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".
但这部电影仍不建议那些对香港影片，对粤语歌，对梅姐，对哥哥不了解不care的男男女女去看。尤其是全程不是说话就是吃东西影响别人的傻逼，们。
无法客观评价因为从头哭到尾但是眼泪全都来自Anita
最后哭着走出电影院。
本来以为是个屌丝逆袭剧，还好结局不是恶俗的乌鸦变凤凰。男主妈妈的头好大，好像汤婆婆
能不能禁止一下非正常老死去世三十年以内的天皇巨星拍传记电影……形象太深入人心，怎么选角都很难。王丹妮的梅艳芳太漂亮，气场不行，少了江湖气，走在夜场里太像个女白领。梅艳芳是个没有少女期的女人。而我即便不算荣迷，看到这样的张国荣也想打……那个时候的香港娱乐圈闪闪金光没有拍出来。黑社会纷争一笔带过，倒也是可以理解。最打动人的，还是那些真人影像。2003年就这样在眼前，无法不哭。香港精神，夕阳之歌。
其中使用少数族裔的文化和生活内容充当故事中的意外之处，虽然惊喜，但是也是老套了。
翻拍自2006年法国同名电影。巧合的是，现在两部电影的豆瓣评分都是7.1。没看过原版，我觉得这一版还挺有趣的。女演员与有妇之夫私会被狗仔拍到，只好找借口说当时是与泊车小弟约会。泊车小弟为了钱也答应和他们一起演这一场戏。随着戏演的时间越来越长，女演员开始看清了情夫，也逐渐喜欢和泊车小弟在一起的感觉。还好他俩只产生了友谊，如果真的要产生爱情就太牵强了。故事虽然俗套，但有些桥段确实很好笑。推荐周末放松一下。
嗯，作为改编，算是合格的，就是去除了前因后果，整体时长还能多出来三十分钟也是很有趣的了，其实评论里很多对影片的夸赞，都是原版电影就已经自带的了，要夸就夸这个版本所增加的家庭元素可能更好……
每当女主和男主走一起，一群屌丝就会通过yy同类征服一个白人女性来获得精神高潮，相当地写实又恶心，
如果不是为了萨玛拉·维文，我可能一辈子都不会去看这部电影，然而本片拍得不错，谁能拒绝一部轻松的生活喜剧呢，何况还是发生在洛杉矶的故事。片中有自我认知，有家庭，有爱情，最后所有角色的问题都迎刃而解，很欢乐的结局。很高兴男女主角之间没有爱情，只有友情，这在同类电影里不多见，而这两个角色也的确不应该成为情侣。萨玛拉仍然凭借个人魅力把这个一开始很不讨喜的角色演得让我很喜欢，但她实在不适合演这种“大明星”角色，之前在《最后的清晰时刻》里也是同类角色，而那是一次失败的尝试，她最适合演特立独行的嚣张女郎，希望她别被好莱坞毁了，近几年烂片太多，而且本片中的她消瘦了很多，颜值巅峰的《辣手保姆》也只是五年前而已。本片导演是华裔，支持华裔导演在好莱坞大展拳脚！
能看，有些浮于表面的传记感，但梅艳芳真的不可复制，演不出来啊
电影拍得一般，但还是泪目好几次，胜在比较真挚。
我看不得梅姐最後那場演唱會，是因為當時看到她和歌神張合唱那首【祝福】~~~唱到最后那一句『你和我重逢在燦爛的季節~~~』~的時候想到她以及L以及好多为之带来情绪相关的种种~~
电影挺克制，选取了梅艳芳生平一些片段来创作，梅姐一生这么精彩，再厉害的大师怕不能拍出个中精彩，若能如实呈现其中一二就很不错了。对于梅艳芳的感情世界，我觉得远不止这些，她的成就与精神更是难以影像化，她是一种独一无二的香港精神。最后电影与当年影像交叠变化，虚实之间，bgm《夕阳之歌》响起，配上她一袭婚纱，破防了
梅姐的一生值得赞扬和铭记，除了音乐和影视造诣，更多的是她对于慈善事业的贡献，以及永远在给予的侠义品格
Leslie是不是第一次有人在大熒幕上扮演他？
“慢歌要唱出唏嘘” 最后一首《夕阳之歌》，却是倔强地不忍离别……
1.渣男富商面对情人和老婆的能够左右逢源，求生智慧拉满，却记不得前一天掌掴过的男主，服务人员在有钱人眼里都是透明的。
后期妆容越来越接近戴佩妮。其实杨千嬅可以直接去演梅艳芳。身为艺人的不自由。演唱会的场面多来一点，就接近波西米亚了。
好久没看这种轻松可爱的爆米花电影了 不错 三星半
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