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".
童年喜欢的书搬上屏幕就热血沸腾了。剧情不错，特效有待加强。结局略狗血
难以相信这是2021的电影。特效不行，剧本也千疮百孔，尬点好多。着大火的时候不着急逃生，先磨蹭着道歉（鞠婧祎的古偶剧：着大火了不着急逃生先亲吻），鲁西西下来之后所有大人欢呼把她往上抛，但明明孩子在哭喊、还拼命指向房顶，那大人们能不能问问“为什么哭上面是不是还有人”……给大人看的东西比人家差五十年，给儿童看的东西比人家差一百年。
鲁西西有一条完美的人物弧光，皮皮鲁自始至终没有成长，有些遗憾
我们的大银幕太久没有看到儿童电影了！作为陪伴年幼的我无数个午后的书，值得推荐。
挺无聊的。罐头小人没我想象的有趣，就没看了。
三星半，如果成年人看不惯的话，可能是失去了什么快乐的东西
大人的意识形态需求与小人的当下所需艰苦斗争。
讨论教育的本质，又能在这样一个魔幻的环境里表现现实，童话最本真的爱和勇气也太容易哭了，啊啊啊，四年级一班的皮皮鲁和鲁西西，我的童年！
儿童向电影，儿童的叙事，逻辑，世界观。
还是有点当年那种讽刺意味在的。带着孩子看，有惊险刺激的场景，还让孩子哭了几次。尤其最后大人在欢呼孩子在哭，绝了。就是觉得和现在这两年的学校不太一样了。到底是这世界变化了。不变的只有孩童的心。
从电影艺术的角度去分析，片子的不足有许多。但从观影体验以及文本价值来讲，本部电影是一件难得的珍宝——罕见且精准地儿童视角、态度鲜明的批判、童话的奇幻想象与浪慢、生活的冰冷与温情。作为成年人再次受到了老郑“真善美”的教育。ps.心得，素材之真、传达之准并不必然达到艺术之真（《关于我妈》），艺术之真本质上是关于态度的表达之真。艺术作品是否真的抵达真、善或美，其标准就在于能否以其一沟通其余二者。
这个选角想打一星，为什么皮皮鲁选了一个就鲁西西弟弟一样的小男孩？？？PS: RH阴性血那段印象太深刻了，就是这个小说让我知道还有这个血型的
我觉得不是很好看，但我不确定孩子会不会喜欢。这就是最可悲的地方：我已经不知道现在孩子的口味是什么了。
但是“偷”“作弊”和火灾上楼…
一边觉得不好看这是啥玩意儿并庆幸没有留着和我弟一起看
…看了十多分钟，演员挺平面的，没法入戏…放弃了
师者作业考试叫家长，父母言传身教与人言。
本来只是为情怀买单，结果被小演员们的演技和改编故事的完成度惊喜到！bug肯定有，结尾略草率，给小朋友的话够看啦。
一下就带回看书那会儿，整体看影片节奏快，故事讲明白了，有笑点有反转，改编的好。郑渊洁永远不过时，现在我还是觉得神，他的观点讽刺现在来看还是在理的。突然想想以前小时候那个时期真的好，各个方面都不是绝对标准化的控制，各类影视作品都有，而现在无论是动画还是儿童影视都没有我小时候看到的精彩，当然，也可能是长大了。推荐！
我看到最能与现实社会关联的是TZ间串联的腹黑梗。本人虽然不是郑渊洁的原著粉，但结尾彩蛋还是颇有些打破次元壁的感觉。
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