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".
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国内的绘本电影是真的少，这部质量倒也还行，至少不再讲神话故事了，温暖又感动的小事也值得创作者们关注啊~
所有短片的美术都很赞，但不知道是不是改编自绘本的原因，大部分短片还不能称之为电影，只能说是会动的画面配上了话外音。相比之下，《小火车》就显得非常鹤立鸡群了，值得起立鼓掌的那种。
超级温馨的画风。看到第六章外婆的铁皮柜轮椅，眼泪真的止不住。用的是小学语文课本的那种画风，叙事方式也像小学作文一样一点点给你讲。关于老人真的有太多遗憾了😭
最后还有一个小小小彩蛋
个人最喜翼娃子，很有烟火气。
衔接动画（小兔子）不错。章节故事的表现手法都非常风格化，很多惊艳的片段～但故事性水平有高有低，最喜欢小兔子🐰
就是排片很少，今天下午终于看到了，很喜欢这些类似《娃娃画报》画风动画片。
第六个故事——外婆铁皮柜打开，遗物慢慢铺陈开来，很浪漫。死亡、怀念竟也如此浪漫
动起来的绘本，因为设想对象是孩子，剧情略显无趣
个人比较喜欢蓝色铁皮柜的外婆那一部，目前比较能撑起整个大荧幕的放映
最喜欢糖水铺和外婆蓝色轮椅这两个单元，好温馨。
能打动人的，永远是真诚。
#2c 感谢官方的赠票，让我再一次有机会在儿童厅看到这么好看的电影。作为中国的第一部绘本电影，有童真，有温情，有深度，有反思，源于生活，贴近生活，除了一二章的儿童性强了些，别的我认为并不逊色于任何国漫。比国内恰烂钱的商业片不知好几百倍，也让我第一次感受到了中国动画电影的希望
吹爆《小火车》，其次陈晨导演的动画经验还是比较丰富的，《翼娃子的星期天》可以排在第二。这两个故事都挺有生活质感的，比较适合成年人看。
《外婆的蓝色铁皮柜轮椅》一篇很像《困在时间里的父亲》，越看越有感触。当初那个为我们遮风挡雨的港湾，终有一天会在岁月的洗礼里褪去颜色，年少时视若世间强者的父母，最终也果然老去，他们因为物理或者生理原因，在永恒流动中闪烁光芒，让我们这些人终于敢在黑夜里直视天空仰望苍穹。
定位到底是什么：有童心的大人还是小朋友
😭重庆小火车一篇处理得太温柔了，开火车时“隐形”的腿和最终的奔跑。里面的人儿都善良得可贵，农村和小镇被浪漫化，但这是给孩子的故事，是向着明亮那方的，是我们需要寻迹出发的。嗯嗯，人是要和人建立连接的。结束后前排小朋友喊“可以再看一遍吗”，我右边一女孩“妈妈，我也想再看一遍”
——以下有轻微剧透的分界线——
影院排片实在很少，但看过之后和预期差距确实比较大，抱着来学习的心态看的。有些故事表现感觉不太完整，比较喜欢第三个故事的剧情和第四个故事的画风，感觉还可以做的更好一些。
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