利斯科特今年已经84岁了，还那么高产，关于拿破仑的新片马上也要开拍了，女主还是朱迪科默，祝他老人家长命百岁。
罗生门叙事好评，结局大好评，人生不过三大喜，升官发财死老公。女性视觉尤其嗲，那赢了也不过是一句叹息，赢了依旧是一个展示的物件，却因为最后文字的结局让人觉得真是一个完美结局。雷导NB！！
1老雷的处女作是《决斗的人》，生涯末期这部《最后的决斗》颇有纪念意义，且看且珍惜；2老雷对于中世纪冷兵器对战场面实属驾轻就熟，看得过瘾；3罗生门式的故事讲述方式，更多突出两种男权的表现方式，马特达蒙把女人视为财富、生育的工具，自恋的亚当德富赖把女人视为玩物，朱迪科默在那个年代对女性权利的奋争堪称勇敢，但颇为讽刺的是最后仍需看两个男人的决斗结果来决定自身命运；4亚当德富赖这脸驾驭任何角色都不违和，相比之下达蒙的发型和大本的金色胡子看着就有点出戏，朱迪科默古装比较惊艳，比《失控玩家》里吸引人多了。
达蒙的角色写得比想象中精彩，很多主事件外的隐喻（比如育马一段）还可以。三段式即有统一事件的不同角度，也有信息互相补充。可是大概电影的不完美也在这部分上，即使是pov模式，过于跳跃的细节导致电影前半段并不太引人入胜。而且我也说不清，不知道是一些细节还是主演的原因，这电影的年代感并不强烈。整部电影里的人都在夸司机如何潇洒帅气，我笑到爆炸。
还说poor old millennials是怎么得罪雷导了，看完确实觉得气场不合。罗生门结构就大可不必，明明已经站队了，不然可以想象《狩猎》那样充满猜疑 神经紧绷的效果；命题作文让角色脸谱化；还有大部分观众真是厌倦了liberal woke culture...光是看剧情简介就不想买票进影院。
以为是大女主的戏，结果是几个男的在那撕。如果男人看此片，大概看到更多的是阶级之争吧。“她老公文盲，她和你在一起的话，你们可以一起读书。”于是，他爱她爱到强奸她。利益熏心的男人的爱就是这么廉价，于是男人的友情前传崩塌的也理所当然。如果他强奸你，你是不会愉悦的，如果你怀孕了，说明你愉悦了，说明这不是一场强奸。看吧，男权逻辑随时随地都能强奸你。此片唯一出彩的是，女主终于看透男人这狗东西了
以为是英国版的《罗生门》，讲不同立场的人有不同的趋利避害行为，但没想到最后话锋一转，讲的是女权，主要包括在欧洲中世纪女性被看作是男性的财产和生育工具，被强奸的案件数不胜数，多数男人会因为是教会神成员而享受赦免权，少数案例如果男人身份高贵，则由皇帝判定可以通过决斗来获得胜诉，男人决斗失败，则女性会享受烧死的刑罚，男人决斗胜利则获得家族和个人的荣耀。只是感觉这么长的电影时间，讲的故事有点老套，压缩到100分钟会比较好。
两个男人各有各的智障（去年看完忘记标记了……）
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