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".
这样的老师多多益善，很朴素很真实的电影，很有代表性。
60年代火箭城美国少年们的日常。海滩、太空乐园、电视节目，太空梦。结合阿姆斯特朗登月。
把登月成功这样一个主旋律题材电影拍成这样，一群孩子瞎逗瞎玩，抢电视，追环卫车，吃凉午餐，就连看登月成功的高潮戏，一家人也是冷漠到该睡觉睡觉，所以说啊，美国必亡。这凝聚力就不如咱这边。。。
7.6 以动画转制现实来进一步混淆不可靠叙事，“我”的一小步越过了“人类”的一大步，“两次”登月的平行剪辑高潮竟如此举重若轻，而是以其为核心在离散的叙述间拼贴出60s的美国风情画，林克莱特对于时代符号的迷恋可见一斑。
其实单纯童年日常生活就挺好看的了，少年登月部分反而有些脱节，有点强加主旨的感觉。虽然是美国孩子的1960s，但也对个别情节产生了共鸣，比如手拉手冲过去的游戏、躲避球、玩伴们关于音乐的讨论和换台时的打闹。
从“少年时代”到“各有少年时”再到“阿波罗10½号”，林克莱特的美国越来越后缩，变成只存在于记忆中的年代符号，跟今天的美国就像两个世界。怀旧情怀又能走多远呢？赶紧把“爱在4”拍了才是正经的...
三星半。太空乐园的那个环游列车感觉很好玩 好想玩一下
有点点动画阿波罗登月版的无耻混蛋的意味。不过我钟意的是对主角童年那段时代的回忆，尽管那不是我的童年…真希望哪天也能把我们的童年拍出来。
非常怀旧，70年代或许看得懂，再小的估计也就看乐子了吧
真没有看够，情感的表达和情节的转换有一快，让人膳想的空门和情感表达没有达到高点，要是一部电视剧带来的反响是全国性的。个人观点和真实感受，感谢导演和演员给我们一部暖心的影片。
韩老师第一次要走那里真的好怕他不回来了也怕他回来，就是那种明知道这条路很苦却还是要走的感觉
“春蚕到死丝方尽，蜡炬成灰泪始干”我现在才真正的理解这句话的含义。韩松老师向您致敬！
特效每次出现都能把我尬住，除此之外都还好，真实取景就是牛，这种美不是后期能做出来的
比较中规中矩吧，没有特别出彩也没有特别拉胯，立意是好的，最后还升华了一下。
一部属于特定人群的情怀电影，但也仅限于此。
男主随着时间岁月的变迁，呈现出的不同状态和妆容都很好，不会出戏，刚出场时的青葱大学生到最后的对比，真的泪目
小朋友的记忆亦幻亦真让人有些迷糊，但他们那一代美国人的生活经历真是异常丰富精彩。
看了三四次才看完，有点进入不了的观感。一方面，很奇怪的是，这次看林克莱特描写自己的这版《少年时代》，看出来一点ppt电影的感觉，之前其他作品都没觉得有过这种感受，不知道是不是动画片形式带来的错觉。但另一方面，如果是真人拍摄的话，我觉得也不一定会有这种轻盈的的体验，即便整个故事依然是平淡的。
喜欢前一个小时的童年碎碎语，好像在听一个同龄人说话，在太空时代长大听起来是一件很酷的事情。后半部分的登月夹杂着昏昏欲睡没有语调的电视旁白，就像在见证历史而睡着的小孩，身处庞大的变革却浑然不知（然而也没什么问题）。
有点儿为了剧情推动而悲伤的感觉，其实僧格没必要死的吧，如果是快乐的结局岂不是更好？
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