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".
。近几年中国怎么总是翻拍日本和韩国的电影？
类似闪光少女那种中国式青春，热血的part会让人肾上腺素飙升，但比起原版的日式青春，多了一份“不可能发生”的虚假感，还有点莫名其妙的鸡汤倒胃口。
最大的问题是结尾的男子花游，动作设计并不好看。究其根本花游很大一部分“花”在服装上，男子光膀美观度会差一些，导演因此再加了一段岸上的舞蹈继续煽情绪，但反而更尬了。这是视听和剧作拯救不了的，会让观众酝酿了很久的情绪损耗掉相当一部分。
好笑但几度泪目，温暖且给人力量，今年青春片最佳。排片真的太惨了
蔚蓝的夏天和蔚蓝的泳池，男孩们的快乐好简单
我会在 路的尽头 一场雨后 等待彩虹
有点出人意料，本来陪侄女去看的，一开始还以为是普普通通的青春片，像什么左耳右耳那样不痛不痒的垃圾片，谁知道竟然是一个体育题材，充满了意想不到的笑点，太出人意料了，非常好，推荐，作为40岁的大叔也喜欢看这个片子
7.5分。有那么点小惊喜啊~~这几年的国产青春片，逐渐走出了自己的特色，开始有点味道了哦~~其实大部分人就如同主角一样，不过就是个普通人而已，不断的努力未必真能换来成功，但不管怎么样自己能对得起自己就好~~~。能够肆无忌惮地试错，这可能就是青春的特权吧~~~
青春太美好了，热血和中二都很美好！张伟你并不普通，那一次次的翻转不是普通人能坚持的！
闷葫芦队长、体育生、啰嗦蛐蛐、学霸、老好人，五种男生的表现都很到位，互动也相当有趣，特别地道的高中男生，爽是最重要的，扮酷也是需要的，中二也是必要的，从男生的幼稚到男生的阳刚，阳光而活泼的少年，竟然通过花样游泳给表现出来了，辛柏青的颓废老中年也很赞，真是大陆近年最好的运动系青春片儿了，而且还是本鲲最爱的水上运动，赞叹。
开始虽然有点强行搞笑，但还是欢乐的，中段开始找教练后，觉得鸡汤味儿就上来了。
望周知 没有无脑女主的男生青春片才是最燃的
如果好好按照原版风格翻拍应该会挺不错的，但是后半偏偏要搞得苦大仇深的，拍个轻喜剧很难吗？非得哭哭唧唧要死要活青春才有意义吗
(看的时候一直在讲要是台湾片估计要被夸上天了，最后看完才知道是翻拍，但是也不影响，有些镜头抓的真的很好)
承包了很多欢乐的电影，不及日版的好看，但，一样热血励志。
最后20多人的男子花样游泳居然很像模像样，还融入了一丢丢locking和popping
是我心目中校园青春电影该有的样子！找野教练打黑工那段有点扯，但是瑕不掩瑜。青春是脚被泳池壁上的铁栓碰出的血，是日落后在蹦床上流过的汗，是为了受伤缝针的兄弟一起剪的丑丑寸头，是听到暗恋的女孩子说出自己名字的喜悦，是蛮不讲理地要去做成一件事情的冲动（因为不爽、因为不公平、因为世上有太多不讲理的事，比如别人随随便便的一个决定就能让你几个月的努力付之东流）而且！真的看到了团体花样游泳的更多可能性（与男女无关）。电影在消除性别偏见方面也值得加分。
青春洋溢，少年啊少年，做自己喜欢的事情吧！只能被自己定义，加油！
我和电影里张伟一样，做什么都中不溜，很多事我还没做就会听到“你踏实点吧，别搞那些，你不行的。”或者做了确实没成功又会听到“早说了别做，你看吧。”
一起努力过的日子(五只花样跳水少年)。
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