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".
笔者再次泪洒电影院！这种故事我国编剧一辈子也编不出来吧
活着就是人生的意义，何须再去给自己添堵找什么人生意义。我以前也会被梦想束缚，后面我才懂得舒服也是一种圆梦
七分半。有套路，还很深。可有一点，这套路不可轻视，否则你在这个行当会没有立锥之地~~
拥抱平凡，快乐生活。道理我都懂，但这碗鸡汤我喝了毫无感觉。
好好活就是有意义
赞美当下、肯定世俗生活、强调生命体验的重要性——同样以爵士乐为底，堪称是一剂针对《爆裂鼓手》以及将其中的成王败寇逻辑奉为圭臬的丛林法则崇拜者的药方，即使会被看作是鸡汤安慰剂，但内核仍然深得我心。把朴素哲学理念用华丽概念+通俗故事包装起来，再润物细无声地层层拆开，是皮克斯看家本领，对Pete Docter而言也是驾轻就熟了。画风创意无需更多赞美（纽约的现代艺术环境，的确适合线条风灵魂会计师一展身手），但此次对灵魂学院的宏大设定没有更多延展，更多集中在“讲道理”上。配乐又是 Trent Raznor & Atticus Ross，真爱了。
很多时候你幸福，不是有多大的成就，只是因为一块烤得刚好的面包，一天阳光正好的正午，一片飘落到你手心的叶子。幸福仅仅是因为活着，因为几十亿人、整片天空、全部宇宙，都在沉默地陪你活着。
赶紧多排片，把郭小四这种鸡贼劣币赶出去。这才是好片！
推荐所有热爱音乐🎶，热爱or不热爱生活，对生命希望or绝望的人，活不明白的人把你去看《晴雅集》的票钱省下来，都去看这部电影，这才是真正值得你花2小时间坐在电影院观看的好片！！！
坦然接受自己即将平庸的一生，尽情享受每一分钟
我觉得这部电影在2020年底出现简直就像一颗充满力量的恒星，它闪耀着一种也许微弱的光，但却时刻告诉我们要充满希望的珍惜当下。人生的完满不在乎它高光时刻有多耀眼，而在于它每一分每一秒所散发的微弱的光；那些我们和家人的每一次欢笑，在街边吃到的美食每一次惊喜，哪怕在树下每一次被落叶敲中的平凡无奇...这些所有微光汇聚而成的人生，才是真正的人生，一个充满灵魂的人生。
院线经理们快醒醒，郭敬明们给你们下了什么迷魂药，为什么这么好的片子没有排片，却全排给了烂片。即使出了资源又怎样，这部电影是属于大银幕的。年度最佳动画长片！
设定很惊奇，那几个二维人物最惊艳。故事本身略有些俗套了，看完回家砸吧砸吧没有太触动。
活下去真的很需要自我哄骗和自我催眠，看电影往往就是最奏效的方式。
看完就像被电影抱了抱。叶子掉落的那个画面，就好像是第一次从抑郁走出来的时候，我看到的世界。
和灵魂乐的关系算是点到为止。有点失望。
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。
△你毕生追求的事情，实现的那天，其实也就只是普普通通的一天，并不会因为你实现了你的目标而变得非常的不普通。所以，不要为了你的事业对你的生活麻木、忽视你的朋友、你的家人。要不是22号，可能来敲门的小女孩就放弃自己的梦想了。
心灵是在这个年代我们最需要找回的东西。
蛋生。大话西游里的黑山老妖长得像那个老狐狸精。
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