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".
卧槽，中国动画支楞起来了，致敬金庸、古龙老师，虽然说画风和效果一般但动作嗷嗷用心，大制作！！
原来认真做武侠的人改行去弄动画了。动作场面帅得不要不要的，让人热血沸腾。枕刀歌系列真是武侠精品，希望一直做下去。
动作设计没得说，可以称得上近几年国产动画片里对于武侠、动作上诠释得最好的了，但是剧情真的是漏洞百出，不忍直视。
故事和创意都很好，可惜节奏慢，演员年龄太大减分。
动作满分。剧情简单，但也有时代的局限性，所以西门仁看不清这历史的进程，也不明白自己是阶级的一部分，最后落入了这个下场，看得出官方可以弄更好的剧本，但这个比较简单一点，通俗易懂，突出了个人的欲望跟局限性。
又刷新了同类型的新高度，可以成功开启宇宙了，以后镖人什么的能用这标准做必大卖。
虽未看过TV版，但也不影响看这部片子。精彩打戏带来的爽感十足，罗通重击罗影那一拳真的燃炸
这部电影版为何会比TV版评分低？不理解……TO热评：结尾西门仁的门徒切换得快，喊万岁才是最精彩的讽刺~这个好结尾甚至让我想给五星
前期预告让人以为整篇会围绕车站的事情，看了才发现只是其中一部分。开始就觉得姐姐有点奇怪，中间的反转才让人恍然大悟。林允儿很适合高中生扮相，年轻人的初恋真甜蜜。
武打设计太棒了。没看过剧集，看评论才知道主角罗通是剧集版里的反派，电影是前传，这个设定有意思。
【2.5】剧作是散架无力状的，村庄的车站需求与国家资源调配上的矛盾、父子交流上的矛盾实际上电影都交代得很清楚，但角色的行为让人感觉矛盾完全不足以发展成为必须爆发出来的冲突，整个故事缺少了一两处催化矛盾的暴戾情节。
3、缺点嘛，就是画风堪忧，建模肉眼可见的偷懒，女性角色的脸完全看不出女性该有的柔和跟清秀，配音也是怪怪的，一鼓浓浓的邵式风格，让人很出戏
完成度很是不错。武侠讲到这个份上在这个年头已经算是不错了。
256色的人物活在全彩世界裡。雖然能明白其緣由，但是還是有些突兀。武打是重心，文戲劇情平板到可笑，說著什麼開國等大詞，最後也不過是一個小縣城裡的小幫派鬥毆
【B-】文戏勉强够用，武戏打斗虽精彩但有点嫌多，最后一战真是酣畅淋漓看的很爽。反派西门仁塑造的不错，令人印象深刻。而其实最可悲的一点是，无论是主角还是反派谁赢了或谁输了，这个时代都不会变得更好一点，黎民百姓和这些混江湖的，最后依然没有半点希望
乱离人不如太平犬。
干脆利落的武侠动画，剧情简单而作画精彩。同正剧一样，这个江湖里没有绝对的好与坏，立场不同，观念不同，造就着不同的大大小小的人物
枕刀歌的武侠世界不是金庸笔下的的写神功写奇遇写恩怨也不是古龙的写邪兵写美女写怪客
动作戏绝对一流，可以说是天花板了（此处手动at雪中悍刀行），流畅丝滑。文戏还是一如既往的弱，西门大官人以为搞定一个知州就可以天下太平？另外人物建模略显粗糙。三星半，多加半星鼓励。
1、喜欢打戏的不容错过，几乎是从头打到尾，酣畅淋漓，在华语动作电影式微、动作巨星诸神黄昏之际，寄希望于武侠动画，倒也不是不行
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