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".
小兔和萤火虫有点被改编束缚住的感觉，萤火虫确实美术很细腻温暖，参与过才能真正体会工序的繁杂。短片集的一个好处是可以展现不同社会环境下的家庭样态，对翼娃子里孩子在摊位桌板下做作业的情景印象很深，很好地表现出“人们如何艰难地活下去，在知道小火车的伏笔后第二遍看从开始就会觉得很感动，教人勇敢振作，和《雄狮少年》有异曲同工之效。
原本以为只是无性别差的家庭闹剧 没想到最后升华了啊…… 革命尚未成功 同志仍需努力…… 日本金继的比喻很精妙……
说低幼的也是服了，本来绘本就是给小孩看的啊！
不哭，外婆在呢。
原本三星，多加一星为了各位主创点赞，也是为了期待！
谈不上精彩 但大概是我的期望值较低 所以反而出乎意料的好看…很好的故事 既真实又不缺乏戏剧性 演员选的也不错……我一般不看同性题材的 这次没注意却观感不错
短片的体量丰富了视觉介质，大部分短片在结局时都制造了对动画与现实的指涉。比较喜欢《萤火虫》、《小火车》、《哼哈二将》。
希望多一些国内的导演，多拍一些符合我们自己风格特色的好电影
希望能看到更多这样真诚有趣，老少咸宜的国产动画，7的乡音听着想起了小时候，落泪了。
没看过片，不过当我不知道金子美玲吗，打一星先——
1月16日，上映第二天，下午4点45分的场，影厅里只有3对父母和我。从第一个故事开始就哭得停不下来，给孩子讲的故事总是温暖纯粹得令人心酸，和大众化CG动画相比，独立动画导演的呈现效果也让人眼前一亮。1个多小时的片子，很短，如果想要治愈自己，强烈建议！
大团圆结局不行吗？非要搞成异性恋似的出轨撕逼的剧情！
其实很多部分明明是悲剧，却用轻快的音乐给中和了，所以看起来没有那么悲伤，最后的结局也很感人。
蒯老伯的糖水铺
就算爱没有了……还有千丝儿万缕的关系能把曾经相爱的两人联系到一起……爱是不会消失的……
短片的体量丰富了视觉介质，大部分短片在结局时都制造了对动画与现实的指涉。比较喜欢《萤火虫》、《小火车》、《哼哈二将》。
我真的好想看，有没有提前放映啊！好爱刘毛宁！/等待了大半年，终于看到了，感觉有被欺骗到。首先这是一部儿童向动画电影，剧情简单，节奏平淡。其次，除了两三个故事有完整的剧情，其余都不知所云。最后，我对不起被我拉过来一起看的朋友，我也不知道这是儿童向……
《萤火虫女孩》《外婆的蓝色铁皮柜轮椅》还不错.
7.5。在国内的院线，你很少能看到一个动画短片集，80分钟7个小故事，不同的导演，这个形式不可避免地就会出现故事质量上的参差不齐。有的故事语言表达上过于低幼，让我感觉自己像被忽悠的傻孩子，而有的故事在现实生活层面表达上的动人之处却又完全不低幼，让我一时搞不清这个影片是给什么年龄段的孩子看的。手绘画面的场景切换做得非常巧妙。我很喜欢《小火车》《哼将军和哈将军》以及《外婆的蓝铁皮柜轮椅》。20220103北京槐房万达影城
七个独立的绘本故事改编，既有想象的，也有纪实的，我觉得除了哼哈二将只有笑点之外，其他的故事都眼中带泪。喵喵看了预告片并不喜欢，然而看完以后却觉得非常好看。片尾曲是金子美铃作词。
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