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".
即使一镜到底的炫技也救不了剧情俗套平庸。这种一人灭全队的情节即使放到今天的好莱坞都算一种怀旧，感觉是穿越回了上世纪80年代左右的动作片中。
本片虽然从海报到制作都透露着一丢丢低劣的气息，在光影和摄影的运用上也远远不及萨姆·门德斯的《1917》，但用一镜到底的手法拍摄如此密集的枪战和打斗，导演如此复杂的场面调度着实出彩。晃动的镜头和朴素的摄影反而给电影增加了更多的真实性，走廊的枪战和斯科特左刀右枪一路潜行击杀去调试无线电的桥段可圈可点，没有花哨的动作，刀杀干净利落，紧张感十足。不过影片后半段的枪战也因为处理得太过干净，有一种主角在玩吃鸡游戏的感觉，反而显得精彩不足，有些虎头蛇尾了。（潜心那段太有《杀手》的感觉了哈哈哈）
这个形式还是有点意思的，所以给四星鼓励一下。剧本一般，有个别比较亮眼的地方，但也有很多时候让人感觉编得不怎么考究。
为这牛逼的一镜到底给第四颗星。另外他们的这卡车是五菱么，装这么多人？
用《1917》的方式打开《危机13小时》，斯科特·阿金斯当年没有被选为蝙蝠侠真是可惜了，和大本气质如出一辙。
枪战也好近战也好，死一个倒一个，至少死的有模有样，不糊弄人。
情节紧凑，打斗精彩，灵魂拷问，谁才是恐怖分子？
全世界的恐怖分子似乎得到了武林秘籍……
没什么太大毛病，也没什么高大上的设定，最扯的就是给美国人打着反恐口号找了个原因:维护美利坚国内安全。
笨拙到极致的枪战，看得出来演员是想模仿硬核战争电影里的战术动作，但东施效颦，持枪动作之类的学得就是不像。各个人物蠢得只会站桩输出，道具更经不起推敲，没有防弹衣，即使穿了防弹衣里面看上去也没有插板。战斗中军方这边守点甚至没有一个丢手雷烟雾弹的，亏得还是marine，Seal，PMC级别的武装。倒是恐怖分子晓得扔雷，他们随便凑几块铁板军用步枪弹都打不穿，要按这烂片的搞法，特警都不需要防暴盾牌了，防弹能力还不如废铁板。剧情已经可以不用讨论了，估计也只能拿【一镜到底】之类的概念忽悠文青了。
一镜到底的意义到底是什么？主视角让人看着很不舒服。
缺点也很明显，文戏的问题不是没剧情（这种类型的动作片剧情越简单越好），而是太长太拖沓了（尤其是前半段），砍掉十五分钟应该会更爽快。
剧情是一击到底，镜头是一镜到底，摄影师厉害哦！
用《1917》的方式打开《危机13小时》，斯科特·阿金斯当年没有被选为蝙蝠侠真是可惜了，和大本气质如出一辙。
很喜欢这种一镜到底的电影，最精彩部分就是主角拿刀潜入恢复通讯那段！
一镜到底确实很爽，枪战很真实，太真实所以观赏度不高
剧情也就那样，主角闪避子弹技能依旧满点，不过一镜到底的沉浸感实在是太强了，这种电影应该在大银幕观看，三星半
3星半，动作戏非常扎实，一镜到底拍的很是漂亮
''战狼''式的个人英雄主义，剧情没什么好说的，简简单单，看点全在动作和枪战场面，全片采用一镜到底，但场景没有《1974》那么宏大，加上密集的动作戏手摇式的拍摄手法反而减弱了长镜头的观赏性，打斗片段会有眩晕感。
一镜到底！完美！拍摄手法真棒…主角光环太强大了，一个人硬撑到底，牛逼！！
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