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".
其实男主一直重复的话就点名了主题，我要为父亲报仇，我要拯救母亲，我要杀了杀死父亲的叔父，可恨的是，母亲最后的背叛，可恶的施虐者，可恨的暴徒~！电影内容中充满血腥暴力，砍断肢体等内容，不适者慎重观看！
一年总会不小心看那么几部“主创的精神和创造力如此贫瘠一定很可怜吧”的片子
拍得还不错就是太太太长了。简单粗暴在一开始是优点，到最后就是审美疲劳了。
很多不错的场面以及场面调度
虽然故事非常简洁明了，但我还是很喜欢Eggers在神话原型上深耕的风格，电影中各种神话以及隐喻真的太迷人眼了，哈姆雷特，贝奥武夫，奥丁，女武神，诺恩斯命运女神。复仇者的故事充满预言与宿命感，尤其是台词，可以看出演员在口音塑造上也花费了一番功夫。the gate of hell,三船在于仲代达矢决斗时也说过这么一句话，我在地狱之门等你，真是无比武士道的宣言。
没有想象的烂，公车那一段还不错，但意外的是刘思慕在片子里真的不好看，其实他作为insta guy还可以，结果一上大银幕网红现形，偏偏还可劲儿怼脸拍，如果他是配角只拍身法的话效果应该还好点。
我不知道他想讲什么，但我觉得还挺好看。Robert Eggers的体验式电影
说白了，这是专门拍给影评人看的，这逼格基本上就没考虑到过观众感受（3/10）
守到名单出来了都没见到彭彭和丁满非常失望！尼尔盖曼读者表示对mead的使用方法十分熟悉啊哇哈哈~ 能看这么多封建迷信真是太棒了！比约克也没唱两句差评
挺无语的，故弄玄虚，不知道自己在看剧情片还是恐怖片
北欧王子复仇记 介于邪典和史诗电影之间 很大程度上保留了导演的个人化风格 神秘主义宗教民俗巫术等元素杂糅 视听效果不错但故事内核还是缺乏新意 E大和妮可演完夫妻竟然还能演母子
在LA环球影城IMAX看的首映，出乎意料全片一半对白标准普通话，诚意是真的做足了。梁朝伟第一次好莱坞大制作，还是演了一个为爱所困的苦命人
打斗软绵无力犹如儿戏，人物刻画几乎没有，最出色的就是摄影了。我先走一步。
啊……啊…………啊。啊！啊啊啊，啊，啊啊啊啊啊啊，啊！啊！！！啊啊啊！！！啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊！！！！！！！咔嚓~
画面很好，打斗太平常了，剧情实在是太套路普通：拿了把牛逼的剑废了牛劲，那么多巫师帮忙，结果还是那么费劲，唉
这可能是另一个体系的「三个自信」吧，因为道路自信所以制度自信，所以文化自信，自信到以为亚洲符号大乱炖就能代表中国文化了……（制作上也很糊弄不敢相信是一亿美元级别制作）
不确定《王子复仇记》在大银幕上的这么多次改编是否是可取的，但剧情确实亮点不多，算是及格的史诗片吧。与导演的前作相比实在过于平庸，这部整的过于商业化了。我感觉北欧神话元素还是少（可能是制片方给剪坏的？），以及皇后那一条故事线没有展开，很可惜。
[Century at Tanforan] 单调又过度的视听刺激稀释了悲剧性，露出人物和其关系的单薄；女性角色无一脱出女巫、附庸或荡妇的模板，母亲的塑造尤其令人失望。“你的剑太长了！”
艾格斯的影像叙事能力反而被哈姆雷特式的故事束缚了，命运主题不需要浅薄的复读
不不不还是不必了…… 杨紫琼对刘思慕说他长得跟陈法拉一模一样的时候我整个人在影院笑出声
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