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".
枕刀歌13=特别篇上：时间（当年的真相。“千历三十八年”，那就是万历年间呗，时空背景明确了。）
这场面，这画风，酣畅淋漓的动作设计，当为国漫之楷模。不得不说剧情选材之巧妙，几个主角都是正传中死在主角手下的高手，已知其结局再看其往事，更显乱世苍凉，生死无常。
打戏真的天花板，剧情薄弱了，亮点全在打戏，但是太密集也有点审美疲劳。
好惊喜！运镜行云流水，打斗场面完成度极佳，所谓“反派”竟然如此有血有肉，唯一的缺点是文戏太少，叙事不太流畅。
人物模型稍微粗糙了点，场景和特效也比较像十年前做的，动作戏做得很流畅。反派刻画得很好。
动作流畅，非常有武侠武打片气息，可是整部剧情剪辑似乎差一口气，叙事再紧凑点儿会更好，对白再精简就更棒了。
虽然故事模式很俗套，但文戏武戏都可圈可点，技术和审美全程在线～最让我惊喜的是反武侠的主题，不再是简单的正邪二元对立，反派的“以戈止武，以暴止暴”的价值观在“侠以武犯禁”的环境下甚至更具有现实性～男主手刃仇敌后，面对山呼海啸的倒戈才是最黑暗的时刻，因为在这些人眼里只有权势金钱，毫无信仰道义，而这才是江湖最真实的面貌～
如果只聚焦在这个小范围拍的话，那给人的感觉多半是：美国女孩，也被规训。杜笃之先生一年接几个片子的活啊。
无论动作配音还是剧情都深得传统武侠之精髓。
和瀑布有着某种如出一辙的相似。生活的一地鸡毛，经济疫情环境下的压抑窒息，病痛缠身的绝望和折磨，青春少女的孤独叛逆，一个家庭无法好好沟通的爱恨纠葛分崩离析… 残酷又真实。PS，两位女主十分优秀
动作设计的不错，动画虽不够细腻，却很有风格。
每个人的心事和委屈都找不到出口，又带着一丝放不下的温情。
极为精彩的打斗场面，但故事于表面，像是上世界香港武侠片，类似张彻的高产武侠故事
动作戏行云流水，剧情简单但对白很有深意，是很棒的作品。
过好自己的人生才有可能成为好的父母，不要再说“都是为了你”“都是因为你”了，如芳仪所说“你总是能选择”。
国漫现在多了，但精英也是屈指可数，这部的质量真的好棒，但知道的人好少啊，我必须支持一下！
过瘾。一招一式都那么凌厉。徐克那些老武侠片那样打得很精彩。
瑕疵明显，但可圈可点之处也不少，算是未来可期吧。
动作设计相当出色，拳脚利落，兵器犀利，难得见到的高质量武打设计。武器暗器和名号设计也颇有古典武侠的味道。大反派的人设算是比较出彩的，居然从头至尾都是为恢复临清太平而驱动，一股清流啊。唯一问题是画面和画质太像游戏了，不够流畅，为什么不直接采用2D呢。感觉现在国漫故事和画面很少见到两端平衡的作品，总有一头问题比较大。
过好自己的人生才有可能成为好的父母，不要再说“都是为了你”“都是因为你”了，如芳仪所说“你总是能选择”。
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