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".
工整干爽的皮克斯电影，剧情完整且制作上乘，特效华丽且动作漂亮。
它已经看不出一丝皮克斯的影子了
看预告片时还以为是太空歌剧，看来还是我高估了迪士尼，这就是一部标准工业化电影，不咸不淡，毫无滋味。
有皮克斯的技术，却缺少了皮克斯的内核，可惜了，但光是听美队的声音就可以高潮了！
这显然又是一部基于精细商业考量的迪士尼动画——与自我和解的安全普适主题、时空穿越的潮流科幻元素、屡试不爽的讨喜玩偶角色——简直不能更匹配合家欢观影诉求了（姑且无视LGBTQ）。尽管剧情无惊无喜，个人仍然给予推荐评价：一为巴斯光年的情怀加成；二为精致细腻的机甲设定，期待小队全员模型。
政治正确有什么不好，唯一不好的是这是巴斯光年的故事。
作为外传，完全就是科幻大片、太空歌剧的感觉，开头那句话，算是给我这个小时候看这个系列长大的人，一个很好的交代。最后就是有些桥段还挺感人的，他们确实很擅长做全年龄向的动画电影。
剧情乏善可陈，传统的太空版美国队长+不靠谱菜鸟队友打倒反派的故事。看完唯一想说的是，又能卖萌又功能多多的机器猫哪里找？
他从冷藏中醒来，他开着飞船去完成任务，等他回到现实生活，时间错位了，女搭档已经白发苍苍，所有旧相识都死了，他成了唯一秉持老观念的年轻的过时之人，愿意跟随他的是已故女搭档的后辈，再加一心要回到几十年前去找女搭档的白发老人，再加CE的配音，这真不是美队的AU同人？！……故事真是乏味到顶，人物都看不到心，而且找个机器猫解决问题也太偷懒了。这还是皮克斯吗？好失望。
想象力的缺失是当下美国动画电影最大的问题。
嗯，整体感觉还不错~~但剧情太弱了。。皮克斯这是不太行了么？。。。首先是开头，一只小猫咪努力下都能解决能源问题，整个探险队难道没有人能解决？！！逗我呢吧。。。然后是最后，反派死得有点快，人类指挥官态度反转也没有道理。。还是那句话，要是迪士尼的片子，我会给五星，但这是皮克斯，原谅我标准这么高吧
to infinity and beyond.
皮克斯今年没有拿出优秀的作品，年初的《青春变形记》虽然故事吸引眼球但本质上还是友情与家庭的认可，全然比不上《心灵奇旅》《寻梦环游记》一众电影的深度，本期待着这部《玩具总动员》的衍生片能带来惊喜，结果还是在固步自封。
之所以不喜欢老式美国科幻，是因为它喜欢夹私货、上价值……就单纯是个超级英雄不好吗?小男孩才会喜欢啊
6.5/10，《玩具总动员》系列衍生电影。
喵喵喵喵，四分。这片主要还是讲的如何正确认识自身的错误。很有教育意义的片子，很适合某些对错误很敏感的地区人员观看。
很莫名其妙，很俗套，格局也很小，充斥着各种好莱坞电影的片段拼凑，可惜了这么个太空动画题材了
很喜欢设定和建模。但配角太多太无聊了，没见过这么无聊的配角，完全是来拖后腿的。机器人反派跟大魔好像哦。很平淡的剧情，可惜美术了
它已经看不出一丝皮克斯的影子了
只能说，皮克斯早已不是以前的皮克斯了
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