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".
不过没有明显惊喜，就我了解的绘本，种类材质主题目前都非常丰富，期待更多改编，元素也更加多元，风格也能更大胆一点，除了感情路线，也期待更多自然，神话，科普，哲学，历史等各种风格，我记得蔡志忠就有很多创意哲学风格，期待更多突破，加油😊！
中途一度好看到让我想打五颗星，结尾有点说不上来的感觉
其实这种主题可以拍的更严肃些…总体有点隔靴挠痒的感觉
千丝万缕无穷无尽的爱
七个绘本小故事的动画电影，通俗易懂，质朴而温暖的情感路线，治愈了我们的心灵。
如果前面几个故事还可以说孰好孰坏，到第六个我的感情只允许我哭。
好温暖，有一颗童心的人，善良的人都会喜欢的电影。会想起自己的小时候，真好的动画电影。七个小故事都特别生动，中国的动画电影，加油加油
最喜欢糖水铺那个故事，这家店的糖水看起来就好喝。
想讲的东西有点太多了，导致故事面面俱到有点平。整体的喜剧氛围会冲淡情绪，家庭的很多话题其实是深刻的，感觉一笑带过有点可惜
家庭抓马大乱炖果然是意大利的天赋技能啊。透过年轻儿子的视角，讲述一个同志家庭的分崩离析、痛并快乐着的成长历程。每一个鲜活生命的诞生，都有无数人发生干丝万缕的交集，世界上没有完美的婚姻，但可以有宝美的离婚。
两位父亲之间的歇斯底里我第一次见识到。果然跟爱人之间不能有金钱交涉之类的。还有代孕问题，蒂莉还真的挺“伟大”的。男主女朋友的哥哥好帅，希望他能找到他的一半。
现实与幻想之间的恐怖夹心……有好几支动画都有类似的恐怖片感觉的不可靠叙事
《小兔的問題》：★★★；《螢火蟲女孩》：★☆；《小火車》：★★★★；《蒯老伯的糖水鋪》：★★★；《哼將軍和哈將軍》：★★★☆；《外婆的藍色鐵皮櫃輪椅》：★★★☆；《翼娃子的星期天》：★★★。影像比故事更出色，《螢火蟲女孩》在其中爛成了一顆老鼠屎。
七个短片合集，各有特色，不同的故事不同的画风，个人比较喜欢哼哈二将
有两位父亲的十几岁少年制作了一部有关双亲的纪录片
一直很爱看国外的绘本电影，很高兴看到我国也能有这种风格的动画电影。
无法苟同出轨是两个人的责任，在一段关系中，出现了问题，第一时间应该是沟通，表达自己的不满，去解决问题，而不是逃避出轨。出轨就是一个人的责任。
不得不说，豆瓣评分还是有道理的。里昂难过的时候他的蒂蒂妈妈安慰他的话：你知道吗？日本有一种技艺叫？就是用金液修补错误，修补完成的艺术品更珍贵。错误不可怕，正是犯错让人独一无二。
独立：7位年轻，有才华，艺术个性鲜明又风格迥异的绘本作者，被本来动画挖掘、集结，汇成一部短片合辑；
影像风格很有创意跟想法，画风个人挺喜欢的，很治愈系。
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