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".
对张涵予塑造的角色有点审美疲劳了，范伟老师以一己之力带着整个电影的叙事节奏向前冲，最后奄奄一息地站在了终点线上！太不容易了！
心脏病也并没有带来什么剧情上的变化
如果最后那个小伙子用范伟给的刀杀了日本兵再逃出来，我可能会给这个电影加半颗星。
欲而不得
很复古，很午夜档
剧情比我想象的还要悲情。影片的色调偏冷，与故事背景的冷肃相辅相成。此外，动作的戏份较少。比较有看点的是范师傅演技的丰富。
唯一有点看头的还是范伟，不显山不露水之间，功力尽显。可惜还是逃不过编剧圣手，一个招手，送了人头。然后最后火车上的戏份也就跟着弱了下去。是“编剧要你三更死”啊。
#2022.22#为什么这类题材总是拍大雪？？铁道雪中血？？
范伟演得真是太好了，给他加1分。
摄影和剪辑让人眼前一亮，就是故事欠打磨到最后草草收场，有点可惜
算是我小时候的童年了，剧情忘了很多，但是主题曲仍旧记忆犹新，电影里头有变奏好评。但是剧情太拖沓，除了范伟之外的人物太单一，这也是很多抗日剧的短板。现在拍类型的工业水平我们有了，但是剧本还是有待提高。
有内鬼……明晚连云港9点，停20分钟……我就觉得一句话的事儿，老范整天的传纸条至于么？
范伟演得真好 反倒是张涵予演得有点生硬 除了范伟其他人的角色都太空了
和《悬崖之上》的画风差不多，冰天雪地，一群热血党人为了执行一次次任务与敌军对抗，最后英勇牺牲。片子从情绪调动方面不是很成功，看完没让人产生对日军暴行的恨，也没有让人热泪盈眶的激动。看完内心没起波澜，像看了一个似曾看过的故事而已。
基本等价于《革命者》2.0，摄影、特效、音效、美术都更好，剧本则更烂。光注重视听塑造了，剧本一盘散沙，叙事节奏非常拖沓。范伟演的在他的水准内，但人设和《长津湖》的胡军太类似。全片一到关键时刻就上演死亡催泪大法，导演的招数少的可怜。
对老夫妇的年龄表示困惑，看外貌体态苍老得不行，结果行动起来还挺有精神一点不带喘
通篇雪景将冷峻肃杀的氛围感拉满，审美方面无可挑剔，只是比较费烟。张涵予还是一贯的硬汉形象，但除了范伟的角色贡献部分惊喜外其他人设都趋于脸谱化。故事前期铺陈缓慢，文戏又没拍的多精彩剧本逻辑硬伤还一箩筐，尤其是女主线的安插全都出于巧合，好在反派智商还算在线。后期决战同样墨迹，明明是殊死决斗却不下狠手，这边小刀划脸、铲子拍头，那边唠嗑送行酒，悲壮情绪的营造过于刻意。
范伟表演真的强，不愧是影帝，把一个卧底表演的入木三分，开始有多恨他，在知道真相后就有多爱他，在他最后骂“我说你奶奶个腿”，让我拍手称快，太过瘾了
好一出荡气回肠的铁道血与骨暴力挽歌，范伟老师从影以来最炸裂演技
影片是根据铁道游击队的原型八路军一一五师鲁南铁道大队的抗日事迹改编的。
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