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".
一个人的博士后论文被告知写得差不予答辩，结果有多可怕？结果就是法比安的富家子弟朋友拉布德陷入自我怀疑，沉迷酒色，最后给自己额头来了一枪。
二战前夕，一个失业的文艺青年，在和女友约会的路上，见义勇为，不幸溺水而亡的故事。
《无主之作》里的姑姑和侄子。拍摄很加分，艺术风格拉满。
仍然很好，但还是被骗了的感觉，不愿再看合集
整个剧场版系列都有点过分，TV的合集版。这集正好夹在“那田蜘蛛山篇“和”无限列车篇”之间，整个剧情有个串连。往前推还剩最开始“兄妹的羁绊”，往后就要坐等更新了。整个故事架构完全出来了，正邪双方的主要人物也基本登场了，后续就是三个主角升级打怪的过程了。
我虽然是很爱汤姆希林的、但他的片每部都漫长得让我差点看睡着，然而又总能在结尾处送来一记暴击留下一场难忘悠长的观影回馈，前作《无主之作》是、这部也是。《法比安》开篇的游魂视角摄影和画幅比例、还有全篇不停交错映照在演员脸上的光影都是我迷恋的点。法比安最终走向毁灭的短暂半生、用人物展现时代。如果某个时代混乱到集体疯狂、对错颠倒的时候，请记得“要学会游泳”。混乱中保持清醒太不容易。字幕来自@一个Deply。
结局会马上想到《横道世之介》。不该死的人死了。
当代版本的《三分钱歌剧》。法比安的故事遗落在报章档案之中，于不可逆历史中找到想象空间。不断前进的时间亦是灾难倒计时，法比安最终消失于正史，却在我们面前完成辉煌的短促的个人史。
TV版22-26集。这部分比较平淡无奇一些，但是画风就可以稍微夸张好笑一些，看起来也比较轻松。由于是交代九柱的事情，同时涉及到对弥豆子的处理，所以必然是不能省略的。也交代了一些通过终极考核的香奈乎的背景故事。当然同时表现了主角之所以可以成为主角的原因，他真的好自律且有强大的行动力，善于思考，善于寻找不足并提升自我！并不是觉得这部分平淡才给三星，而是弥豆子被捅了三刀，看得我真的心疼！只给三星！
德式浪漫和忠诚。“遇到你之前，我并不知道自己可以如此忠贞”
魏玛时代终结 进入犹太新年。法比安没学会游泳，世界容不下体面。
好多剧情莫名的熟悉，动画里的？不过，还是很棒！
日漫中无处不在的龙珠……
最心疼男妓院老鸨，希望自己有筹码慢慢推出去赢得欢心，被拒绝之后直接塞钱也还是无济于事。|原来不止我一个人有这样的想法，去对方的家乡，重新认识一个人
复古的手法，成就自我而独特的人格，格格不入是这个诡异的时代，无论是30年代的德国，还是近百年后的今天。
很轻松的剧情，但是不无聊，看完让人更期待续集了！
70岁的老导演拍出了可能是他一生最好的电影。
“你只有弄脏自己才能摆脱污泥”
白色恐怖年代下政治性抑郁的文科博士。还是看到了很动人的爱，即便捧着一颗破碎的心到处游走最后还是会去爱。也看到极权统治对人的异化，战争前是这个样子的吗？开始了深深的忧虑…
如同所有微不足道的或许不合时宜的人类，法比安的幻灭甚至没有任何轰烈的情节，可能亦无太多人在意。镜头俯拍掠过的浪潮，时代骤变中，一切都泛滥但又奢侈。亲吻的是玻璃还是彼此的嘴，风吹动的是门帘还是最后的梦。一些动人的情感画面随着镜头视角的慌乱转变灵光突现，但最终都如被焚烧的笔记般不复见。
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