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".
刀疤锻炼身体那part最好笑。肚子胖胖duangduangduang。最悲情的也是刀疤被杀那一段呜呜呜。救人那段实在是有点草率，全靠狱友和建筑师了
故事有一些不太对劲的地方。但比较完整，娱乐性够，可看
这一部真的差点意思，打戏绵软无力，剧情老套，基本出一个点就能想到下一步要出现什么，唯独画面质感还值得好评。
歌很好听，Jennifer Hudson毕竟拿过格莱美，驾驭起来也是驾轻就熟。至于剧情感觉跟这几年的黑人传记电影基本没啥区别，大概相比Billie Holiday那部就是因为歌手个人原因和时代原因多了马丁路德金。另外，Forest Whitaker的演帝级表现没话说，几个场景里的面部表情和情绪控制真的强。
福音灵歌布鲁斯爵士黑人音乐大坑坑！OhMyGuy！❤️❤️❤️
还不错，比第二部好，看的很过瘾，至少逃狱过程设计精密，没有第二部的虎头蛇尾，其实这种监狱片是港片最擅长的类型，不用跟好莱坞拼特技，应该多拍这种类型
Disrespect for Aretha Franklin.
Jennifer Hudson >>>> 《天才》第三季的Cynthia Erivo，几首名曲质量完成度之高，可以看到Jennifer为诠释所投入和付出的巨大心力- -她似乎从很久很久前就做好了准备，并毫无保留地交给所有观众。而且很神奇Tituss Burgess、Marc Maron这些喜剧背景的共演，也能熟练地拿捏各自的部分。她的出生、与母亲的创伤、隐忍、坚持再到对自己的“投诚”，Aretha的故事如同每个伟大并拥有经历的歌者，值得太多书写；但最大的感觉还是整个片做得太音乐向了，所有剧情走向和角度都完全服务于几个要在关键节点呈上的表演。之于整个民权运动的意义，音乐史更大的进程影响，篇幅都被分薄了；是得体的致敬，但不算是最有野心的传记。
1.刀疤越来越胖，滚筒越来越和蔼可亲。
导演叙事功底太差了，好好的演员阵容拍的像个流水账，也没有把传奇天后富兰克林的个性和人生展现出来，东一下西一下，每个人物出现的都没有交代清楚，实在是可惜
一部灵魂歌后的福音记录片电影，黑人天生的歌唱天赋无与伦比，有时候的确会令人在不经意间从歌声中获得安慰，这也算是教会的一种无解的传教手段
前两部都没看，这次冲着粤语直接看了第三部，情节还算中规中矩的港味
虽然剧情很俗套，但前80分钟的情节编排很紧张刺激，爽快而流畅。但最后10分钟的收尾我一脸懵逼。女主的师傅为什么要选择同归于尽，在必胜的情况下，单杀之后逃跑不好吗？女主和杀手男一号中门对狙，为什么男杀手死了？不说女主受伤战斗力减半，单是她说她累了她想要平静，她就不应该活了啊？再说说电影整体，本片的女主也叫安娜，让我想起了吕克贝松的《安娜》，都是女主的电影，但相比之下明显落了下风。首先是输在故事性上，其实是输在女主的颜值上。综合来讲，3星，还不错，可以一看。
又看了一部黑人电影。还是离不开mlk那套。结尾那首奇异恩典，很有感情。全是感情也贼多技巧……一个伟大的女性，一个伟大的黑人音乐家。Aretha Franklin.真人也好美呀。
尼基塔既视感，MaggieQ好像就没什么变化
7/6/2022 @ CC朗豪坊。今集個劇本真係名乎其實既搵戲黎做！黃德斌成場大龍鳳重多bug過上集，陳豪除左出場飲咖啡之外都唔知有咩戲比佢做？但最大問題係刀疤就算同滾筒friend返，都不至於會變到今集咁溫馴呀話….唯一可取之處就真係比足戲譚耀文做了
搞不懂陈豪这个新一哥到底出来干嘛，一会大张旗鼓要搞变革，一会被下药直接退出剧情，也太随意了吧。
连《监狱风云》都只拍了两部，在港片如此势微的情况下，想不到这个系列竟然能拍到第三部，每部中间才隔几个月，编剧们也就没时间好好打磨剧本了，演员们都演的很认真，但剧情又真的很幼稚，这个系列的套路就是前部的反派下部就变好加入越狱团队，队伍越来越大，却都没越成功，第三部主角们竟然都不越狱，而是阻止反派越狱了。前期宣传三部曲是大结局，结果最后彩蛋却说每个人都要拍人物外传，还要观众进网站投票人气最高的角色最先拍，港片真的是没什么能拍的了吗？
三部看下来，其实还好
不可思议，这样都硬凑了三部曲，佩服、感恩香港，看一部少一部了，香港电影。。。
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