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".
主旋律正能量电影，剧情虽然没有跳出框架，不过演员们都演的很好，藏区风情也很还原。
虽然我是导演的粉丝，但是这部电影全程看的都很无趣
题材我很少看，风景不错演技也不错，节奏比较一般，煽情点也稍微有点刻意。
林克莱特动画都搞的不错，这部倒是没有以前那些哲学，重头戏还是60s社会风情重现，反倒后面登月部分的剪辑看起来有些跳脱
我可太爱林克莱特了，为什么可以把无数的历史细节和私人记忆连接得那么流畅。是个体回忆，也是集体纪念，穿针引线编织成属于每个人的童年时光。历史视角归类人类印迹，唯有林克莱特把这份印迹给全息化了出来。不是客观罗列一切，而是镶嵌进一种集体的主观视角中以形成立体的生活场域。别人拍“油画”拍故事拍表演，唯有林克莱特像是3d打印机直接给你搭建一个超巨型的记忆空间，极尽现实主义把握现实的深厚内力。大师永远是大师！！
2022.4.4 好看 近期看过最好看的动画了 但是这画风是我第一次见 亦真亦假的感觉 介绍了好多60年代美国发生的事啊..2001太空漫游 人猿星球 尼克松 荒野大镖客 66年居然都有蝙蝠侠和青蜂侠 碟中谍了 67年美国居然就拍了太空登月记的电影 美国人登月发现俄国人早已到 但都死了哈哈 这部展现出了美国的文化输出到了极致啊！年代感实在太强了 简直是经历过那个年代的美国人的回忆杀 他们的童年也太丰富了吧..不像现代的小孩各个捧着手机平板啥的.. 居然是肯尼迪提出的登月计划 经历过大萧条时期的美国人也太节俭了吧 居然有三个宇航员在发射台测试中丧命 居然来电居然不显示 一直整人哈哈哈 捡垃圾居然可以换刨冰 50年美国人就在拍登陆月球..休斯顿的太空乐园…看着就好玩 居然有肯尼迪角！
这件事感觉就是属于美国人独有的美国特色，可能只有美国人才看着觉得有意思吧
【3星半】有点失望，就是一部对上个世纪六七十年代美国社会风貌的滤镜回忆，以一个孩童的眼光，来看待周遭太空竞备大环境下的国情民生，融杂了很多带有（美国人）记忆点的印象元素，但要不是那个国家那个年代亲身经历过来的，很难有更深一层的感悟和感慨。
设定很逗，整体叙事风格也很逗。不过如果你对美国那段时期的历史不感兴趣，20分钟之后，你就会开始感到无聊。
丰富多彩又天马行空的童年。静静看最后一幕月球视角望着的“蔚蓝星球”，想着我就生活在这个星球上，宇宙探索应是所有人的梦。
大事件是真实背景，也是小小少年的梦想，暮年回首这种大与小的呼应，唯有感慨。
喜欢前一个小时的童年碎碎语，好像在听一个同龄人说话，在太空时代长大听起来是一件很酷的事情。后半部分的登月夹杂着昏昏欲睡没有语调的电视旁白，就像在见证历史而睡着的小孩，身处庞大的变革却浑然不知（然而也没什么问题）。
为什么这个时候会有这样一部电影。是有宣传目的吗？不过作品本身挺喜欢。
1960s的美國和1980s的台灣生活也是有不少共通之處，亂撥號惡作劇果然是不分國界，呵呵……，2022.05.15
不管是经历过六七十年代的他们，还是现在的我们，似乎都在怀念着那个黄金时代。
能做到像男女主这样无私奉献的人真的少之又少，可是不明白，为什么到最后小学都已经那么好了，男主还是没能跟女主买一件像样的衣服呢
用卡通的形式，那个年代的美国孩子，都在玩些什么，很多东西，直接20年后，才在中国出现。
如何细密地书写回忆，赋予回忆者一个“秘密身份”。我即时代。
【3星半】有点失望，就是一部对上个世纪六七十年代美国社会风貌的滤镜回忆，以一个孩童的眼光，来看待周遭太空竞备大环境下的国情民生，融杂了很多带有（美国人）记忆点的印象元素，但要不是那个国家那个年代亲身经历过来的，很难有更深一层的感悟和感慨。
影片亲切自然 真情实感 既有少数民族风土人情 也有质朴无华的真挚情感 很多情节感同身受 演员代入感很强 情节每个人都有共鸣 让人感动 需要这样洗涤心灵的好电影！
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