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".
老虚你脑子里都在想什么？在泡泡的中心呼唤爱？
小畑健的角色原案咋变这么丑了，女主这一身又乱又花的衣服，真是土又村，男主就整个常规日漫男主脸，看过就忘，配角倒是都挺奇怪的，但审美上也没有愉悦感。当年DN连配角都个个有辨识度又帅气，也不花里胡哨，这部就真的拉
yysy场景很美，配乐好听，片头片尾曲都还挺不错的，但一个明显商业节奏的故事片讲好一个故事不才是基础中的基础吗？？画面音乐等属于锦上添花而不是反客为主啊，再说影片大佬云集这就是正常发挥。
女主确实不太行，但是两位老人的表演炸裂。导演长镜头调度的功力不俗，但是过多的超现实段落冲淡了力度，课堂的那段懂的都懂但确实刻意。最后一场戏太加分了，回到家中，亲人都还在，回过神来才想起皆已逝去。
三星半，补标，海南国际电影节看的，本来以为是个大闷片，安静看下来还挺喜欢的，喜欢里面导演对超现实场景的处理
真的是醉了，自从《你的名字》大火之后，霓虹剧场版动画这几年怎么竟是用天马行空的世界观和设定用来谈恋爱？？？一流的作画和让人心醉神迷的泡泡滤镜，都拯救不了空洞拉胯的故事性……
制作和美术都很不错，其他一塌糊涂…男主的造型太出戏了…露脐装是什么鬼
只能说片中关于阿兹海默症只是蜻蜓点水。
西安高校联合放映
平遥目前为止看到最惊喜的片子，泪点很多，抓心挠肝又不矫揉做作，关于生命尊严这件事其实关乎我们每一个人，直击现实，打到你的内心深处！导演的处女作发挥的却十分四平八稳，喜欢！！
泡沫，螺旋，海的女儿，宇宙大爆炸，庞加莱回归。
这个场景值得去电影院一看，就是这个剧情有点子供向
说这是爆米花都侮辱爆米花了，好莱坞爆米花只是陈词滥调合家欢而已，不是故意摆烂啊。
动画效果做得再好，没有一个好的故事作为内核始终是不行的，真的是个泡泡
看得很难受，各方面都很混乱，包括现实与超现实、视角、美学。妈妈和爸爸演得很好，其实单讲爸爸妈妈的故事，虽然像《爱》，但会非常棒。
女主表演痕迹太重，整个片子影像也缺乏质感。只能说对阿兹海默症的关注值得肯定。
跳脱
3.5星。总体来说，影片是一种渐入佳境的状态。写了阿兹海默症给一个家庭带来的惨重的痛苦，也有引发观众对生老病死的思考的东西。不少可以引起共鸣的很真实的场景。给片中表现情欲的场景和台词好评！给饰演夏建国的演员张鸿敬优秀细腻的表演好评！给超现实的结尾好评！
我以前认为自己可以看懂这些电影的七成 通过今晚第一次与创作者对谈后发现自己真的只能get到表达内容的一少部分 可能就三四成吧 看电影真的不能只看表象
跑酷的设定超酷，镜头视角丝滑，两人这条小美人鱼的感情线太寡淡了
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