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".
看了这么多年动画片，这 是 真 童 话 ！ ！ ！
画面不错，大航海时代背景很喜欢，教育意义也不错，剧情要素略显老套，总体还不错。
有些教育意义叭，让后一代知道人与自然的相处，人独立思考而不是跟随这western eyes，但是只能说是很天真的一部电影，现实中人与自然哪有这么容易和谐？人类永远需要食物就像猎人永远需要猎物一样。
看演员阵容也知道不会是那种报复爽文，华妹很适合笑里藏刀的角色，片子最大看点是利用漫画家的身份制造虚实难辨的氛围，但有些地方又太实甚至有些搞笑，比如丈夫跟踪妻子那段，迷惑感还是没做足，最后小反转看着还是挺潇洒，先生双重指代也不错，结尾竹内阿姨名曲点题。
I will going to be, A great life!!
8分。近两年最好看的动画，有当年驯龙高手的感觉。史诗级的故事加优美的画面，非常好看。
一部根据漫画家把生活画成漫画的漫画改编而成的漫画电影。女性这样“戏耍”男性真的好给力。
罗素老爹也是可悲可叹角色 老头子演绎的淋漓尽致
三星都给小蓝大红和黄黄们，太可爱了。人类的戏可以删除的确没啥必要。而且，看过的朋友们请回答我，那个小女孩的心智是不是至少得有30-40岁了才能说出那些台词，而且她和男主的互动也太像relationship了，还组建家庭啥的，我忍不住对着电视说了一句你们的年龄差距是不合法的。。。
#波妞的动画片剧场 之92
就很一般吧…故事开始就能猜到结尾…看完没记忆点…甚至看一半就觉得烦躁…怪物丑不丑萌不萌的…
好怪啊，第一次看见这种温柔的复仇，全程玩弄出轨丈夫也玩弄观众
跟可可一起看的，小红小蓝很可爱！有隐喻当下，美国四处散播中国威胁论，还有全球到处拱火，挑起俄乌战争！有什么办法？我们有一天也只能应战，对于这种霸权主义，没有协调余地，和平只存在于动画片里！
8分。近两年最好看的动画，有当年驯龙高手的感觉。史诗级的故事加优美的画面，非常好看。
哈哈哈哈哈去年看到这个海报第一反应是怎么找黑木华和柄本佑来演师生恋漫改就没再关注，结果完全不是啊！（在slogan上就写清楚了哈哈哈怪我怪我）就原来是DRIVE MY CAR and GONE GIRL，用创作向出轨的老公复仇，用勇气找回对生活的主驭，虽然好像就都有很多既视感，但在日本本土语境前提下，又处理得很有喜剧氛围，刚开始还在思考是不是奈绪太定餐一直在演可怕小三，后面才慢慢发现原来她的可怕小三角色在这部里也是有作用的……就实际上谁都没在管男人怎么想嘛！很有趣了，结尾塑料爱也太可，整4星。
俗套的高光升华，万物和谐相处。本片适宜14岁以下观看。
开头很喜欢
漫画家的情感复仇，切入点挺有趣但不是我会喜欢的电影题材
故事框架很有意思，很有搞头，但故事发展的太无趣，远低于看完前一半时预期，很失望。
漫画画风好看，两位的对手戏也好看，安静平稳内心戏也有很好的表现。
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