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".
剧情太温吞缓慢了，拍的依然还算好看，但是片子也像东木一样有种衰老迟暮的感觉，没法看得很投入，缺少刺激和感动的感受。老东木也不再适合当主演了，已经缺乏力量感了，感觉比《骡子》里的他还要迟缓一些。
情怀分都不给！统统丢掉！（后半段看得我真的有些不适…
虽然故事太合家欢了，但是看到夫人和姐姐就很快乐
一个温柔的老爷爷在告别他自己，顺便给你讲了一个温馨的故事哄你睡觉。愿世界永远有温柔的说故事的人。不老。
好像没啥gothic味道了，就一个普通的挽救叛逆期女儿和家人关系的动画片，也并不好笑。
Wednesday is so cool. 假发还这么难拔下来. 炸弹boy的实力不行呀, 第一集还跟姐姐相亲相爱, 这一集就都是被杀[torture].
合家欢，但我想看哥特家族每个人都想着死亡的那种！
走路都颤颤巍巍，还能征服寡妇驯服野马…在那个警局都没有的墨西哥小镇，老牛仔既能把牛仔精神传承给下一代（下一代是个墨西哥新移民了），又彻底告别打打杀杀，凭治愈动物的一技之长造福乡邻，找到人生归宿，感觉有点「礼失而求诸野」的意思，也是东木君与他的牛仔电影生涯做的平静道别了吧
走路都颤颤巍巍，还能征服寡妇驯服野马…在那个警局都没有的墨西哥小镇，老牛仔既能把牛仔精神传承给下一代（下一代是个墨西哥新移民了），又彻底告别打打杀杀，凭治愈动物的一技之长造福乡邻，找到人生归宿，感觉有点「礼失而求诸野」的意思，也是东木君与他的牛仔电影生涯做的平静道别了吧
就是套着亚当斯一家的壳子，不管是是1973，1991，1992版的亚当斯一家，温斯蒂都很爱自己的家人，根本不可能像这版里这样嫌弃自己的家人
东木老爷子还在擅长的领域拍着电影，老牛仔一面展示与动物的亲近，一面教育起了小孩子，这趟旅程很无趣，西班牙语与英语的切换也让人难受，尾随者构不成严重的威胁，唯一的黄昏晚霞，多少散发出一丝慰藉，也许这就是东木当下的心境，寻求归宿。
这个ip真的不错 可是第二部明显对不起这些人物 故事凌乱拼凑 主旨立意走偏 可惜
老爷子变温和了，给人的感觉就是，即便他还有话想说，但是也有点说不动了，干脆就编织一些童话般的美梦好了，for next generation。一趟明知终点却又中途停靠的旅程，是谢幕亦是启程，仅此已足矣。
不知道老爷子设定男主是多少岁，但看着他用龙钟的姿态钻进驾驶座，蹒跚地踮步做出拳击的架势，僵硬地拥着风韵美女，就不由得觉得真的人要服老才可以啊。
熬夜看完的2个动画电影，暗黑童话的风格，画风超级可爱ớ ₃ờ。
原来有前作啊，怪不得这么有意思的设定配这么水的剧情。。唯一可看的就是歌还不错
这烂片给一星我都嫌多，东木这是自拍自导上瘾，但是这是辣观众的眼睛啊，毫无意义的电影
what the fuck ?
东木头似乎已经老到懒得琢磨剧本了，有个灵感填充进套路式剧情就成了一部电影。脸谱式的人物，最终都会解决的小挫折，爷孙的温情，男孩的成长，以及那只神奇的公鸡，仿佛在看迪士尼动画。
主角就算不是亚当斯一家也行的通的普通动画电影
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