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".
部分打戏还不错，女主拿起刀子捅不停，就是摄影和剪辑太无力了，暴力的痛感被乏味的调度减轻不少。台词写得太糟，好几次差点笑出来。两位女演员演得还行，虽然没什么亮点。有点可惜导演功力不足，电影如果整体干净利落一些会好很多。
打斗设计血腥暴力为主 没有john wick和nobody的美感
剧情一般
作为一个爽片 为何动作戏略显吃力？ 如果不是有国村隼劈杀浅野忠信我会看这玩意儿？
东京是个空壳子，这东京夜景跟洛杉矶长得一模一样，地标符号完全没有凸显（不是放些霓虹灯和二次元就日本了啊喂，真正的好的地标应用见金城武《不夜城》），只是一种光影效果的噱头。
赛博朋克风格的动作片，也有刀剑朋克的影子，故事情节却很简练。
牵强的逻辑不谈，女主从剧版冰血暴就蛮喜欢的，可是这种耍狠的打片，真不太适合她，目前看来，塞隆、玛格特罗比、萨玛拉维文可能再加个瘦回来的科洛莫瑞兹有那种气质，其它的大表姐、凯伦吉兰、MaggiQ、萨莎露丝什么的，都不太行。。BTW,日本小妹妹挺灵的。。
这个结局女主似乎没有活路？一直以为有金手指特效药治疗她。四星给利落的造型以及血腥场面，小女孩也很有个性
挺热闹，可是：杀手奉命杀人，被害者更应该恨谁？杀手，还是指使者？有一颗爱心的杀手，怎么可能在这个残酷的世界存活？而且成为一个特别强大的杀手？做恶不透彻，为善不透彻，首鼠两端，到底要玩什么？主题肤浅古怪，观影过程时时出戏。不推荐。
主线还是直白的复仇动作类型，副线涉及雅库扎内部争斗，包括女生担当主演，girls help girls的情感依托等等，这些都算不上新鲜，好在背景发生在日本，而且大部分是夜景戏，所以会有赛博朋克的味道，一些细节也不错，像是结尾招财猫的霓虹灯和凯特cat身份重叠守护小女孩的立意就很好。请来国村隼和浅野忠信对决，味道也很正了。
除了不少的日语台词，日本文化没有得以充分体现，但这毕竟是以日本为背景的故事呀。
類似的女殺手轉業的題材，銀河映像的《攝氏37.2》比這個好看多了。
奈飞等于是又拍了一部《火药奶昔》，故事发生在日本，片名叫作《炸弹柠檬》，成色固然是好了不少，但也还是没能摆脱陈旧老套的毛病。
这女主参与过怪形，猛禽小队，双子杀手，比怪形时老了挺多。
问题在于，这是一部杀手主角的动作片，但Mary的气质完全不搭，她怎么看都是爱情喜剧片的好脾气女主角，追车场景倒是拍得不错，导演不如来拍头文字D
ambient的垫乐与东京夜晚霓虹的搭配很不错
设定很经济，过于经济导致后期拉垮，纸片人是撑不住感情戏的，就不必，一爽到底不好么。哪吒造型好评
一位名叫凯特的职业女杀手在日本的一次行动中失手，随后被注射了致命的钋-204，只剩下不到24小时的时间复仇。另一条副线是凯特与被她暗杀的一个黑帮骨干的女儿Ani的纠葛关系。
看片过程是个逐渐加星的体验 打破了我所有想吐槽的点 好评 看来expectation低一些确实会有惊喜
差不多点的欧美女星，人手都一部独角戏动作片。
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