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".
在7.27北京大雨这天点开这部电影一定是冥冥之中的缘分。坐等北影节大银幕二刷～
张伟很普通，普通得甚至爸妈都觉得他努力了成绩也就在中游。当他被任命为花游队队长，经历过很多成长期都会很在意的挫折，但最后还是希望可以勇敢一点，我想参加表演，想要被看见，最后一群男孩不再彷徨，而是自己拿定主意克服困难完成表演真的是挺中二的，特别能体会张伟妈妈的落泪，我普通的儿子也是会在一个时刻闪闪发光的，这才是为人父母最应该为儿子自豪的，不是去跟人攀比，而是儿子突破了自己，青春解闷的片子吧，男子花游确实也不太好看，不过他们的39周半翻体，还是水中跳出来，憋气这些，还是很敬业啦
ah! Youth!（题材不错的，剧情你想得到的，不过还是不错看的）
国产烂片+1。日本这种走氛围的青春片比东野圭吾悬疑电影还难翻拍。那种日影极擅长描绘的漫画感是任何文化下都难以模仿的。翻拍版比原版多了20分钟，却仿佛少了一半的剧情，女主感情线缺失、街坊线缺失、游戏厅段缺失、训练段开启太迟，都是致命的残缺，让这个故事不能成立也缺少乐趣。而最糟糕的是最后那场表演，比原版加了更多的波折，却显得罗里吧嗦，整个表演动作编排差，没有原作里的生活气息，甚至背景音乐选的不好还卡不上节奏，跟原版华彩的校庆表演云泥之别。比起运动青春喜剧，更像是巴不得打着游泳名义要露肉，可是以男主为首的男演员，卡在身材拿不出手，又没有少年干瘦感，还白的过分之间。唯一合理的是黑皮体育生的选角，跟原版一群黑黢黢的少年有的一比。如果是为了看颜值就更自取其辱了，原版可是20岁的妻夫木聪和玉木宏。
我再也不想看到“成为网红”这样的故事转折点。在这个时代真的只有流量可以拯救我们了吗？
本土化非常成功
是比较合格的本土化改编，前半截还是比较简陋的搞笑，不过最后的汇报段落还是很可以的。什么时候青春电影能打好原创牌啊…
总体感觉剧情还是挺俗套的，但夏日、少年、高考、正能量又有谁愿意吐槽呢
十一档的遗珠，短小精致，可惜吃了档期的亏。五个新人演员的表演得益于角色和故事，很自然也很本真。花游少年的设定很新鲜。那年夏天，青春荷尔蒙和少年热血令人无限感慨和怀念。在那些青春的日子里，平凡的你我，平凡的日子，因为大家一起傻傻滴疯狂过而无悔。
松居大悟终于跳脱出他标志性的某种舞台剧式的镜头语言的范式，但依然会将设定植入到人物及背景中，并且在这部里真正搭建起他的文艺宇宙，圆融汇通，cue老贾只是引子，整体反而像是奇巧。近年日影同类型最佳，也是东京蓝、剧场之后最打动我的一部，凌凌像是被伊藤从隔壁无法长大拉过来串个场，但是有句讲句，壮壮还是跟muse比较有cp感。丨
如果说悲剧就是，把美好的东西破坏给人看，那么让人看到，坏掉的东西原来曾经也那么美好过，属于什么呢？对男主这种人有点ptsd，这片拍得非常真实。
在不断倒带的同一个日子里，才会发现我们已经离得太远太远了
打情怀牌真的顶不住
本来很担心，后来发现担心是多余的。本土化改编很成功，笑点密集情节也不尬，男孩子们都很可爱，青春和友谊都闪着光。好看！
这就是青春吧，印象特别深刻的是男主到喜欢的女生身边“呵呵”一笑，让我觉得好真实！
花样年华，青春正当时，剧情不拖沓，年轻的演员表现很好
编剧套路太明显了，整体的故事也是中国式的典型发展路径，但好在几个路人小男孩演的算是真诚自然。
越看越乱 感觉越淡 大概就是很多事不如相忘
3奉命组建，上级驱动的，肩负使命。领导重视，省体队派人指导的，举国体制搞体育。
2021年10月1日 远大路居然之家 在惊魂丢娃后也算是轻松惬意看了这部电影，看到所有人的努力，但不会留下太深的印象，还是更适合夏天啊。
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