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".
和宝贝一起看的，立意挺好的。宝贝是汪汪队的迷弟，看的可认真了
在我看来，这部电影的最大缺点是不够私人。既然是私人的，那应该多点呈现生活细节，你拍童年居然拍的那么笼统，它更像大部分人童年的公约数。贝尔法斯特对于你肯尼布拉纳来说是什么，只是这么一条街和教徒冲突吗，还是它有别的独属于你，值得让你去拍一部电影来怀念的东西？不过影片做得倒比较规整就是了。
朱迪单奇依然惊艳，每个人心里都有一座叫故乡的城，对阿方索.卡隆来说是罗马，对肯尼思.布拉纳来说就是这部电影。
完美的亲子电影，剧情连贯，角色生动，音乐也很棒。
因为没有完整时间，分了很多次才把《贝尔法斯特》看完，或许也是因此，巴迪一家的经历，断断续续，仿佛和当下的日常“融为一体”。
北爱版《童年往事》，巧的是被套上了北爱的激进岁月，呼应了当下这个大撕裂的时代，每年的颁奖季都有这么几部私心重又步步踩点得分的命题作文，应景但并不讨巧，顶多是这个风口的注脚。
这种水平真是浪费了这好演员和好风景。爱尔兰人民拥有骄傲和桀骜不驯的自豪感。是《我的左脚》那样的固执，是《最亮的星》里那样的浪漫，到这给拍成了一个屡教不改的孩子，是天生的小偷是罪犯。
【YVR-5th】三星半。建议看有CC的版本，否则口音太吃观众了，甚至会影响理解。
#陪娃看电影系列#几经疫情后，第一次重返影院是陪娃看娃喜欢的汪汪队，一贯地正能量！
想到龙应台的《目送》，有些父母把孩子往前推，有些用情感枷锁让你寸步难行。致从未到达的香格里拉
空洞，做作，无趣，还喜欢炫技。与《罗马》有云泥之别。
带娃看的，比去年的那部好看，剧情很丝滑，我都有点泪目了
陪孩子看汪汪队立大功的大电影的时候，我心里就在想，果然老美的文化输出是一以贯之的，就是动画片也是英雄救援风格，外加童年阴影和克服童年阴影，不完美的英雄克服恐惧成为真正的英雄，跟好莱坞输出的价值观完全一致啊。
故事很完整，新装备酷炫，制作也精良，只是新画风的人物有点看不习惯
看小盆友的反应，应该是很满意…完整的一次看完，没有被吓着要走
第一次全家出动！虽然没穿制服的chase 俺都没认出来😅，从成人角度也无法完全欣赏各种夸张的剧情，但孩子们看的蛮开心，可能也是因为全程在吃爆米花😆感觉国外动画很强调克服个体内心的脆弱。Even heroes get scared, they just push through. 大人孩子都能汲取一些正能量
不配音乐只看画面以为是惊悚片。老k放下执着，别导演了求求了
总觉得对自己的童年包裹的糖衣太多了以至于很多地方在刻意的童真，刻意的无暇，刻意的溢美。北爱是一个很值得拍也有很多可以挖的地方，就personal的太多，有点影响观影的共鸣吧。
我是来看Cait的，然后又意外发现了摩根，都是好久不见，Cait真是太美了太美了。
彩色的电影印象，黑白的回忆点滴，杂乱不章，风格杂糅，上一秒还恣情欢笑，下一秒就悲伤难捱，回不去的故乡与回不去的童年。第一次在电影院看到(多次)泣不成声，爵爷Branagh的半自传电影还真是泪点满满啊，更满的是对Belfast的爱。PS 奥妙yyds
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