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".
三星半，还算挺欢乐的动画片，各个年龄层都能从中看到自己的乐趣，科技改变生活，给孩子一个机器人伴侣，陪伴小朋友生活，帮助小朋友交朋友，最后日常生活完全依赖机器算法，各个角度都会有问题。片子大小逻辑上都有勉强的地方，好人坏人存在显得过于硬，不过动画片也算能理解
但是给成年人看的话倒是再用心点啊喂！故事不完整叙事不清楚逻辑甚至有时候不通，让人没法深入思考拼命在找漏洞……
3.5星吧。影片对白十分简单，我用的是机翻字幕，后来几乎不用看也能听懂。对于故障的AIBOT的描绘过于美好了，比起一个算法文件缺失的BOT，它更像一个智力不高的人类，在这种包装下影片顺水推舟地讨论了朋友、社交、成长、亲子关系等话题。故事比较老套，除了角色的感情刻画是重点还不错外，冲突部分也过于童话了。但是有一句台词我印象很深刻，那就是“孩子也会用他们的方式保护父母”。这句话对我的冲击远超该片其它的所有内容，亲子问题由来已久也有过太多的讨论，大多数都是站在某一方的角度来要求另一方改变，但是这句话好比是有个第三方，他同时看到了两方的矛盾与统一，给了看待这个问题的独特视角或者说关注到了其中容易被人忽视的一个细节。
三星半，还算挺欢乐的动画片，各个年龄层都能从中看到自己的乐趣，科技改变生活，给孩子一个机器人伴侣，陪伴小朋友生活，帮助小朋友交朋友，最后日常生活完全依赖机器算法，各个角度都会有问题。片子大小逻辑上都有勉强的地方，好人坏人存在显得过于硬，不过动画片也算能理解
友谊是双向的，你可以选择朋友我也可以选择朋友
无论是想象力还是内核都太普通了……结尾又太过强行
那顶毛线帽好看极了
Be friend远比Be my friend来的深刻
现在的你难道不孤独么？所以为什么觉得改变机器人就可以改变人孤独的现状，别做梦了。
比如主角站在操场入口说“课间18分钟……该怎么办”
感人的元素有点过时 ai朋友和蠢萌元素也已经被玩烂了 科技时代的社交以及情感关系显得格外的脆弱和悲哀 已经失去了人与人沟通交流的勇气和能力 想创造爆款以及角色性格的脸谱化都显得非常商业化 只靠最后的煽情也显得没有情感基础以及思考深度
立意很好，如果男主的B-Bot没坏，那就只是个行走的社交应用软件而已，正是这个意外，才让男主的B-Bot通过机器学习完成人机双向互动，让人不再沉迷网络和社交，从网络陷阱中解脱出来，面对面交流，成为真正意义上的朋友。
一开始还觉得福斯发行的真的不如迪士尼，甚至觉得是融了哆啦A梦和大白的无趣动画，看到后面发现深度有，温情有，故事有！甚至比大白可爱多了！
It's Mad Max meets Sesame Street, live streaming.
片尾演职员表有创意，但是海报不行，还以为是什么山寨动画片
weirdo与weirdo的友情
一部现实性的寓言的故事，小孩子在环境和对朋友的认知之下成长，资本却想尽一切压榨财富，为了利益不择手段，电子产品奴役孩子僧话题，虽然情节过于简单和夸张，但是普世性很强。
真的很套路，情节漏洞太多，但是我真的好喜欢ron，超有个性超可爱！
科技越发展，人类越寂寞，人要获得友谊终归是要走出去多交友，不能沉迷于电子产品
最后的感动和拯救有点莫名其妙，本以为是部结合科技发展和人情味的深度好片，结果拍的平庸，主题也很模糊
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