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".
工整流畅，但结尾泄气了没那么感动。反而是中段被Ron在床底变亮照亮黑夜和逢人就贴贴纸给交友邀请感动到，片尾字幕的各种Ron也好可爱
很可爱哎！！！太多戳心的瞬间了，以及“友谊是双向选择”的观点很好，虽然中间穿插了很多类似监控监听这样的桥段，但起码重点在于——科技会向怎样的方向改变，全在于人类的选择。现在也想要一只小白了😢
当你是个著名的导演，大家都会去迎合和猜测你想表达什么；假如你不是，大家会觉得你在拍啥，你是深井冰。
尽管隔着文化差异，但还是在屏幕中感受到了生活的影子。c'est la vie。
故事根本就说不通也就算了，整个价值观几乎就是喂屎，就一种"你看啊智能社会孩子都这样了都怪开发设备的公司，大家按我的生活方式来准没错"的感受。
感觉上的确很费里尼，一个家族的生活到一个孩子的生活，放荡疯癫的女人，迷茫无助的青春，当然，也很羡慕那种夜晚浪荡街头的闲适，夏日沙滩的闲适，火车树影的闲适，但是整体的感觉太散了，没有神散而行不散的浑然天成，大概，还要继续吧（当然我国电影……）
意大利好美，我也曾希望家里来一个酷酷的用darthvadar嗓音说话的人，球王的那场比赛是平局0比0，后来那不勒斯赢了联赛冠军，全班男生每人一件地摊上10块钱的蓝白球衣，我想每个人都会用自己擅长的方式来面对自己，无论是用上帝之手来羞辱英帝国主义，还是拍个电影来讲故事，爱和悲伤，最棒的事儿不过如此。
索伦蒂诺到底有多喜欢马拉多纳？这镜头感无敌的，所有的意大利的美都能被他捕捉到。当今影坛，让我光看画面就成的导演只三个：一个韦斯安德森，一个新海诚，另一个就是索伦蒂诺。段位最高的当然是索，韦氏的风格偏童话，新海诚的表现方式是动画，拍出的都是幻想世界的美好，但索可以把现无聊的实世界展现出如此美的一面，当真难得。
我们创造了前所未有的神奇玩物，
心底却比从前更加地漠然与孤独。
当然了，虽然小白长得可爱，但跟大白在风格上，包括建立友谊的主线都太像了，关键还没有《超能陆战队》做得好玩，所以挺失望的。
又吵又闹，最后peace & love，一切问题都迎刃而解。还不如The Mitchells vs. The Machines，这种题材真实倦了，Olivia Colman还两部都演了。全世界都是7年级学生吗，最后还不是依然每个人都沉迷在机器里。那个掉钱眼里的老头大概是库克（和其他科技大佬的缝合怪）？
迪士尼的彩蛋终于可以不要钱地用了（不是）前期对社交网络侵占现实世界的探讨还蛮好，以为最后Barney要带领大家一起回到现实生活，结果还是与AI共存啊，好莫名好妥协。
本质就是萌宠电影没什么更多想象力。没朋友的人要修正自己的生活方式，更要坚定信念没必要和不喜欢自己的人打成一片，会活得很累。
年度最佳啥的太过誉了，各种大数据重复元素这几年太多了，这种东西只要执行出来不出现大问题，观众大多就都会满意
后半段的海上电影院，是关于离别、孤独和不得不上路的少年残酷成长。
不知不觉也把自己押上了科技的奴隶船。
托互联科技爬虫多的福气，影片唯恐细节少一点都不像次世代，玩梗却丝毫不及《无敌破坏王2》，影片无论从审美还是创意，人物或者叙事，都非常之平庸，通篇充满疲惫感，看来对迪士尼而言，《超能陆战队》和《疯狂动物城》真的只能是灵光乍现，不过看在隔壁大师班这两年的答卷，创意管理真的没问题吗？简直成了育碧年货，fine，感动常在
这次感觉不像前两次那么理解困难，不知道是因为足球还是主人公的黑色卷发加衬衫总能让我联想到另一个意大利的夏天。
至少学学迪士尼是如何以爱意和包容的目光打量它创造出的那些异类吧。
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