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".
多一星给原著，去看原著去了。崔宇植好帅！！！穿西装戴眼镜帅到没边，两人的合作蛮有火花的！
这个故事能拍成这样也算可以了，但我就很纳闷鲁西西的书桌上为何会有梁羽生的小说和宜家台灯？
我就是恶人
诬陷那个没看懂。相较于kor一概的高水平犯罪片。这里的反派太弱了。。。
为宇植而看。讲故事能力不过关，案件、坏人、反转一个叠一个，全都走马灯一样，没有清晰地讲明白，更别提还涉及到崔民载父亲过去那条线。主题其实不新鲜，套娃结构，试图诠释的就是“亦正亦邪”，灰色体系中的警察用灰色方式抓坏人，抓灰色警察的系长也同样灰色，最后这个灰色体系被一个从黑白分明过渡到灰色的新人警察拿捏，这样一个庞大的网络被拍得太愣了，原本设置了一个更巧的切入点就是朴刚义与崔民载既像父子又是敌人的人物关系变化，但被复杂缠绕的案件掩住了，于是整部影片没有记忆点，不出彩，毫无情感力道可言。再次确认宇植的出色是把自己无缝融入情境，自然，不用力，对影片风格气质有很强的锚准能力，分寸感很好，在哪里都不突兀
不能把小演员调教得跟《家有儿女》看齐，至少也别像六一表演这样行么……
不愧是日改啊，这个剧情一看就很日，简直梦回半泽直树。虽然看到民载上船的时候就大致猜到后面的剧情走向了，部分剧情的节奏处理也有点怪，特别是民载卧底那段的蒙太奇看的我一个无语住…但是演员阵容真的全员狙中我红心，四颗星值得。
唉，看了30分钟看不下去，我已经不是孩子了，不过就电影论电影本身的素质还是不太行的，演的不行，改编的不行，特效也不行，因为没看完就不评分了。论教育那些事儿这片完全没有力度，论童心这事儿吧，确实又和现实脱节，毕竟现在的小学生是在互联网时代下长得的，这些传统的只能留给他们的父母去回忆去怀旧了，但作为大人又很难看的进去这般相对低幼的剧情。
竟然还有不是黑道的南寒公检法啊（。小崔战损多多益善！
郑渊洁童话都是很难改成出彩的真人电影的。他的文风，带着欧美小说的幽默讽刺，苏联文学的冷峻夸张，和一点近代白话文的反抗说理。笔下那些人物与行动，都有着明确内涵与动机。皮皮鲁、鲁西西，家长老师，罐头人，各有其象征的价值观和人生理念。但影片需将这种抽象落实成活生生的人，就出现鸿沟。另外，郑渊洁的故事说理鲜明，小孩看时只得了乐趣读不出深刻，大人看懂了苦涩却遗失了纯粹。说远啦。就改编而言，剧情有些生硬，色调有些浮夸，不过至少行动起来了。罐头孩子们未能塑造得立体有点遗憾。艺术家明显是团宠、傲娇毒舌口直心软的妹系，歌唱家温柔有凝聚力的大姐姐，上尉池面帅哥略中二，博士小天使智多星，约翰气氛组开心果。或许该去蹲一波同人图？彩蛋暗示魔方大厦，但更期待红塔乐园。
光顾着记人名和看厨子去了，事情的来龙去脉都给忘记掉了
5个罐头小人：博士、上尉、艺术家、歌唱家、外交官。
有人说。
平平无奇的六分吧，要讲的事情太多，节奏觉得也不对。不过喜欢崔宇植
演员很好，故事很好，就是拍的手法太烂了，没有把主题挖掘的够深。整个片子色调太暗了，看的全程眼睛难受╯﹏╰
小姑娘真不错，总被我叫做鲁鲁西的鲁西西是最棒的孩子，但是这个故事总感觉走了样呢太脸谱模式化了
说实话，没太看懂，很多情节交代的不是很清楚，没看到太多推理的部分！
要赢过没有底线的人 只能更没有底线 但依旧保持正直
这也能叫悬疑推理？就是韩国影视圈标准流水线产品罢了，精彩热闹，别深究。
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