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".
我头一回见把结局剪到预告片里还剪那么多的……
finally a movie that understands who batman really is, a dumb rich asshole who gets off on hurting people. and they throw all the character development away at the end to make sequels.
仿佛谁戴上了那个遮盖演技的面罩都能被夸是独特的新一代蝙蝠侠，蝙蝠侠简直成了演技洗白利器，毕竟你也没法对着一个面具说他木头脸，眼神没戏，面瘫，人蝙蝠侠本来就这样
迪士尼粉丝：？
最后蝙蝠侠抗洪救灾那里出了戏 其他都还挺好的 比起本阿弗莱克版本的marvel化的超影版 此版非常颓 为贴近nolan版本的暗黑风格做了更多努力 看到最后我突然明白了什么 蝙蝠侠太像社工了 明明各种迹象都指明这个城市没救了 人也从内部腐坏了 他还坚信i can make a change 还要继续留在哥谭 而猫女大概就是一个曾经有着崇高理想入职的萌新社工 最终发现system is irrevocable 赶紧放弃跑路了 暗示着那些对社工职业感到失望和无意义从而转行的人们（比如我)
而她将离开这座回南的城市，但她会回来的，不是么？GOODTIME BYEBYE FOWEVER.
四星，不过看完的体验比想象中更好，再加一星，少数我还想再看一遍的电影。
This is Cinema！迷惘且高级，《沙丘》之后最享受的一次视听体验。即使是我所知道最接地气的蝙蝠侠，每一个虚焦镜头都在提醒他与其他被分离的人是不同的。似乎是一次对父辈们阴暗面的全面解构，内心坚硬如韦恩也会信仰崩塌且怀疑自我(这里感觉可以多加一些内心天人交战的戏，还好保罗达诺撑起来了一部分)。但注定与普通人不一样，这次他不是“the dark knight”，手持火炬，给被水淹没的哥谭人带来了唯一的光。有几个镜头可以直接入选个人年度电影瞬间。
我愿称之为，高级质感的无聊之作，散场得等到凌晨一点，而我已经发呆半小时了，在过于幽深的配乐烘托下，玩手机的观众都看上去像鬼，电影院的王姐卖给我一套员工票，并承诺只要老板不在，她都会给我偷打可乐爆米花，但是，要求我给他儿子介绍一个女朋友，为了看大片便宜，我答应了，现在十分后悔，我准备好了观影以来首次提前离场的起跑姿势，心还没从周五出来，人都在第二天了，为什么总在做无聊的事。
算是史上最没用蝙蝠侠了吧？猜谜一猜就对，造谣一听就信，打架全靠防弹衣，忧郁孤独仨小时，最后就悟了：我要下沉灾区做基层工作。
别等彩蛋！是谁被坑了我不说。
哥谭魅影，浴血重生。从复仇天使，到黑暗骑士，在一窥自身家族的隐秘史和整座城市的阴暗面之后，他选择将蝙蝠灯的意义由散播恐惧转变为点亮希望。或许无论哪一种立场都无法真正拯救这座罪恶之城，毕竟只要有人类存在的地方便必然伴随着永无止境的争端和深不见底的欲望，哪怕人心所向终究是光，也注定无济于事。我们就是如此矛盾纠结的物种，就像蝙蝠侠这个象征着一线光明的人物永远只能寄身于无尽的黑暗之中。然而无论深陷怎样的泥潭，怒火与暴力都不是解决问题的答案，只会滋生仇恨，让世间的恶无限循环。于是当他义无反顾地舍身落水高擎火炬引领众生，我们从中看到了神性。它不是最好的蝙蝠侠电影，但浓郁的黑色侦探风赋予其最为独特的气质和韵味；它也不是会风靡这个时代的爆款超英电影，而是主创团队返璞归真的逆势之作。不完美，却可贵。
实在是太事无巨细了…………搁这儿写日记呢？把这帮人的戏服全摘了不就是个再普通不过的侦探片吗？这有啥好看的啊……
画面镜头很完美，配乐很连贯，很有沉浸感。故事剧情差强人意，觉得谜语人动机没有讲清楚，总感觉差一下子。最出戏的是猫女的的面具... 城乡结合部土匪
这部算是给我看懂重要的那几个人物关系了，好！但是本以为走硬派老派侦探风格，结果推理还是不够硬。
DC在暗黑化漫改的路上走的越来越远了，但无论换多少次演员和主创，一直在复刻诺兰和扎导奠定的苦大仇深神经病路线，这样是可以和漫威那种合家欢游乐园区分开，却陷入了另一个极端，一直努力告诉观众我可以多酷，但忘记了我也可以多无聊。
流水線作品，蝙蝠俠注定是一個保守主義作品了，警察這麼亂來，地下社會這麼取代了所謂的「正常功能」意味著的不是一個不逾越界限的英雄能拯救的，這種以反壓迫代替反剝削，以警察腐敗無能和謎語人的肆無忌憚來映襯蝙蝠俠的（「非暴力」的不用槍，天降猛男般的強力「慈善」）正義，這就證明這只能是個男性成長故事，用一百個所謂的「獨立女性」（卻還要去酒吧賣弄風騷謀生）都掩蓋不了這種正義的油膩，但是只要謎語人一出現，全片的正義就立刻消散了，因為這不是黑暗中缺乏光，而是燈下黑，只要存在正道，就一定有非正道，所謂的蝙蝠俠的柏拉圖式的「節制」的智慧，也只是一種典型的男性自慰，正義就像飛機杯一樣...
感觉有一整年没在华纳看片了…反腐大片，但喜欢那个在后视镜里看来看去的偶像剧情节，想起了龙纹身的女孩
不要以为从头到尾运用了黑暗的色调阴冷的氛围低沉的声音，逼格就高了，整个故事还是很平庸。
而她将离开这座回南的城市，但她会回来的，不是么？GOODTIME BYEBYE FOWEVER.
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