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".
感觉如果以没看过tv的人视角来看回，会有很深的感受。推荐多刷。
为了疼痛而疼痛，强行伤痛，整个剧情就是在伤痛和伤痛，很一般,看完一遍后感觉是一个时间闭环故事，创意满分
本片属于是将Trollberg自身的历史一口气给补完了，巨魔这一巨大的线索被制作组挖掘得相当深刻。接下来的一大主线可能是这座城市背后的魔法的故事，女巫从何而来，她们扮演着怎样的角色？以及Hilda从未出现过的父亲是否在故事中真的毫无必要？
希尔达两季+剧场版，基本上就是在说伟大的母爱如何让我们自由地成为更好的自己的故事啊
一分打在看好东映在来打上面做的新尝试
2022-3-2 这种讽刺极致到不得不相信这些都会发生，但代入困难的主因还是美国至上的过时思维吧
蛮蠢的。 w/ jiajia chenchen xiaoxiao，以及投屏中断四次的乐播投屏。
一个精致的，淡淡的，忧伤的外传，假面骑士的平成史上有ea的三部神级外传，到了令和我想这部外传可以与其分庭抗礼。
到不了真四星的水平，十分制的话，7分左右吧。
极致的荒诞里有极致的真实。它还不够好的地方是还不够荒诞，它在破的时候还是立了一些东西的，这让它更像个悲剧，实际它就是个悲剧。片子是想告诉我们世界末日这样的事太严肃而完全不应该轻松诙谐么？但它又是以一个诙谐的方式呈现的，这是否是矛盾的？片子非常反映当下，疫情下的美国让人感觉这部片子里的故事完全有可能发生。
依旧治愈，夜晚的画面好舒服。移城吧，让巨魔妈妈跟孩子们重聚。“母爱不应被视为当然”
这次的外传前半段看得人比较抑郁，甚至是看不懂，但是当后面的剧情将前面的线索汇聚在一起时，给人一种豁然开朗的感觉，直到最后结局总算能理解这次的主题的“三重奏”——“爱情、亲情、友情”，当你的重要之人决心要害你之时，哪怕是守护世界的剑士也陷入了沉思（不过有一说一伦太郎老爹的理论完全不符合常理，虽然有很多人在剑士的战斗中死亡，但如果剑士不去战斗，死的人只会多，不会少）
某些罪会变成爱，所有的爱都会书写奇迹🙏🏻
概括总结2019年以来的全世界
有被触动到 个人理解父亲只是为见到伦太郎而编织这么一个谎言 要是没有这事情 伦爹就会像结局那样一生都无法再见到伦宝了吧
依旧治愈，夜晚的画面好舒服。移城吧，让巨魔妈妈跟孩子们重聚。“母爱不应被视为当然”
时代催生的剧本。早几年的编剧估计都想不到有一天会写这么个故事出来吧，穿越到几年前上映，估计会被骂得狗血淋头，等到现实比喜剧还荒诞的时候，终于这种电影的诞生了。其实就算现在看，还是觉得故事站不住脚，但看到新冠带走八十万人还不当回事的你美，剧本的问题就……whatever。好在真正的现实不像荷里活大片一样美国即世界，现实的世界还是有希望的。
太久没看到这种一气呵成的讽刺片了，爽翻！还有，虽说不要太悲观，但当悲剧摆在面前，乐观有用吗？don't look up就代表没事吗？
新风格很棒，换个标题还以为是在看什么正经日剧，日常风太棒了，算是弥补了tv中很少出现的日常画面，剧情很有深度，得让人细细回味才行，拖马超人刻画很棒，又上了一个层次，就是感觉打斗少了很多，大部分是在讲剧情，有点像旧平成tv那样，前面很长一段都是剧情，后面几分钟拍打斗，总的来说还可以。
比TV好看，色彩也很唯美，剧情也有一定深意。
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