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".
我知道的香港人的英文名只有Leslie，Eason，Edison。然后这几天Anita这个名字一直钉在脑海里。很遗憾，梅艳芳菲竟然没有粤语版。然后Anita有杜比全景声的厅排的是国语版，我最后放弃了杜比看的普通厅粤语版。声音体验差了很多，演唱会很明显氛围起不来。华谊的IMAX也不排片。但是我依然从她唱的第一句“吹啊吹啊“眼泪就流下来。后面夕阳之歌反而还好。看电影之前我单曲循环了夕阳之歌两天。这两部电影确实有不少故意煽情，但我也真是哭的稀里哗啦。感谢Anita。
之前不怎么了解她，看完电影以后觉得她应该有很多不甘和遗憾。搞笑的事:梅和张都去世快20年了，两家的唯粉还在撕，果真是恨比爱长久啊，看了真可笑。
所有的感动均来自梅艳芳，和电影本身关系不大，这点和波西米亚狂想曲很像。
本来是年度期待之作
拍的非常浅，人物性格根本没立起来，梅姐的性格都被纪录影像支撑着，只要回到演员就很尴尬，Leslie 如果不冠名Leslie真看不出他跟哥哥有什么关系，以及两人友情也完全没有展开深入
2021.11.12 中间影院 一定一定要看粤语版，最后那段暴风催泪，中间插入的一些影像资料真的很棒。张国荣的选角万分不能忍啊、梅艳芳的选角能有个五六分吧，但是和本人还是差远了……看出来了有波西米亚的野心，但是梅姐的歌曲更多是倾诉性的而非摇滚那种，而且也不是个人原创，所以和波西米亚那种一边情节发展一边写歌递进情节比起来，插入的歌曲和故事相关性太差了点。明明是传奇的一生，却非要把重点放到感情八卦那些风言风语，一些很重要的东西反而一笔带过。拍传记电影还是有点难的，尤其是这个真人你对她还挺了解的，还有一个我更了解的张国荣。
把近藤美化了 可能在梅艳芳眼中近藤就是有那么美好吧 最严重的是把leslie矮化了 leslie的人格魅力完全没有体现出来 失望
3）电影太碎了一些，没有《波西米亚狂想曲》那样细节充实
女主很多角度神似梅姐，清冷傲气，但又有着一片赤诚的热血之气，《夕阳之歌》响起是眼泪的大杀器。不仅仅是舞台传奇纪录片，更是那个黄金时代的缅念，香港的女儿，我们都挂住你。
作为我最喜欢的香港女歌手和演员，王丹妮给我的感觉整体还是柔弱了些，但她演得还算满意。从电影来说，只是对她的人生中的重要事件做了个梳理，细节方面差强人意。
2019-03-19想看 || 電影花大手筆重現了香港七八十年代街景和一些已消失的地標，見到已成歷史的荔園、利舞臺，街上大量的霓虹燈招牌，曾經的尖東海傍，一一躍然於眼前大銀幕之上，自然是感動。然而在敘事上，電影幾乎是從梅艷芳的童年賣唱到新秀大賽到事業成就，再到愛情遺憾，到公益慈善和最後的舞台絕唱，一路平鋪直敘按編年史式蜻蜓點水地講完她的一生，並無塑造出一個立體而多面的人物形象，無論是她的百變舞台魅力，還是私人情誼都展現得不足，更別提根本不會被容許講的事。另外電影中也並無呈現八十年代香港流行文化全盛的多元面貌，甚為可惜。反而透過一些場景和對白，可以窺見七八十年代香港流行文化如何受到西洋文化、日本流行文化的影響。最後的2003年部分就如童年記憶在眼前回帶，直到結尾婚紗《夕陽之歌》告別，禁不住看到老淚縱橫。
没看之前感觉五集是不是太长了？结果一口气就把五集给看完了。不得不说编剧确实厉害。演员演的也可以，就是张国荣的角色太不像了，如果找个更像的或许会更有代入感。。虽然是梅艳芳传，但张国荣的戏份也很多，应该是张国荣真的是梅姐最重要的朋友。本以为还能看到刘德华或者谢霆锋，竟然都没有。也或许是没发拍。。最后的演唱会还是很感人的，有空去B站看看。。张国荣和梅艳芳离开之前都会问好友会不会记得我。大家都记得你们，不会忘记。。如果我离开那天，其实也是希望世界会一直有人记得我。
4 除了对近藤真彦化名化处理及美化之外，其他并没有什么不适之处，毕竟影片是对梅姑的一个回忆，一篇传记，而不是其他什么。但是我觉得应该适当加大对梅姑姐妹的刻画，以及梅姑和张国荣之间友情的刻画，另外张国荣的演员选的也太不像本人了。电影采取了一种最原始的平铺直叙，直白的把整个经过给表现出来，但后半部分尤其是接近高潮的时候还是很容易让人落泪的，不喧宾夺主，不过度煽情，不跳戏串戏，以及适当的还原当年的名场面以及用真实的纪录原样代替真人出场的形式，其实影片做的已经挺好的了。最后的夕阳之歌很应景，为影片做了一个还算行的，直白普遍的谢幕。
直接看了225分钟的导演剪辑版，后两集太好哭了！王丹妮的还原水平我觉得已经是非常惊艳了，尤其对比那个看起来尽力了但还是很好笑的张国荣。啊，人间再无梅艳芳。
一部注定失败的电影。在这个年代要拍梅艳芳又受限于大陆上映，只能用最糟糕的百度百科式叙事匆匆讲完一本流水账。其实如果导演能像前作那般有野心，是可以做出一曲时代挽歌的，但很多事情又不能挑明了说，所以就拼命拿真实的影像去找补。即便如此，纪实部分依然是残缺破碎的，所有的感动也不过是单纯的情怀作祟，与电影本身无关。
，甚至直接看纪录片和演唱会视频，更加感人。梅艳芳的生平是极佳的传记题材，值得被拍成更好的电影。
我记得当天的一个小歌女，她声音不太娇，唱出隐隐沧桑她唱出空虚，但眼睛始终闪也耀。
喜欢梅艳芳和张国荣这个CP，再有那个年代的歌都非常好听。
售票路演场，坐得很满。结束后主持人和江老板、王小姐一起领着全场合唱《夕阳之歌》，大家不情不愿地站起来，但音乐一起还是忍不住跟唱。那一刻就在心里默默地跟梅姐说，你看，大家还是记挂你，还是很爱你。尽管电影是拼贴式流水账，避重就轻、食之无味，可是从非典爆发、哥哥离世开始就疯狂飙泪，直到《夕阳之歌》告别曲的叠影，再一次听到那坚决的、用力的「byebye」，还是哭得头疼。之所以失望，是因为它没有拍出「衰落」——香港的女儿，与她的香港，生死攸关——在极盛极美瞬间的凋零，既是上一世纪的余音渐弱，也是下一时代的后劲尽失。而最为难过的是，为一个好像只是不久前才离去的人立传，这本身似乎就是港影破落的镜像，也是时间被吞噬、你我不曾有向前一步的痕迹。
也太好哭了🥺🥺🥺演员选得好好，有信念感。但是没有人可以演哥哥。记住一句话：“慢歌唱的是唏嘘，快歌唱的是反叛。”
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