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".
黄政民演自己不太可，我给他出个主意，不如下次演刘德华。
代入感极差，私生饭要求政民念台词，阿西吧累～，原版珠玉在前，叙事节奏流畅各方面的优点，在翻拍这里都没有，反派缺个“余皑磊”式的人物。
没有《解救吾先生》情节紧凑刺激。就是借了一个明星被绑架的点子重新创作了一部电影
冲着黄政民打个三星，整体下来比咱们的解救吾先生差的可不是一点半点。
青龙影帝演技完全没问题，但就先入为主的概念来说，翻拍的不好。韩化的画蛇添足，很多硬伤，缺少真实感。
把原来一部斗智斗勇的警匪片，生生改成了血糊糊惨兮兮警匪死了一箩筐的动作片。
开头还好奇看看，越到后面剧情越脑瘫，逻辑都没有了，导演是智障吧？1.被绑椅子上，倒地上后来自己起来了？？？2.绑匪随便进出人质家里没事？大街上也随便跑？？？3.绑匪街上被盘查，突然来个车溜了？更离奇的是一罐子铁钉炸开后，人都没事，绑匪自己溜了？4.老人家竟然把人质锁屋里？？一直哔哔赖赖，警察都不听5.绑匪都不是一条心，还一起绑个卵子？临时起义？6.绑匪把警察带陷阱里，所有人都炸晕了，就他跑了？去你吗的比哇，编剧先把脑子逻辑搞明白了再出来混，好吗？7.最后绑匪人质一对一，更他吗智障剧情了。8.人质女孩，长得还挺好看的，就是全程都当花瓶？你直接演一些绑匪轮流强干，凌虐这个女的，也都强很多。
2.5
黄政民还在《从邪恶中拯救我》中没缓过来吗？
看的时候真想忘记原版剧情，因为黄政民，所以值得三颗星…
黄政民居然饰演的自己 借用悍匪的一句话，说，睡了多少艺人！ 节奏把控和BGM运用都很出色，悍匪是真的彪悍啊！不过大韩民国的警方稍显弱了点 还好黄政民有头脑自救助了不少力。#电影 #人质2021
2021.10.05一个人在蓝湾看。欧巴在片头电梯里帅了几秒，后面就没了……小眼睛还真是离王千源差远了：前者看着就想抽脸，后者还真是有情有义有头脑的坏蛋哈哈哈…欧巴在，3星打底。ps. 36D怎么了呢？0.1星也跳不起来。
恍然大悟！原来绑匪是音乐剧演员金宰范！！！！
真不明白这几个小瘪三绑匪是怎么有胆量绑架明星的？ 加一星给老黄哈哈
肯定是不如原版的，黄政民演黄政民，只能证明电梯战神丁青是本色出演。其他的，没啥好说的！
虽然刘德华王千源那部原版其实也很一般，但还是比这部翻拍版要好，好不少。即使不和原版比较，单纯作为一部全新的犯罪片看，这电影也很难及格，节奏拉垮、不够跌宕、反派的行为很迷。总体也就是看看黄政民而已。
我怀疑这部电影像韩剧一样边写边拍。绑匪登场的一瞬间就极度引起了我的心里生理不适，这一点还挺成功的，以为不会开倍速的我还是开了，唉
角色错位了，真正的黄政民不会自己脱身，能脱身的黄政民只是一个叫黄政民的角色。相较之下还是原版更好一点。
“当年默默无闻的时候也被拒绝了上百次，他们嘲笑我，长得不帅，一口庆尚北道方言，脸还红扑扑的家伙…”
大明星也是孤胆英雄？剧情过度戏剧化了，反派也是太普通……
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