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".
比如，最开始的一段舞蹈，既不够美，也毫无意义，虽然后面呼应安插了一段跳舞，但那根本不重要！
居然出了第二部，本子依旧差（只是在人群中多看你了一眼，你就是凶手没跑了），也就木拓的探戈舞能凑合看看。
说实在的，比第一部难看。有炒冷饭之嫌。应该不会有第三部了吧
推理部分较弱，万智子和贝琢怎么知道森泽的也没讲清楚。
华美派，海报环普照全员。推理弱而且肉，警察各种鲁莽急急急。最大惊喜就是反派反串。东宝妹好憔悴，打光非常不给力。
整个推理部分就是给人一个大大的问号 不过麻生久美子好美啊
案情真尬……贺岁片合格。想看大神和女装久美子姐姐再跳一回探戈！
我感觉导演和摄影尽力了，全明星班底也尽力了，可架不住原作就是个写来骗稿费的注水猪肉啊！
跟尚气有点像，内心的魔鬼，小团队的阶级斗争
2021 #9 太古
就算有泽村一树、木村佳乃、麻生久美子等实力演员加盟，这剧情还是让人忍不住打瞌睡……应该九十分钟就结束的戏，硬拖到两小时多，一直带观众游花园……编剧检讨一下吧。。
来探案的警察，都戴着假面,这里绝不仅仅是一个冰冷的地方，易装警探为了抓到真正的罪犯，一直都在寻找假面背后的真相
很一般很一般，就连故事线也十分单薄，氛围丝毫没有。
看之前：这么豪华的卡司能差到哪去
烂片之名人堂，总之就是为了让一大堆人露脸而硬凑出来的剧
最不舒服的是男性客人让女主帮忙约另一位女性客人单独见面，女主竟然答应了……不管酒店工作人员后续安排的有多妥当，但入住你家酒店，享受私人空间的时候，真的不需要酒店自以为是给客人安排和陌生人的见面，而且到底有没有考虑过女客人本身的意愿和客人的安全问题？我只能翻白眼。除此之外的话，电影剧本本身依旧比较寡淡无味，悬疑推理案件无聊没意思就是不及格。
女武神流畅过瘾的打戏是我觉得近几年漫威的电影里最出色的近战戏。冷兵器的挥舞既饱含打击感，又不失女性的优雅魅力。上次在漫威电影里遇到让我重看好几次的打戏还是《雷神3》的海拉
给镜头调度的分数，酒店群与警部群镜头交错，最后交集在两边，以路过的职员为分界点那幕很不错，悬疑是不要追求了毕竟原作者…
典型东野圭吾推理风格。改编还算不错至少剧情推理都没啥脱节的。麻酱和木村大神外加实力派演员助阵品质是可以保证的。但我很不喜欢这片一动一静剪辑方式为啥非跳舞时穿插审讯不觉得观众耳朵和眼睛都很不适嘛？
看到这觉得这两部电影最大冲突与张力就在于，极度维护隐私的酒店方与探究隐秘的警察间的碰撞。真正的故事藏于隐秘之中，悬疑只是表象。木村的演技还是欣赏不来。
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