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".
永远可以相信语言具有丰富性的作品。两个镜头看出这是哪个城市，有点小得意
很暖心的动画，最喜欢糖水铺的故事。不过也可以从好几篇中看出中国家庭中父亲职位的缺失吧
很奇妙的一次观影体验，在影片的娓娓道来里追忆了一把童年好时光。那种淡淡的情绪铺垫，那种无处不在的童年印记，那种独具特色的各地方言，那种让人回味悠长的后劲，我真的上头了，大爱这部片子，等正式上映，我会去影院二刷。
这几日每晚都想在梦里能和奶奶相见，回到小时候住平房的日子。
质量有点层次不齐，前两个短片差点把我劝退，后面渐入佳境一点
温暖又感人，可以触碰到你心里最柔软的地方。
《小火车》没什么想说的，立意蛮好的，方言配音不错。
视效不错!治愈系动画？纯煽情动画？感觉只是个换了皮的普通电影（烂片），常见的台词、视角和剧情，希望会有所表达。:-(
樊登推荐，专门来看。第一感觉，故事稍微低幼了一些，都是十分简单的故事，更加适合带上小朋友去看。不过后面的两个故事，哼哈二将，还有发生在南京的的故事，稍微好一些了。基本上是复古的动画风格，水墨和油画风，可以看看吧！
我才不要长大呢，我只是能看到看懂更多东西了。那是因为我和别人不一样呀！
很简单的七个故事，却又蛮高的观影门槛。故事淡淡的，没有强烈戏剧化的起伏，而更像是生活的切面，生活不起眼的瞬间，很容易让年纪大一些的观众联想起自己的身边的点滴。个人最喜欢萤火虫女孩柔和的彩铅风格，柔和、跳脱的彩色线条充满梦幻和温馨。影片放映后主创老师讲这些绘本完全是按照导演喜好创作的，没有考虑商业合作。初心纯粹，才能精益求精，打磨出好作品。
一整个在影院哭惨了，那只在相框里蹦蹦跳跳的兔子，被萤火虫照亮的司机大伯，双胞胎小朋友的哼哈二将，外婆的蓝箱子轮椅，小朋友无畏的小火车，蒯老伯的香甜的糖水，还有最后结尾在南京的重庆一家人，江南公交的站台，扬子公交锈蚀的站牌，南京长江大桥，清江花园，南京成片成片的法国梧桐，让人热泪盈眶。
给外甥随机点开的睡前电影。他觉得可可爱爱，我也觉得可可爱爱，哼！哈！打怪兽。
很新颖的方式，故事也很治愈温馨。哼哈二将最后的反转也很有意思啊！
小火车那篇，开头小火车摇晃的时候，有一个镜头给到了家里的生活用品。那在暗指四川地震。在片尾最后“有人吗？下面有人吗”跟开头呼应～真的很好的短片
美中不足是七个故事并不是有联系的连贯故事。 总的来说这部电影还是偏向适合有耐心的大人看吧，节奏都挺慢的，需要能用心沉进去。 期待有更多国产动画吧，也希望能有更多人能去看好的国产动画。
果然还是最爱刘毛宁的那部分
忽略内容。单就画风值5颗星。起码不象青蛇人物形象那么幼稚。我真是太讨厌国内那种特意把眼睛做大的动画形象了。要是表情象迪士尼做得那么丰富或者剧情精彩也就算了。眼睛做得那么大，表情还没人家丰富，剧情也没亮点，简直没法看。
画风，转场，故事，配乐都很好，平平淡淡却让人想哭
喜欢小火车那个故事，很感人。糖水铺和哼哈二将的故事也很有意思。
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