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".
动画制作看着不错，恶心反胃，情节应该是毫无情节吗？有着实力希望做点大众化看得懂的。
只用惊艳到令人乍舌的视觉奇观就撑起了将近九十分钟的电影。
震撼，太有想象力了，所有的恶心聚集在一起，竟然就构建起了人类社会和历史的真实写照，生命的价值也许就是一摊泥浆。值得有空的时候再刷的定格动画作品。
我不能说我看懂了，我的理解是疯狂的人类，压榨、利用、贪婪、战争、恶欲。
只用惊艳到令人乍舌的视觉奇观就撑起了将近九十分钟的电影。
能看得出纳粹时集中营里俘虏的一文不值和反战的抽象表达
疯子才能拍出的电影，那些粘稠的，不死的，无尽的，不朽的记忆伴随着铁路碾碎一切的美好。不需要台词，记忆的腐蚀随着时间的回流交织在一起，可感知的时间回流剥离一切，在金属的撞击中于某个节点往覆循环，那些撞击声是你仅有能够保存下来的回忆。
初看并未理解其中含义，看了解说方才略知一二。该电影画面极度猎奇，具有极强烈的视觉冲击感。整部影片内容名副其实，这是一片疯狂且无尽循环的废土，贯穿其中的则是希望、权利与死亡。
（6.5）人们在观赏这类小说和电影时常会迷失于历史与虚构的迷雾中，国人最突出的体会就是《三国演义》。我一直反对将艺术创作——尤其是电影这种感染力极强的视听艺术——作为历史教学的重要辅助手段，它属于电影学的疆域。二战前的国际政治对某一部作品来说都复杂得毫无必要，作者的目的是在其提炼出的简单的世界图景中阐明他的意图。这部电影、小说及所有类似创作中更值得探究的地方在于，作者以及读者和观众是在以多种构建于不同时期互相交错、叠加、融合的历史解释为巨人的肩膀去回溯某一事件。这种后见之明式的优越，让作品中人物的抉择有了它本不该承担的历史责任。以本作为例，哪怕后世的共识如片尾字幕所言慕尼黑协定为盟国争取了备战时间从而最终击败纳粹，也无法证明彼时彼地张伯伦的抉择是理智和道义的，因为他并不如我们般得以窥见未来。
看不懂，但我大受震撼。不过我看到了稀疏的中国味。
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卡司里老的少的好演员这么多，电影拍得不错也是理所应当，也确实扭转了我对张伯伦的一些看法，大概是最近几天看了点一战相关吧，多少能够理解他避战的怀柔立场。然后看到演ss的八月和演反抗军杰尼斯的对手戏就一边感叹德国演员中青年交接棒，一边又有点想笑，德国电影圈子这么小，这些人不是在演nazi就是在演jew的路上，再不然就是国防军，反正谁都跑不了
"Hoping is waiting for someone else to do it. We'd all be much better off without it."
一部形式大于内容，但把形式推向极致的高级艺术寓言。
看的一头雾水,前边还是很爽的,后面就开始迷了
2.片尾的那个矮子怪人通过望远镜看到的是蘑菇云，也许这象征了最能够异化人类的也许就是人类自身的行为。
如果宇宙的终极规则是“熵”,即一切都会走向灭亡，片子中形形色色的畸形怪物和各种反常理的东西也就说得通了；在这里时间没有任何意义，宇宙和人类只是疯神打发时间的调剂。从令人作呕的场景来看这个“宇宙”已经存在很久很久了，似乎也已经开始走向混乱与无序，也许毁灭也只是时间的问题。
《来自深渊》+《终末少女旅行》男子恶心版。多加了些政治和宗教元素。
看懂是不可能了，但是这么好的定格动画和场景值得夸赞
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