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".
8.0 冲击的大场面无论是多少遍都不会腻，但这部的态度完全是《真心为你》的反面，真嗣的孤独，自闭，悲伤被各种人的“甜言蜜语”化解了，没有人去理解真嗣反倒是真嗣理解了父亲……最后他符合所有人，所有观众期待的那样成长，这样的态度我只能说，Fuck you ！庵野秀明！
与周围人和解，与自我和解，完成自我接纳、自我成长。庵野秀明是不是看过阿德勒的心理学作品？
感觉真像和自己的手办一一告别最后去上班的社畜……长大了，终于把父权暴政推翻并将其审判。最能打的还是漂亮姐姐（们）。靠后那段战斗塑料得令人吃惊，朋友指点是夹带私货的特摄拍法，有点意思。PS，最后的原画师列表非常豪华，昔日G社大联欢之外也是新一代原画师的成长啊～
不如说，所有人都在寻找生命中缺失那一环，只有剑介能给明日香宽阔的肩膀和完全包容和保护，类似父母的爱；只有真希波不计较自己，不在意真嗣的过去，愿意用爱包裹他，仿佛重回母体一般让真嗣觉得温暖可靠；也只有与碇唯一起不论生或死，存在或消失，碇源堂才能得到最终救赎。每个人都为内心缺少的那一环双手在空中挥舞，希望能抓到自己缺失的，需要补完的部分。
我从童年开始就独自一人
血海翻腾到白浪翻涌，一段漫长且凄美的乐章发出最后的悲鸣与哀叹，是永别亦是旅程的最后终点。时隔20余年，庵野有了充足经费，牟足了劲尽情挥洒，依然用它神学般的艺术展现力表达EVA的抽象性和延展性，带着执念，无论结局如何我全盘接受。
这样一部作品作为系列的终点，真的是太完美了。
开头一段烧预算让我密恐了。也不知道是渲染不够好还是建模直接简单粗暴拿来用，前几部里很喜欢的都市防御壁垒升起的片段毫无质感看得我内心毫无波澜。铃原出来之后就仿佛错进到细田守了，绫波穿紧身战斗服和一群穿工装的阿姨一起下地插秧这也太宫崎骏了。不是不能接受重启这么多次唯一还能有所突破就剩碇源堂的wife issue，但真看他被儿子口炮就解决心结的结局也还是觉得太草率了。另外美里加持搞了这么多年总算搞出人命，也算符合了一回科学。整个片子就感觉很精神污染。结局全作几大cp全拆了，很好很勇（鼓掌
保持95年tv版的评价会比较稳妥：很可怕 不好玩（一星给松任谷由实那首被翻唱的歌 一星给被虐的khara staff们（以及nhk的纪录片导演
等我啊，我也会等你……
庵导想开了，我也想开了……虽然有不尽如人意的地方，但看完还是很震撼，就这样结束也不错。
感慨在TV版推出26年后、自己看完前一部的《Q》外加吐槽真嗣的角色线的8年后，终于迎来了《终》。技术上来说可谓同类作品里的顶尖水准，无论从分镜到作(原)画、还是配乐；至于这个故事嘛，只能说从旧TV版一路看过来，《终》的故事相对而言已是属于很“通俗易懂”了。结尾半小时的戏既是主角团们以不同方式正式告别过去与自身周遭的一切和解，也是庵野等主创借此机会向观众传达着“人在成长中总要去学会接受路途中的遗憾、不完美/缺陷美与离别+学会在此基础上拥抱明天”(看上去感觉很“正能量”且一点也不符合EVA风格哈，不过个人感觉可能也跟这些年庵野秀明自身的心路历程有关)。某些角色的处理还是不免让人伤感(尤其美里跟丽这两段我很意难平)，但是这个“反EVA”式的充满希望的结局我还是接受的。See you, Evangelion~
从14岁看到40岁，看到大胸美女拉起碇真嗣的手，说实话我觉得这个结局很完美。《新世纪福音战士》的实质，是一部混合了机甲/巨神兵器、战斗、后宫、耽美、文艺、心理、末日题材、阴谋、少年拯救世界的燃/萌动画大杂烩。
人类补完其实是庵野秀明的自我补完吧。。
https://www.zhihu.com/question/448115446/answer/1773921792
除了13号和初号机剩下所有机型的新造型真的有点丑，要素过多有点缝合怪，好几个3转2都有点精神污染。但是镜头感，构图，色彩真的是EVA美学。好几个音乐切入瞬间直起鸡皮疙瘩。最后的大对战的表现手法太棒了，虽然对司令有洗白的嫌疑，但是还是感动了一把。一些坑也都填了。美里的故事很很感动了。和25年的故事说再见了。但是最后最后大结局真的是还是很意难平的！
所有人都成长了，也许这很糟糕，但，成长吧！！！
这是一部让庵野导演回归起点的作品。
结束迷茫或者叛逆的青春
属于真嗣的人类补完计划，虽然感情有些粗糙，但不失为一个完整的good ending。通过幸存者村的生活，丽把这份温暖传给了真嗣，真嗣明白了传达的重要性（他怎么早不明白啊淦！）于是就打通了任督二脉。作为新剧场的结尾并不太出色，但作为TV+所有剧场的补完结局，足矣
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