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".
这种so typical的东雅家庭，父母的样子可以概括出来的特点太多的父母都有，成长于美国的女孩没有选择成长于美国，也不能选择离开美国，青春期的女孩要怎么反抗？就是恨吧，用尽力气去恨，背弃世界，寻求自己的梦里的乌托邦。母亲和父亲有各自的不易，东亚的家庭总是struggle在各种各样的泥潭，私人的时代的，都太脆弱了。这样的两代人，怎么能够不互相伤害这样爱着对方呢？
就只有打斗场面能看了，剧情和台词比之前的剧集还差。看之前还想说武侠复兴靠国漫。。再努努力吧。
讲好故事的同时还留下了什么是太平盛世的思考，国漫现在真的是越来越好了！
就只有打斗场面能看了，剧情和台词比之前的剧集还差。看之前还想说武侠复兴靠国漫。。再努努力吧。
片尾曲还是一如既往的好听呀！期待枕刀歌第二季！
如果家庭关系没有办法以另外一种角度跳脱出去看的话，这种关系的表达一定是有缺憾的。
没有看过剧集版，直接看剧场版，被里面的武打设计惊艳到，如果剧集也是如此那真是用心了，这个武打动作设计放到大银幕看效果也不差。主创也尝试在融入更复杂的武侠世界观，没有二元对立的绝对恶人，只有观念相同但实施方法不一样的江湖人，以至于每个角色都有值得深挖的多面性。主创说要打造江湖群像，这种鲜明的群像让人想起港产武侠片，每一个配角背后都有一片宇宙。
分镜不错，武侠的意境出来了，但是剧情过于老套，人物设置缺乏新意。
台词和打斗很好，剧情很差，反派的理想莫名其妙，江渊的转变也莫名其妙。
三渲二的习作？不会是用Blender软件做的吧？美术、画工都不错了（当然还有不小提升空间），尤其值得一赞的是打斗场面的处理，运镜和节奏都相当带感了，不过说到故事嘛，就...
挺酷的，肉眼可见的用心，动作场景无话可说，远超所谓的真人电视剧，文戏相对没那么突出，但也没有太落窠臼，没有绝对的正反，只有理念不同，所以结果不同，何谓侠，为自己所怀的信念奋斗便是侠了吧。
中国武侠实在太适合漫画的表现形式了，不管剧情有多无趣，看着刀光剑影飞檐走壁的画面，心中对武侠的所有幻想都得到了满足。
很特别的画风，有点中国写意风的感觉，人物建模包括动作都非常流畅，男主打架真帅啊，拳拳到肉！
看完《美國女孩》了，相比《瀑布》还是更喜欢这一部。鍾孟宏的《瀑布》太风格化，镜头的角度太犀利，不是说这样不好，但两部同样都是在疫情之下（时空不同）讲述亲情故事的电影显然用太独特的作者视听去叙事，其带给观众的情感冲击没有《美國女孩》这样慢条斯理、稳扎稳打的叙事影响大。而且本片不仅描述了亲情，它还会带上地域文化的对比、女孩成长过程中的烦恼以及母女关系的破裂到和解，让我感同身受。但第三幕中双方情绪的转变还是太突然太快了，我认为不能算是佳作，今年的金馬獎其实都蛮失望的。
挺酷的，肉眼可见的用心，动作场景无话可说，远超所谓的真人电视剧，文戏相对没那么突出，但也没有太落窠臼，没有绝对的正反，只有理念不同，所以结果不同，何谓侠，为自己所怀的信念奋斗便是侠了吧。
打戏和环境都弄得很精致，综合就:还行吧。
英姿飒爽、干净利落的打斗，纯粹的热血，以及快意恩仇。这就是江湖啊。
加长版的番，临清人狂喜。和之前的番的效果一样，动效好，剧本相对薄弱一些。不知道主创团队有没有把这部影片出海的计划。如果有就好了。
武戏很认真，文戏全为引出武戏，故事也就无所谓了。画面渲染总感觉有边线断裂的不连续感。结尾音乐还以为是“星之所在”，囧。
金马奖质量还是有保证，一个“美国”女孩回到台湾后，重新接纳父母和生活的故事。表面讲述中西方，两代人间的水土不服，骨子里讲的还是同一屋檐下的相处方式，骑马不是梦想，美国也不是灵药，如果你只是想逃避，逃到哪里都一样。
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