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".
从《爱情神话》和《奇迹》的评分能得出一结论，活跃在豆瓣上的人多数是70、80后，这部电影，最起码也得八分以上啊，别挑逻辑和合理性，不能自己没遇到过好人就说天下没那么多的好人，一个机遇在景昊面前是机遇，在别人面前就是浮云，自己没抓着别人抓着了说这肯定瞎扯，太坐井观天了。
为抗美援朝奋斗过的英雄致敬！就电影层面来说，战斗场面很大气，但剧情略显虎头蛇尾，3小时的片长，前中后三部分的分部不够均衡。
单位之前组织看了 比预计的好多了，看完了还很震撼
作为一个常年剪微课视频写镜号的人来说，看文保保的电影极度舒适，可以说没有一秒废镜头。大爱这个故事，把人压到绝境，最后凭借个人魅力带领团队坚持到奇迹来临，愿每个人身上都能发生这样的奇迹
抗美援朝题材的作品，在大银幕上断档多年，第一部重量级作品选择“长津湖”，事实上在选题上就落入美方话语的窠臼，是片面追随美军话语权的表现。
可我衷心希望，大家能够不必去赌上一切，因为我们各自还会有一生的奇迹。
大年初一看的电影，好看！
老天真的爱笨小孩！！不！是努力的笨小孩！！
可以说，这是这个春节最好的电影了，男主奋勇前行，善良又不迂腐，聪慧却不狡诈，目标明确，一路不通立刻换一条路，希望虽然渺茫但被他死死抓住，如此之人，可谓强者
除了开篇特效有点草率，后面人物刻画挺好。都像是外公跟我讲的那些故事
后半段让人在电影院狂哭不止…整个电影的叙事都非常让人感到舒适，一些小小的笑点也恰到好处。描述小人物的故事，重在细节，描绘出了一个年轻人的创业沉浮，其实也是在描绘每个人的浮浮沉沉。易烊千玺的演技我已经愿称一句“老戏骨”了，各种隐忍、挫败、倔强表现的淋漓尽致，爆发力足够好，演的也足够正确。
三个小时的电影，一点没感觉枯燥，反而觉得意犹未尽，每个演员演的都很到位！！！
易烊千玺真的和别的这个年纪的小孩完全不同，酒席上的那一段我真的在想这个年轻的躯壳里装的是一个多么成熟的灵魂。眼神里好像藏满了风霜，未来可期，以后他的每部电影我都会去看。
最后不由得叫起了爹，值得的。想说黄继光邱少云在哪，果然还是出现了。最后全队冻僵在山岗上实在是震撼。敬礼
稍欠惊喜，诚意足够
看的时候想到的事是自己的孩子不再活在有硝烟的世界，感到工作都有了干劲，好好工作。
台词跟很多细节都很好，太震撼了。历史应该被铭记
春节一天假没放，终于开幕式顺利结束了，上头赏了我半天的假期。半天也做不了啥，想看个电影吧，首页铺天盖地都是这一部，没犹豫就选择看他。
结局给每个人配字我还以为是现实事件改编呢 原来是我想多了😅
就一般，有点交作业的感觉。我能说来烂尾么？
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