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".
典型挂羊头卖狗肉，和原本巴斯没有任何关系，说实话他不披这个皮我觉得还好一点。zzzq的东西其实还好，女同也只有一点点，不太影响观感，但故事讲的太烂了一处都没有交代清楚，没有主线剧情，毫无深度，摆烂。
又是一部非常法国的片子，另一种视角下的《世糕人》，不过相比前者，本片的女主角人设似乎更真空一些，导致前半程一直难以入戏。最后半小时还是短暂地俘获了我一下，有些人来到你的世界里，上一课便匆匆离开，却留下了一辈子都抹不去的印迹。很俗，但还是有一点浪漫。
唯一的亮点就是Sox了，实在讨人喜欢，但是别的远远配不上“玩具总动员”衍生的牌子。除了是个情怀牌，实在是没有什么创意和惊喜可言。“衍生宇宙”和政治正确已经限制住了皮克斯以及其他迪士尼旗下的创造力。
有意思的是现实中是MIT的group，电影里变成了Harvard…
20220710 退休、自我价值自我实现、伴侣、亲子关系
我真的很喜欢巴斯光年，但是这个故事没有我想象中的这么宏大………Toy中巴斯光年的人设更讨喜一些。
这应该是我自打有豆瓣账号以来第一次“想看”和“在看”间隔不到一天的一次观影，是间隔耗时最短的一次！观影过程中我就觉得光年也太像美队了，这叫一个严重自信乃至令人不适啊而且好轴啊并且也太喜欢孤军奋战了！好家伙看完电影再回过头来看演职员发现光年的配音就是北美第一翘臀美队克里斯哈哈哈哈哈哈真棒！说实话我不懂现在这帮进电影院看动画大片的观众们到底想看到多么AMAZING的Lightyear？为什么牢骚满腹抱怨那个吻很多余抱怨剧情不够LIGHT？你们这么难伺候的话就别进影院看第二部了，谢谢，有机会的话我会进影院冲第二部的。之前看玩总一直不太喜欢巴斯光年，觉得他真的太美队，不过看完这部电影，我宣布，我爱巴斯光年！我爱这个大下巴颏子！诶哟！以及我好心疼玩具巴斯光年…当他知道自己仅仅只是个玩具的时候…天啊我哭
好难看的纯美式套路爆米花电影，将一个真实故事改编得TMD的毫无营养、毫无剧情……可惜了题材
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7.0分/ B+。有人陪伴一起“疯狂”才是最令人羡慕的。以及还是根据真实事件改编。
法国女性的率性着实让我目瞪口呆，也许这才是人之天性，在我们的文化里没有被允许过。
明明是个爽文故事，可情节拍的不咸不淡。不过挺温暖的。
美好、温馨又励志。#彩票中奖后的普通生活#
想了一段时间 还是打算写一下 一开始期待极高 先后知道本片内含有txl情节和口碑票房双扑街 看完最大的感觉就是无感 不说感动了 连剧情的推动过程和人物都毫无惊喜 简直像一个无感情的作品一样 创作者毫无热情的 拍了一部视效nb的垃圾作品 没有表达没有意义 前半段和后半段割裂感强 完全不像是一部电影 对《星际穿越》《星球大战》等科幻作品借鉴明显 毫无自己的东西 没想到皮克斯居然拍出了这么无聊的一部作品 而关于txl问题 我很喜欢tx作品 比如《终将成为你》《断背山》《利兹与青鸟》等 但这部电影就好像大部分zzzq的电影一样 只是为了迎合当下美国市场环境而加的一段没必要的情节 假设她是异性恋 又有什么变化呢？就我看来没有 皮克斯真的该好好打磨打磨剧本了
好久没有看到这样老套充满人情味的故事了，结合疫情背景下更显得珍贵，生活中有比钱和赢更重要的东西值得守护。
很套路的美式英雄电影，把一贯的主角换成了巴斯光年，勾起了对玩具总动员的回忆
这藏钱的动作和老chunk的互动，真的梦回毒师。挺有意思的。有一说一很难不羡慕杰瑞和玛姬的感情啊
我只是觉得，远在1995年的Andy小朋友，他也不会喜欢这个故事。
毒师律师都开创第二职业。律师和毒师里的老人聚首就值得看
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