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".
剧情云里雾里。
故事真的是很小很个人的一个故事。路易画的猫很人性化，很有性格惹人喜爱，而他一大家子人也特别像猫，古怪、神经质、敏感、孤僻，最后他晚景凄凉，又特别像流浪猫，让人唏嘘。又是电，又是未来的，不知道是不是爱迪生那部没演痛快。另外就是精神疾病这个处理，有些问题。比如美丽心灵的处理让人很同情，但是这部里有的地方太过火了，也不知道让观众怎么想……感觉他确实就是……挺疯的，那怎么办？不进医院又能怎么办，也不能让他疯下去吧……就是感觉不应该这样表现精神病人，不够尊重。
韩国🇰🇷的温情片真的好温情，有一种冬日暖阳的感觉，一点点温暖你，一点点感动你，就像在软绵绵的棉花里翻滚跳跃~
弟弟：你会一直看着我吗？姐姐：一定。弟弟：姐姐，我要离开了。
摄影和音乐非常棒！最后那几个镜头，看着他慢慢走到森林，走到画一样的风景里，就一直静静的流泪。虽然对猫没有特殊的好感，但是真的有被路易和夫人之间的爱感动到！尤其是最后的那段对话，太长情了，看一次哭一次。卷福绝对是今年发现的宝藏啊！从《犬之力》开始就来了电，又看了纠结的梵高，这部更好！你看他走路一颠一颠的样子，把路易那带电的性格一下就演活了。导演原来是之前看的那个英剧里面演Will的日裔，好厉害！
就是演员的年龄…嗯…… 但是整体来说还是很不错的 情感各方面都演绎到位
弟弟：你会一直看着我吗？姐姐：一定。弟弟：姐姐，我要离开了。
艺术家观察，体验，转换。让痛苦与美得以结合，就像柔美的阳光下被病痛折磨的Emily一样，迸发出强烈的生命之美。
明明不长却觉得好漫长。前半段和妻子的部分好看，虽然很像在看the theory of everything. 整个就好惨哦。
妻子去世那段直接看破防了。怎么能掐灭争来的唯一一盏光。/ 演员太优秀了。剧本和节奏整得不好，完全可以把爱情线做成主轴来叙述关于猫猫插画的创造历程的。后半段却变成流水账。
剧情没能产生强烈共情，却被父子两的演技打动。7分，林允儿戏份太少了。
标准的英国文艺传记片。服化道满分，两位主演的表演满分（本尼本身就不说了，女主这些年演技着实见长）。整个画面也太美太舒服了，真是大爱维多利亚Era的调调，再加上导演的油画处理，每一帧都可以截图壁纸。Louis Wain笔下的猫猫真的是太太太可爱了，栩栩如生，马上就下单了一本国内出的精装书，而且也好适合做拼图。就是这部电影感觉更像电视电影，可能是叙事方式以及画幅的原因，btw，服化道可以冲奥么？
中规中矩的传记片，演员加成不少。一直说女性意识觉醒，这一家子只啃一个男丁真的是要命，还歧视独立女性——家庭女教师。记忆就是脑子里电流，实现在视觉上还可以，真想通过艺术家的脑子和眼睛看世界。确实大多数时候，我们没有真正在看。
2.5/5 Not enough cats.
男主很幸运啊 失去了妈妈和姐姐
快闪镜头太多了，画面很美，本尼真的适合演传记
有天才创意的人多半是敏感偏执，甚至狂放幼稚的。深刻的艺术往往诞生于痛苦孤独和躁郁。虽然对猫画艺术不感兴趣，但是本尼的演绎还是很感染人的。
很喜欢插画，总是很想住进那些世界里。但是。请不要为了得奖去拍这些传记片。显得，很，刻意。。这么公式化，很难共情的。
拍得有点空，后半段更是直接放飞了，所以剧本真的很重要，再好的人物故事和演员演技也经不起这么霍霍。
剧情是不错，演员也不错，就是有点拖拉，感觉很多没有必要的情节
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