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".
《故事会》大电影，布景好也救不了片子太水了。
Cliffford睡着时和Rio 一样，对球的爱好也和Rio一样。一颗星扣剧本。
之前在抖音上快速刷完过这部电影，今天在腾讯视频上又重温了一遍。“真希望我们足够强大，那样就没有人能伤害我们了”，艾米莉简单且纯粹的爱让小红狗一夜之间变得大又强壮。真的好喜欢狗狗啊。
3.5。能够体现一定国产片工业水准的商业片，各方面的完成度都算得上是可圈可点了，应该说和同类题材里的盗墓笔记之类的片子要好上太多了。得益于原作小说不错的口碑，电影的观赏性和娱乐性也得到了一定的保证。夺宝，解谜，公路片元素的混搭早已不算新鲜，但电影还是颇为用心的设置了大量的悬念和反转，光是看着雷佳音和李现两位人肉鉴宝机大拽各种古董的名字就已牢牢牵动观众的心神，片尾最后的反转揭秘配合着不错的配乐竟能让人热血起来，总的来说值得一看。但尽管有着一些制作精良的CG特效加持，片子的质感还是显得老旧，这并非背景被设置在上世纪末的原因，而是这种夺宝奇兵的故事本身就已经劝退一部分现在的观众了。
今日4-feature run之一 为了看可爱的大狗狗的 可是这狗一点都不乖这最后强行大团圆我很担心她们apartment里怎么manage的 最后小女主的讲话也是。。Clifford is not just different… he’s also a huge pain in the ass in midtown Manhattan。。小女主非常kind, precocious, smart, 讨人喜欢，中间送别那里我都看哭了😢poor baby 叔叔也很帅。我觉得这电影不太适合孩子看，对bully情景处理的不是很好
我最疑惑的是大白兔在地底下放了那么多年竟然还能吃？还有老朝奉的人也太拼了吧？地洞都要塌了自己命都不保了还要追杀男主，看到后面才知道，原来是为了让付贵死然后好煽情...电影前面的节奏和服化道还是不错的，直到地洞坍塌剧情也跟着坍塌了。许和平彷佛看完电影的我们，能算到儿子顺利找到线索就算了，连地洞里三方势力的纠纷都算的清清楚楚未免就太过分了。为了反转而反转，反来反去最后还是把真的送日本人了，如果说是怕被国内势力私卖了，跟日本人是好朋友，但又没有解释，这一层确实很难自圆。
也不能忽略这狗搞破坏的能力啊，家里什么都不是完好的，所以送到动物乐园，在野外待着才是最好的。
关键词：平反。雷佳音真就类型片万金油。有基本的类型片架子，调整一下剪辑点可以更精彩的。
智障儿童欢乐多……真的就一点优点也挑不出来的刻板印象+俗套桥段主角光环大集合……
内什么，都2021了，我能说这里还在严重歧视亚裔吗。。。
勉勉强强，如果是少女期Lindsay Lohan应该能演的再好一点
低幼化的童话故事电影。所以才这么和谐，温馨。。。现实里，只会引起恐慌与麻烦。不管狗主人声明一万次“它不咬人”。。。
感觉情节说的太浅，剧情的精彩程度不够。而且预告片搞得跟盗墓笔记一样玄幻，结果却啥也没有……李现的演技也是很容易让人出戏……
虽然剧情无敌俗套 但还是在Emily和Clifford分开的时候哭了 这可是狗狗的故事啊…………
无聊至极 就因为花了六磅去电影院看的多给一个星
题材是非常可以的，奇遇类型，很适合亲子一起看，比较欢快轻松，神秘商人加分
这部儿童片就是放到30年前……也不能算超前……当然特效技术除外。
修狗很可爱，但这故事都吸引不了我读小学的妹妹
大红狗戏份太少了，年幼的小朋友无法长时间保持观看热情。
请了这么一票人，交出来这么一个结果，还不如把原来的电视剧重新剪辑一下呢。
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