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".
饮歌请放心，条目肯定会健在的。这结尾实在是太好笑了，而且字幕结束后还他妈有彩蛋，这大过节的，简直不能更欢乐了！
彗星撞地球，世间众生相，
和《忧郁症》以高纯度的影像为媒，竭力渲染的迷幻末世体验不同，亚当•麦凯在意的是“天启”降临前，社会秩序脱轨和非理性亢奋的贲张。因此影片也可被视为专向这个娱乐至死时代开炮的实景真人秀，看似繁杂的病毒式meme、弹窗和档案碎片糅合瞬时都有了意义，让人惊觉大笑后的谬然和失语。面临死亡倒计时仍要握手共飨的晚餐，固然有些套路化的嫌疑，却也扣准了深埋在这种虚伪“温情”假象下，人类对文明和体面残存的固执，是卑弱也是伟大的。另，片中大半情动时刻源于小李子饰演的科学家，若没有他游刃而有神采的发挥，兴许魅力会减退不少。
三星半
惊艳之作。且不谈本身剧本的用心，单是这种日剧一样成熟的拍摄风格都值得一个五星，比当年的rogue外传还要更甚。本作代表着东映没有只一味往子供向方向发展，而是还偶尔记得能为成人观众拍摄作品。虽说看了这么多年骑士，子供向作品也能看得很开心，但能在令和骑士里看到成人向作品真的很感动。美中不足的就是本作故事和主题都和本篇太割裂了，少了几分情怀感。另外，在b站看时弹幕也充满着“看不懂”“怎么皮套这么少啊”之类的发言，更说明本作在小孩子观众和看热闹观众中大概不会受欢迎吧。但即便如此，我也希望东映在以后也能拿出类似风格的骑士作品，在看完其他轻松的皮套秀作品之余能让人偶尔换换口味。
ed很好很苦涩，像黑巧克力
讲的是8年后的故事，小男孩拿到无铭剑后分裂出来了另一个人格间宫，间宫混入托马老师身边，谎称是他的发小，用了8年时间想把托马老师从人们的记忆抹除，最后男孩接受了托马老师，而间宫用无铭剑回到过去，阻止了当初那个小男孩拿到无铭剑。（总的来说皮套不用心，塞壬和贤人的阿拉伯之夜就是不死鸟与远古龙换皮来的，但是文戏方面来说可以说是近几年来最好的外传了，直接五颗星，皮套忽略不计，反正觉得圣刃的皮套都挺好的）
讽刺得过于刻意离谱，我不懂zz，我只是觉得他们不像正常人。。。
对于熟悉这两年美国时势的观众而言，这部讽刺电影实在是一部爽片，故事虽然是虚构的，却全都能找到现实原型。可以说，现实有多荒诞多离谱多操蛋，这部电影就有多搞笑多讽刺多爽。
年度爽片，全程笑死了。但总是在笑完之后发现，天呐这不就是美国去年2年的纪实片嘛。人物一一都能对上。拍摄剪辑的方式非常喜欢！
第二部分：
就这样继续bittersweet的life吧
跟爱情神话莫名像，又比爱情神话磊落点，中外电影创作者的默契？确实要完。
合唱主题曲太好听了😭好喜欢这种风格，很适合圣刃，循环停不下来。
像个正常日剧而不是好像拍出来只是为了卖玩具和皮套可以说进步巨大。。。
Don’t run away from what’s coming. That’s a courage.
~katy，are you ok？（配上汽车已经开走）。。。
自Seth Rogen帮James Franco的电影"interview"(赐刹今症嗯)以来最恶搞了
竭尽挖苦嘲讽之能事，拍美国社会的魔幻现实，虽然采用了大量夸张手法，但事情是这么个事情。属于蛮欢乐的一部电影，奈飞在圣诞夜推出，相当于我们这边的春节档吧。
对于熟悉这两年美国时势的观众而言，这部讽刺电影实在是一部爽片，故事虽然是虚构的，却全都能找到现实原型。可以说，现实有多荒诞多离谱多操蛋，这部电影就有多搞笑多讽刺多爽。
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