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".
人是彩云易散琉璃脆，片是皮毛浮流水。
每个女人都是一枝花，梅艳芳的一生短暂而炙热🔥痴情却不得善终，那么渴望家庭的女人最终还是带着遗憾离去……跟张国荣真是soulmate了❤️相知相惜的两个人在天一定会相伴的
可是电影里既没有反叛的“尽皆过火，尽皆癫狂”的香港精神，也没有彼时与此时香港不同境遇的唏嘘。只有流水账，走马观花式的所谓“香港女儿”的百度百科，家庭事业爱情三条线，每一条都很平淡乏味，相比本人精彩波澜壮阔的一生实在是太过欠缺，如果仅仅是电影里的这么多，又如何担当得起“香港的女儿”这一称号呢，原本可以讲，只是如今的香港，如今的时代已经不容许了，影片只好把仅存的无害的拿出来编排。
11.01 杭州见面会第一场。流水线似的传记电影，把梅姑的40年生涯当编年体一样挑大事出来说，但又不说清楚。原版影像资料与女主重叠，显得突兀。理解江老板的不容易，但既然能做到高清修复版影像，为什么不直接做个纪录片呢？剧情没有，全靠音乐。夕阳之歌还是让人那么感动。
Awwww谁能拒绝22岁的亮亮眼睛卷毛小狗啊。我永远无法抵抗温柔
穿着婚纱往上升的时候，灰色的灯光一点点掉在青色的皮肤上，整个人一点点在屏幕前消失不见。就好像要把她送到哪里去。
拍传记真是一件难事，梅艳芳，绝代芳华，同样也是普通人一个，怎么讲这个故事都有被攻击的可能性，导演算是带着虔诚与善良完成这部电影了。故事里阿梅的仗义、大方，对公益的热衷，对演艺事业的热爱，以及她不太幸福的童年都有了。印象最深刻的还是演唱会上的婚纱，《夕阳之歌》也很让人泪目。当然粉丝还是会有一些更多的期待吧，难以提及的江湖往事，在这一部里是没有体现的，嫁给事业时代巨星，大梦一场。
多一星给自导自演，看看年轻人未来发展如何，不知道哪一部开始能跳出前几部这种模式
和爸爸一起去看的。梅艳芳和张国荣是我父母年轻时最喜欢的明星。作为一个广东人，我对他们有很特殊的感情。我说“梅姑”，爸爸笑着说：“你哋就叫梅姑，我哋呢代人都係叫梅姐噶！”整个过程中，爸爸都在旁边感慨，因为所有剧情他都很熟悉，都是他看着过来的。从哥哥出殡的画面开始，到最后梅姑的“byebye”，爸爸都一直在抹眼泪。虽然对梅姑两段感情的柔化不尽人意，但我还是把口罩都哭湿了。
我挺能理解多米诺的
男主从小喜欢姐弟恋啊哈哈哈哈 告白之后的"I'm drunk now"真的太心碎了 另外真的是非常确定自己是被爱的才会放心的崩溃啊，男主一家都是善良的人
如果到了“谨以此片”的程度，可能是传记片最好的分寸感。
3.5，终究是情怀大于电影本身，在几个段落还是会让人泪目。演张国荣的演员，如果更像一点就好了。
电影确实一般，但主演王丹妮挺好的。2003年4月张国荣离世，我是读报纸才知的，那时候不知道他是谁，报道上提到梅艳芳在葬礼现场悲痛欲绝，印象很是深刻；2003年下半年读大一，看报纸知道梅艳芳去世。他们辉煌的时代，我还很小没赶上。等我们知道他们时，他们都到了人生的尽头。而今看电影忽然想起这些。梅艳芳如此丰富的人生，电影只展现了一角，有些事情至今都不好明说。
女主表演太油腻了，感觉连自己的女儿都要撩。
加一星给情怀、Mui姐和Leslie。粉丝向电影，身边不少落泪。传记片很容易拍成流水账或者MV，所以这部也存在一些这样的问题。演唱会部分剪辑有些乱，不如波西米亚那样的长镜头来得好。看哭了两次，一次是哥哥离世，一次是最后的夕阳之歌。
片子的确有点流水账，缺少点灵魂，但能大屏幕听到梅姐的歌，演员又那么形似，还有一众大牌保驾护航，已经很满足了。芳华绝代，芳华永在！
再说回 现实。虽然尽可能地做了还原，还是有些重要的故事没能拍出来（比如赵），挺遗憾。（有意思的是，中间有段儿录像里一闪而过我好像看到了何韵诗 233）
她比烟花绚丽，她比烟花寂寞，她比烟花短暂。影片对于普通观众非常友好，线性叙事，运用歌曲串联，纪实影像和复刻片段互为补充，描摹梅艳芳从小歌女到大明星的一生，非常工整的纪录片处理方式。对于其爱情和家庭部分的心理境况展示，设计了三次向外张看，一次看热恋，一次看新婚，一次看迟暮，阶梯式推进刻画其内心的孤独和寂寞，为结尾婚纱演唱会积蓄情感和力量。这部传记片很奇妙地给予我一种代入感，不是作为旁观者看她的一生，而且成为她身边的人回顾她的过往。从小一直在听的《女人花》和《夕阳之歌》，这次在片中一出来，眼睛里就充满了泪。片子不完美，令人感动的是她本身，应该让更多人知道她。
有点好哭，我真的很喜欢那个站在台上不停发光的梅艳芳，她说不能缺席演唱会，她说我要做的事情一定会做...作品只是人生的一部分，梅艳芳为人处世的态度，对待自己作品的珍惜，让她真正地嫁给了舞台，致敬一代巨星！
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