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".
跟所有人的感受一样，这是一部很温柔的电影。这是一部适合一个人慢慢享受的电影。电影的带娃日常我也很熟悉，我是一个aunt，有好多侄子侄女外甥外甥女，我也时不时要解父母们的燃眉之急帮忙带娃。只不过我实在没有电影中uncle Johnny那么温柔，所以我也没有做父母的潜质。说这是一部适合父母看的电影，我倒没有这样的感受，这电影跟父母好像关系不大。父母似乎太忙了，根本没时间听孩子的声音，那些孩子们对未来的想象，对现在的感受，父母们都忙到没时间也没心思再理会了。我很喜欢那些喃喃自语，那些一问一答也像是喃喃自语。一个人的喃喃自语，不需要被倾听，也不需要被理解。
不喜欢这部电影的黑白色，如果有kindle的质感就可以。
1.让男人尝试一下全职带孩子就知道女人有多么不易。
https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1Qr4y14716?share_source=copy_web&vd_source=782bbe90c37041b6bbb2da52213d454f
现实许多地点或情形见不到这种洞悉人性的小孩儿。
一路话疗，实现成年人和小孩的心灵解放与自我救赎。
近几年柯南真耗尽了我的热情，好好讲故事做画面，从电影本身质量上提高一下不行吗？非要离什么大谱，弄个恐怖主义乱七八糟的装B玩意儿，没自知之明也不掂量自己做电影的分量吗？格局弄太大也不考虑自己hold不hold得住。
可能我不是安室透，也不是警院五人组的受众群，感觉真的一般。犯人也基本不用推理。当中还穿插各对cp的秀恩爱场景。还有最后大电影必备的柯南拯救日本场景，尬得脚趾扣地，要不是在电影院里真的就要笑出声了。不过最后结局的彩蛋和开头首位呼应还蛮搞笑的。还有最后的最后，预告下一部电影和雪莉和酒厂有关，让我产生了对下一部的期待。
黑白电影总是带有一种其特有的孤独感，这部影片在两条主线中，同时表达着一种核心，那种来自对生活的无助，对未来的惶恐，以及来自人群中的寂寞。
好多问题，并无答案。总要承受身边糟糕的事，未来与眼前同样灰暗。思考下，你是否活得/成为小时候希望的那样。★★★☆/7.7
看到第一个黑白镜头的城市风光眼睛就湿了也不知道是为什么 一直在抹眼泪 Mike Mills 的电影都好温柔哦 / 另外这似乎是第一次被 Joaquin 的表演折服
一直追柯南系列，这个剧场版有点失望呀，剧情一般
如何和孩子相处，成人之间的交流方法用在孩子身上时完全失效，你生气你愤怒恨不得打TA。为什么一定要跟我对着干。
配乐很好听啊、片头很persona5风格、剧情终于（和前作们相比较为$回归牛顿物理世界了、警校5的设定真的太容易虐了👺
883｜3.5，采访美国一堆小孩，却还是带不了自己侄子；看似开放实则封闭的内心，通过体验自己妹妹的生活才彻底打开。其实挺老套，宏大议题的讨论和故事本身基本脱节，但透露出的温情非常打动人。黑白摄影+声画分离的剪辑+舒缓的配乐都是加分项。
越来越一言难尽了。好不容易冲着松田去的，开场即be
之前剧场版该有的元素都有，
无言以对，那些童言童语。Joaquin 的自然流露和 Woody 的鬼灵精怪产生了最奇妙的化学反应，2021年最后一天，这部电影带来的启示和幸福感满满。
至于好不好,有松田出场就够了。
base 东京。时隔好久的一次观影。在柯南电影系列里算还可以的吧
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