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".
4.5 其实前半段都对这个充满着戾气的父亲不抱有好感，在女儿发生意外之后才知道珍惜，不顾一切近乎霸蛮式的为女儿讨要公道。但后面在导演的渐进铺垫中，原来是不能原谅自己就这样让女儿离开，在后面笨拙的开始绘画、看漫画，直到结尾因为画作的释然真的是层层铺进，剧作相当的扎实。其实桃李和女司机的故事线还是在为主线服务，但是能够这样多线兼顾已经很不错了。
日本人的价值观真的有点钻牛角尖啊，店长和撞人的女儿其实没有什么错。。。竟到了要自杀渎罪的地步
无法认同异己，无法原谅他人，无法承认失职，顽固父亲层层递进的情感宣泄，是社会对于遗属的讽刺；患得患失，过度谢罪，逐渐否定自我的店长和女司机，也是被舆论和道德观驱使的受害者。
我严重怀疑这部电影创作者的初心在哪里？一直在打打打，犹如进入了怪兽厮杀大世界，不懂这是要给小朋友看什么？低幼向的动画片讲好亲情友情就很OK 了哎~ 闺女看完了整场电影，问：小猫找到爸爸妈妈了吗？是不是电影没放完？？可惜的是电影放完了，因为熊二与牛魔王夫人的打斗已经结束了。
总之真没什么亮点...
为小朋友科普重要的科幻电影场面···技术已经足够可以了，就是没有好的原创故事
参照近在眼前，大家不要装瞎。最该死的永远是自以为是、自我感动、假他人之悲痛网暴真正处于痛苦中的当事人的虚伪愚蠢的旁观者。前2/3刻薄地攻击了所有人并时刻提醒着观众这一点，最后一部分也写得漂亮，老套但能让人信服。建议亚当麦凯来看这部学下有深度的媒体讽刺和真诚的“救赎”结局到底该怎么拍。
这边真吓了一跳，完全没想过会如此发展。把当今社会的冷漠放大到了让人无法忽视的程度，再赤裸裸摆在面前。
剧情比较低幼，段子借鉴了很多作品，天火机器人还以为是超大型巨人或者EVA呢
我严重怀疑这部电影创作者的初心在哪里？一直在打打打，犹如进入了怪兽厮杀大世界，不懂这是要给小朋友看什么？低幼向的动画片讲好亲情友情就很OK 了哎~ 闺女看完了整场电影，问：小猫找到爸爸妈妈了吗？是不是电影没放完？？可惜的是电影放完了，因为熊二与牛魔王夫人的打斗已经结束了。
老生常谈的日式丧片，小姑娘的爸这种人就是谁碰上谁倒霉的典型。人物塑造和故事都有用力过猛的刻意感，总体来讲看完叫人不适，但也没有太多余味。
这一部好看啊！所有人可能都没错，但因为一个意外，每个人都觉得自己错了！一切都是要看你怎么想！虽然一时之间不能原谅，时间久了一切又就看开了！
這個世界到底是死去的人陪伴活著的人，還是活著的人陪伴死去的人呢。
本片描述的是坚硬的东西如何一点点被洗刷和变软.
沉重的一部片，火爆父親因為女兒車禍驟逝才學會道歉，這代價也太大。桃李的超市老闆角色和肇事女駕駛母女讓人心疼，明明沒做錯什麼卻承受那麼大的壓力。媒體的興風作浪令人生氣...要說錯的是誰，除了不稱職的父親，我只能說過馬路請看車，生命誠可貴，別讓周遭的人為了你痛苦
能做到让小盆友喜欢，大人乐呵，已经值回票价了。
开始没多久女儿的那场车祸简直触目惊心，心里久久不能平复下来，没敢回去看第二遍。里面爸爸妈的一句“请让明花音幸福得长大吧！”立马破防。故事情节节奏不快，适合慢慢看。自认为还不错。
沉迷于各种治愈却从不去面对问题本身的日本。
电影反应了信息社会的一种悲剧，在媒体和大众的过度关注之下，所有事件的相关当事人都成了受害者，都被迫站在了道德的对立面承受着来自自我和社会的双重责备。跌入谷底的人只能自救，坚强的人会挺过来然后与自己和解，不够坚强地人就上演新的悲剧，最后只有时间将一切平复。非常有现实意义，影片蕴含着强大能量却同时把节奏控制得完美，佳作。
人与人的关系怎样才能相处的更好，什么是正义，什么是真善美
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