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".
战争题材的优秀影片。当战争的残酷赤裸地展示在普通人面前，残忍、滑稽、恐惧，同种族同国家本该团结起来的人兵戈相见，甚至不是因为政见不同，只是糊涂地被煽动。对于百姓无差别攻击，在战争面前武器的绝对优势，像老兵说的一样，疼痛不是最难的，无能为力才是。
平凡又枯燥的童年叙事，在太空时代的背景下多了些可缅怀的碎片记忆。登月的人类一大步，曾是对未来的幻想和期待，然而五十多年过去了，地面上的战争、瘟疫和众多的无可奈何并未改变。蓦然回首，曾经平凡无奇的日子、曾经怀揣幻想的岁月，是最美好的时代，然而身在其中未曾察觉。
以動畫的方式呈現真的很能打 同時剛好本人對美國60-70-80-90年代都特別有感 很喜歡那是的lifestyle 再加上太空的議題 真的很不錯
结尾又又又是广告，好家伙。
能用自己的作品致敬一段历史和属于自己独特的童年记忆，真的很浪漫，不禁幻想几十年后我会怎么回忆起自己在这个时代被裹挟的成长记忆呢？
确实好像是围绕登月但只讲了一点点登月故事的登月
啊哈，这片尾真的让人怀疑真假。所以这大概就是虚构和现实的关系吧，就像真人转动画一样……
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我们不知道历史的过程，但却知道结果。如今的俄乌战争引子应该在乌克兰。
“炮击”自己国土百姓这种事对当地人的刺激比什么俄语限制大多了。
俄罗斯根据真实事件改编乌克兰对乌东地区的暴行，男主对自己儿子说，战争最可怕的不是受伤和死亡，死亡只是碗大的疤，20年后又是一条好汉，而是看到亲人和同胞在你面前被杀时，你却无能为力....
这部属于怀旧电影，适宜50后60后看，都是亲历，感受会更深。同类题材的像“阳光灿烂的日子”“童年往事”“天堂电影院”这些评分都蛮高的，这部要是真人电影或许更好吧？
好喜欢这个动画风格，月球漫步在以前还可以实现，到了现代按理说科技发展应该更可以了，但是为什么确在也没有踏入过月球呢
俄乌战争期间，看完这部电影。此刻，俄军的“莫斯科”号已被乌击沉，但乌方的马里乌波尔市即将沦陷，战况陷入胶着。我写了一篇评论，认为“莫斯科”号沉没也许是俄军一个拐点，俄军成了哀军：国际上遭欧美严厉制裁，俄乌战场连连受挫。这头猛兽被逼上绝路，成为了一支哀军，俄必将不惜一切手段，要么生存，要么毁灭！有人在评论区问我，侵占别人的家园正义吗？我回复说，建议您看一部纪实电影《烈日阳光》，以及一部纪录片《顿巴斯》，也许会重新认识乌克兰这个国家，他们狠起来对自己的平民都能下死手，他们正义吗？
作为一部政宣片超额完成任务。还是熟悉的不着调的开头，之后越拍越上道，很多地方的设计都不落俗套，剧组技能点十分全面。但不太能理解，片头的熊是把鸡和鹰一起放在火上烤？
喜欢！stan的梦哪个孩子不会有共鸣呢。美国的60s就是我心中的golden age啊，不知道经历过那个年代的人怎么想呢。stan看2001不仅没睡着还到处和人安利，真是不错子
没太明白，上太空那人说话嘴不动，有什么含义吗
3.5星吧，其实挺喜欢的，原来我们的8/90年代是美国的6/70年代，而且高度相似、满满的回忆杀。我看的不太连贯和投入，给自己扣0.5星
描写2014年东乌地区冲突的电影。美丽如画的乌克兰大平原美景反衬着如同炼狱般悲惨恐怖的战争场面，让整个观影过程如同经历冰火两重天！战争，从来都不会使正常而富有正义的人们感到舒心愉悦，只会使他们在惊心动魄之余承受着巨大的苦难。它留下的是鲜血、是落寞、是毁于一旦的家园、更是永远无法弥补的伤痛……
没想到那个时代的美国人也是如此的愚昧。就像一位同学说的，人不可以嘲笑过去人类的愚蠢
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