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".
小时候就能重新开始，过于幸福了吧！制作优良但没有什么动人之处…
妖怪走过场，莫名建立的羁绊，无缘无故的好意 真的很让人没有安全感。女主的家庭问题并没有得到解决，妖怪长得潦草死得更潦草，真没动画看了这部也不是不能看，只是没啥意思 没代入感更谈不上感动治愈。
喜欢日和妹妹，全程看下来真的被暖到。（btw高潮部分实在太拉胯。。以为要放二十响，结果就冒了一缕烟orz
可悲的是动画已没有勇气直面现实灾难，更可悲的是动画想象力的枯竭。
前面氛围气氛还行，后面打怪是怎么回事，难道不是所有人一起奏乐跳舞拼尽全村人力财力来打败怪物吗，前面所有的铺垫到最高潮急转直下，我都看呆了。好吧其实我是看到这片子有佐藤拓也打酱油，饰演了一个“荞麦屋小哥”，全片出场两次，甚至不配拥有姓名WWWWW
也就是说婆婆明明知道自己很过分，还一直要求儿子媳妇花钱，虽说最后对儿媳妇表示感激，但是也说了：做人还是要任性一点，可是大家都任性了，你要去谁家养老呢……
画风到剧情到节奏都是很日常很治愈的，妖怪的部分有点少，在大迷家里看到的那些明明超级可爱，河童和巨大的地藏菩萨还有唐狮子也很可爱。最后战斗有点不给力，アガメ很轻松就被干掉了。总体还是很喜欢的，7/10吧
结尾的打斗在我以为差不多要开始的时候结束了
看到一半看不下去了 ，倍速看完了。老公也说看不下去了，看来不是我们喜欢的类型。 不过道理倒是认可的，人生不能贪心，人生也需要任性一点
“3.11被全世界人怜悯着”，难说，至少一部分中国人对日本的天灾是报以幸灾乐祸的态度的，所谓国仇家恨。
share house我有点不好接受 但那样的趴体我想要一个🎉
沉重的话题 温暖的结局。虽然但是 生活不是乌托邦 还是乌七八糟为主 没有那么善解人意的婆婆也没有那么懂事的儿女 至少给自己一个奋斗到60岁的鸡汤不要那么早丧失勇气
最开始以为是一个日常治愈电影，结果是一个奇幻治愈电影，总归都是治愈系。（植树节快乐）
天海佑希是我女神，松重丰是我男神，没有理由不喜欢。但是，小说比电影要细腻一些。
整体的画风比较一般，奶奶讲故事的几段画风还蛮好看的。更适合做清淡治愈的TV版动画，带有“奇妙物”和“迷途之屋”，给人内心中带来温暖和感动。作为大电影来说，高潮和故事的起承转合，都有点太简单了。
我选动漫电影的品味不是很好，总是挑中这种情节很迷的片子
片子拍的不错
讲述的是本就不富裕的50岁夫妻家庭，在花费公公的葬礼钱，女儿的婚礼钱后，更加捉襟见肘。夫妻双双失业导致无法担负婆婆的赡养费，于是接婆婆一起生活的搞笑生活。
“我们都别无选择，只能尽我们所能。”好想住进这样的房子啊
也太像share house宣传片了吧 笑！人还是活的任性点吧
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