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".
刚看完 对我来说由于篇幅原因并没有铺陈到我可以对他们的三条线有情感呼应或者说我无法顺利地代入看这个故事 尤其是贤人那条线 到那条线结束都没有让我没感觉到有什么 另外两条线至少在最后有一点触动吧 看到最后相较来说托马老师那条线还算不错 这些都是我个人的一点理解 整体来说一般般吧
全程都是高质量高密度的嘲讽，把美式民主这套从里到外烂穿了的制度扒了个底儿掉，面对灾难(疫情？）现实恐怕比电影更加魔幻，不过老美看来还是坚信没有他们人类就会完蛋，缺了点胸怀。
挺有趣的动画，内核还挺温暖。简直像是欧美版的进击的巨人啊，
实质上完成的论述是，沟通失效的必然性，以及媒体如何走向势必的死亡。
扩充世界的想法很好，但就是剧情和节奏还是有点无力
为母校加成多一星，“烂学校”的小李子大表姐发现了世界末日的可能，但是从上到下资本和分化的人民让大家觉得白左眼中这种美国着实可笑。怎么说呢，既反个人英雄主义又陷入了个人英雄主义，嘛，黑色喜剧就不要纠结了，只是结局小李子确实改变了自己在大数据下算出的结局，然后迎来毁灭，这让我感到欣喜。
ED真的很不错，有一种眼前一亮的感觉。
在很久以前，没有人类的地球，孕育出了大自然的万物。直到人类横冲直撞地闯入，肆意妄为地破坏了自然规律。在Trolberg地下的Mother of Troll，也是最原始的Mother of nature。这不仅仅是一部传递母爱的电影，透过母爱，更能直观感受到一种力量，那是force of nature，万物都是地球之子，人类也不列外。而我们能和大自然一起做的，就像结尾mother of troll的monologue所传达的那样：「Take care of one another,be strong ,be good.」最后的trolls都开出了美丽的植被，最后的人类和trolls握手言和。
看之前觉得是科幻喜剧+政治讽刺剧，但是其实不是喜剧的路数但胜似喜剧的路数，非常一本正经的，反而比讽刺更深的在讨论Are we fucking crazy? Or the world is just like this！我是在那首look up的歌里感受到的，讽刺达到了顶点，那个歌非常好听，歌词感人，歌手真挚，但我非常怀疑歌手投入去唱的时候是否真的感受到了look up的诉求，就是，人和人其实表面上其乐融融，其实内在根本无法沟通。我觉得这片子对我来讲，关于信息传递的无效/人和人沟通的无效/信任缺失，比政治更有讽刺价值。有人肯定会觉得这片子不伦不类，不够劲儿，的确，没有在某个方向上一直去戳，简直是扫射性的讽刺，全面开花，但就觉的不够爽，但也正是我觉得这片子独一无二之处吧。
反派逻辑迷惑道德绑架，整个外传就是赶之又赶，就连狗最后的死亡都带着哦戏份到了的意味，反转虽然能给人刺激但是本身却没有太多的篇幅去详细描写，于是显得更加摸不着头脑。当子供向作品要拿非子供来吹的时候我大概也能预料到这个外传会多么不合我口味。再说说人物，其实如果这个外传没挂名在saber名下真的会好很多……我现在最大的感想就是长谷川挺好的，还有很看好上堀内走出特摄，这部外传里监督调度能力完全碾压剧本……
70分钟看得很仓促，很多设定要自己脑补，另外应该给打戏再加20分钟
嘲讽的点挺多，挺乐呵的。地球毁灭的题材最适合平安夜看了。
Netflix的片子就总是让人觉得“差一点”
浪子想回头就回头这个有点恶心 哪怕是世界末日
低幼向的奇幻故事，结尾很暖心，回归母爱与和平。
美中不足也是叙事这一点，剧情很紧凑，这么文艺的风格适合扯点闲篇，多唠唠家常。
ED真的很不错，有一种眼前一亮的感觉。
就喜欢这种简单明快的低级讽刺，后劲也足。梅姨演这个估计很爽吧，毕竟又能鞭尸一把川普～～
看完想大喊Fuck the world的那种hhh没想到是这个结局（千万别漏了彩蛋！），但也非常合理非常升华（哈哈哈哈。一度想吐槽这是黑镜某一集加长版，又让人觉得是那种金酸莓奖最佳影片哈哈哈。一些实验性的片段在前面看起来有点浮，最后竟然直通心灵起来。作为疫情时代的一次自我嘲讽，混合着无奈惶恐与悲悯，这部电影可以。我们看见，我们无能为力，我们在一起，仅此，祝我们减肥成功。
巨星云集，还挺有趣的。讽刺不断，尤其是美国政客哪怕面对人类毁灭危机的情况下，依旧想着选举。选民才是人，选票才是最重要的。
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