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".
这部电影可以称之为告诉我我人生可能会面临的问题之一电影。
一部关照现实的童话集，用最温暖的画风去书写最平凡的故事。最喜欢的短片是《小火车》，阖家欢乐的幸福与背井离乡的酸楚，共同构成了这部以农民工及子女为主角的动画。其他短片也是如此，不管是公交司机、糖水老伯还是农村奶奶、餐厅父母，都是生活中最平凡之人，其中的川渝方言、广东方言与河南方言也是最熟悉亲近的语言。
想讲的东西有点太多了，导致故事面面俱到有点平。整体的喜剧氛围会冲淡情绪，家庭的很多话题其实是深刻的，感觉一笑带过有点可惜
有爱和温情，有诗和远方，更难能可贵的是，还有众生相和烟火气。
就很值得支持，治愈人心，整体最喜欢小兔那章以及每一章开场白的小兔，剪纸动画效果也很赞，都很温暖，是很好的片子。
成年人的故事，童心已死，如果不披面向幼儿的皮，恐怕没有这个分数，不过所有画风都特别可爱！
千丝万缕无穷无尽的爱
平凡，质朴，温暖。喜欢广东粥铺，河南乡村，四川小店这三个故事。
提及了概念 金继， 把破碎的东西用金子来弥补使其更加珍贵，理解为伤痕塑造了每一个独一无二的个体。
中国首部绘本动画片。回忆外婆那篇最受感动。7.3。
冬暖影展@苏艺 小火车和糖水铺相对更出色，哼哈二将剪纸的表现形式也挺棒，前两个略低幼。
中途一度好看到让我想打五颗星，结尾有点说不上来的感觉
含男宝量很足，不是很好去表达自己客观意见。作为绘本动画喜欢萤火虫的风格，作为大人更喜欢糖水铺和铁皮柜两章，铁皮柜的故事是全部里面故事情节上最完整，最流畅的。有麦兜的感觉了
《外婆的蓝色铁皮柜轮椅》★★★★★“绵绵流淌的回忆” > 《哼将军和哈将军》★★★★“绝代双骄的逗趣” > 《萤火虫女孩》★★★“奇境梦幻的浪漫” > 《蒯老伯的糖水铺》★★★“暇意生活的甜蜜” > 《小火车》★★★“哀伤励志的隐喻” = 《翼娃子的星期天》★★★“民工家庭的温馨” > 《小兔的问题》★★“童真可爱的畅想”
简单又温暖，像你我小时候看过听过的那些。首推糖水铺和翼娃子，我可太爱看平凡众生相了。两篇反转都不错，哼哈将军尤其可爱。小兔弱了点，但是画风我喜欢。整体连接很好也不割裂，请多一些这样的动画吧，这不比那些奇怪的催生政策更有效果？
对于面向3、40岁人群的故事来说，台本还是偏低幼了。只剩下欣赏画风了
我看见3、6章里洒落的世纪初nostalgia和4、7章里烟火氤氲的城市角落，我会在梦里继续等待着它们的造访。
Blanco's song hit different 💕💕
《小兔的问题》原作者-甘大勇、导演-兰茜雅：兔子会讲话却没画嘴；《萤火虫女孩》原作者-彭懿(文)&李海燕(图)、导演-李念泽；《小火车》原作者&导演-赵易：虽然画风不是我的菜，也有预测到剧情，但最后的段落还是有触动我的泪腺；《蒯老伯的糖水铺》原作者-冯云(文)&蒋玉娟(图)、导演-俞昆；《哼将军和哈将军》原作者-杨海林(文)&林豆子工作室(图)、导演-刘高翔：画风最令我惊喜的一个动画短片；《外婆的蓝色铁皮柜轮椅》原作&导演-刘毛宁：没想到《我和吸铁石和一个死去的朋友》的创作者也贡献了一部新作品，惊喜一下；《翼娃子的星期天》原作者-刘洵、导演-陈晨：故事还不错，但动画效果（如动作流畅度）却不太满意；片头+串联+片尾：导演-孙璐。
《外婆的蓝色铁皮柜轮椅》★★★★★“绵绵流淌的回忆” > 《哼将军和哈将军》★★★★“绝代双骄的逗趣” > 《萤火虫女孩》★★★“奇境梦幻的浪漫” > 《蒯老伯的糖水铺》★★★“暇意生活的甜蜜” > 《小火车》★★★“哀伤励志的隐喻” = 《翼娃子的星期天》★★★“民工家庭的温馨” > 《小兔的问题》★★“童真可爱的畅想”
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