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".
风格上强行蹭大白，主题早就讲烂了（他还没讲好），同样的故事年初的《智能大反攻》可以把这部摁在地上摩擦。
类似的题材和表达，更喜欢《当我们仰望天空时看见什么》
只有承受足够多现实的痛苦，并且怀揣勇气，才能去创作虚构的艺术。年过半百的导演们近年都趋向于回到故乡，呈现私人的回忆，探寻当年自己迈出第一步的原因。
以前歌曲是要倒带才能反复听的 照片是要夹在书里的 动画片是要守在电视机前等的 表达喜欢和爱是一件繁琐的麻烦事 而如今，动动手指能解决一切了 朋友圈里仿佛有上百个朋友了 大数据为你准备好所有你的爱好了 不用等待和寻找了 一切都廉价了
岁数大了确实看个wholesome点的故事都能爆哭。最后大团圆结局还是kids friendly啦，改名叫“仿生朋友也会怕黑”差不多。新年初始是需要点这种upbeat动画来打打气的了。
朋友是什么？总之不是依靠科技的虚假繁荣以及空虚感。
这个主题非常当代。但设定本身都是一眼看上去就有问题的，再用一个故事来扳倒和翻转也没什么必要。
ron带着小帽子和小腰包的样子真是太可爱啦
后半部分的套路无趣，硬生生的把前半部分的准4星水准拉回了勉强3星。
主题其实跟上半年那个《智能大反攻》有点像，最后都是在讲科技与人类的关系，当本该陪伴人类更好生活的科技失控后，人类还将如何自处。只不过最后落在了“be friends”的点上，这可以是一种动作，也可以是一种状态。朋友究竟是什么？实体的情感共鸣，还是虚拟的社交体验，两种或许都是，但无论如何，朋友一定是双向的关系，需要关怀和体谅，没有一个朋友是完美的，一味地接纳恐怕也无法成为朋友。结尾的情绪放大点真的非常动人，充分证明相比讲一个好的故事，如何讲更重要，哪怕这个故事并不新鲜。你虽然消失了，但你又无处不在，太温暖了。美中不足大概就是反派角色还有程序员CEO相对有点工具人了。三星半。
故事不新鲜，结尾还非要让Ron“死掉”，有必要吗？
设想它会是入坑爱豆后要订阅的bubble（这里“撞名”意外提供太多脑补空间）- -你渴望收到从不停更、准时推送的自拍、短视频以及各种颜文字表情包的职业营业三件套，还是虽不多、但却每每恰到好处的真情流露。身处一个技术世代，许多动画都开始将视角对准被算法、技术以及“Big Tech”劫持并且渐渐消失的“真心”；它们构思一个几乎能与现实生活对照的故事世界，也最终归纳出实际的矛盾- -我们的交流比任何时候都更简单方便，却也比任何时候都渴望其中的珍贵。Barney和Ron的历程与故事触碰于此，并有些许发散；尽管更多是粗浅美好的幻想，但还是让故事本身变得珍贵。
友谊双向道安全隐患儿童赛博天网崛起，it pooped me
影射很多，多处细节联系现实真的很恐怖，社交网络确实改变了交友的方式，但真正了解一个人还得靠reality。
开始很俗气，后面好一点了，谁知道最后又变成编剧赶去老妈葬礼剧本……社恐只能强行治愈，不能独享反社会bugAI，敲里吗，强烈建议超度现充和云现充
真是无语了，打扮得再华丽也掩饰不住三观的虚伪。穷人的孩子不配拥有幸福，除非你购买昂贵的垄断科技巨头的电子产品（这样你就能获得虚伪的“幸福”）。
Once upon a time in Napoli，少年索伦蒂诺的自传。美好而粗粝、杂乱却也鲜活的那不勒斯，寄托着这位天才创作者最柔软的眷念，最动情的回忆，固然还有最本源的自我。
每个孩子都有一个小白的时代，社交建立在固有的网络模式之上，非理性跟风显露，号称的坚固友谊死板单一全不可靠，与此相对的，跳脱程序的阿荣在一穷二白的情况下与巴尼真心相处，开发了更适合孩子个性释放的交友准则，怪胎不怪，只是缺少足够的理解。
认真的吗，把一段没有严格安全设置的程序上传到所有的产品里面？
Cliché但是还是被感动了。交朋友的主题很棒，其他关于什么科技和儿童，数据安全之类的就不考虑了，还是挺开心的。
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