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".
作为动画党，因为巴在电影中显得比较爱剑心，简化了巴的复杂性和故事悲剧内核而有些失望。 总得来说故事和内容都太商业，没有什么特别出彩的地方。
法庭上那段言语羞辱真是把中世纪欧洲的男权扒的体无完肤
4星，影片时间太长，3人角度呈现一个故事内容，太多重复情节观感略差。片子并不高大上，但优点是也没有刻画任何一个高大全的英雄人物。反而让人觉得更接近真实世界，故事就是利益冲突， 双方积怨已久， 早晚要打。有没有女人这档子事都得打。 女人这个事反而就是一个最好的由头， 给了男主一个天赐良机，逼迫对手用男主最擅长的方式进行决斗。 男主身经百战， 男二花天酒地，双方曾是朋友，什么实力都心知肚明。 男主愚笨但有战斗的勇气，愚者千虑必有一得。 男二狡猾但管不住裤裆，智者千虑必有一失。女主作为时代的弱势群体，敢于大胆揭露，可歌可敬。整体来说，值得一看。
个人年度十佳！斯科特老爷子功力依然精湛。两位男主最后的决斗，堪称近些年银幕上最令我牵肠挂肚提心吊胆的一场搏杀，然而，这份动容却不是为了场上的两人……
今年7月的观影以《浴火鸟》为开始，以南非纪录片《浪客剑心 最终章 追忆篇》做结束。——《追忆篇》给我的观感果不其然胜过《人诛篇》，不过个人还是更喜欢动画版《浪客剑心：追忆篇》。
围绕着“她”，但又与“她”无关，摄影和导演太棒了，最后的武戏能让人产生这么大的代入感，真是厉害，值得所有的制作团队学习
出人意料，第三段的女性视角将一个平淡的故事升华出了女权主义思想
女人感受到愉悦才会怀孕，所以强暴肯定不会导致怀孕，这么荒谬混蛋的逻辑居然还曾被当成科学真理？果然是野蛮蒙昧的中世纪！两个男人一个自以为对妻子关爱体贴，一个到死都认定是两情相悦，真让人无fu*ck说。有人说三个视角的叙述没什么区别也无必要，其实种种细节差异非常明显啊，比如女主跑上楼梯时是自己脱掉鞋还是慌乱甩脱，从中完全可以看出不同人物的不同感受和观点。雷大导拍得非常沉稳，最后的决斗戏又让人无比揪心。朱迪古装美翻了，大本在本片中比以前有气质很多。
——你想我吗？——我很想你。——那我们上床吧。被伯爵玩弄的两个将军。男人养家真命苦。简单粗暴的叙事。
最后的生死斗好看！现在最后一口气没上来的电影太多了，高潮戏货真价实的难能可贵
基调掌握得很好，没让动作戏在追忆篇喧宾夺主，也没有设置强大的反派分走雪代巴的戏份；缺少大规模战斗导致视效刺激上不如上一部，摄影一如既往的强，比上部整洁；雪代巴还是不行，不过比单看人诛篇里回忆部分好些；跨越10年，5部，终于结束了
在中世纪背景下不太完整地为女性争夺了一次话语权，女性承担了巨大的代价，但实际上最后的权力，最后的荣耀，完全属于男性，这也是这部电影比较压抑的地方。用三个不同的视角让这个故事更加客观以及立体，但是又因为太客观导致看到中段有些许疲惫。也不用像《罗生门》那样太过于主观，如果在某些地方，比如在Jean的视角做了一件很英勇的事情，Jean说着非常英雄的台词，但是在别人的视角看来Jean做的却是一件粗暴不讲理的事情，说的也是毫无素质的台词，略微增加一些混淆真相的主观想法，加一些假的东西进去，从而让三个视角描述出来的故事到最后都有略微的差异，会不会更加有意思。
中世纪中女性的沉默在现今才真的被看见。“孩子需要母亲多于一个正确的人”，男人要为荣誉名誉而死，而女人想要活下去，但这并不是被贬斥的贪生怕死啊。
选角和表演都够差的，仿佛在看他们四个玩古装剧本杀......
开罗人真是个神奇的演员，上一秒钟我还在想这也太丑了，下一秒钟他脱了之后又觉得“咦，丑到一定程度还蛮性感的”，不过片子里的几位夸他chaiming又handsome的，这是啥眼神……
完完全全是一部情感向的系列作品，动作场面和时代氛围都在为剑心和巴的爱情做陪衬，整部电影节奏舒缓，情节相对平淡，但是情感浓度和冲击力却是系列最强。
血雨腥风成绝响，人间不见白梅香。
决斗那场戏看得人非常紧张，因为关系到女人的生死。这不是悬疑片，不是宫斗剧，而是抨击男权的利器。
Marguerite给出了答案，而电影所呈现的也让这部电影成为我眼中最好的女性主义电影，不可多得。
一部借古喻今的片子，用《罗生门》式的三个人的视角来讲同一个故事。但其实看到第二个人的时候，大体就能猜到事情本来的样子，因为这两个男人实在是太烂了：一个为了名声不要命、头脑简单四肢发达的丈夫，把妻子看作财产；一个仰仗权贵、放荡狂妄的强奸犯，觉得所有女性都自动会臣服于他……第三个版本里，把当下女权主义所抗争的女性悲惨处境一个一个过了一遍：讲话没人信、男人说要提供保护其实只是要名声、（政、教）机构偏袒男罪犯、被家庭视作生育机器、被要求当众讲述性侵经历、问“有没有快感”……几乎每个标语都没有漏。借古喻今喻得有些过于简单直白，而古的部分就只剩打打杀杀血浆四溅的战场和一个二不啦唧的国王（他的诸多表情是本片亮点之一）。算是一部好莱坞做出的还算优秀的样板戏吧。
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