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".
动作设计确实流畅，有点《火影忍者》的意思。只是2D的人物在3D场景中很违和，故事讲得也有问题，打斗时西门仁的废话真多，三四个人竟然在一个走廊里打了整场。第二季预告中的人物看着舒服很多，期待一下先。6
强烈建议枕刀歌剧组接手国内各大武侠IP的武指工作！！！！！尤其是《雪中悍刀行》！！！！！！
一如既往高水准。结尾临清漕帮天下无双真是讽刺
台片的细腻程度总是让人非常感慨，看多少次都还是这样的感受。但也总是局限在一个很小很小的故事，诉说大差不离的那些议题。
爸爸说： 如果你真的那么想去美国的话，我穷的脱裤子也会让你去；但是，如果你只是想逃避，去哪里都一样。
打斗确实做得蛮漂亮，文本弱是国产通病了，还是值得一看的。
6.5/10。居然不是动画番剧合集！认真讲了一个复仇故事，仍旧延续着冤枉-组队-大战的模式，但情节没有番剧吸引人。动作设计太强了，行云流水快意恩仇。三渲二的画风容易劝退一部分观众，我还能接受。最后屠龙勇士看着兵器上的血，听着一声声投诚的呼叫，他露出了惊恐的神情，这是反战的。
你就会聪明一点，
可是我想看何方知
剧情直男，画风直男，大概这好评都来自于武打场面的动画制作，鉴于此我给第三颗星。对于从小拿武侠小说当精神鸦片的80后来说，这剧情我看了都快翻白眼了，救命啊，难看啊，武侠死就死了呗，好好搞耽美拉到了。
生活无望的窒息感和彼此相爱的最后底线 论作品完成度和立意明显更加完整更加具有可探讨性 导演真的很厉害 处女座就能有这样的敏感度和成熟性
电影拍的03年，但有着不可思议的现实感，不久前这些台词我听到过。是不是所有妈妈都想过自由，谁也没有多少选择的余地，已经是能做到的最好了。两年前看多兰的杀妈，那时同现在一样心潮澎湃，其实恨意都很脆弱，看到结尾心中一股暖流。对的时间看了对的电影。
台湾电影真的越来越厉害。生活的真实，女性的视角，肌肤的基础，身体的语言。安静激烈又深邃。
动作戏的招式设计、镜头调度放在真人功夫片中也不逊色。故事很简单，但江湖氛围营造的不错。
7/10。分镜、节奏还有配乐都把控得很好，武戏更是酣畅淋漓，令人大呼过瘾。就是文戏略弱，许多对白听着有些出戏，需要精心打磨。此外，人物的塑造有所不足，江湖纷争、各怀鬼胎没能体现出来，需要更多铺垫，比较成功的角色只有江渊。不过，影片以家国与江湖帮派之争作为切入点很不错，倘若能将西门仁成功塑造成一个为了天下太平而肃清临清各帮派的大义凛然之人，而非影片中耍心机手段的官府走狗，以及将江湖各派之争而形成的混乱呈现出来，加强西门仁的动机，影片能更上一层楼。目前看来，影片的正邪之分还是很明确的。
很多动作其实真人都做不出来的 违反物理定律 当然制作很认真 鼓励 剧情也不是单纯的好人坏人
庄凯勋最后那一分钟的表演让整部片子的高压气阀终于打开了，窒息这么久终于等来一个喘气口。相比之下，林嘉欣的表演总是让我出神，也许是台词写得太脱离一个“将死之人”的“内敛”，为了冲突，很多时候是为了吵架而吵架，太多设计痕迹。
实打实的武打很有诚意 但因此故事也就比较单薄 其实双方都可以不是非黑即白 这样挖下去可能就可以更深一些 3.5+
墙倒众人推，一腔热血，没权没势的人就都是墙头草，整体还是很江湖的。
【6.0+】相比《瀑布》，这个故事也显得太单薄了，无论是母女冲突的力度还是与疫情背景的关联都不太够，平淡的家常便饭。
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