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".
阿婆的故事即使情节烂熟于心，还是每次从头看到尾。感谢摄影技术的进步，美丽的尼罗河风光。人物及设定有改，也加了新的迎合时代的情节和表现形式，但是主线和内核没有变化。前后两部看下来，还挺喜欢这个版本的波洛，虽然最后给他安排的些许感情戏份有点…，也算是一种创新吧哈哈。
非原著党来看还是中规中矩的，不至于出离愤怒。肯尼思·布拉纳的导演天花板真是一目了然，不是让一个黑人女性出来数落自己一顿，弥漫在全片里的那种白男的自矜和自恋就能被一笔勾销了，快要溢出银幕的掌控欲和所谓冷眼旁观的姿态让波洛完全丧失了魅力。对胡子的设计看来是私心了，首尾呼应之下倒是给人物增添了点立体感。推理部分直到一小时后才开始，但是事儿赶事儿的拍法让真相太呼之欲出了，几组人物关系都在突出爱情的主题，但过于刻意的设计让人性的扭力显得孱弱至极。
波洛的特色就是胡子……你给他把胡子剃了……
真是加了好多莫名其妙对剧情毫无帮助的导演的“小巧思”，实际上让电影变得冗长无聊且缺乏重点
太糟糕了。热闹戏的立项导致群戏轻浮，肯尼斯的自负导致波洛ooc，本想着就当埃及风光宣传片来看渲染和调色也过于饱满导致眼睛不适。肯尼斯还是别拍下一集阿婆了求求。
难看到有点离谱搞笑，盖尔加朵cos埃及艳后亮个相然后从梯子下来的时候真是大无语了
真的，当你充分放低期待后，就也还好了......但肯尼思·布拉纳能否少一点自恋
3星 整体节奏很拖沓 差不多电影进程一半了才有第一桩凶案 然而破案过程却如此简单 嫌疑人没怎么挣扎就认罪自裁
虽然不太喜欢这种晃来晃去不清晰的视觉感受，但中间疯狂机器博士的故事还是绝对不错！
没有前三部好看，前三部每一部都有1～3个十分精彩的故事，这一部，每一个故事都不够出彩，十分一般
部分场景好看，感叹当代电影制作比旧版高超太多，但部分场景又充满五毛塑料感。删减人物和推理过程、乱改人设 磨平了原著中很多必要的矛盾冲突和犯罪动机、连关键台词都不放重点，实在太败笔，不知道咋想的，要是想搞成这种重新整合人物关系的破案片，还不如直接拍成利刃出鞘那种架空新编，还重拍阿加莎干嘛？本想着肯尼斯布拉纳的电影一贯突出戏剧风格，独树一帜有舞台感也不错，结果又塞满了大脸特写。不符合预期，比较失望。林内特选角严重不符，感觉她端个加特林把全船都突突喽还差不多。罗萨林选角不错，但本应装出来的神经质又太欠缺。服装设计失败，没有时代感。全程爵士配乐不错，回头找原声来听听。这要是普通探案片能给三星半，但这本应是阿加莎啊，结果拍的跟阿加莎有啥关系吗？两星不能再多了。
Kenneth Branagh is on my blacklist.
omg肯尼斯布拉纳你真的好自恋动不动就来个特写和大远景生怕别人看不出来你有钱好想给这个波洛来两拳开头我还以为电影院放错电影了结尾又画蛇添足得令我无语但是艾米汉莫又跳舞啊我牛眼泪了帅得我汪汪叫好想超市艾米汉莫啊😭😭😭
再一次证明，肯尼思·布拉纳是今年奥斯卡最大的水货
一部比一部烂，vhs94里四个故事，前两个直接差评，尤其是第二个套路也太老了，而且没交代的东西太多，第三个故事不知道是不是第二部的第二个故事的导演，都是印尼出品（应该），想复刻当年的私人学校变邪教恶魔诞生的故事，这次拍的是生化女机器人与永远手不会抖的摄影男机器人之恋的故事，故事情节，场面调度确实有想法，但不知道是不是受限于篇幅，或者为了更好的节奏，每个变换的场景都像平行时空，衔接很差，还有很多扫射中枪的场景感觉在拍喜剧片，不过刨去这些体验感满分，印尼part真的给vhs加分太多，第四个故事感觉还有很多没交代玩就草草收场，但是却是最接近前几部vhs的作品，应为伪记录的镜头很自然，观众能融进去。总体两星，心水系列还是加一星。希望快点出下一部，我永远爱vhs。最后4部个人排序一下，2＞1＞3＞4
想了半天那货是谁，原来是拉塞尔布兰德！原来红过一阵，现在在干嘛呢。。。。
没读过原著没看过其它版本，但这部影片还行，虽然前一个小时有点昏昏欲睡。电影里加朵的造型一般般，梅芙要好看多了，以及埃及风景真美。
尼罗河上的惨爱!
前面五六分钟战争戏以为看错电影，后面半个小时才上船，一个小时神奇女侠终于死了，后面一个小时又臭又长看的昏昏入睡
特效助力的风光片 翻拍节奏可以接受 就是没想到尼罗河也能有惊吓镜头；公映有删减
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