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".
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所以三角恋的情节也是史实吗？ 一句话概括大概就是：为什么人人都得谈恋爱之一个看似完全不可靠的计谋因为敌方有内应而成功。 PS牺牲最大的是英国派驻西班牙的情报官吧。
双女主动作片！打斗很流畅，同居戏温馨可爱，我一个大女人看得很开心
感觉可以给到3.5星 plot twists很多很惊喜 但是节奏总是差了那么一点 以及其实谍战片里真的没有必要加模棱两可的感情戏hhh
事情挺有意义，但电影不够精彩。跟间谍、战争都有关系，1毛钱的关系。
不错的电影 节奏紧凑 战争的残酷 血的代价无法避免 及时情报部门在背后翻云覆雨 虽然是小三 但男女主的爱情 点到即止 女主离开去实现自我价值 为国家尽一份力
《The Man Who Never Was》珠玉在前，這一部顯得太鬆散了
本片最主要的暗线竟然是伊恩·弗莱明。他的确在1943年前后供职海军情报处，曾指挥过一个三十人的谍报小组，这个小组也曾在西西里岛活动，但我遍寻网络也没找到他曾参与肉馅计划的史实，不知道为啥导演要扯上这位神仙，还不止一次的用台词暗示他是那个写小说的人。
坚信比谎言更是真理的敌人，英国只是系统性加强了画家的偏见（邱胖也是一样的，男2暗示了），而之所以可以做到这一点，就是如本片最后说的：德国情报系统最高层有人想要这样
People joke that there are only 40 plus actors/actresses in Britain and you see them everywhere. This movie makes me think that the joke is actually telling the truth. Good to see the familiar faces. I like this movie.
007的作者弗莱明在这部戏里也打酱油。
最少4星，可怜的豆瓣上只有6分多，情节设计和演技都不错
和慕尼黑一个配方的网飞英国大咖组局主旋律历史宣讲片。一眼望到头的剧情转折，贯彻始终的爱国主义颂歌，连单纯展现谍战类型的乐趣都无力企及，如此优秀卡司偏生配上老套肤浅的剧本。半世纪前尚可打动观众的恶俗三角恋现在显得格外肤浅幼稚和不合时宜。在历史事件命题作文之上以「绞肉」线索穿起战时物资配给的火腿罐头与归西之后无知无觉「为国捐躯」奇异烈士的故事，弗莱明点睛式的引线存在和烟雾缭绕搬略微增色的旁白为整个故事沉闷基调稍加间谍暗战的竦然效果。编造故事迷惑敌手的同时，现实与虚构，奇情与欲望的界限也在模糊，若剧本着重此处深挖或可看到「行动」与「叙事」悬停疑云上空的有趣影像。但可惜这只是一部标准作答的范文格式，而女性面孔一如海水里浸泡发皱的假身份，是男性主人公权力斗争的具象客体，是幽灵还魂的浪漫对象，仅此而已。
Matthew还真自带喜剧气氛了，运镜剪辑相当工整 整体观感算愉悦的，致命点是剧情和节奏都平成这样极其underwhelming，大概剧本重点本不在人塑 都很扁平 无法对任何一个角色产生一丝共情
杀手寓言退休后的接班人是吧，小日本的动作设计噼里啪啦竟然还不错。
Great pictures! Great acting! Feel like stray away from the subject but enjoyed to properness! 💖
喜感十足，我比较喜欢的一种类型电影，打斗场景完全没有以往的哪些俗套剧情，反而觉得有些有趣，杀手嘛，就要有普通人思想，太出戏啦！一眼看出，就做不成杀手了，动作嘛，真有趣，尤其最后那个装的人，被一枪打了，哈哈哈哈，笑死我了，可能也是导演想表达出来的东西吧，没有哪些俗套剧情，能一枪就别逼逼！
这么nb的一个事拍的如此无聊，重点还放在婚外情？？why？！中间睡过去两次
一般般流水账，倒是同样是军人（官）后方文职夜夜歌舞升平玩暧昧，前线有冻死骨，每个代表团都是这样吗？
真好当成现在在看的二战回忆录的佐料。可惜片子取材情感线过重，关键的谍战反而一笔带过了。
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