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".
还算蛮不错国产灾难片，一龙还是有点演技的，就是攀岩这段还是有点假
一是敬佩
感觉像我这样喜欢丁总的人不多，但我很多泪点都是从丁总的剧情中来的，起码在她身上我有感受到女性在职场上的专业，冷静和领导力，也看到了有我向往过的一个领导者状态。虽然感觉主角光环不少，但角色们之间的互动和配合，还有特效设置有挺多让我惊喜的地方，给4到4.5分
平凡的英雄，优秀的国产灾难片，值得一看再看。
喜欢看灾难片的强烈推荐《峰爆》，超出预期，作为一部国产灾难片竟然连我这种看遍外国恐怖片灾难片的都能觉得差强人意。
特效太让人出戏了，还是一样的套路和情节，基本可以猜到故事发展
这部电影才让我知道原来还有铁道兵，还有在和平年代牺牲最多的部队！
感谢所有铁路人，感谢演员们的群戏演绎，朱一龙和黄志忠老师的父子情潸然泪下，而黄老师作为父亲的高度在牺牲后得到升华，全片除了有几幕比较平淡，陈数老师演僵了之外，我感觉这是一部不可多得的好的灾难片，谁说中国没有超级英雄的？那些默默无闻的建设者都是！
这年头山体落石也能人体描边了，我怀疑这车没装安全气囊；自行车三轮车对撞是有多大冲击力啊，还能往两边飞穿越护栏的；看朱一龙表演下雨天徒手单手爬峭壁，爸爸突然出现在峭壁上除了闪现我想不到别的方法了；乔振宇死得好快，天妒红颜
是因为有朱一龙才看的，但是就电影本身而言看得很感动。电影讲好了一个故事，略有点夸张的情节。
意料之外的完整了，感情、叙事都收得刚刚好。
为啥我今年不小心看了这么多关于创作者的电影？还是疫情期间大家都在自我反思于是产出的都是这类作品？bergman island, drive my car, 还有这部official competition都是，而且都涉及戏中戏。这部不错，第一次看penelope和班德拉斯演这么夸张的角色，虽然是能够遇见到的结局但是整个过程也蛮有意思的，人物立的也好，很明显不是那种创作者沉浸在自己的文艺世界里的作品（是有在辣菜的意思），是在好好讲故事跟一本正经搞笑。整个设计真的蛮讽刺的，他们找的那个工具人大亨孙女能把我笑晕
7.8 粉碎机和接吻的那两场戏 实在是太行为装置艺术了。整个剧本围读有点像驾驶我的车 戏里和戏外的演员无论生活还是角色都发生了重合与融合。潘尼洛普在这剧里又表现出了不一样的美丽
所有人物为剧情服务，“这种戏”的通病，麻了都，感动不动了都；尤其这电影这男主这角色，太惨了
编剧指定有点问题，真就洪家父子探险记呗，太多超越现实开挂的片段，阻断了我和影片的共鸣，以至于煽情的片段我很难融入感情。
演员尽力了，剧本不能深究，没太感觉到灾难的恐惧感，刻意煽情比较尴尬，女友看到结尾说片子有些科幻
一部中规中矩的献礼片，一部差点意思的灾难片，一部令人尴尬的亲情片；首先要说，这部电影足够的主旋律，大篇幅的昂扬向上牺牲自我精神的描述，大段大段“喊口号”式的表决心，令我无数次尴尬不已却深感爱国之心；作为灾难片，特效还好，朱一龙的主角也算做了一次好莱坞式英雄，飞檐走壁能文能武，关键是打不死，恢复能力极强；最糟糕的是亲情戏，不合时宜的争吵和做作的原谅牺牲，充斥着父子俩之间的交流；片中少有的触动我的点，是焦俊艳的几个表情特写和陈数几次下决定时细微的“眼技”；
很久没看电影了 狠狠满足了
前面三分之二确实还可以，朱一龙演技也还不错，但是他一触及情绪爆发的戏份就不太行。中间部分他和他父亲就童年阴影演对手戏的时候，基本被演他爸那个演员碾压。虽然觉得那个片段他情绪爆发是对的，但是张力不够，总感觉差点火候。
其实很想看一部有关铁道兵有关中国基建的故事，这样的中国速度中国能量拍出来一定很感人。但很可惜这部电影显然不太合格，低级的特效、寡淡老套的感情戏、琐碎无聊的剧情、西方英雄式徒手暴雨攀岩的男主，都让这部电影显得非常无趣，我看完真的毫无波澜。
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