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".
对哈姆莱特的铁血改编，原始、野蛮、兽性十足，安雅艳压妮可，青春无敌。
今年我最喜欢的动作片，纵然是老套的王子复仇记，但是这是我想看到用影像拍出进入英灵殿，我不是北欧人但是这部电影让我看到了北欧人、北欧宗教、北欧仪式感，美丽的冰岛让我相信这就是北欧人。喜欢整体的仪式感的营造、构图光影的美感，但是剧情的薄弱人物塑造上的羸弱，动作场面虽设计感但是不能满足，太多夜场打斗还是看不清，对我来说最失望的还是r级动作片拍的遮遮掩掩不够r级，整体依然瑕不掩瑜。正如前作《灯塔》去拍克苏鲁这部《北欧人》拍的是英灵殿，主题上剧情就不是导演想拍的东西，只有奥丁、瓦尔基里、瓦尔哈拉是他的核心，成本提高之后带来的不一定是一加一等于二，有可能是0.8，当然我更喜欢《北欧人》，毕竟我是帝国时代玩家我爱精锐维京狂战士，我最爱还是《刺客信条》系列，那船歌那北欧风音乐那奥丁的石像，这就是我的菜。
漫威史上最好的起源电影
为啥梁朝伟还是这么好看？ 东方神兽的设计太棒了，纽特肯定很喜欢~ 说实话，这部影片里的东方意向算是看过的好莱坞影片里最用心的了，没有明显的违和感，值得鼓励
老父亲被新型电信诈骗，不先进行劝导而是转头就要打死亲爸血债血偿的行为真是好迷惑。还有，热爱泊车没人为你骄傲，只有拯救世界才能装逼成功。结尾有抖音今天爱答不理明天高攀不起的反转那味了。
也不能说电影拍的不好看，就是不太喜欢，看了一点看不下去了
拍得既写实残暴又神叨叨，气质还不错，就是简单的复仇老故事不适合用这般拖拉的节奏 / 导演继续在补全他的“写实欧洲神话历史”
当人性被扭曲，剧情被反转，才是真正的高潮！
冰岛旅游宣传片？？操。杰洛特随便砍只怪物都比这个好看，操操 拍成奇幻片可以吗，给主角两个技能可以吗，像个沙雕一样
51/100。对命运的探讨很浅，人物形象刻画也很单一。影片节奏也不是很好，动作戏并不出彩，宗教戏份占比太大。看之前期待值挺高的，所以挺失望的。
我不知道他想讲什么，但我觉得还挺好看。Robert Eggers的体验式电影
很好看。以及不是很明白有的短评到底想在美漫改编的美式超英里找到什么东西，西游记吗？
北欧王子复仇记，强烈粗犷原始的风格值得好评，但太冗长了些。
冲着北欧海盗的凶悍残忍野蛮去的，可电影并没有在这方面带来冲击力。有些武打设计让人出戏，感觉很不专业。对比《启示》差的不是一点半点。修改版的哈姆雷特剧情，倒也新颖，正邪难辨的主角与反派的纠葛挺让人着迷，尤其是最后两败具亡的决斗。让人心有所动，这也算是本片唯一的亮点了。
我很好奇这卓越的影像要是套在学校/古惑仔拼刀拼火的场面上该有多史诗（or中二？bushi）
最后的决斗好看。话说回来什么时候国内都是这种普遍摄影氛围，起码电影工业就是电影工业了吧。
被吊打一通，再被老妈挥两刀，半大小孩插八刀，依然可以策马奔腾去决斗。
It’s a shock to look at the early stage of our civilization and how individualism could be so deeply rooted in the DNA of their culture.
复仇的结局，往往没有想象中单纯…
就是普通的王子复仇记，安雅很漂亮，冰岛风光不错，仅此而已。4/10
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