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".
剧情不断反转，是一部不错的喜剧，整体节奏轻松愉快，但……我却看哭了。
7.5。在国内的院线，你很少能看到一个动画短片集，80分钟7个小故事，不同的导演，这个形式不可避免地就会出现故事质量上的参差不齐。有的故事语言表达上过于低幼，让我感觉自己像被忽悠的傻孩子，而有的故事在现实生活层面表达上的动人之处却又完全不低幼，让我一时搞不清这个影片是给什么年龄段的孩子看的。手绘画面的场景切换做得非常巧妙。我很喜欢《小火车》《哼将军和哈将军》以及《外婆的蓝铁皮柜轮椅》。20220103北京槐房万达影城
喜欢第五个故事。但，是啥冲昏头脑的诱惑让你们决定搞个电影出来的啊……不符合市场逻辑啊，也不符合电影逻辑啊……
7.5。在国内的院线，你很少能看到一个动画短片集，80分钟7个小故事，不同的导演，这个形式不可避免地就会出现故事质量上的参差不齐。有的故事语言表达上过于低幼，让我感觉自己像被忽悠的傻孩子，而有的故事在现实生活层面表达上的动人之处却又完全不低幼，让我一时搞不清这个影片是给什么年龄段的孩子看的。手绘画面的场景切换做得非常巧妙。我很喜欢《小火车》《哼将军和哈将军》以及《外婆的蓝铁皮柜轮椅》。20220103北京槐房万达影城
不过并不完全算全年龄向的。
从来没有过笑意与泪意完全重合出现的时候，它给了我第一次
希望能看到更多这样真诚有趣，老少咸宜的国产动画，7的乡音听着想起了小时候，落泪了。
反传统叙事，平淡生活中见证独属于中国人的情与美。含蓄留白，就像一杯茶，看似无味，实则韵味悠远。哼哈二将结尾的小反转真是有趣，不过我最喜欢的还是萤火虫女孩和蒯爷爷的糖水铺，生活是具体的，但也是浪漫的。
有很多不足，但是依然觉得中国动画有了希望。
《萤火虫女孩》被改编得面目全非。至少有两个故事是成人的怀旧视角。相对来说，比较喜欢《哼将军和哈将军》。
超喜欢《兔子的问题》，母女间一问一答的轻松形式，却有一种浓浓的情感。其实，每个妈妈都不想儿女长大离开家，即使嘴上说着你要去很远的地方，但心里依然希望孩子“别跑太远”。讲真，有泪目。
很喜欢替保罗不值得，到老年岁数了还要遭受爱人的背叛，无语住了西蒙的渣让我想吐在一起那么多年本来就是同性这条路难走一起熬过来了，有那么可爱的养子，一家三口真的不要太幸福，还是背叛了这么好的爱人，最后没复合挺好的，他会遇到比那渣渣更好的，西蒙配不上他
Blanco's song hit different 💕💕
呜呜呜！演员们的颜值我爱死了！啊啊啊！评分让我来顶！
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7.5。在国内的院线，你很少能看到一个动画短片集，80分钟7个小故事，不同的导演，这个形式不可避免地就会出现故事质量上的参差不齐。有的故事语言表达上过于低幼，让我感觉自己像被忽悠的傻孩子，而有的故事在现实生活层面表达上的动人之处却又完全不低幼，让我一时搞不清这个影片是给什么年龄段的孩子看的。手绘画面的场景切换做得非常巧妙。我很喜欢《小火车》《哼将军和哈将军》以及《外婆的蓝铁皮柜轮椅》。20220103北京槐房万达影城
四分有两分是给主演之一保罗，好帅哈哈哈。其他给剧情吧，最后升华成功，也表现了夫夫家庭的一些矛盾，但是我不咋感冒。
喜剧的最后总会发人深省，第一部看的意大利电影是完美陌生人，第二部就是这个了，最难受的是在知道一方出轨之后，两个人像小孩子一样破坏对方的东西，我想是因为舍不得所以放不下吧，还有感动的是两个人一切都是为了孩子，可能不需要细究到底谁是亲生父亲，正如他们所说的感情都是建立在爱和信任之上的，其余的好像就不太重要了。
画面很干净，故事很简单，声音很软萌，但确是很生活很接地气的动画短片。七部，真好。
看哭了，一起去的朋友也看哭了，很多哭点，但看完感觉温暖和治愈
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