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".
感觉非常伍迪艾伦？三位名角演技了得，可是中途开始疲软到最后。。。这究竟是剧本故事本身的问题还是节奏的问题呢？
皇帝小儿：小屁孩，国家竟归屁孩管，不动脑子瞎胡闹。
那一朵玫瑰就是女主自己，抹掉纹身就代表她出卖了自己，换取她这个貌似很光鲜的地位，纵然也是非常厌恶老公，但还是强忍，小偷给了她机会所以最后她杀了自己的老公，当她特别抒情的告诉小偷，那纹身是一朵玫瑰的时候，以为之前她对小偷的那些通情达理，设身处地，能够换来小偷的理解，结果小偷根本不在乎，索性也弄死他，借机栽赃。
中国美术的精髓，用最少的线条创造最深入人心的形象，就说狐女那个媚气，无出其右。现在的国漫追求视觉元素最大化，越发繁复，却难抵深刻之实。断层过后，无法不怀念这种纯净。袁公被绑走的时候哭惨了。
钱运达：不重复别人，不重复自己。艺术如果没有创新，就没有生命力。
昨天在b站重温了一遍 即使过了十多年 电影里的很多小细节都记得 这部作品简直神来之笔
肤浅的我需要一个超长解析～ 婚姻中还是需要互相尊重！很多细节细思极恐…
以后再也不会有这样的国产动画了。官方，不管是人间还是仙界，都混蛋。百姓可爱，但又愚昧。依靠反思的仙人和蛋解救世界的幻想。
很难过，为什么那么多年以前，我们能拍出这么好的动画片和电影，现在却是一塌糊涂了
作为一个80后，小时候没看过，现在回过头来看，根本看不进去啊！远不如《葫芦娃》和《大闹天宫》精彩！
1474【谷阿莫】他看上她的年輕貌美、她要他的多財多億，而這段各取所需的婚姻終究無法再繼續2022《黃金屋 Windfall》
为什么都说师父死了？看的版本不同吗？小时候印象最深的是缸里出来了好几个爸爸，现在看原来是个中国版好奇心加持的普罗米修斯的故事。
结局反转还不错 杰森饰演的入室抢劫犯可以说是愚蠢至极 电影导演重复给了他系鞋带的镜头 很明显的 这个nobody最后肯定会栽在这个动作上 杰西饰演的公司CEO一副老子最大 无所畏惧的样子 到了输给了自以为很熟悉 尽在掌握的老婆手里 而莉莉饰演的妻子完全就是未知因素 一句话总结 看完了 不会再看 不会推荐
国产动画自大闹天宫继承文化遗产剪影与泥人风格并改良后 即处于停滞状态 之后更是退化 二战后苏俄琢磨战时迪士尼作画 在光影上进步巨大 但国产动画直到葫芦娃几乎没有任何进步 说是出道即巅峰也好 但其传说性已经脱离了现代生活 魔方大厦和舒克贝塔虽是例外 却又开启了风格劣化的时代 才有了今天这个结果
中国传统故事的代表写法，有点像是西游记番外篇，以前可能可以看，但现在再这样写是不行了，像中间部分两只狐狸偷了天书后大段简单重复的舞蹈画面，模式化的台词，有情节无细节的场景，也许它曾经是里程碑，但新时代有新起点，中国特色的动漫创作，到底要怎样才能让人眷恋呢？ps.剧中的建筑画面不错
那一朵玫瑰就是女主自己，抹掉纹身就代表她出卖了自己，换取她这个貌似很光鲜的地位，纵然也是非常厌恶老公，但还是强忍，小偷给了她机会所以最后她杀了自己的老公，当她特别抒情的告诉小偷，那纹身是一朵玫瑰的时候，以为之前她对小偷的那些通情达理，设身处地，能够换来小偷的理解，结果小偷根本不在乎，索性也弄死他，借机栽赃。
看的时候觉得仙姑很吓人 也算是经典的国产动画了
这片子烂到我不想探讨它本身，只想八卦Lily Collins.
2008//2019分别标记过，现在2022仍不记得看过，为什么看一遍忘一遍？我和这部9.1的国产动画到底有什么仇？带着这样的疑惑又看了一遍4K版，中途迷幻到三次差点睡着，结局戛然而止让人匪夷所思，果然是我无法看懂的一部电影：天书有什么好，为什么非要蛋生学会？天书带来了那么多混乱和灾难，为什么袁公就确信一个吃了老奶奶饼可以抹抹嘴说句谢谢扭头就走的孩子，一个可以粗心到把天书丢了的孩子，学会就可以为苍生带来福祉？我确实没看懂。
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