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".
少见的看到描述一个大男孩细腻感情的片子。影片开头结尾呼应了，不同的是这次长大后男孩的告白带来的不仅是心碎与伤痛，更有成长与释然 Enjoy at your twenties&Spend it on yourself是女主对他最诚挚的祝福
王丹妮的表演是及格的，很多造型和神态都很像梅姐，尤其是最后穿婚纱的部分，演唱部分也不错。但是她身高实在是和阿梅差别太大了，又总是穿高跟，日本酒店的大门都快装不下了......并且可能是因为演员本身比较年轻，没有演出梅姐稍年长时的状态，稍年长时的表情和语气和刚出道时基本没有差别，让人有些出戏。
从影片来讲，除了时间节点，没有可以贯通全片的线索或者说叙述动机，只讲了“她做了什么”没有讲“为什么这么做”，遗憾。演员如提线木偶般被摄影机控制，没有成长线，只有工具人。
I'm drunk, now.
You are 22, it's scary but amazing.
导演25岁还是大有可能的，尽管小清新和始终强调冷静有点出戏，不过小成本生活向的自编自导还是挺成功。
这赋予了偷懒的创作者以底气和纵容。
Can’t even remember my 22
为什么不是关锦鹏来拍……这个导演拍得太新太商业了，而且哥哥的演员是什么鬼！为什么会那么猥琐！一点都没有哥哥的忧郁和温润如玉的气质，不说他是张国荣我真看不出来。。
特别欣赏男主的妈妈，真好。
一個毛頭小子內心成長的故事，還好沒狗血，只是這個導演太自戀了，經常把鏡頭對著自己的臉。
不知道片子的意义是什么，或许是告诫小男生不要轻易爱上老阿姨，尽管你年轻“玩得起”，但是伤心的感受不舒服。当然每一次成长，总在受伤后。
新人女主的表现不错，姐妹之间的亲情戏也比较好。对于一个并不算粉丝的路人影迷来说，这个片子很好看。有怀旧金曲，有巨星陨落，有那个时代香港艺人蓬勃的创作力，算是对香港娱乐圈黄金时代的一次重温。
故事剪裁、情节节奏和剪辑方式都有不小问题，前半程类似重要人物刷脸的短视频合集，人物塑造基本都是浮着的；最后半小时虽然好哭，但把梅姐最后一年留下的影像资料配上《女人花》《夕阳之歌》让我来剪也能有差不多效果。王丹妮的表演固然努力，但只有“斗士”一面的梅艳芳是足够传神的，其他时候执着于外表的“像”反而只会衬出加起来只有两三分钟的纪实影像里梅姐本人多有charisma。
有啲人你係唔忍心睇住佢老架⋯我還是流了眼淚
嗯，就是描写平淡生活里面比平常无趣更糟糕的一小个片段，不过太过凌乱，做的事情也让人难以共情。
拍的很不错！但是男主有的时候给我感觉用力过猛hhhh
女主其实演的还可以，剧情太过流水账，但看到最后，你很难不流泪，是梅艳芳本人与生俱来的感染力.
ppt流水賬，蜻蜓點水地回顧一生，典型的情節單薄，情深意切，但沒有具體的情節烘托輔助，再多情感都顯得空洞。麻煩主創睜眼看世界吧，傳記片拍了那麽多年不僅連1.0的傳記片《阿甘正傳》沒達到，更不用說什麼《社交網絡》《大空頭》了。
走马观花般看完梅姐的一生，后半部分甚至偷懒到真人纪录片段比电影片段还多了。作为电影来说确实拍的太流水账，但是也能理解拍这种跟我们同时代的人物传记片（还是大明星）真的很难，连人名都是英文。想面面俱到拍出她人生中每件事，事业、爱情、姐妹情、师徒情、公益慈善、积极抗癌，最后什么也没拍好，如果只聚焦于一两方面会更好吧。张国荣葬礼和最后的告别演唱会太好哭了，但也真的是因为真人真事而和电影本身无关。王丹妮演的还可以，但过于刻意模仿梅姐的表情，不自然，模仿过头了。
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