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".
TV：童年超级喜欢的动画之一，还买过书来看呢！
美影厂的制作和老艺术家一级棒！！！
还是得承认故事本身放在今天看是偏弱的，但是81年竟然是40年前了，最后那些幕后看的人动容
虽然主角的眼神现在看不够犀利，但是在他诞生的那个年代，那个动画长片一只手能数的过来的年代。这部动画片就太惊艳了，现在看，仍然是惊艳的感觉。
还是得承认故事本身放在今天看是偏弱的，但是81年竟然是40年前了，最后那些幕后看的人动容
儿时经典回忆，怀念童年，怀念从前的一切....
男主演技实在是好。上次看他的电影是演个落魄男，这部电影是演个成功男，都演得很到位
如果单论剧本和设定，感觉还不错：人物与自身的冲突以及与外界的冲突都有，表现夫妻矛盾的关键点也有，比如妻子也知道的Debbie，包里的避孕药，丈夫满不在乎让妻子去色诱劫匪……最后也有出乎意料的反转。但是电影太拖沓了，而且因为场景局限，要表现各人物的矛盾和情绪转变就必须靠演绎和大量对白铺垫，但对白除了富豪外都极其单薄。如果做成一集单元剧可能效果都要好得多。
三十来岁了，在电影院一本正经看小时候看的动画片，想必那些滑稽的片段童年看时我应该只会哈哈大笑，现在我不会笑了，而是不住地感叹幽默桥段、画面和搞笑动作设计的是多么有创意。在被日漫和美漫统治的今天，看到曾经的国产动画是这样有自己的风格和特点，无法不去惋惜它的凋落。“不重复别人，不重复自己”，这是主创人员督促自己艺术创作的信条，或许也可以是现在国产动画创作者遵循的准则。
用动画里奇幻的解决方式去伸张正义，战胜一切现实中的社会问题，好像一切邪恶的，不公平的，贪婪的，一切普世认为不好的一招两招都能摆平啦
昨天回学校看见少儿台的童心回放,回味了一下.好看~
刚看的。天书中性论，既能用作好事也能用作坏事，袁公秉承现代普罗米修斯观，认为还是要传给人类，但这也可能是玛丽·雪莱的弗兰肯斯坦式结局，蛋生过于天真的禀赋使他无法独自克服三位狐狸精的诡计和暴力，而袁公在被抓上天庭后，将不再存在机械降神，也就是说，蛋生将面临存在主义之后的荒诞处境，等待戈多不再归来，而他心头词典里的天书将如何传给后人却不遭恶用，这将是永远无法解决的难题。当然，如果我小时候看的话就不会说这堆东西了~
在我心目中，这部确实是第一。动画长片中，中国文化载体的顶峰。
我哥哥现在的女朋友长得很像这部动画里的老狐狸精！！！
關於神靈與超自然力量的奇異想象，鮮明迷人的藝術特色，誇張靈動的造型色彩和動態，分明是中國的表現主義啊。
哇塞，很喜欢有木有~~~看了3、4遍吧，依旧看不厌~童年啊童年
意味很多
可视为成人动画~
我们号称是有五千年文明的国度，但实际上我们却是最不懂得尊重传统文化的。在许多我们自己文化上的保留与传承甚至远远不如日韩。看看现在的国产动画，要么低龄幼稚，要么哈美哈日，实在令人唏嘘。
蛋生，破四旧先锋，专治牛鬼蛇神！他的师傅袁公，其实就是袁天罡，牛棚知识分子，因为乱说话被整肃。当然还有一老二少三个狐狸精。这样生旦净末丑就兼具了。
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