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".
我焯，这不就是天气之子么，老虚已经堕落到要抄诚哥的剧本了么！另外我终于知道为什么该片吃吃不公布女声优，原来是因为女主根本不需要说话，好家伙我直接好家伙！
女主爱情的副线是败笔，大败笔
5分。美则美已……但是泡泡星人征服地球的大计这么简单就给毁了，我不能接受。
就这？没头没尾好多bug，海的女儿新说🤣画面倒是挺美的
恍若听着德彪西的曲翻了本精美绝伦的名家画册，你要问我画册表达的主旨是什么，我只能摇头长吁，吾等凡人看不懂啊。PS. 1颗星投给作画，另1颗投给配乐；实在没想通全明星阵容怎么拍成这样子。
多个长镜头太出彩了。厕所内外墙的分隔，观众也直到后处才能看到下半身。医院别人的抢救失败是女主内心的外化又是强烈对比。轮椅起雾起舞很美，魂归故里时特别《伊比利亚的派对》。问题出在故事的衔接有瑕疵。
整部电影就像一杯加了盐的白开水
与昨天的《野马分鬃》完全是两种观感，尽管也充斥着大量的长镜头，但本片却显得异常残酷、凝重，相比于温情与浪漫，生活的不堪和苦涩被赤裸裸的呈现在观众眼前，随着父亲病情的加重影片也愈发令人窒息，让人不禁扪心自问，假如换做自己，会如何面对这折磨人的生活？有趣的是导演并非完全遵从写实主义的手法，而是加入大量超现实的符号隐喻，亡故多年的哥哥拍着皮球，烟雾缭绕中女主与父亲起舞，以及水中漂浮的女主形象，都让影片具有了更丰富的解读空间；表现手法上影片多次在同一镜头内完成虚实空间的转换，尤其是女主角和男友回学校的一场戏，镜头在旋转摇移中将过去和现在的时空勾连，与《雨月物语》里那个虚实相生的长镜头有着异曲同工之妙；影片的最后，女主角在与父母的温情中猛然惊醒，而作为观众的我们，同样在这一刻惊醒，回归不堪的现实。
镜头很分离。结尾太玄幻。山西佳作。女主瘦版刘威葳。
除了个别画面拿来当壁纸，实在想不出其它的价值
从PV就察觉到了角色和背景对比起来很突兀，正片已经是影响到了正常的观看了，很折磨人。
整体完成度不低，藏了一些私货有想法。喜欢这个调色。
老年痴呆，家庭内部，女性困局。细腻，传统，陈旧。走进电影院不会觉得难看，但不是为了工作需要我是不会走进电影院看它的。
一肚子握草，什么勾八玩意儿。你们换个皮，没头没脑的一通超能力跑酷就不是美人鱼了？这么多业界大佬的集结形成了这么个勾八玩意儿？背景交代得老老实实，越看越不对劲，正常人类这样玩早就绝了，凭啥泡泡能变成人，为什么泡泡碰到人就要变成泡泡。你好好买个版权做你的美人鱼就凭这个作画我也能给个4x。除了画面之外一无是处的头号让我失望大作。
一个泡泡爱上人类，还顺便拯救了世界。。。。真是离了个大谱的新版美人鱼故事
对了如果这个动画做成游戏的话，或许非常赞。
真琴开啤酒后脸上被溅啤酒泡沫接着“啊”一声，拥抱男主时一直用胸挤，男性凝视得令人不适
从PV就察觉到了角色和背景对比起来很突兀，正片已经是影响到了正常的观看了，很折磨人。
剧情2星，一坨屎
没有任何惊喜，剧情十分俗套，画面非常精美，不至于说的那么烂。。。起码比《天气之子》好
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