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".
塌鼻子单眼皮吊眼，眼距宽到中间有座银河，给一分都嫌多
就很舒服。改稿改到生无可恋的一周，太需要这类电影来开启周末，莫名被戳到。那些企图一萌遮百丑的片子都快来学学。喜欢Jeff～
诶，有点期待粤语版。周星驰的影响深远。音乐加分，画面加分，赢的漂亮。
末世公路片，有汤姆汉克斯在，会让你沉浸在这温馨的两小时中。
他是阿娟，有好朋友阿猫阿狗，为了想和父母团聚而参加比赛，为了证明自己而不断努力，木棉花开、四季流转，少年听见了心底雄狮的呐喊，也收获了自己的亲情、友情和爱情。年少时就是这样，不在乎结果、怕怂也勇敢，影片很细腻的表达了出来。
点映。差点因为名字而错过了李白的诗。年度最佳国产动画。黄飞鸿、周星驰、《激战》，致敬了无数港片。配乐选得恰到好处，满，但快意，人文色彩与现实主义齐飞。无厘头风格喜剧下包裹着悲剧的内核，随着两代人追梦的足迹，又煽又燃。梦想这东西，从来都是那么一言难尽啊，即便中年又如何呢。
汽车和宠物，一个美国人在世界末日的标配。做减法的电影，虽然内核依旧是无底线的“爱”，但有让人看下去的欲望～
前半段五分水平各种碰瓷周星驰，中点过后影片开始爆发，把极致的燃渲染出来了。总体来说整部片子虽然套路化严重，但在调动观众情绪的方面来说是很成功的。能把一个五分的题材做到八分的水平可见团队的功力还是很深厚的。
故事饱满，完成度高，节奏很不错，尤其是最后舞狮比赛一段，时长、燃点、煽情都恰当好处，不多不少，看得我热泪盈眶，整体是相当优秀的国产动漫电影。连人物形象设计都很符合潮汕一带人物特点，配合上五条人的歌简直太契合。
年底的惊喜，废话不多，就是燃，就是热血，就是好看！希望大家都去看！
8.5
其他这么写实。这人物造型有必要这么分割吗。更生气了。狮子毛写实百分之九十。人物写实百分之一？没一个正常人？得奖开心吗？
之前没看之前看了一篇关于本动画丑化国人的文章想评1星，后来想想自己还没看不应该评分，今天看完后我打了5星，助力一下
本广州人已被燃昏头脑，其中的瑕疵也拦不住我怒打五星了！
如果可能，汤姆汉克斯，再来一座小金人
看完觉得男主帅爆了！优缺点都明显，但绝对值得买票去影院观看。票房这么拉胯是我没想到的，为它意难平，所以我多打一星……天台舞狮那一段堪称完美。狭路争锋时配乐用《今夜无人入睡》简直灵性，坐我旁边的几个小孩乐得不行。难得有这种水平的现实题材动画，怎么大家都不知道珍惜，唉。希望它不要亏本太多吧。
跳脱出神话改编的桎梏，关注底层兼具人文包容才是国漫之后真正该走的另一条路
虽说聚焦弱小如何锻造了强大的精神世界，本就是热血基本款，但能将这种基本款呈现得自然坦诚又动人心弦，确属下了一番功夫。传统文化传承、乡村留守孩子、外出打工潮等命题，能以这样舒适的方式引人回味，实属难得。
P.S.2005年的阿娟18岁，那么2021年的他，已经34岁了，三十而立的阿娟，还会时常在心中听到那一声咆哮吗？祝愿他一切都好…
牛逼！就这样一部扬我国威的优秀电影被傻der们冲成那样！你们啊！食屎啦！
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