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".
历史总是惊人的相似，当紧张气氛弥漫在凌晨的夜空之上，真得分不清历史和现实哪一个更加贴近我的生活……
且不说对张伯伦的描绘，看时恰俄乌战争刚起，而每一个年轻人的命运因战争而失去了控制
怎么感觉和现在的乌克兰局势挺像。还是有人很清醒的认识到战争的危害，可惜无力阻挡历史的车轮
在历史车轮之前，每个人的决定或许狂热，或许偏执，或许盲目，但无疑都是坚定的。如今看来，那样的年代，似乎没有完全之举，余下都只是无奈妥协。后半段有点同性电影的意思啊，很隐忍但又在不断挑拨着你往那方面想。。玩的溜
1.张伯伦正名之战。绥靖政策似乎是当时唯一解。2.片头片尾还有片尾曲好棒。3.30年代的复古质感拉满。4.元首除了不太像，演的还蛮不错。5感情线弱了一点，最有张力的地方出现在中后段。结尾反而趋于平淡。6.最后回来的那架飞机涂装银光闪闪，非常好看。
Hoping is waiting for someone else to do it 想来这是我第一次看到希特勒形象的电影，压迫感太强，刺杀太紧张，车上永别太好哭了……时代的洪流将会席卷每一个人，sooner or later
嗑拉了 这个卡司我太喜欢了 三人组也让我想起模仿游戏&故园🥲摄入更多二战知识很开心
时代电影，美化绥靖政策啊，关键也就缓了一年啊，英国了准备了，德国人也更有准备了啊，那会德国还没有直接硬刚英法的实力啊
看的时候忍不住刷了一下手机，因为今天早上新闻说美国随时准备出兵乌克兰一旦俄罗斯有任何行动
一样的以民族自决的名义吞并，一样的大国在外交场上分配小国的领土，而这一次西方能吸取历史的教训么，一样的不能。
mackay才是名副其实的电影脸，为大银幕而生
怎么讲，张伯伦老师是不是英伦反向蒋公，以时间换空间一套一套的
如果不去探究历史，就这个剧情还能看。如果去探究历史，原来历史还可以这样拍。
缓慢流淌的历史，一段沥青滴下的无措一秒钟。
家国情仇融合的比较好的影片了，如果是政治家可以看看不同层次政治家的权术运作，也可以看看年轻政治家的热情；我们普通人看看休和妻子之间的夫妻关系微妙变化。无论我们的关注点在哪场战争，两位年轻人都懂得了很多处理问题方式也成熟了许多。
故事架构是在波澜壮阔的历史变局下，小人物徒劳虚无的奋斗。尽管开了视角的我们知道那场盛夏割席之后必然有更多的苦痛，但导演对于单个场景的戏剧张力把握还是很强的，比如未遂的刺杀和狂热激烈的社会氛围。但笨拙的间谍行为和情节还是非常让人出戏，尤其荞麦一跑梦回1917，文科精英就干不了别的事吗？以及女性角色还不如一个都别有，比工具还机械。显然本片意图塑造一个完整多面的张伯伦，但私以为动机铺设还是太少，比如并没有呈现绥靖能给英国争取到多少军事准备，好奇英国人会怎么评价这种史观。
3.5/George和Jannis演牛津同学、和Jessica在这片二次合作演夫妻 都很有CP感 满足了 然后就没有可点的地方了
三星给签订协议过程中你争我夺，还蛮紧张刺激的。两个年轻人奋力左右，几乎左右了整个欧洲的战局。也是为历史上的争议人物张伯伦证明平反的历史剧
在虚构的历史片段里回答现实的问题: 我们不能选择自己生活的时代，我们唯一的选择就是如何回应。
关于历史事件的一种演绎，放到今天来看，其实大家都明白战争是毫无意义的，不过是政治的延续，所有的谈判，协议，不过是暂时的借口，最终还是实力说话。捷克的苏台德地区，也真是够悲催。
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