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".
这部电影在小范围预映阶段就被音乐剧粉骂得不行不行的了，据说是因为著名制作人Marc Platt (主演Ben的爸爸) 早就买下了版权所以Ben才理所当然地在银幕上继续演Evan，27岁的Ben嗓子一向没的说，但外形实在是像37，不知道网上传Ben生活中的人品就是男版的Lea Michele是不是真的~~
宽街一票难求的剧电影版，歌入耳，情节不能细想，“抑郁焦虑”成了吃人血馒头的合理理由？Alana边唱着Anonymous one边上传letter这幕让我的颅内脏话飙到顶峰。所有角色都沉浸在一种自怜自艾之中，放在舞台上或许能让观众“共情”，放在大荧幕上叫伪善的极致
节奏不说，角色很有张力，隐匿又隐匿不住的悲伤，愤怒和柔软，让回味又长了些。
2.5。梗能磕到，但全程不能相信载歌载舞的主角自闭。
没有期待的那么好 远远比不上歌剧版 原声都很好听 演员也都在线 Moore那首绝了
- Disappear
- Good For You
"Dear Evan Hansen: Today is going to be an amazing day and here's why. Because, today, all you have to do is be yourself. But also confident. That's important. And interesting. Easy to talk to. Approachable. But mostly be yourself. That's the big, that's number one. Be yourself. Be true to yourself."
天灾之后必有人祸，只是我们没有追究的权力。演员表演都挺不错的，只是剧本有点弱，天灾造成的心理创伤和人祸的制度性问题都没有深入，有点遗憾。
歌好听，冲着青少年心理健康主题也要加一星然而电影本身是真的有点不行……
值得继续咀嚼深思
这个题材其实蛮适合改编成电影剧本，但落到这个剧转影的成片，实在是不太行。力度没有处理好，节奏也没有把控好，整个情绪是点状的呈现而非线性流淌。包括角色塑造，除了Evan都几乎工具人一样，Evan也没看到角色的成长，就挺离谱。
理解了为什么原音乐剧会在北美这么火，剧作描写角度之全面 总有一款能related ，从男主 父母 妹妹 养父母 单亲父母，还有戳中我的，学生会长代表的抑郁群体角度，全全cover了。导演依旧擅长煽情治愈那套，拍法中规中矩没啥问题，但从选中Ben Platt这张老脸的时候这片子就注定完了...论合适的casting比演技更重要。
亲亲AA和Moore 男主怎么看也不像是高中生啊
音乐剧是一部不错的音乐剧，改编电影后，把音乐剧的缺点放大，优点减弱了，虽然补完了音乐剧里无法呈现的“细节内容”但却形成了反作用使得剧情的拖沓以及无法与歌很好地融合，如果这故事仅仅只是剧情片也会是个不错的题材，但歌是真的好听的，导演拍摄就一般了
转场和运镜在吃力地配合着原版音乐剧的音乐和主题，能感觉很多地方影片想要努力表达但力不从心，并不是一次很好的改编。很期待看看音乐剧版是如何讲述这个故事逻辑的。
受限于题材的特长发挥-10/01/21 at AMC Garden State 16
2. 貧窮是不分國度的 反倒是尊嚴與文化讓這個世界的人井然有序的分開
怎么评分这么低？明明很好看，又很有现实意义啊
电影版真的是灾难 剪辑和转折很生硬 不如出个官摄😑歌还是好听的 虽然我喜欢的歌被删了几首 新加的歌也还可以😞 Colton Ryan让这部电影可以忍受一点点 毕竟宽街没留下他演DEH的任何video😄以及我的快乐变成了在夹缝里寻找Isaac 结果他居然还分到了几句词儿
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