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".
我本来是想给三颗星的，因为影片很会糊弄观众，只要奢华的场景、服装设计、摄影、特效到位，就能忽略其他问题，但是，我偏不，而且外景特效也太假了。
忘记原著剧情了，也没有什么大的意见。船上的密室杀人案，拍得也太像剧本杀了。看完有点想去埃及。
我看完这部终于知道肯导为啥要放弃莎翁剧拍这玩意，因为他就跟波洛一样自恋。只有他这版波洛会给自己的胡子拍超过十分钟的《大侦探波洛之胡子起源记》。🙉但我还是原谅了他因为看完后我发现全片最好就这段。
梦回怪形的old school 恐怖血腥片～最喜欢第3个故事～
再一次证明，肯尼思·布拉纳是今年奥斯卡最大的水货
IMAX2D包场。热恋中的人都是疯子，CG出戏，
印尼导演的第三个故事相当带劲，剩余几个故事我觉得都挺一般的，转眼间离我看前三部过去三年了，不过我还是很爱这个系列，cult牛逼！
两个小时的电影，前面一小时十五分钟都是很平淡的剧情，后面只有半个多小时推理，而且推理很无厘头，更像是猜想，因为没有足够的证据去支撑。最大的一个bug：女二假装射击软饭男，连墙上或者家具有没有枪击的痕迹都没提到，这就推理出假枪击，真的无语，都是乱来的。
I despise this egocentric and incompetent director with his equally arrogant and fragile Poirot with anger management issues. Awful and torturing to watch. Luckily my group won't fall for the same trap again. And get your dirty hands off Agatha Christie's books!
当年有多期待今天就有多失望，整个节奏拖沓，内容冗长乏味，加的不知道啥玩意儿，明明那么有意思的故事，被拍得无聊透顶。即使有朵朵也挽救不了这片子。浪费两小时。
混乱缩编故事角色，却坚持套用原作诡计，不得不将串联诡计最精妙的台词及动作尴尬展示时有多不自在，丢失波洛正义灵魂的假劳伦斯奥利弗就有多膨胀。魔改不是罪，但仅凭令波洛与阿婆笔下最下流的角色之一产生情感火花，编剧就罪无可恕。推理小说并非不可冒犯的严肃文学，可任何妄图用小聪明挑战大布局的尝试都和这部乏味电影一样可笑。
欣赏不了这个系列了。
给波洛加什么二战前史的做法，简直太狗屎了，Kenneth Branagh也是过分自恋，这演的根本就不是我们波洛！
可能是预期降低了，观影体验竟然还蛮流畅的，至少叙事节奏比上次《东方列车谋杀案》要紧凑许多，当然这片好的地方都是阿加莎的功劳，坏的地方就是特效制作水平太塑料，真的很掉格。
整体观感略强于《东快》，不过肯定比不上老版，对于波洛人设和其他支线人物迎合时代的变动就算是这个系列的风格先不提了，作为最后高潮的解谜部分也太仓促了，只是匆匆陈述了真相，很多原著中的推理过程被省略了，凶手认罪也太轻易，并没有确凿的实际证据，心理上的铺垫也不充分。此外第二起谋杀案后波洛应该已经想到凶手是谁，也知道布克可能看到凶手，却偏偏要当着西蒙的面审问布克，导致第三起谋杀，这里的改编很不合理。
五分水平，因为东方快车折戟，仍不思悔改乱拍阿婆，减到四分，折合成两分。场面宏大浮华又虚假，有效宏大场面是从尼罗河到泰晤士河的相似转场。
看睡着，嫌疑人都是一恐吓就招了，有必要把波探长为什么留胡子说一遍么…
不选盖尔的都是脑子有坑!
（这一部影片是我抱着极高的期待值去看的，因为这一部影片是改编自阿加莎的同名小说） 但回到正题，我只能说这一部影片仅仅只是及格的。首先说优点影片服化道十分精美，完全符合我对华丽风的追求。影片中出现的蒂芙尼黄水晶项链真的很戳我心。影片会出其不意地制造惊吓点。（我真的有被吓到）但除了这些之外，这一部片其实就是典型的密闭空间杀人案，推理过程真的很烂，完全就靠嘴说的。所以这一部片如果有时间无聊的话可以看看，但不必抱有太大期望。
我觉得三星差不多 把埃及跟尼罗河拍的都极美 有好多对称的手法让电影看起来极有艺术感 只可惜改编有点拉跨 优点都被缺点掩盖了 我以后不会再看黑人和亚裔女主的电影了 审美无能
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