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".
比預期好看很多，同樣是家庭衝突，處理的比某兩字片簡單有力/劇情鏡頭台詞都很舒服自然，兩位女主角不慍不火的表演我很喜歡/另外也很喜歡年代感的呈現，MSN、部落格、5566護貝卡，蔡依林周杰倫的歌、體罰、排擠、保守的校園風氣，生活在那個年代尾巴的我也有些許共鳴
杰日天小时候竟然是个光头
而且怪物和场景粗糙，对白中的剧情描述过得过快，打斗场面只具意、行，谈不上美感。。。可就凭她和他经历了多年的变故依然彼此信任无间，他面对衰老的容颜爱意无比吻得下去的唇，他在她将死之际用魔法溶解的湖边，还有她闭上双眼依偎时嘴角的笑意～这部小制作就有了灵魂。。。
7.5/10 比正传剧集牛多了，维瑟米尔前传拓深了猎魔人的悲哀，把杰洛特和叶妮芙那种传奇式恋爱下沉到了普通人与猎魔人之间渐行渐远，但时间依旧不能割裂爱的牵绊，更具普适性，也更动人，意外律也陪衬得更加残酷。也把原作里维瑟米尔嘴里一带而过的凯尔莫罕大战讲了个明白。但我不满的是权斗和术士的贪欲和妒忌这方面太草率，仅仅归咎于偏见是没啥意思，要学原著中道出“为何偏见”，看来创作团队太轻视观众对于系列的理解力，都以为路人是粉丝的偷懒心态。
There’ll always be another monster
原来是讲的杰洛特的师傅维瑟米尔年轻时的故事，没玩过巫师前两部，看了影评才知道原来这是Netflix自己原创的故事。鹿首精、凯尔莫罕、伊格尼法印这些对于巫师3玩家还是很亲切的。动画对于维瑟米尔的人设很满意，非常还原猎魔人的日常，但是故事情节普普通通，人物动机更是有点牵强，虎头蛇尾的感觉，主要就是看个情怀吧。
另外，猎魔人的情节……很像……《大剑》！
营造的这个焦躁的生活质感意外地吸引我，令人感动的不就是普通人在破碎之中的继续前行吗？融入不了的环境，理解不了的大人，看起来矫情任性，却有温度有真实。
猎魔人的剧情比较长，之前的电视剧改编剧情太不流畅，让人感觉看不懂。这部改编动画至少讲了一个完整的故事，但是不够精彩和完美，完全没有表现出猎魔人的味道，很平庸。
且不说故事如何，主要是韩国团队做的这个画风就和这个故事有些违和！
还是不错滴。画风和游戏很像。剧情人物都不错，该有的都有。
可能对于自来水观众有门槛，画面和情节不够紧凑，类似的动画片心中最好的是「吸血鬼猎人D」
并没有期待的好。除了妹妹，其他三人的戏基本均分，而导演又想要拍出每个人在这个家庭里的不易，结果就是似乎面面俱到，但其实蜻蜓点水，无一深入。
撕扯后缝合，窒息又刺痛。要是没有陈绮贞的片尾曲的话会抑郁…🙏🏻
完成度很高，打戏以及尺度等方面表现不俗，维瑟米尔的青春岁月（其实也七十岁了）
Vesemir的光辉岁月，剧情和制作质量对我来说都比较一般。连着三部动画看的我对Netflix的冠名/外包的动画都失去了兴趣。
杰洛特的老师维瑟米尔成长的故事，告别故乡的女孩伊利亚娜，成为了道德感低，金钱至上的猎魔人。
没太看明白，动画风格很网飞，吸血鬼猎人也是这个味儿
利益、仇恨，清苦的童年和破碎的村庄，古老的生意，术士打开了传送门。。。
我理解不了反派的逻辑，猎魔人造混血怪物让自己一直有生意可做我搞明白了，小狐发疯复仇可以理解，可女术士的恨实属公报私仇，虚伪得紧。
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