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".
五分为情怀，现在这种片子太少了，刀疤哥死了😭。
看到了一个女孩小时经历性侵，生下孩子，长大后又嫁给了家暴男，终于鼓起勇气结束这段感情后，貌似又把家暴和脾气暴躁继承过来了，唯一感觉是所有讲述60、70年代的黑人永远都是低下的，貌似他们黑人就不管做什么都是正义
罗列了Aretha Franklin的25岁人生之前的大事迹 给不认识她的观众 做了一个基础的科普 可惜的是 并没有有的放矢地放大她的人格魅力 表演也有点做作 只能沦落为好莱坞又一跟风之作
尼基塔既视感，MaggieQ好像就没什么变化
搞不懂陈豪这个新一哥到底出来干嘛，一会大张旗鼓要搞变革，一会被下药直接退出剧情，也太随意了吧。
能不能拿个好剧本拍啊这一天天的？能不能能不能能不能？
虽然新故事但是套路是一样的，幸好到3就完结了，不然越往后越没看头！
三部打卡完毕 感觉还可以的 剧情属于能看得下去的 不知道还会有第四部吗哈哈哈
Everyone has his/her highs and lows. Dealing with artist ain’t easy. 于圣淘沙露天电影院。
这就是想表达的太多，没什么亮点，还是好好听唱片吧，也是难为演员了
剧情挺平的，老艺术家成名前的故事，好像没触动到我，黑人主旋律电影，歌好听，爵士乐我也喜欢，结尾真实资料才知道好厉害的人物，总统自由勋章，公民的最高荣誉。
目前IMDB评分：6.6/915票。其中Robert Patrick，也就是三十年前《终结者2》里的T-1000，还是能一眼就认出来。字幕已完成，转战下一个
麦吉Q又演女杀手了，故事乱乱哄哄，一会儿柔弱被水邢一会儿突然身手了得，一会儿杀的天昏地暗一会儿又和老男人滚床单，什么和什么
叙事像放映幻灯片一样，把个别事件节点按时间顺序“一粒一粒地”跳跃带过，像是整理出一个生平事件清单，拍完一件事，就打个勾交差，深入的心理描写则欠奉，而只是一般水平的好莱坞导演例牌——“画公仔画出肠”的说故事手段。像是拍一套激励课程的“教材”，多过拍一个人。庆幸的是 Jennifer 没有被平板单调的剧本钳制，琢磨演出 Aretha 在青年时期“不知道自己真正要的是什么”，撑起整部电影。
坎贝尔给我的感觉就是这么多年的拍摄完全没有任何学习的时间。影片既没有《教父》式的哲思，也没有《疤面人》系列的张扬。尤其是这个灯光师，主光和美术光充斥着一种钱没给够，不想加班的感觉。真的就是我上我也行。
5/10。吴卓羲这个扑街转变太突然，角色写得不行，与其一次赶拍几部，不如好好搞剧本。
这部直接没有逃狱了，直接变成逃狱未遂。逃狱策划也毫无技术含量和逻辑，整体弱于第2部。人物也没什么新点，质量平平。另外，刀疤只能前传和中传，没办法后传了啊……
着实没想到这居然拍成了一个系列，第三部明显悬念少了很多。陈豪打了个酱油，熬到了最后一部的刀疤竟然领了盒饭，可惜了。
虎头蛇尾，其实也算不上虎头吧，打打杀杀能看，MaggieQ岁数有点大了，不养眼。
被音乐感动得不要不要的，剧情有些凌乱无重点
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