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".
还有声音，不知道是影片的问题还是影院的问题，呼吸声什么的总是有振声。
有些人表面上是萨摩的西乡隆盛，其实是新选组的近藤局长。
就算是黑白也不能只有黑没有白啊，完全看不清画面细节，我还感受个啥？在电影院看完感觉眼睛都要瞎掉了，故事等于没有，人物因为看不清所以也分不清，说方言是为了真实感，好，但却是后期配音的，那还真实个屁？
这部影片处处彰显氛围感，无论是黑白滤镜，还是水墨画质感，亦或者空灵的音效，都会让你有种忆当年的感觉。
能把坦然赴死拍的没有这么悲壮，反而增添了些许诗意，确实很喜欢。
国产战争片中的一股清流。艺术院线限定上映，幸好我没有错过。
一面是使命一面是信仰，如果是你你会怎样选择？这群普通的士兵们做出了最不普通的决定，才成就了今日和平盛世的我们。
挺进师战士们对信仰的坚守让人感动，为信仰挥洒热血的事迹让人动容，影片的立意很好，值得推荐给更多人看。
最主观的感受是恐怖…蛇蝎横行，突然出现的尸体，昏暗的光源，不断消失的队友，以及幻觉…战场的真实与恐怖的氛围被所谓诗性包裹…
作为一部电影叙事过于碎片化且流水账了，不过土方冲田的选角不错
只想说这部影片让我真实地感受到了战争的残酷，致敬挺进师，致敬全天下的无名英雄！
了解新选组历史的表示这拍的就流水账😅而且小雪有必要戏份这么多嘛，每次出场还都好尬……但是我还是给四星，因为松平容保演的实在太出彩了😭😭
冲着来摄影看的。质感像老电影，剧情也像老革命电影就很没意思。画面还成，音效巨烂无比。属于是没剧情看着像游戏，有剧情看着像烂片。
随着镜头切入，沉浸式跟随战士穿梭于山野间，行走在这幅战争悲画中，感受那时的热血与悲壮。
这样的美术了不起 个别几个镜头还不错 雾中的伏线 。如果有个好故事…
开头还行 先听说了是个文艺片 氛围渲染还是不错的 画面一开始就给我强烈的滤镜感 节奏较慢 人物感情给我感觉都很冷淡 本来用方言应该更加亲切 但是听到后面感觉方言配音后毫无感情 黑白的画面和音效看久了总觉得非常空虚 也可以解释成战争后人们的心都很冰冷 也可以说空虚是为了映照片名云霄之上 但是感觉这些音效和画面更适合一些惊悚片 而非一个战争片 所以还是给两星 感觉影片质量是不差的 但是谈不上好
以血饲剑，誓同生死。幕府末期生于剑又死于剑的武士、新选组副长土方岁三顽强好胜的一生。正是这位武州石田村的平民之子，曾被人唤作“刺儿头阿岁”的他，凭借其天生好斗的性格和创建组织的才能，把原本不过是聚集了浪人及平民的新选组建成了当时最强大的一个团体，并在日本历史上掀起了他自己也意想不到的波澜。
看懂挺进师的故事，争做新时代的挺进师，让祖国愈来愈强是我最终的信仰！
看了推荐去看的，描述为：好的学生作品。开头确实很有创意，以为主角出现的时候，一枪被打死了。然后蛇的镜头，好多。有意让你想蛇在表达什么，什么悄无声息，什么又隐退了，什么从哪出来想咬你一口。结果只是在那一个段落里的作用。全程看得我精神没有放松，雾蒙蒙湿漉漉、与蚊虫和难以痊愈的伤口相伴，想想就难呼吸。
这部电影估计就是给新选组的铁粉看的，故事的转折什么都交代不清楚直接上来就是桥段的高潮，差不多相当于中国人看三国故事，什么背景桃园三结义三顾茅庐的介绍都省略了的缘故，所以你要是看过司马辽太郎的原著或了解那段历史，电影看起来还行，否则真就是一头雾水，太过于跳跃了。
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