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".
我一个老粉丝 你让我看这个 将近一半的剧情都是之前的剧本啊 画质和台词改一改 就拿这玩意忽悠我们 还配有这么高的分儿 我估计就这样玩意儿 连第五步都不如 大家一起给他刷差评
6 柬埔寨人沉睡在梦里。导演沉睡在大师的阴影里。我们沉睡在电影院里。
童年最喜欢的一部动画片，虽然说这部电影几乎是以前内容的剪辑版，但是立意挺好的，关爱孩子，关心孤寡老人！
唉 不知道要怎么评分 前半截以为我在看动画片原片，但是抛开这点，立意和主题真的会点到我的死穴……毕竟这部动画片里我喜欢的最主要的点就是图图和牛爷爷啊😢
父亲作为红色高棉政权之后的第一代人搬到金边，而第二代人随着拆迁又被迫搬离了金边，开启新一代的城市征服之旅，电影其实并不关注现实的剧变，相反是个人的成长史，友谊、梦想与依赖（父亲的腿）都随着白色大厦的爆破而一并逝去。
被欺骗的感觉，太失望了，真的。
经常看动画片的大概都会了解，这部电影就像是几集动画片连在一起的，就是每个情景都很眼熟，没有太多的惊喜
偷袭。
大量的固定、切，组合成局部-照片的记忆保存
以前的内容确实很多
影片从老人和孩子两个社会的弱势群体的视角，通过孩子给老人准备惊喜表演节目，倡导社会关爱孤独寂寞的老龄人口。中间还穿插着保护环境，废物利用的立意，适合小朋友观看。影片结尾时串烧了小邋遢，黑猫警长等动画片的主题曲，唤醒了我们这一代童年的记忆。那个每天放学后回家守着电视看动画片的日子一去不复返了啊！
柬埔寨之声，一种独立表达，开头骑摩托那场戏还挺好，后来就变得越来越薄，最好想意味深长一点，却是太薄了一点。
它聚焦了现代社会的主要问题之一——关爱老人
镜头语言还不错，但我不喜欢，我觉得一个电影没意思的时候就开始颅内拉片，要不是今天在资料馆看的肯定看不下去。
也许它并没有那么好，不是大家都喜欢的，但是是我的童年，让我想起了很多美好的回忆。
爸爸妈妈和孩子都很有感触，看完来了个爱的抱抱
7分，第一章节比较喜欢，年轻，现代，女孩，其他章节惨杂的社会意义太多了。
海报上这哥仨一出场，乍一看还以为是柬埔寨版《雄狮少年》，三个街舞少年试图通过选秀成为最优秀的舞者，但又由于现实元素的介入，一哥们要去法国，一哥们把了个妹，而剩下一哥们也就是男主面临着自家在市中心的老破小低价拆迁且老爹脚趾生病的现实问题。与《雄狮少年》所不同的是，本片在面对惨淡的现实的同时并没有大肆渲染梦想的力量，而是采用了一种较为平淡且边缘的旁观视角诠释了这段属于导演个人的私人化记忆，同时也指出了一些诸如房价高看病贵等民生问题。老破小与现代化的摩天大楼在这个浴血重生的发展中国家交相辉映，满街都是机车和雷克萨斯，但浮华的表象也并不能掩盖民生凋敝的惨淡现实。不太认可片子把货币单位翻译成柬币，按照符号来看应该是美元，这更符合柬埔寨当地人们的消费习惯，也比较符合金边作为柬埔寨首都房价高企的基本国情。
图大耳朵图图那算数我们不论。
平遥影展开幕片。难得观看到柬埔寨电影，也是一部青年导演的处女作，作者本人的童年往事构成了电影文本的创作基点。自我挖掘的自传式书写——这大概业已成为一种自特吕弗以降的“作者论”的主流叙事，面向亲身经历的回溯视点也意图向观众传递一种“敞开心扉”的真诚。不过，本片的风格基调似乎太过模棱两可，尤其表现为纠结于纪实与诗意，在现实主义与超现实主义之间凌乱徘徊，二者的转换往往显得唐突甚至没有必要（譬如，出现了一段对“荒废的白色大厦”的梦境叙事，其表述方式显得“类型电影化”，甚至接近某些惊悚片的视听手法，从而破坏了整体韵律）。不过，也有不少桥段组织得相当巧妙，譬如片尾母亲和孩子的对话，一组正反镜头将两个人物各自发生的不同动作交错剪接在一起，时间的运动及其流逝就这样在画框之外得到了十分微妙的隐喻及其表征。
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