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".
影院关闭一个多月重开后首场，寰映合生汇的空调都还没那么足，整场看完后出了一身汗。
剧本完成度挺高的，就是太套路了，缺少特别能打动人的点或者是特别令人印象深刻的角色塑造，总体来说就是平庸之作
很帅很欢乐，尽管处处俗套，却是行云流水一气呵成，细节上都特别讨喜，也包括那个向《低级小说》致敬的开头。
如此私人的青春追忆，本片无论是运镜还是音乐的使用都反而是索伦蒂诺近年来最为克制的一部，但却并没有妨碍他塑造一个又一个鲜活角色与各种饱满而复杂的情感，让这样一个前后基调相差巨大的故事没有丝毫的不适感，可能这就是真实的力量吧
enough about this good guy shit！开场抓人，越往后越老套，讲故事只学到了疯狂动物城的皮毛，狐狸变装出场颇有平行宇宙里格温出场的惊喜感，爱山洛维的大yi 巴狼所以加一星～
私人回忆，作为旁人的观众有时看着看着会走神。
还不错的动画片吧，故事还算完整，一切都在预料之中～
quite a cliché, but wouldn’t hurt to watch.
65/100。还挺好看的。但也就是普普通通的一个偏低龄向动画电影。好多形象都是动画中的标准形象，没什么亮点。不过仍然是一部值得带孩子去电影院看的电影。
看评论里一帮说致敬这个致敬那个片的，连这么明显的模仿GTA和看门狗都看不出来，再次坐实不玩游戏=没文化的事实。 一部被大大低估了的片子。
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是非常非常典型的皮克斯动画创作套路，也的的确确非常有用，除此之外角色的设定也非常有趣，加上极具动画假定性的表演形式，以及对二维技法的应用，使其看起来还是非常别具一格的，另外其中还有不少迷影情节。
纷华靡丽的镜头下费里尼式人物还有86年的时代记忆，无疑是索伦蒂诺等到了能够离内心自我有一段距离的时机，带着自传性质的身影重现那段时光。但会不会在Fabietto这个人物下多了一份空虚和不那么讨喜的为所欲为呢？
也是拿电影写回忆录啊。不过话说，有点沉溺在自怜自艾里了。
还有，狼这个人设真的很自我感动啊，他真的没有在乎他的朋友啊！
三星半，故事和人物其实比较俗套，比较适合低龄一点的孩子看，但是还有什么比坏动物摇尾巴更激萌的事呢？！
很简单的故事，很好猜的套路，但就是能很好抓到我的笑点，能够让我放轻松哈哈大笑两个小时。不得不说，黛安狐太有魅力了，很喜欢她的打斗场面。
{★★★★} 感谢Filippo Scotti，他被上帝吻过的五官直接奠定了这部电影的色调：敏感，忧郁，像世界从壳中诞生前地沉默而好奇。但索伦蒂诺并非从画中消失了，相反，他还蛰伏在各个明灭的角落--他将那不勒斯的聒噪变成欢笑，将青春的性掸得干净无秽，将悲伤滴落在每个画框。一切都像发生在一个短暂却永恒的夏天，尽管并不是。为什么要离开这里？导演问Fabietto。因为有时候，故乡纵有说不尽的故事，我们甚至把生命中最美好的印记都留在了那里，但它却没有我们想要的答案。
算是合格的爆米花电影吧，好人和坏人的一线之隔，这个主题说深了可以很黑色，说浅了又有点太天真。身边的小朋友一直在问他妈妈：他们到底是不是坏人呀？为什么就变好人了呀？
索伦蒂诺是当代最好的旅游推介大师，他拍啥，我就想去哪。
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