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".
看到一半看不下去了 ，倍速看完了。老公也说看不下去了，看来不是我们喜欢的类型。 不过道理倒是认可的，人生不能贪心，人生也需要任性一点
值得满分，就冲风景太美，看着就很治愈。这是个受创伤后努力治愈自己的故事，不禁想到“幸运的人用童年治愈一生，不幸的人用一生治愈童年”，但终其一生，总有那么一个人愿意和努力治愈你。
依然是喜欢的天海佑希，婆婆80竟然可以这么优雅美丽！
又是充满幻想的日本式的乌托邦故事，其实只想给3星，可是我真的很喜欢天海o(≧v≦)o让我奇怪的是，天海他们夫妻也太生分了吧，通讯录名字居然还加さん，平时说话的方式仿佛同事hhhhh果然天海有种只可远观不可亵玩的感觉
奶奶讲的故事很喜欢，就是打boss那段有点奇怪。也不是因为打boss太快结束。
从最初の面子到释然の生活
生前葬礼？！也是刷三观的认知
剧情上感觉编排混乱，但又确实有些温馨的片子
感觉侧重选错了，我觉得故事侧重围绕灾后重建的一些人性光辉比现在这个神话故事好很多。
天海表演没有任何问题，电影本身比较单薄而已
画风崩坏，结构也非常混乱，日常线和神话线的结合不需要一个史诗的结尾，就算请来了全明星声优也只是让人觉得莫名其妙。全女性组成的家庭这件事本身比剧情有趣。
半部好片。作为“后3·11”题材，巧妙错位在于比起灾难的创伤，姐妹俩比灾难更早地面临原生家庭的创伤。开篇的漫步路过了城市与自然，路过了灾难的废墟，此步履不停之姿既是回家，但这个家又是刚组成的新拟似家族，只有“来”到了家，这个家才开始形成。因此，漫步作开场便已开始酝酿着灾后的内面和家族的重建。川面一直有意保持着这种不让内面自白溢出的克制，仅仅看着她们的苦难，但仅有克制而缺少其他方面的支撑的话，恐怕并不能面对中段的主题转变——从拯救自己转向拯救城市的创伤。
因为是芦田爱菜配音和妖怪题材动画，所以去看了这部片子。前半部分挺好的，就是“小森生活”嘛，看着还挺治愈，后半部分就走偏了，boss打了像没打一样，那么大个眼睛听个曲儿就没了，开玩笑一样。
日式家庭喜剧，里面的人都很可爱。日本高龄人口多，养老压力大，片中给出解决方案是，卖掉自住房去抱团养老
虽然很喜欢妖怪题材，但是这个稍微缺点东西。比如红祟的战胜太一笔带过了
因为抛出了很现实的问题却没给出靠谱的结局方案，最后太理想太圆满了，但却不是大众能实现或者接受的方案，所以难免显得不深刻，评分自然也不会太高。不过看着还是挺爽的，至少是个美好的愿望吧，希望大家都不至于太多的为钱所困，有足够的安全感走完自己的一生。
是个很安静的动漫，适合心烦意乱的时候观看，很温馨，动漫内容比较不足
人物和背景的画风有点割裂，剧情前面太慢了后面太快了，感觉新海诚开拍应该会更抓人
改编自同名儿童文学，由大卫社制作。前半段是祖孙三人的和谐日常，而中间河童的现身突然将题材从温情治愈系变成夏目式的奇幻妖怪向。很可惜本片在两方面都没有比较突出的地方，整体非常平淡，内心毫无波澜，各种桥段都司空见惯审美疲劳。原作者的另一部作品《生日乐园》同样平平无奇，缺乏亮点的普通流水账。不过作为子供向也不能奢求太多吧。
这种题材就是欢快气氛圆满结局的格式，期待也是期待女王的登场，最后女王在share house里开心笑的时候我想的是现实中你是不喜欢别人和你一起生活的人，哈哈哈
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