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".
组合了各路电影IP的招牌元素，让两小时的成片相当丰满；不仅仅是应接不暇的冒险，同样展示情感意义满载的成长路。但中间的唱段和最后的片尾演绎，都让人感觉如果有更多音乐的部分，会让气质更加出挑；稍显累赘的叙事进展，也有些破坏了考究画风所带来的片刻新鲜。Karl Urban的配音很有趣，与演员有足够信服的火花；拓展下去或许并非问题，说不定还能成就Netflix靠拿动画BP实现“曲线救国”。
看到半小时结束我信誓旦旦说，接下来肯定是掉到海里的药品让怪兽岛上的怪兽集体发狂然后冲向白石城堡，镜头一转展示那个女巫的过去，因为一些原因跟皇室结仇，所以蓄谋已久正好等到老船长送上门来……面对袭来的海兽雅各布和小女孩救下了小红，一起阻止了发狂海兽破坏人们的居住地然后再海兽和人类相互和解吧啦吧啦，我觉得我这个都比他那个强行生硬升华的结局要好。
严肃、正经的动画电影，各方面的内容设定都十分完整，有海上版《驯龙高手》的感觉，但却吃了太晚出现的亏，新鲜感早已被相似的优秀动画电影消磨掉。三星半。
整部电影最重要，最需要的是最后一句话，仅次足矣：“I’m going to live a great life.”
可惜的是海兽的世界观没有完全打开，尤其是在海兽岛上的时候，结尾好不容易走到了历史怀疑与战争本源上，但又合家欢地止步于此 3.5
好拉，所有生物的动机转变成迷。。。
看的生肉版，好在情节简单算是大概看明白了。画面还不错，但结局有点太简单，没有更深刻的东西。
皇帝的新衣里小女孩说了符合她年纪的话，真实、简单、有力。这部黑人迷妹通过推理挽救白人男性，动摇女王政权，真的不是想说得太多，而是想太少了。
驯龙高手全套照搬，虽然肯定会拍三部曲，但结尾也太随意了。全片高潮全在开场打小绿了
幸亏我先看了一眼，要不然就跟孩子看了。
很棒的动画片，精彩有趣，寓意深刻——“那些书上写的都是谎言！”
转折太突兀，欺骗整个国家的王室究竟是何目的都不交代，大人都是蠢蛋被一个小女孩牵着鼻子走，海兽的设计也很敷衍，有点潦草，有点丑
emm过于低幼了，感觉很适合给家里小孩儿看。
俗套了点，但是关于爱与和解的题材总是能打动大多数人
最后半小时竟然就这么仓促结束了，这么浅显只能回味儿童电影了。感觉很多细节交代的不清不楚，小红感觉是在海兽中也很有地位的，一开始还阻止那个大螃蟹吃男女主，为啥它是一个这么有觉悟的海兽？反正螃蟹不管在哪都是反派就对了。还有王室的谎言竟然就这么轻易被揭穿了吗，猎人对此也有怀疑只是一直没付诸行动？女大副为啥回心转意要帮女主了？看得乱七八糟的只有小红的人设最合格也最可爱。
剧本太牵强了，转变的很快（无论是人还是海兽），最后结尾更加是潦草的没有逻辑。
摄影不错，很多音乐文化的点也很戳我，看见森山未来总觉得这是桃花期的某个番外....
前 2/3 叙事比较慢，后来突然加速。里面记忆最深刻的就是那个小蓝太可爱了。从动画来说还是完成的不错。
这样的动画才像样嘛。1080P 22/07/09
剧情设计合理紧凑，聚焦主线，放弃支线。看情况可以出续集，继续交代前代人物历史和后续剧情，基本就是套路满满。无任何深度，几乎不加入任何思考和情感发展，阅后即焚...
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