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".
村花美则美矣，却演得没什么灵魂。北村一辉演的那个大叔废话太多，后半节奏不紧凑。暂不评分，等看完一整个系列再说。
始终最爱的一篇，高还原度，喜欢。我觉得是一语双关，一方面是给自己的未婚夫，对不起，没法替你复仇，只能留下一道刀疤，一方面是给自己真正的丈夫剑心，对不起，为了复仇，必须在你脸上再留下一道刀疤。
我觉得这几年白期待了，最好的自杀小队电影至今都是《突袭阿卡姆》。
在没烂番茄先给你们做参考的提示下，这片子你能打高分？除去砍瓜切菜的血腥镜头有点意思外，故事依然俗套无趣到你能猜到下一幕会发生什么。降了智的士兵除了原地站桩射击就是拿头去碰主角们的子弹和拳头；哈莉动作戏堪比猛禽，红衣饱和度都溢出了好么；第三幕开始，过曝式打光看得观众眼瞎，敌人也瞎了；至于毫无存在感的弱鸡boss，就这还要威胁世界？耗子人差不多得了，最后的回忆有被感动到……不，是尬到。如果这是DC最佳，那可真是太棒了，以后全拍cult片，用血浆搭配fun就好了，一想到这就是粉丝口中的未来希望，我只想大声说：释放阿耶剪辑版！然后，此生无悔离DC。
乱世之中两个人的情感碰撞
James Gunn真是dceu的救世主，虽然文戏拍得不咋地，但整体对比dc过去的片子，已经是三清博士碾压九漏鱼的程度了。华纳简直烧高香。
完美的结局，不能和动画去比，各有各的好处，打的太过瘾了，感情戏也亮眼，确实很多场景在上一部有了剧透，但这些都不是事。
难得看日本动作片。漫画风格还是挺明显。画面和打斗设计，都有点特色。中间一度让我联想到长安十二时辰。
3.5吧，给四颗鼓励下。武打真的不错，艺术性上比动画版相差蛮多的，女主的颜真的有点磕不动。。。
虽然动作戏没有前三部绚 但冷面杀人狂好飒 佐藤健绝美 村花的巴太贴了 嘤嘤嘤 这竟然我是今年看过的最好爱情片...
纵观浪客剑心五部曲，导演真的是十年磨一剑，不知不觉自己也已经走过了十年的时光，追忆篇可以说是为自己等待十年的青春画上了圆满了句号。剑心很帅，村花很美，小舅子痞帅，当然个人感觉塑造最成功的反派还是志志雄真实，其战力和风头已经盖过了剑心。。。。。。
我心目中最好的一篇。村花是最好的女主，不接受反驳。
时代怒涛中个体的离乱是永恒的文学命题，预定《浪客剑心》系列最佳。本片作为一部前传，拔高了整个系列的格调，也极大地拓展、激发了绯村剑心这个角色的深度与魅力。
真·DCEU目前最好电影，露JJ露MM，脑浆四溢，少儿不宜。剧情好看，音乐好听，坐等OST。血腥搞笑反套路，搞怪中透着浪漫，每个角色都很有特色。最后想知道哪里能领养一只鲨鱼王！！！！！
一开场还在想谁来演桂小五郎呢，没想到竟然是益生菌。村花虽然毫无雪代巴的气质但是也算尽力了，没有原作的音乐效果怎么差了这么多！
2021.7.31 @ Vue WestEnd, 滚导风格明显，套路满满的反套路片，美术指导可能是昆汀爱好者，满屏幕的红红红。Peacemaker和Bloodsport嘴炮pk算亮点，预测Harley Quinn这身红裙又会成为今年万圣节爆款。
杂却无味。
漫改最强的名号守住了！！！
真·DCEU目前最好电影，露JJ露MM，脑浆四溢，少儿不宜。剧情好看，音乐好听，坐等OST。血腥搞笑反套路，搞怪中透着浪漫，每个角色都很有特色。最后想知道哪里能领养一只鲨鱼王！！！！！
无节操是一件多么欢乐的事啊，时时刻刻有惊喜，DC这是在教漫威做人啊。
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