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".
以小见大的战争电影。在一众疯狂追求大制作大场面的国产电影中张艺谋找到了自己的独特视角。摒弃了华丽的视效，复杂的叙事，转而回归最简洁的状态，一次任务，一个场景，在有限的空间里发散出无限的可能，势均力敌，克制冷静。
这样小视角多好，不用喊口号，不用打鸡血。伟大的牺牲不会矫情。
章宇真的是会挑剧本的好演员 我说狙击手是春节档最佳没问题吧
抗战时期的中国人是从不畏惧牺牲的，
气昂昂
一看就是老谋子的风格，在细节之处体现细腻的人物情感，就像闭幕式一样，注重各种细节。
多一颗星，致敬张桃芳们
想让我说一句 章宇太棒了 真的太棒了 他是这个片子的戏眼 演技恰到好处 收放自如 地方话特别出彩 电影两个多小时 不浪费一分钟 全程出彩 节奏特别好 口罩都哭湿了 张艺谋带着女儿张末 电影里有着女性的细腻感 真好
第30分钟就绷不住了，感觉又回到了那个简单叙事却极其辉煌的好电影年代
每一段都像在拍结局，导致这个情绪延到最后相当于没有。反正和这些年的国产战争片一样刻意，一样有bug，一样一味的歌颂英雄。真的受够了，毫无剧情可言，浪费我人生的一个小时。
跟《悬崖之上》同是置身冰天雪地，打趣说前作是剧本杀，这部就是密室逃脱版真人CS。个人更爱这部，稳、准、狠。不复杂不“烧脑”，没有人海也没有大排场，甚至只有山坡的唯一场景，双方阵营都不过十人，“势均力敌”地斗智斗勇，就把故事讲得扣人心弦。张艺谋难得做一个纯男性群戏，演员都不错，特别是章宇真好！有勇有谋，有情有义；有血有肉，有信念感。他最终投向他始终望向的对面山坡顶上的灿烂阳光贡献了全片的最高光时刻。班长总跟大永说「不许哭」，可张艺谋总有让人哭的能力，这次甚至是使用配乐到毫不收敛的地步，他精准拿捏此类型影片的情绪套路，达成一次蛮精致的小试牛刀。Ps:片尾韩红《回家》的歌声里画面中复刻了「一条大河波浪宽……」
找到班长了吗？
抗战时期的中国人是从不畏惧牺牲的，
有半程几乎透过手指缝看的（对不起我胆儿太小了）、比悬崖之上更干净利落、最后、为章宇多给一星、章宇真的好
完美表现狙击手的快准狠，用一个无名的小战场的几名狙击手对弈便可感受到人民志愿军的坚毅和智慧，以小见大
每一段都像在拍结局，导致这个情绪延到最后相当于没有。反正和这些年的国产战争片一样刻意，一样有bug，一样一味的歌颂英雄。真的受够了，毫无剧情可言，浪费我人生的一个小时。
勺子反射这种神剧桥段见得不少。
音乐过头了，张艺谋还不够克制。结尾彩蛋既然致敬了《上甘岭》，片尾曲为什么不选《我的祖国》？
故事场景不多，三个架构，大部分剧情都是在户外的雪地里展开。从双方博弈，到最后的绝地反击，全程紧绷，有笑点，也有感动！小人物也可以了不起，为他们勇敢与机智点赞。
张艺谋还是厉害，这样一个主旋律题材和简单主题，能拍出这样的国际大片气质，这电影跟开始想象的完全不一样，用年轻不知名演员也非常合适，简单的故事，普通的人，电影的情绪饱满不做作，观众一开始就被带进一个心弦紧绷的语境中，并被导演一直往前引进持续到影片结束，每次背景音乐小号响起来的时候，我就想哭也不知道是怎么回事，电影中那些娴熟的镜头语言，即使全片故事都只是发生在那简陋的场景，但也让人有大片感。电影故事的架构，层层递进的人物斗智斗勇都不断刺激着观众，电影一些场面真的很残酷真实，里边五班那些才20上下的小伙子也太催泪，中途把我看哭好几次。电影难得的是，并不因为这是部主旋律就矮化对手，相反导演都给了足够的尊重。战场上没有赢方，希望我们都能珍惜和平。
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