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".
政治太特么不正确了，居家隔离居然拍得这么欢乐。
贴合Covid现状的合家欢轻喜剧，过年看很舒服
私以为算是非常不错的疫情片了，诙谐幽默，疫情限制了出行，却也让我们反思家庭关系、反思面对面社交。居家办公的烦恼深有体会，做核酸那个镜头，仿佛把我的天灵盖也捅没了，都太真实了……希望导演对于影子的运用，太美好了，院子里红蓝白旗子的配色很法兰西。最后讨论死亡与新生，虽然早猜到可能是这样的结局，但还是有被感动到。
那个防疫过度的男人做了很多我内心的小人做过的事情
能以全手绘风格耗如此成本制作一部oad真是太少见，虽说不看漫画完全看不懂，但是依旧被绝美震撼。动画特有的，朴素归真的。一切真人电影竭力也无法达到的表现力。在林间的道路上，外化为树木。撕开胸口瞥见的一汪清泉。乃至清晨的大雾与阳光。每一处生活中的灵感都能被画者放大，展开，以不属于真实世界的美丽构建出那些美丽灵魂的故事。
年度十选。无需多言，这是只属于动画的生命力，也同样是只属于动画的谎言。
关于相互尊重和救赎的故事。从题材到人设到画风到分镜细节雕琢等等都戳我。可惜的地方是最后有点谜语人，以及我由衷希望日常再多点。
疫情期间大家都不易，住在一起本来就很容易有摩擦，更别说全天都被困在同一间房间里。
萤火之森的幽灵版本 画风好喜欢 视听语言好棒 好治愈 好喜欢小女孩和老师的搭配 好甜～
迪亚哥演的是最好的
街区冷漠的邻居因为covid彼此打开心扉这个主题很不错。群戏太精彩了：有钱就变坏（脾气）的顶楼复式大男人家庭、胆小如鼠的老公的家庭、寡妇开店的老太、确诊楼管的西班牙裔丈夫、潜心疫苗研究不惜献身的博士、争当网红的年轻cp、以及昼伏夜出的抗疫护士。yvan attal演的太好了，颠覆以往形象，抽搐那段笑抽了。dany boon真的有才！且只有法国能把这事拍的如此轻松又温情。唯一的不足就是生活感比较强，不像电影像sitcom
挺有意思的，时而沙雕好笑，时而温暖深情，跟拍情景喜剧一样，我可以一直看下去！
“向所有受过苦的人致敬”
“所谓灵魂，可以理解为心，也可以换而言之为感情”
最喜欢的是105分钟之后的那三分钟，虽然现实是生活永远都回不到以前的样子了。“如果我们同一天出生就好了，那样我们会同一天死亡，大家都不会难过。”
温馨的法式小品。有点意思却也只有这点意思了。
溫情又可愛的一個小品。法國男孩真是從小就很會啊⋯⋯
以上只能说这是一部纯电影我的感想，但是你要来输出意识形态，关联邪教，拒不承认，那这部电影还是算了吧，一部电影还夹带私货，那就不是电影了。
最后想多提一句那两个小朋友，太可爱了。我永远喜欢青梅竹马。
超出预想 不错的封城期法式小品 一纸禁令让平时冷漠疏离自顾不暇的巴黎居民楼内反而有了温度 Dany Boon拍这种虽冒着cliché的傻气却也不乏笑点与温情的喜剧是最手到擒来的 以及空无一人的街景真美 像件限时存在的绝世艺术品 (胖乎乎的豚鼠被科学家按压的时候的时候还吐出小舌头可爱死我算了)
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