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".
拒绝魔改！最不能接受的点：都掏出枪来互指(拜托不是西部片) 在这之前的改编还勉强能接受；信口指证推石头的人 零推理 那人竟然还当场承认；波罗有好几个特写像希特勒 还剃胡子...槽多无口啊
自恋导演第二集，改的庸俗且好看，但不生动。
编剧相当可以，谢苗还是很swag，很有前途的
看到国内先上映豆瓣打出的六分我还不信邪非要在日本加钱看什么IMAX，电影前的神奇动物预告比这正片好看多了。真的不会改不要改好吧，为了政治正确多元化强行加入黑人印度人和同性恋，尊重点原著好不好！原著人多就是你强行把多人捏成一个人的理由？当小学生缩写名著呢！还乱改情节，第一次看IMAX看到睡过去突然被枪声崩醒发现就连被害人都被你改了？从电视剧版看到78版到22版，一个比一个改的多，我原以为电视剧版最平凡，真的不比不知道电视剧版是多么完美
影片的前半段的确有些拖沓，但实际的案件和探案还是很有娱乐性的，实际上片子也的确没有必要那么长，但片子里那么多人被cancel或者在cancel边缘，估计都已经删了不少东西了。
看犯罪都市2的评论区说它结尾的公交戏抄袭本片，紧忙来看看，怎么说呢，上车，驱人，打斗，只要你塑造过故事，你会知道这个流程是好看的，常规流程罢，且常理来想，国外到底能不能看到一个我们连院线都没上的自己人都不太知道的电影呢？反而你要说开篇立人设的时候用嚣张的在两帮混混中间的jc这样塑造，似乎不乏借鉴的可能，不过我说算了，都是因地制宜吧，只不过巧了都选在大巴上打一场，说回本片，纪录片式的剪辑，不断的在过场，甚至很多过场戏连逻辑都不要了，功能性人物，非常粗糙，常规镜头没有视听，至于剧情你说有剧情吗，真没有，连基本的剧本节拍都没有，比如其实按说那个11应该是黑的，才能带来剧本节奏的起伏，当然也要说，动作戏设计挺用心的，也很有东北气质，早些年的小地方的，还想提一下，知道犯罪都市为什么不拿噼机Q吗，怕过头
马景涛一样一惊一乍的侦探，真是有点受不了。肯尼思的这一系列改编，真让人败好感，总觉得他是个特自恋的人。还好jodie comer没接这个破戏。
全世界最伟大的侦探阻止不了战争，也阻止不了谋杀，那世界还需要波洛做什么呢？
被疫情困得死死的，只能看看电影意淫一下远方了；这帮人都被爱情冲昏了头脑……
喝了两杯gin才能熬完整部片子没有提前离席
整个片就很平庸，只能靠阿婶原著本身增色。
好像设定在东北，警察被投诉，休假，和女友见老丈人，当地三兄弟黑势力。也就两场小空间动作戏好看一点，剧情普通。谢苗之前几年一直拍的古装网络大电影。
2022.2.20 16：45 9排2座 上海影城cinity厅谢幕 明年再见
谢苗没小时候可爱了，但是自带一种苏感…绑匪的三弟还考上过商学院，就这智商吗，绝了。
在网剧里还算不错的，尤其看到小童星长成大人了，有点意外。故事比较平铺直叙，打斗戏还是比较货真价实的，+一星给点鼓励。
推理为骨，爱情为肉，风光为皮，政治正确是流满全身的血液。拍摄于疫情前的顶级娱乐片，大银幕看风光尤其沁人心脾，疫情后很难想象我们还曾有那样的黄金而乐观的时代（怎么感觉像是一战后了）
10214人评6.1分 不如米娅法罗那版。出现了同性恋人。
哎 沒有對比就沒有傷害 78年的那版不好麼？David Suchet的那版不香麼？哎。
凶杀案开始后……变得索然无味……都是靠人命输出自己的观点……
开头几分钟真的很让人误会，但是看到最后又彷佛明白前面的铺垫，只是为什么要在这个故事里要穿插波洛的故事？
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