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".
最怂的“罪犯”，最吊的“人质” 克莉丝汀死的好可惜 自由的意义是什么？是一切
每个热爱metal的人都是偏执狂，包括我自己。
Emily爆發那裡笑死我，管你Metal不Metal，老娘一椅子下去，哈哈哈哈哈哈哈，Joe怎麼越來越像個pornstar，怪吸引人的，好喜歡這種outsider freak nerd的故事，Kevin和Emily那裡也太溫柔了，要淹沒在他倆柔和的聲線裡面了。
挺多共鸣的地方，也想起了好朋友。但更多是突兀和套路剧情。 考虑到老少咸宜，行吧。
嗯，好看……在超高颜值和才艺的支撑下恣意张扬！当然：乐团大战的金牌队长家里有保安把守的庄园，银牌队长老爸是整型外科医生～拿白金百夫长信用卡宠儿子，买乐器一笔就一万三千多……美元啊！
以为是个剧，没想到是是电影。但是看起来也的确像剧…情节平庸/狗血，但因为是金属，所以不会烦。
为啥我觉得不好看，本身很喜欢看青春校园电影的，而且叠加音乐
是不是对金属的stereotype普遍都停在了上世纪
可可爱爱的重金属修炼手册 几场练鼓和最终表演戏份都压住场了 小情侣的化学反应也还行 Jaeden Martell弟弟的存在感不容小觑 从恐怖到悬疑到如今的青春电影都表现不错 而D.B. Weiss再就业的这部口碑也hold住了。
抛去那些大家都看得出来的老套的设定和剧情，这样的片子总是让我怀念起高中的时光，他妈的还是读书好啊
全程看得“母仪笑”！小孩子们太有爱了！尤其是那两小家伙 “破除”时候的样子 简直 so cute😂 我🉐️承认我老了！摇滚精神我没有，但我能感受得到那种冲向自由的锐利！不自由 毋宁死！
就是个可可爱爱偏于套路的校园青春片，十分小清新，但一点儿都不重金属啊，如果光从金属这个噱头来说，还是《重金属冏途》《早死早投胎之地狱摇滚篇》那种更有金属精神吧。男主很像哈利·波特，几个串场的配角小帅哥我倒觉得比俩主角更好看，来应征贝斯手那位太欢乐了哈哈哈哈！
对于死亡金属这个概念的运用其实没有那么透彻，披着音乐外衣的青春片吧。
这电影其实一般，但作为一个摇滚爱好者，我还是看的很开心，就冲电影的配乐，金属党都应该看一下。里面有一些梗只有听摇滚的人才懂。例如中间几次有人提到他们的乐队像白带乐队，他们脸色都不是太好看，因为白带的女鼓手以技术粗糙著称，经常被批评。还有男女主在吉他中心买谱子，女主拿起那本买套的and justice for all ,乐迷都知道，这是当年乐队前贝斯手cliff出车祸去世，新贝斯jason（就是男二的发型相似的哥们）参与的专辑，乐队成员为了给jason下马威，故意把专辑bass声音调的小到听不见。女主说要买这专的谱子，应该是表示自己在音乐上愿意做一些牺牲。
this is adorable as fuck. 短评里嗅到不少 elitism，讽刺的是这恰好是这片想讽刺的。Adrian Greensmith 有 Adam Driver 气质，前途无量。
有趣 燃 莫名其妙的好笑 以及莫名其妙的感动
4.5⭐
Everything！
哈哈，看到一个评论说这是美版闪光少女，好形象。主角们没有乱糟糟的不良嗜好，只想搞音乐+谈个恋爱，青春喜剧，很棒。
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