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".
而纪录片里的梅姐的干瘦、说再见时那一声霸气硬气，一下子把这个女人拉近，高下立现。
突然想到，如果是门罗，她会怎样写这个故事？
前面还觉得有在用心呈现她的出道与巅峰，恋爱之后就落俗了，掌掴事件开始更是不知所谓。王丹妮可能很努力但没有一点刚毅和侠气，像个亦步亦趋的小学生，后半段索性连形都不似了。至于那些不能出现的人和事你说要拿来扣分呢也未必公平。
粤语版，不完美却已经尽意了，新人王丹妮深情演绎Anita起起落落的传奇一生，有几个场景数度泪目。走的是《波西米亚狂想曲》路线，高光影音场面复刻vs经典怀旧粤语金曲串烧，大致勾勒出她一路走来的轨迹与时光轮廓，穿插着阿梅身边几个最重要的人（姐姐，Leslie，Eddie）。最动人还是阿梅与姐姐的血浓于水，与后藤令人唏嘘的跨国恋，愚人节送别哥哥的珍贵画面，以及03演唱会《夕阳之歌》响起的诀别时刻……表面是重现“香港女儿”的演艺光辉，实际上是在努力复活已逝的“香港精神”——危难时的互助团结，不服输不认命，乐观向上勇敢面对一切（正如阿梅自知时日无多，在非典之年仍然执着举办公益义演一样），而这也是当下这个非常（类似）的特殊时期最需要的精气神吧。
无论是梅艳芳还是张国荣粉丝都不愿意买账的电影
重新认识港女梅艳芳。一部技法并不高超的电影，一段值得回忆的人生。
well... 一般般 get不太到就是说
《梅艳芳》算不上深刻，但绝对算得上是一部达标的女性影片。以前对梅艳芳都是片段式的认识，小时候还觉得她长得那么丑不懂为啥那么红。但是现在有了些经历，真的能感受到她独特的人格魅力和大气。在如此浮沉不定的人世间，用劲而真实地活，对得起天地良心，在遗憾中也能有潇洒，在江湖中做个性情中人，确实是女中豪杰。《梅艳芳》这部片子珍贵的不是还原一位歌星，而是在这个充满了打压的世代鼓励女性真心去爱，用力去活，在人生高低中总可以有气度，坦然面对。女人是朵花，就算不总是别人心头的玫瑰，她的开放与凋零就已是风景。花开不多时，堪折直需折。
其实也并没有抱多大期望，说到底，百年也再难有一个梅艳芳了。
但是女主挺好的，抓到了梅姐的倔强和落寞。就是中年后很拉垮，不如后半段让袁泉来演。
其实我不明白，为什么《梅艳芳》的电影为什么要消费那么多张国荣。90%看起来没什么感觉，电影想拍什么就拍什么，阿梅角色、神态都在线，但是人物内心令人触动的东西在电影由始至终都没有感受到，这样流水账的叙事还是有点可惜的。还不如把18年前的演唱会重新翻拍一遍，当然，最后的演唱会，那一声“拜拜”，还是令人哭得不要不要的。(3/5)
尽管整个剧组已经用最大的诚意来致敬原型了，但打动观众的仍然是那些高糊画质的影像资料。
酸涩温暖，好喜欢呜呜呜，男主太可爱了，达妹一如既往地很诱人。成长路上没有弯路，都是必经之路，都是很好很好的路。
王丹妮很像，但是像又怎么样，始终不是梅艳芳。我不理解为什么要找演员来演梅艳芳、张国荣，既然芳华绝代是公认的事实，又怎么可能有人可演。如果换成纪录片的形式，粉丝会感激不尽，但这种人物传记与电影里多个戏剧化处理真的让人感到非常不适。
导演才25天呐羡慕了。成长可能就是这样，要不停的和自己喜欢的事物告别
很不幸两年前看到波西米亚狂想曲时已经有了对于该类型传记片的一点想法，《梅艳芳》这部电影取名为《梅艳芳》实在有些不大妙，它似乎并没打算真正探索梅姐的成长历程，而仅仅在通过各种片段来讲述梅姐的成名于陨落，预告片剪的实在很好，电影不如预告系列。或许我们需要的不是ppt般放映式的一生，而是着眼某几件事探索成长蜕变。很喜欢梅姐，演员眉目间缺了几分梅姐英气，多了点妩媚柔情。服装造型上的还原度只能说没有做到最精细，演唱会还原较波西米亚差了5个朱迪。
王丹妮和梅艳芳多少还有几分神似，刘俊谦和张国荣就实在相距甚远，从对两人关系的潦草刻画，也可窥见全片剧作的最大问题：想要事无巨细地呈现梅姑演艺生涯所有节点，事业上几乎是不费吹灰之力的顺遂，着力刻画的几段恋情又都没头没尾，花费两小时终究没能让人物有血有肉地立住。可是瘟疫再度肆虐的当下，回望愁云惨淡的2003年，听到告别演唱会最后一声“拜拜”，谁能不泪洒当场。一代巨星落幕，黄金时代也彻底过去，但唏嘘在电影之外，纪录片段也胜过场景还原。如果说《寒战》是香港电影的一次回光返照，那《梅艳芳》不免有寿终正寝之意。
225分钟(导演剪辑版)。虽然看过好些「梅艳芳」出演的电影&短片，但对她并不是很熟悉，观看《梅艳芳》这部关于她生平的传记片算是增加了我对她的了解，可惜电影本身于我而言并不够给力。★★★☆ 附注：片中刘俊谦饰演张国荣的戏份没让我惊喜反而时常出戏，后面张国荣逝世的情节尤其是那些真实的影像画面倒是看得我泪腺触动。
顺意的生活，偶然的相遇灵魂，蠢蠢的男主，狗屎的结局。
流水一样的叙事有点令人厌烦，幸亏梅姐本身已是传奇。如今，再看到哥哥和梅姐，已然是对一个时代，一座城市的哀悼了吧。港人，国人，很缺这么一位香港女儿的坚韧吧。
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