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".
前面铺垫那么长……我还以为后面有什么惊喜……而惊喜就是电影终于快结束了……
如果主旋律都是这个制作水准的话我还是很愿意买单的 摄影美术都很在线 也终于有国产商业片不用台词用镜头讲故事了！ 张涵予的硬汉形象比战狼帅多了 就连反派都那么有漫画感 （本来战争片就不要一味地矮化敌人嘛！斗智斗勇才好看）该死，被装到了！
有西部片的感觉，尤其是用锯断枪管的枪一枪崩一个，到处都是残肢血浆，又是毡帽又是卷烟的，好像被解救的姜戈啊。再就是老范用的是偏胶东腔的山东话，并不是枣庄风味啊，不过老范演的挺好的。
如果真的大胆的话就直接拍一场老年人的性爱戏而不是遮遮掩掩，否则只会让人觉得是噱头。
看预告片怎么有种悬崖之上的感觉，看完之后感觉还是导演差距太大了，过年的狙击手应该不错
电影的结局不同于电视剧版本的，显得较为悲壮！但这也是八年抗战的缩影——一群普通人干着同一件不普通的事，甚至不惜献出自己年轻的生命！电影整体节奏还是很快的，如同几倍速的电视剧版本🤣
表面的一些工业化的东西让人看下去，内核里的东西让人看了跟没看一样。
1.好一幅可歌可泣的铁道群英谱，最惊喜的无疑是范伟饰演的老王头。2.节奏克制，铺垫绵长，直到最后一场终极对决，才把电影情绪推向高潮。3.镜头和美术设计一流，火车、风雪、烟雾、枪火等相互交织，形成独特的电影美学。
一场给自己没事找事的逃票 结果哪个都没看好
貌似这个新导演对场景的调度和场面的把控还可以，但节奏把握不行。原本该是重点戏的战斗，觉得又假又煽情。真的不要这种主旋律了，看得膈应。
导编演皆超出预期，近些年难得的主旋律佳作。豆瓣评分太低了，加一星。
和《悬崖之上》一样，胜在氛围，败在脱离史实。铁道游击队炸铁道、发动群众的历史不见了，那么少的队员去强攻有日军驻守的火车？不尊重对手的战斗力，就是蔑视英雄们付出的血泪
至于其他角色，就很工具人了，比如魏晨的上线是为了提升“正方战力”。周Y这么漂亮难道只有花瓶可以演了吗？
老范可圈可点 片尾刘德华唱《铁道游击队》 瞬间感动了
华谊多久没有如此踏实的做电影了，真是一改创作颓势之作。编导演服化道全部在线，特别是音效，繁杂之间细致不混淆，难度和呈现效果丝毫不输多年前的《长江图》。作为范伟资深影迷，必须说一句这是金马影帝又一个里程碑，演技集中展现的代表作！除了影迷熟悉的插科打诨卑微草根的微表情，这次的大义凛然耍帅装酷也是信手拈来驾轻就熟的感觉啊！怒赞！张涵予出场的那身日本军官服跟小时候看的小人书里的那身衣服一模一样，中年男人一下回到少年了哈哈。故事基本在合理范围内，有些具体情节踏进神剧但可以接受（全靠那些神剧反衬）。恕俺孤陋寡闻，这位杨枫导演打哪冒出来的，这是多高的出发点啊！
“这在我们家乡叫见阎王酒。您请。”......笑到我在黑暗中跺脚！买的时候没发现这个厅是4D，椅子会摇晃会吹风，人家骑个自行车我都抖三抖。开一枪，我腚一紧，开两枪，总感觉有人在打我。在火车上好几场戏整个影厅都好凉快！差点没给我整晕车喽（）其实电影本身没有太多意外，但因为一直挺喜欢张涵予老师，所以很满意结局的一整套英雄落幕。开枪、点烟、兄弟告别，衣服一敞，慢条斯理地点燃引线，帽子盖脸真的非常汤姆猫式告别了！（没错就是那个追老鼠的汤姆猫）还想到了西部牛仔，想到了姜戈，八恶人，能把主旋律的故事拍出中国式浪漫和潇洒，又不忘幽默和情调，真可谓是值得一看。范伟老师和那位日本军官演得也很赞！炸弹那儿真的牛逼......我是完全没想到！！（Ps：就不吐槽叫爸爸的剧情了，中华男性的终极毕生追求果然是——笑昏古七2333）
演员实力派神仙阵容 张涵予和范伟的海报图没想到在电影里是那么英勇壮烈的一幕 震撼又感动 致敬每一位奋勇付出的抗日英雄 爱国精神振奋人心 刘德华真挚献唱片尾曲 太阳出来了 我们终将看到胜利的曙光【长白万象汇杜比影院
姑且不说电影怎么拉胯，片尾曲是我听过史上最恶心的改编。
总的来说作为诚意国产片值得4星，比同背景的悬崖之上差了不少，1.42亿的票房也多少说明问题不少。做为国产片的硬件进步很明显，硬式视觉风格很赞同，值得鼓励下加到5星⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
冲着范厨师去的，跟很多演员阵容强大的电影相似，演员演技在线，但是导演讲故事能力不在线。战争片能把把人看催眠的也不多见
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