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".
满分之作，精彩绝伦，创意与技术的绝对领先！技术是手段，内核才添神韵。琴键之上，探讨何谓灵魂与存在，探讨何谓生之意义。一部适合所有年龄段观众的佳作～
然而，22将会知道，即使感受到生活万象，生命也没那么值得。（因为不能原谅这个重返人间的该死结局，用了好几天才按下打2星的冲动。）
看完有一种神奇的体验，好像灵魂出窍去到异次元游览，时空恍惚。灵魂如何被创造、如何从源头大我中因为一个起心动念而成为个体之我、人身存在的意义，仅仅通过动画片去表达，虽不能说极深刻，至少有一只光影之手，在将其触碰。
再失落的人，看了这个片子也会继续热爱生活吧。
在丧到不行的2020，看到这样一部走心的动画，皮克斯真的是用心良苦。没有猛灌心灵鸡汤，而是建造一个物质与精神交汇的世界，用美好去化解痛苦，用冒险去感知生活。只为告诉我们：人生的意义，不在于成就和目标，在于活在当下，酸甜苦辣，柴米油盐酱醋茶，这一切才能构造一个完整的灵魂。从根本去治愈心灵，改变观众感受世界的方式，皮克斯真的牛逼！
开场貌似平平无奇（差点以为又要讲一个流俗治愈故事），突然拐入生死临界的中阴区，目标未竟拒去彼岸，踏入生前灵魂聚集地，原来每个独特灵魂是这般批量训导出来的，唯有一颗不羁的千年老魂灵拒绝去往那百无聊赖的生地，共同演绎一出寻求生命奥义与终极火花的跨界悲喜剧，在红尘中感受生的愉悦和希望的不灭。
提醒了我，寻梦环游记是皮克斯最糟糕的电影，没有之一
还挺佩服皮克斯的想象力的，旧瓶子还能装这么有想象力的新酒，然而你无产阶级爷爷早就看穿了一切。
这部剧情生动，所有人物设定都各不相同，魅力四射！难以忘记啊！！！美术加双份鸡腿！！！！！！！
眼看着在电影院重映了，偏偏遇到疫情反弹，电影院又关了……没办法，只有在家里看看六公主的重播了。希望能够撑到疫情过去，坐在影院里再看一遍。这张电影票，我真的很想贡献！
3.5。凡尔赛动画，男主体验了得尝所愿，享受了人生巅峰，回头规劝大家平平淡淡才是真，能活着就是美好。？？？
配乐甚好，凝神进入“忘我之境”；金句频出——“灵魂不会击垮你，只有生活才会。”笑点与泪点都掐得很准，含猫量十足，一部特别适合年底收尾的片——“珍惜当下的每一刻”。
对我而言这只是没什么想象力满是说教的心灵鸡汤片。乔伊与22的关系没有形成强烈的互相作用力，更多的只让我感觉到乔伊单向的对22的影响和改变，乔伊与他母亲之间的矛盾属于在外，并且化解的过程也很简单，而他的内在的困境并不明显。整个故事走向很模式化，并且已经没有了皮克斯以往令人称道的想象力，甚至从头到尾满口的“爵士”到头来也没能让人感受到爵士乐的魅力。
发现平时生活状态或者心态都比较平稳的朋友都没太被这部电影戳到，对我来说简直就是去年一整年的心态写照，在电影院哇哇大哭。不是皮克斯最厉害的电影，但是是最符合2020的电影。
感慨于片尾说“我们想和BBC合作，这样没有限制可以更放手去做。”
当年最早在电影院看的就是天书和大闹天宫 但是天书的印象更为深刻些 一直过了很多年还记得狐狸精的姿态和小皇帝说话的腔调 呵呵
开头五分钟很常规，然后…然后…再然后…再然后…不断把人置于惊喜当中，在两种截然不同的美术风格之间不停跃动，创造出一种音乐性，也显示出皮克斯不竭的创造力和想象力。一个是需要目标的灵魂，一个是需要肉体的目标，二者相互扶助成全，某些瞬间还是蛮让人动容。黑人和女性地位凸显，但又没有太被强调出来，各方面平衡性做得很好。令人遗憾的是中段有点太碎，结尾又太圆满，既然成人路线都走成这样儿了，那就不如再干脆利落一点吧？（这个团队为啥对中阴那么感兴趣）
——🍅97%🍿️91%——可以有目标，但是没必要。
比 Inside Out 更克制，更冷静。如果将lesson理解为“认真生活”的话，似乎有点鸡汤，但故事的处理方式似乎指向了更多的问题：所谓的spark for life并不是所谓的天才或目标，而是为短暂的生命找到合适的安身之处。22变成游魂的部分特别动人，囚禁灵魂的不是其他的，而是一次次内化之后的negative self-talk，以后要对身边的人更温柔啊。
是我理想中的皮克斯该有的样子。整部片子就像爬楼梯，一层一层地塞给我新的价值观，却完全不让我厌烦。男主过完他本以为生命中最重要的一天以后的感受也是我的经验，而我还在继续摸索的路上。
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