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".
这是我小时候最喜欢的类型，冒险，神秘，可是这部没有《国家宝藏》《地心历险记》的知识量，没有或真或假的历史传闻，太不神秘了。
类似《勇敢者的游戏》，剧本完成度还可以吧，也没有多大惊喜，奔来如果引进的话，以强森得受欢迎度，也是挺适合一家人观看的，不过因为疫情以及迪士尼的骚操作，也是悬。不过艾米莉是真的越来越好看了，真奇怪。
听弟弟说话好熟悉，竟然看过他的standup，好可爱
虽然是流水线电影， 但EMILY BLUNT加上大女主剧情，三星半round up成四星吧……真希望自己小时候能看到这么英气的女主角！
虎头蛇尾 故事性还行 结尾太草率 缺乏爆点
虽然本片也是好莱坞难得的商业大片里的原创电影，但看着就是给人感觉不像是原创...一切都是那么似曾相识...
没有特别惊心动魄大气磅礴的情节，是个非常轻松欢乐的小作品，跟迪士尼的游乐项目一样。
低配版《木乃伊》+《加勒比海盗》，中规中矩的迪士尼奇幻冒险片。
7/10 各种骗局和把戏后的神展开，套路的故事下具有令人惊喜、出彩和另有深意的编排，个人真的还挺喜欢的，超出预期很多。弗兰克和莉莉的cp感有点好嗑，看到最后才后知后觉弟弟应该是同志吧，以及莉莉是真好看啊。最后的最后，好期待这个迪士尼的古老项目入驻上迪呀！
感觉有很久没有看过这类题材的电影了，看的还挺开心的，虽然有点扯。比起现代杀手特工类的剧本，强森其实更适合这类冒险奇幻色彩的剧本，长相肤色身板表情都很搭，不过也看出强森是真的老了，年轻的蝎子王已经是20年前的事了，还是挺怀念那些老电影的。推荐观看。
三星半吧，非常流水线，非常迪士尼，很久没看到这种燃烧经费的大制作了。等影院上了要去看个imax 3d，那么多蛇蛇肯定很带感。德国小王子过于抢戏，除大猫猫外全片最佳。
22_062。难得一见主角是女性但完全没卖弄性感既没有红唇也没有短裙也没有细高跟，真是不错。日本元素融合得还好，最好笑的是浅野忠信和Miyavi都参加了，他们都讲英语。但国村隼不，无论女主角跟他讲英文还是日文，他都坚持只讲日文hhhhh
为什么所有的寻宝探险片都感觉一个样子呢？两个性格反差挺大的欢喜冤家，因为要共同寻宝，所以探险过程中渐生爱慕。里面加入一些豹子啊，男二号和男主的巨大人设反差啊，越大越好。加入一些神秘学元素，长生不老之人，蜜蜂人，树枝人，蛇人，和乱七八糟的打斗，跳跃，追船戏份，搞定了。另外，两个人是绑定了吗？一起合作了三部丛林冒险故事了吧。
觉得这个“活了上百年长生不死不老，但头发秃了”的设定很熟悉？没错！就像范光头的《最后的巫师猎人》一样！难怪强森和范光头的关系越来越水火不容了。
看完由衷地跟萝莉发出一样的感叹：“太帅了！” 顺便BGM的日语歌老是让人串戏到棒棒鸡
我得说鞍山这破电影院导致画面卡顿带来的喜感…很别致，还是国语配音，莫名回到童年
在ig上看到两人的宣传影像，简直不是普通的无聊，所以一直没有补，果然，不管是剧中还是剧外，两人一点化学反应都无。Emily Blunt为什么会选这个本子，姐姐你失手了。
强森电影的一贯水平，爆米花大片，但这部剧情不够吸引人，爽点笑点也不足，甚至让人有一种以前看过的很多电影片段拼接出来的感觉，总体来说是比较差的一部电影了。
幼稚版加勒比海盗？我不管，巨石强森很可爱哈哈哈
非常工整的夏日娛樂大片，迪士尼帶著製作另一部「主題樂園」改編電影的野心製作了這部，可以說是叢林版《神鬼奇航》無誤，作為豪梅寇勒梅瑟執導生涯以來最昂貴的項目，他真的是不負眾望交出了漂亮的成績單，該有的娛樂性全都有，我也看的很滿足，且單純以主題樂園作為啟發的改編電影，劇本其實也下了不少苦心，不是讓巨石強森在那邊耍man而已，該角的背景遠比我想像中繁雜許多，本片也讓我覺得像在看女版《印第安納瓊斯》，在冒險、探索古代遺址以及娛樂上做出完美結合，詹姆斯紐頓霍華的配樂功不可沒，好像在聽約翰威廉斯做的配樂。至於艾蜜莉布朗...完全沒讓我白花錢，實在太美太可愛了🥰🥰，傑西普萊斯就是醜角反派無誤，期待豪梅寇勒梅瑟與巨石強森合作的《黑亞當》，《叢林奇航》證實豪梅絕對有能力駕馭2億美金的大片。
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