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".
整部电影也控诉了对当代社会——父权下的过去与现在
斯科特导演的女性视角的影片一直都很不错，《末路狂花》《异形》等等，这部也同理。中世纪罗生门式的决斗，简觉得妻子被rape有辱作为骑士的名声，站在维护妻子的立场不过是顺带的，从审判前的夜晚命令妻子上床做爱就能看出来，明明妻子才刚刚向他哭诉，简并没有把她当作独立个体，就是一件财产。勒格里的生活一直伴随着美女主动环绕，天生就认为他与谁发生性关系都是合理的，因此他觉得与玛格丽只是通奸，并不是违背她的意愿，即使玛格丽一直在说no...到了第三段关于玛格丽的真相，她的真相会不会和前两者有修饰或者夸大的地方呢，只知道事实是勒格里rape了玛格丽。她的命运竟然要这俩决斗生死来决定，也是蛮讽刺的。朱迪科默还挺好看的，但最后不得不吐槽，到底是怎么看出勒格里帅的？星战时我就觉得这个演员长得很奇怪，身材倒是挺好。
情节有点不连贯，节奏有点慢，背景音乐完全跟不上内心戏。但怎么说，完结了。
14世纪的一桩强奸案，超强的卡司，三个视角的叙事，最后扣人心弦的决斗。有时想，不知同样的故事发生在古代中国会怎么样，大概其不会有决斗，也许女主会自尽，或者是男主一怒杀了奸夫。几个主演的表演都很棒，影片色调也很有味道，明显调成了暗色，尽量去除了彩色的鲜艳感，让人看去有古旧的味道。
最后的生死斗好看！现在最后一口气没上来的电影太多了，高潮戏货真价实的难能可贵
8/10.
雷德利斯科特老爷子这部作品采用了和《金刚川》一样的三个视角讲述一个故事的方式，从观感上来说这种三视角的讲述看着累，除非剧情特别精彩，否则很容易让观众产生疲劳感，故事走向倒是可以最大化还原三个人各自的立场，虽然让电影多了层次但也无法与《罗生门》媲美。如果雷导在三个故事里用三个不同的摄影师分段拍摄，可能会更好看，剧情冲突也能更激烈。
新现实主义拍法，时代立住了；经过前两章，会明白中世纪价值观的特点，无论是自律的还是自恋的，都是以自我荣誉和价值为先，拥有严格的等级观念；两男的矛盾虽说是误会，但其实是传统骑士领主思维和技术官僚新贵族的斗争，而女性变成了两种价值观的牺牲品。景别，从第一章的全景式景观为主、第二章进入伯爵的阴暗室内、第三章着眼于庄园本身，很符合三个人的人物性格视角。缺点在于多视角导致戏剧点混乱，除了制造悬念没有太多作用，人物弧光片面，属于这种论文式拍法的通病（“钛”也有这个问题）；而且，女主作为中世纪女性，至少应该为名誉恢复而高兴吧，就算女权觉醒，也该在乎自我的社会信任度啊
太喜欢了，绝对会是我年度十佳的片子。把对女性的关怀视角和中世纪真实的最后一个法律决斗故事结合，实在是新颖，确实是从古至今的女性悲歌，想雷老爷子致敬！强奸是否属实完全取决于两个男人武力决斗的胜利，实在是荒谬，而最后国王和百姓的狂欢都送给了男主，没有女主什么事。三个视角中小细节的不同太有意思了，比如两个男主都觉得是自己大度破冰，一样的台词但是是不同的人说的，比如女主逃上楼时掉下的鞋子。不过就算事实真的是第二个版本的，也完全是个强奸啊，很难想象男人会把这样的互动也理解为你情我愿。另外Jodie太美了。
说实话，整部的节奏感觉像被拉长了一倍，但杀人见血的高马尾剑心简直太有魅力。第一幕的衔剑杀人和剑心不想止于形地邀请巴一起居住的时候，周围的观众都有哇出声来（
浪客剑心真人版系列最好的一部。影片开始一连串的厮杀先声夺人，亮明了刽子手拔刀斋的冷酷无情，喷溅的血成雾状，配合拔刀斋快速的劈砍，在视觉上造成很强的冲击感。带着怨念的刀疤，一场腥风血雨的邂逅，雪代巴是刽子手的刀鞘，她带着仇恨却救赎了绯村，将他杀人的刀封印起来让他活着像个人。佐藤健演绎的绯村拔刀斋纯真温润的让人心碎，有村架纯的雪代巴出奇的好，转型很成功
依旧是温温吞吞平庸至极，最让我感动的地方竟然是结尾又一次看到了鸟羽伏见之战。可惜剑心又一次见到斋藤一直接扔剑跑路了，终究我没能看到属于他们两人的幕末之战。不知道是不是因为江口洋介年龄大了体力跟不上，真人版中斋藤一的动作戏份非常稀少。唯一堪称亮点的地方是这版里加入了剑心和冲田总司的对决。总司还使出了疑似“无名三段突”的剑技，动作设计梗味儿十足。只是这个总司的扮相对比动漫中那个“拈花一碎”的月下凄美少年而言实在是太邋遢了。
实际上Beginning这一部，文戏感情戏占太多，动作戏不算惊艳，不如Final好看，也没其他几部打得过瘾，但这部是浪客剑心的源头，脸上十字伤疤起点，缠缠绵绵腥风血雨，一切故事由此开始，村花饰演的雪代巴的纠结和纯情，还是令人感动。
如果人诛篇里没有剧透追忆篇就好了，在关键剧情已经泄底的情况下还能有这样的催泪效果也算完成度很高。总归还是觉得节奏有点拖，但胜在情感张力够足，还是拔刀斋的剑心第一次面对新撰组时那一颗掉落的泪给我的触动反而比和巴的告别更大。砂糖在这部的表现可能局限在角色性格里中规中矩，村花真不错，雪代巴姐弟的表现都超出了我的预期。电影结尾说，当年那个令人闻风丧胆的男人再度出现时，已是十年后的事了；而佐藤健的剑心第一次出现，已是十年前的事了。感谢剑心让我认识了砂糖，感谢所有工作人员让剑心在大银幕上有了立体而无法磨灭的形象。我心中的永远的真人漫改天花板。
“rape不会导致怀孕，这是科学事实”44年前《决斗的人》，到现在，雷德利像转换了一种使命。
原作就只看了ova，所以直接看追忆篇。名场面都有还原，只不过多年后的我不再是一个乙女粉而成为了一个老公粉。巴和剑心一起生活那块我仿佛一下娶了两个老婆【？】打戏好牛逼啊，虽然剑心刀子但还是可以感受到一段段切人的阻滞感。人を殺すを使うのではなく、人を切るってところ実感した。以至于血飞得太多中段有点不舒服。从日本历史漫画里竟然感受到些许香港早期武侠的味儿……还有就是太帅了，新选组的人土方和冲田也好帅……冲田和剑心月光下的对战，搬家到草房后巴和剑心在门前的背影。
女主演技是不是有点… 高桥是惊喜！褶子越来越多了喂！
以一个罗生门的故事，讲述了女性在男权社会下的处境。前两番以男性视角来叙述，最后转到女性视角，这种视角转换本身，或者说叙述者身份的转变，已经表明态度。
一个没有人证物证，间接证据也没有的案件，在那个年代以骑士决斗的方式来平息，这相对于几百年后的今天同样案例会算进步还是退步？
一开始是被男性气质吸引，但本片其实是用现代的女性视角去拍中世纪——因其黑暗愚昧，更显出男性粗鲁野蛮的一面。最后那场决斗撕裂文明面具的同时，也把荒诞性推到了一个高潮。这样的戏剧性一直持续到了最后一句字幕——在那样的长夜里，好像确实没什么必要再结婚。
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