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".
很老套的故事，颜色漂亮歌可以。祖母变严和变慈祥都太突兀了。家人对自己不好还一味想着家人真的看得有点心累。这是主要面对墨裔观众的吧。
还有TAO酱太棒了吧我的天呐好会配！！！
幸福就是跟TA牵手么？老了，爱不动了。。。
吉浦康裕江郎才尽了。我本想这么说，但他某些一以贯之的表达，没有被浮躁掩埋。
多少有点尬，只能说适合不带脑子看，人物画的比较讨喜。
3.5，开始一言不合就去唱歌，各种其他机器还配合，也太像迪士尼公主了。AI自我学习，只为完成少年儿时想女主幸福的心愿，出发点动人。
我给LMM很多次尝试了，实在是看不进也听不进去啊！我当着办公室人的面都不好意思说我看不进去Hamilton和Encanto。毕竟办公室的小妞们都是当背景音乐来循环的。。。
个人觉得Lin的歌越好反而使整体效果越差。本来单看的歌舞片段被惊艳到——Lin一贯用把歌填得满满的，从曲调到词都很新鲜，加上分镜出色的蒙太奇——然而放在影片里由于没有一个强大的故事或情感内核去支撑它，就显得本来就散乱的情节更加零散了。不管是好的歌还是好的分镜和正剧都有割裂感，整个影片像是好多支mv的碎片。
这个奶奶也太现实了吧，没用的就不给一点好脸色看
奇迹，就是你自己。歌真的是好听，非常非常迪士尼。
魔法满屋 2022.1.22 有点太单调
从没有过让我笑得这么欢又哭得这么猛的观影经历。是只有霓虹才做的出来的科幻青春校园片了。
我也想要一個AI朋友，還有各種智能家店😂
吉浦康裕毕竟是从独立动画干过来的，电影中充斥着让人眼前一亮的好点子。但要想更进一步，相比点子的零散堆砌，更需要整体性的有机串联。
接着AI和迪士尼歌舞的皮，讲了一个标准的日式校园“美好日常——危机——解决危机”的故事。人物都挺标准化，男主这个技术宅死鱼眼也蛮搞的。技术细节做得不错，但是主线的一些关键处相对生硬，特别是大声叫醒AI那段。总的来说还是不错，值得一看——anime的起源不是搞黄色，是sci-fi啊！
接着AI和迪士尼歌舞的皮，讲了一个标准的日式校园“美好日常——危机——解决危机”的故事。人物都挺标准化，男主这个技术宅死鱼眼也蛮搞的。技术细节做得不错，但是主线的一些关键处相对生硬，特别是大声叫醒AI那段。总的来说还是不错，值得一看——anime的起源不是搞黄色，是sci-fi啊！
吉浦康裕和新海誠同時期開始拍攝獨立動畫，從視覺風格化的角度來說，早期「水のことば」等等比新海更具實驗性，挑戰了很多不同的表現手法，對於硬科幻的AI倫理主題的思考也更深刻。但可能也因此沒有像專注於「戀愛與跨越彼岸」等村上春樹主題的新海那麼早進入商業大眾視野。這些年下來，吉浦只有「夏娃的時間」等幾部作品，算是厚積而薄發了。雖然這次預告和主視覺一開始並不是很catchy，但在下片前去看了早場，完全有種中大獎的驚喜。刻意融合致敬迪士尼公主音樂劇的元素，還有對於近未來生活風景的描寫，還有出乎意料的轉折伏筆，有一種在青春校園故事中看到微型《攻殼機動隊》的快感。編劇有了「惑星奇航」的大河內一樓助陣，把寫實感抓得恰到好處。但也因為含蓄的佈局和宣傳策略，再加上疫情電影院的冷清，真是太可惜啦！
前面的效果还是做的蛮足的，就是后面觉得有些草率了。
这打光，这毛发，这绑定，这解算，这特效。真真的牛逼
一言不合就唱歌的桥段很生草，剧情进展略俗套，但架不住真的很有趣，歌也好听，真相揭露的那一段给我看的心潮澎湃啊hhhhh，还有短评里剧透的真的很没品
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