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".
陪妹妹看的，说实话我觉得这部电影不值得花钱去电影院看，这种剧情在电视上看看还行。
最近看得比较开心的一个片，虽然有点设计过度。孩子和堂姐在争论到底要说自己是天主教徒还是新教徒，有爱的哲学家爷爷奶奶，经常吵架但是有爱又漂亮会跳舞的父母，和课堂里喜欢的女孩子双向奔赴一个前进一个退步。孩子时，自以为老成，但实际上又一窍不通，对很多东西视而不见，却记得广告里的奥妙洗衣粉。
我毫无抵抗力的类型之一：generational drama，而且不是意大利人拍的（how rare is that!）导演是哈利波特第二部里面自恋的黑魔法防御术教授。
29/7/2022 @ PREMIERE ELEMENTS [euff]。雖然部份情節真的太瑣碎，也感覺不到小主角在經歷各種事情後有任何成長，但那種對自己故鄉的感情還是狠狠地打中我。無論去或留也是個痛苦的抉擇啊….
从头到尾看得津津有味
狗狗很可爱，但是有些地方太离谱了，，，，我和同学说，这个狗飞过去一定是要靠勇气不靠别的，这就是他最大的buff，结果真就靠勇气过去了
第一次带儿子看电影，挺酷炫的，情节啥的OK，阿奇克服被遗弃的阴影在朋友们的帮助下找回勇气，贝贝的形象令人印象深刻，汪汪队比得上什么钢铁侠蝙蝠侠了…真的土豪。
不算坏，但大概本想拍出诗意，结果看到是只是悬浮。
借我朋友的评价：“就这还跟罗马比呢？连马都不如”。
编导肯尼斯布拉纳应该是从自己的童年经历中汲取了素材，所以才能有这么充满感情的细节，回忆中的片段时刻就像一首写给父母的散文诗，那分明是黑白光影下的乡愁，让人留恋不舍。
挺不错的，装备大更新，酷炫起来了，还加了个新队员，也挺讨喜。不过强行让阿奇自闭再自我治愈这种剧情真的挺烦
20211224le。小巧精致，以小见大，点缀英式幽默，穿插音乐和电影有点泛滥，并不沉重，挺适合下班放松。3.5
我竟然在电影院看动画片了 这要是真狗拍的多好啊 肯定更有意思
几乎是贝尔法斯特的《罗马》嘛，当然跟《罗马》远不是一个质量量级，情怀上倒还有得一比。也可以当作是北爱著名歌手范·莫里森的大型怀旧MV，上一次这么高密度在电影里听他的各，还是作为自己文青起点的《云上的日子》。片子本身，从危机四伏的Trouble Years开始，天主教民族派区域的新教联合派小社区，然而却并没盯着冲突去说。这本可以是一个特殊点，却把这么一家人的故事，说得可以安排在全球任何一个地方，少了片名所指的特质。”爱尔兰人生来就是为了离开“的题旨，到了最后又实在无聊的蜻蜓点水。
Nostagia oversell。每一次配乐都让我想翻一次白眼。
姐妹俩直到歌曲结束才愿意离开[偷笑]
戏剧张力不够的影片慎用黑白画面……只会让人想睡觉谢谢
无疑又是偏私人回忆那一挂的，用黑白影像来做旧，儿童视角强调成人世界的残酷，整个执行都毫无意外，本来这个宗教冲突主题我以为会像肯·洛奇一样走写实风，没想到关键的场次规避掉了对抗性，结尾对峙一段过于儿戏了，最后奶奶被留下有点儿唏嘘，当家园不再提供安居的氛围，就要舍弃很多东西。
陪小孩看的。这次是全新的冒险城游戏，冒险湾的居民和市长只有一个镜头。6只狗狗戏份不一致，着重描写阿奇，虽然前面一直在铺垫阿奇有冒险城ptsd，没想到去了冒险城翻车这么彻底，孩子看到阿奇被抓，哭着喊我不想再看了，太可怕了。所以我经常在旁边讲解鼓励，会好的，他会克服的，他是最勇敢的狗狗！给贝贝新车的时候好感动，双向奔赴那种感觉吧。 天天在天空虽然很勇但是有点鲁莽，还好设定就是撞坏捕云手恶劣天气就消失。市长又坏又蠢，坏事做尽，在大楼里还让小孩去营救，儿子却说莱德不是小孩，他是汪汪队队长。新的汪汪队大楼和装备都好烧钱的样子，身为一个物质的大人我不禁感慨莱德很有钱，没想到他居然是卖周边的。以至于后来新的装备出来，儿子感慨汪汪队好有钱我就得补一句他们卖周边赚大钱了
#陪娃看电影系列#几经疫情后，第一次重返影院是陪娃看娃喜欢的汪汪队，一贯地正能量！
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