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".
只有怼人物经历筛选性何流水化编年记录
边看边哭不是因为片子拍得好。而是故事原型本就动人，以及因此而被勾起的真情实感。
流水账电影，把好看的和催泪的点串到一起。看完只觉得梅艳芳有这么多惊艳的时光，但没有让人感受到这段人生为何一步步让我们惊艳的，没有感受到造型师Eddie守候有多深，没有感受到她的爱情生活究竟怎样，只是一点点提到让我们知道有这么一个惊艳的人。演张国荣的演员外貌气质都不太像，怎么看都别扭。
即使我不是荣迷和梅艳芳粉丝，却仍然在张国荣灵车出街和最后《夕阳之歌》中湿润了双眼，大概是为那个再也无法回来的香港演艺黄金时代而落泪的吧！
难道应该把本人与电影本身分开吗？难道会有更多人是因为某位主创/演员而观看这部片的吗？这是对一个icon所能做到的最不超出预期的描摹，怎奈她已化作星辰，闪耀于夜空之中了。因此我永遠懷念你。3.6
1）张国荣好出戏。找了个神似张新成的演员，气质也迥异。
整部电影最好看的部分居然是那几段录像
电影可能没有拍出梅艳芳，但是拍出了梅艳芳的精神。《夕阳之歌》真的扛不住。
拍的太苦了，应该压缩苦情戏份，更多展示阿姐芳华绝代的一面。
導演剪輯版直接做成了5集電視劇，感覺整個重點都放錯了，讓梅艷芳的一生看起來變成了普通明星絢爛而平庸的一生，原本完全不是這樣的，兩段感情太別扭了
了解一些幕后故事对电影的主创有多一点宽容，虽然对这个题材来说的确不是最好的时机。香港女儿对早已漠视甚至抵触黄金时代的最主流的年轻观众已经没有什么吸引力，但却尚未熬到版权剧情等现实境况水到渠成，足以向怀念她的群体交出满意答卷的那一刻。注定这是一部尴尬的作品，却也不是不珍贵的。总归有人会因此想起我们的观众曾有幸拥有过这样迷人的艺术家，想起她所代表的硬颈、专业、充满传奇与可能性的世界。全片除了《夕阳之歌》的真人片段，印象最深的是苏孝良指点初出茅庐的梅艳芳“慢歌唱的不是伤心，是唏嘘；快歌唱的不是热情，是反叛。”哗！心向往之。
18'唱片部杨千嬅登场
提前点映，影片和预期差不多，意料之中，主要是卖情怀。我触动的点可能跟一般人不一样，太挂念香港了。
果然是流水账。不过胜在怀旧感做得很精致，从街头风景到室内摆设，再到人物的发型服饰，以及台词对白里的俚语，都让人无限缅怀那个早已消失的年代。用金曲穿插并分割人物经历的手法是这类传记题材的常见配置，偶尔给人一点惊喜。而纪录片和虚构剧情两个层面并存的叙事用得很不理想，一旦纪录片段出现，立即破坏故事营造的幻觉。创作者想对梅艳芳生平一网打尽，却又不得不对某些敏感事件和经历做出舍弃，这是无可厚非的，然而，将重点放在她失败的两段感情上，却令影片格局变小。这对不熟悉她的观众来说未必足够吸引，而对于听着她的歌长大的观众来说，更是隔靴搔痒，无法触及到这位传奇人物最有魅力的一面。
从4岁半和姐姐当小歌女养活自己，到一首《风的季节》一跃成为香港新秀歌唱大赛的冠军，再在声名鹊起时宣布告别歌坛，又在生命最终章里燃烧着倔强与坚定的热情......梅艳芳的一生都乐观、坚强、无畏、勇敢。就像她曾说的“我并不是一个弱者，虽然我是一个病人”，在生命的最后，她穿着挚友设计的婚纱，登上最爱的舞台并嫁给它，被亲友与无数观众围绕着，有很多很多人都在怀念，也算是一件幸事。
星光 能有些形似已经不错了，情怀氛围到位，可惜情节流于表面。
大片儿底色下缺乏更多的巧心构思，未走出流水线窠臼。家人，恋人，师友，串起二三事。影片或是历史影像片段里，年代人与事的浮光掠影总是最添趣味。但人生历程，所选节点，成长渐变的感觉比较模糊。张国荣相关情节的加入缺乏克制，不够必要。还是太过商业气包裹的作品，看过后想不起梅姑，忆不起真情
拥有的就去珍惜，没有的就尽力争取，不要忘了回首来时路，梅姐歌声声声入心…
电影本身问题很多，纯质量三星出头，然而加分项不少所以四星
逝去的是那个时代啊…人生尽是遗憾事。我对他们都没什么了解，只知道名字的程度。近两年才开始看一点电影，听一点粤语，实在是遗憾的。
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