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".
珍惜当下，珍惜身边的快乐，积极看待身边的人和事，发现的每一天都过的不同，精彩亦或是平淡，寻找生活中不同的自己，回头看或许能拼凑出意想不到-五彩斑斓的人生。
还行吧，比起《花束般的恋爱》还是要弱一些。毕竟这种病，很从恋人是碰不到的，能找到共鸣的不多。
兰普林冷酷又优雅，其实也不是冷酷，外冷内热，很不一样的老年角色。
奶奶很酷，角色设定也很酷，可是没拍出来这种酷
祖孙感情突然的加深，是因为剧情简单还是演技。不能说服
胜在最终没沦落到活人在死不悔改人床边潺潺的泪
演技方面：kento头一次主演，还是电影，这种发挥已经算不错了。做到了电影里没有违和感。看得出有点天分，不过下意识的抿嘴真的需要改改。其余的演员没的说，尤其是望月步和山田杏奈，有几个镜头真的很好。
在火光中跳舞 在日出时死亡 杜松子酒是我想平静也愿疯狂
get不到松本穗香，中岛老师这部总算比之前的资源靠谱点了，至少作品完成度蛮高，演技也有可圈可点之处，然而还是挺没劲的，啥时候能演个好作品啊
可能会因为一些事受伤，别只陷入自己的视角而自抛自弃，看看周围还有爱你的人在…日式叙述手法，主旨挺好的，演技除了个别细节整体还行，kento不错
人生是一场漫长的寄宿生活。无论你多爱自己的孩子父母爱人，下辈子都不可能相见了。所以好好珍惜每一天吧！及时享乐～
3.5/5
夏洛特兰普林太有魅力了，不是那种老人的端庄的魅力，是那种邪气的充满性张力的魅力，没错，76岁也是可以这么闪光的，耀眼的让人甚至不惧怕衰老
早班车前的通宵恋爱那几个镜头很可爱 kenty帅帅
不得不说日本人还是非常善于把握观众的眼泪的，尤其是能想出各种虐心的疑难杂症，虐恋这种剧情。虽然是部卖惨的电影，但是表达的感情还是很真挚的，女主角和男主纯洁的年少感情，女主生病后和嫂子的关系发展也是非常具有强烈的冲击对比，哥哥与嫂子关于治疗花费问题，所有表达的都非常自然和温馨，尽管最后结局也确确实实让人心痛，但是看完还是有种无比踏实和温暖的感觉。
新西兰制造的祖孙电影，但除了兰普林的存在之外乏善可陈。题材本可以是演员息影的绝佳告别之作，但这个剧本远不够好，怡情小酒而已。以临死之人回首青春的遐思静静回顾昔日影像，电影角色离经叛道的传奇一生和演员波澜起伏的银幕历程互为镜像造就恰如其分的「老去」终点意味（也因典型气质毫无挑战），影片刻意追求的感伤多半来自她的魅力赋予想象，此外每个情节和意象都是陈词滥调。平静求死的渴望和继续生活的勇气在最后的日出落下收尾音符。这次你素未谋面，令人生畏的祖母不会不由分说就拿高姆刺测试你的潜能，而是直接往你脸上砸玻璃杯，你说I got expelled, 她回以I’m proud of you. 没有一处转折不能被预料，然而还是会被乡村风光和自然演绎勾动的情绪触发泪点，葬礼上的Haka和火光边的拥舞让人泪流不止。
不连贯…看得很没劲儿……不过倒是也看完了…搜了搜导演，是第一部长片。
聚会上其他人都是男女拥抱着 他却与奶奶跳起了舞。
我觉得日本纯爱，下次就不要拍的这么长，搞得这么苦情了。
全场除了我都是上了年纪的kiwi
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