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".
七岁女儿喜欢，我也喜欢。她的前三名：哼将军和哈将军、翼娃子的星期天、小兔的问题。我的前三名：蒯老伯的糖水铺、翼娃子的星期天、小兔的问题。画风各有特色…
把奈飞青春片和意大利家庭剧杂糅一下，价值观和主题都与时俱进，同志夫夫开始出轨闹离婚争夺孩子的抚养权了，一出鸡飞狗跳无比热闹的大戏。
爱时用力爱，恨时用力恨。最后还是为了孩子，对孩子才是真爱！
哼将军和哈将军挺好，小兔子也还行，其他故事缺乏想象力和亮点
这样的短片合集才不会让人觉得厌烦，现在B站还没弹幕，很清静。
或温暖，或有趣，或伤心，或欢喜；每个人的童年属于他们自己，每个人的童年都将会远去。
最后竟然给我看到落泪了 你是因为我们的爱诞生的 你值得这世界上所有的爱55555
前半程有点俗套，后面渐入佳境，只能说还行。
1/20@太阳宫 7。技法多元口音参差（各地方言）的七部动画短片合集，以绘本形式做了串联，看前有点担心低幼，结果虽有些家庭之爱主题先行，可看性倒也不错（主要填补动画短片院线空白）。记三部：最佳当属剪纸动画《哼哈二将》，难得剧情饱满完整，颇得短片机趣；画风上最喜欢圆乎乎的《糖水店》（有一个街道翻转淡出再多几帧中间稿就好了）虽剧情几乎最弱；《外婆》的叙事旁白很漫长甚至有点老套，但因真诚而包蕴的情感冲击也不可小觑。
也就没人聊什么国漫崛不崛起了
组织了活动，三场，大概60多个孩子。但，这个电影应该大人看，孩子很难看懂。也就故事性最强的哼将军和哈将军孩子看了乐呵呵
费那奇放映时一票难求，今日清冷两人包场=.=独立动画作者放到商业院线片多少显得有些束手束脚，视觉想象力跟独立动画创作不可同日而语，但贵在真诚。比较喜欢的是1兔子的问题（用几个非常漂亮的转场回答“长大”意味着什么）6外婆的蓝皮铁柜轮椅&7翼娃子的星期天是《城南旧事》式的孩童记事，乡音乡情很动人，瞬间把观众带入自己的童年。5哼哈二将教化的意味略浓了，不过也算是巧妙的“二孩”命题作文了。2萤火虫女孩特别日系童话。3&4对不起我睡过去了，是我的遗憾T..T
呜呜呜！演员们的颜值我爱死了！啊啊啊！评分让我来顶！
PS.小火车让我看哭了！
最喜欢《外婆的蓝色铁皮柜轮椅》，其次是《蒯老伯的糖水铺》，很真实的故事，而且画风细腻，色彩明艳。其他就有点一般般了
格局之大，一锅炖不下。抓马之深，颠覆一生。同志，代孕，你的孩子不是你的孩子，这些所有的问题都在电影里得到最好的答案和出路。不要在乎爱多或者爱少，我们选择了爱，就是贪恋他的赏味期，经营婚姻需要智慧，经营生活需要经验，能从青丝到白头始终是你一个人，是需要生活的和爱的勇气。所以，不论你是不是被出轨和出轨的，爱都能上演，最重要的是，不要丧失被爱，和去爱的权利。 @2022-04-03 11:23:24
3星给形式尝试，但说真的，国内绘本创作真不行，多是成人视角，还有些是作者儿时记忆，差距太大了
或温暖，或有趣，或伤心，或欢喜；每个人的童年属于他们自己，每个人的童年都将会远去。
意大利人说话果然一定要配手势（看完之后发第一感想）；故事强行happy ending了，妈的保罗到最后啥都没有（第二感想）；人果然要为了家庭和婚姻牺牲很多；不爱了就分开没必要将就。换成异性恋会很狗血的那种故事。
七部绘本串联起一首淳朴的童谣，故乡和童年在回忆里荡着。讲故事的人扎根在泥土里，枝叶却伸向远方，在钢筋水泥攀爬。稚嫩又青涩的电影语言，却有呼兰河传的温润质感。亲情是甜蜜的负担，让我们在沉重里泛起温暖。
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