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".
这部电影是真的真的真的好，以至于好到我想推荐每个认识的人都看一看！
#看到末了，就很想问一句：他们穿这么少，好冷啊
很动人的片子，生命的意义确实就是在于选择啊，做了选择并坚定的走下去，韩松就是这样。
1960年代真的是好热闹，有核威胁的笼罩，刺杀总统，越战，民权运动，还有太空竞赛，年届六旬的导演不可避免的陷入童年回忆。60年过去，我们居然只能进入近地轨道，再也没人重返月球，现在这个时代太无聊了。
导演借用太空竞赛作为背景拍了自己的少年时代，儿童视角下，弱化各种政治与军事元素，只有一段玩着各种游戏，受到各种流行文化熏陶下的童年回忆，幻想与现实交织，也算是圆了导演的太空梦，不同的时代，不同的地方，但童年总是相似的，想起我儿时的玩伴了。7.6
致敬所有支教老师，真的没有坚强的心坚持不下去啊，何况在那个年代，幸好现在越来越好了。
这部电影确实给了大家耳目一新的感觉，让我印象比较深刻的是韩老师拿出自己的工资，给孩子们吃了一顿肉，泪奔
絮絮叨叨的怀旧碎碎念多到压过宏大叙事的时候，整个叙事也随之模糊起来——哪些是“真实”哪些是“虚构”呢？
与其说是回到60年代，不如说是让所有人重返童年。房前草坪上无忧无虑地嬉戏，父母职业在伙伴间的攀比，坐在电影院里刷过漫长的夏季，黑白的电视机突然仿佛涂上彩色的画笔，一盘盘精致的食物勾起了满满的食欲。那些可爱的画面里都是曾经的自己。
又有哪个向往星辰的小男孩不整日幻想着某天被神秘组织带走并得知自己是那个被选中的孩子，仅仅是因为登月舱尺寸设计小了这一荒唐的缘由，反正我曾也脑补过这样一出戏，这个来自林克莱特童年的脑洞，放在全片范围里都算最有趣的设定，半梦半醒如痴如醉的时代巡礼看来共情力并没有因地域文化差异而受严重影响
选择和坚持，亘古的难题，但在无边草原上孕育着最纯粹的付出。水电网于今日的我们是寻常之事，但在曾经的藏区草原，要克服这些稀缺而作出的选择和坚持，是难以想象地让人敬佩。草原很美，人心更美。在这个影片看到的纯粹，是让我觉得最温暖的地方。
导演借用太空竞赛作为背景拍了自己的少年时代，儿童视角下，弱化各种政治与军事元素，只有一段玩着各种游戏，受到各种流行文化熏陶下的童年回忆，幻想与现实交织，也算是圆了导演的太空梦，不同的时代，不同的地方，但童年总是相似的，想起我儿时的玩伴了。7.6
也许我离电影里的60年代美国社会过于遥远，距离感只能让我站在旁边窥视，但没有什么共情感。（家庭段落如果换成真人来演...我不知道我还能不能撑到进度条放完）
超喜欢这个画风，说不出为什么，对这部电影非常喜爱。
我觉得这样的故事，这样的人就应该让大家都认识，去感受他们的伟大 。超级感动，眼泪哗哗哗的！韩老师母亲说：心在哪儿，爱在哪儿，家就在哪儿真的一下就泪奔！强烈推荐大家看！
没有快进的看完了，对于现在浮躁的环境来讲，能认真看完这样一部电影，真的很难得。
又有哪个向往星辰的小男孩不整日幻想着某天被神秘组织带走并得知自己是那个被选中的孩子，仅仅是因为登月舱尺寸设计小了这一荒唐的缘由，反正我曾也脑补过这样一出戏，这个来自林克莱特童年的脑洞，放在全片范围里都算最有趣的设定，半梦半醒如痴如醉的时代巡礼看来共情力并没有因地域文化差异而受严重影响
网飞所赋予的自由，给了大导演们用最纯粹方式纪念自己童年的机会。从阿方索的《罗马》到索伦蒂诺的《上帝之手》，再到林克莱特的这部，让人一眼就能看出电影的作者性，也能轻易理解他们的独特之处到底从何而来。对于了解一个作者来说，这样的电影好过任何一部纪录片。
很复杂的情绪
少年时代啊，网飞钱够的，怎么没有用上半梦半醒人生那样的手绘立体的作画设计，那样感觉应该好些
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