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".
不过我还是觉得尾灯只是背锅的而已，四个小时对应的来说叙事容易很多。逻辑性也会好很多。
MD，看完了！！！難受！啊啊啊為什麼要讓我看到這麼好看的電影，我以後TMD看不到了怎麼辦！？？？😭😭😭
不是特效多时间长就比院线版好看，就像不是堆叠前史就完善了所谓弧光，短评编剧们^_^
四个小时，完全将整个剧情前因后果交代清晰，还有联动《闪点悖论》和《不义联盟》剧情，争夺盒子是有历史原因，不像尾灯版拍到哪算哪。而且尽可能照顾还没出solo电影的超级英雄，钢骨线和闪电侠线丰满了许多，即使大家先前看过尾灯版的正联，知道所有的剧情走向，它仍然超出我太多期待，更不用提扎导擅长的动作场面和特效，完全吊锤尾灯版几个次元。
四个小时啃了生肉，DC粉过足了瘾，至少故事说清晰了，每个人物形象和经历也足够饱满，老爷终于在大战中体现出了一定的实力，虽然我还是觉得体现得不太够。火星猎人、丑爷、不义联盟、闪点、黑超、达克赛德……每一个伏笔都是惊喜，当年要是分成上下部上映就好了，尾灯版相比真的就是一坨屎。爱老爷，爱DC！
电影的完整性有了质的飞跃，四年前影院的遗憾翻篇了，身边人来人往。闪电侠和钢骨的角色交代补充终于让故事变得饱满，减少了不尴不尬的插科打诨，体现了DC该有的基调。配乐出彩，画面慢镜头还蛮能体现油画般的史诗感。
如果不是一言不合就放慢镜的话，其实也用不了四个小时，不是很重要的剧情也都放进去了，倒不如说是不剪辑版。
要来啦，要来啦，要上HBO，要上HBO！！！！！！！
扎导崇拜力量感，古典美，神圣美，所以他拍超人，怎么拍怎么好，钢铁之躯，力与美。但是拍蝙蝠侠就拍不好，蝙蝠侠是黑暗骑士，这个黑暗不是指色调，是复杂曲折的剧情，诡谲与智谋，而不是莽夫，这方面扎导几乎是白痴，所以他拍不好最伟大的超级英雄蝙蝠侠。
这是一部带有6章1个小时慢镜头的黑暗史诗油画巨作，尽管人物剧情更加立体了，但还是又巨又仓促，无法挽救步子迈大扯着蛋的事实，DC再等等肯定会更好……
四星半，失望的点在超人复活和选择复活超人时蝙蝠的态度反应，没有大的变化。
那个院线版最窝囊的推车闪电侠，在这里，是个肉眼可见成长，逆天改命的英雄。
本来就当电视剧看，给个9分完全对得起豆瓣通胀的电视剧评分:D。看来尾灯是真不喜欢闪电侠，院线版撞女侠胸，甚至直接舍弃了最后的闪电侠高光时刻。相比之下扎导的动作场面更完整且燃，决战也有了该有的紧凑感而不是像院线版一样赶着收工。老毛病慢镜头太多了，考虑到是粉丝特供，可以理解。配乐时好时坏，比如女侠主题滥用，好在整体算是优秀。
这部电影的最后部分，还是留下了许多铺垫的，希望还能有扎克施耐德导演的后续影片出现。而最后维克多父亲对儿子的一番话，也寄托了扎导对逝去女儿的款款深情。
感谢扎导 感谢心心姐 感谢一同为之奋斗的扎粉们
蝙蝠侠高光时刻不间断，真正配得上漫画形象，回梦与《蝙超》衔接，更黑暗的未来，与漫画互文，黑超人，火星猎人，绿灯侠，正义联盟元老们悉数回归，还有原子侠，难以按耐激动的心情。
感觉在看“our planet”，画面美美的动作慢慢的。蝙蝠侠这么没朋友的人居然要当精神领袖，闪电侠人肉发电机苦力好可怜啊，海王到底有个毛线用，媚拉的头发在阴间滤镜里不红了，郑恺戏份不重要但总是出现在你面前。
从某种意义上讲，或许我们比任何时候都更需要这部电影。
我不敢相信这一切都是真的，我做梦都想不到我真的能在有生之年看到这部电影。
疯狂点击快进让我练出了一阳指，又浪费了生命中宝贵的4个小时，4小时靠拉远景慢动作来凑。bgm瞎配，动不动就开吟诵bgm，搞到我瞌睡连连，打斗戏更是没给我带来一丝波澜，甚至在打斗戏剪得还不如尾灯。拖拖拉拉磨磨唧唧无病呻吟的超英电影真的不多了，且看且珍惜！再多花半个小时看指环王不香吗？？？？🙃
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