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".
推动猫作为宠物的重要的人物，一个才华横溢的人，一段短暂的浪漫美好时光，让他用一生来追忆。油画搬的画面定格原来是向他的画作致敬，片尾有展示他画的猫，生动拟人，这是一个多么有趣的人啊。
美术表现特别好，卷福的表演也不用多说，都是加分项。
挺失望的，拍成了一个纯粉丝向的没有什么剧情可言的加长版sp。不光是剧本打磨不够，作为电影来说处处硬伤。另外已经2202年了，没有床戏就算了，连接吻戏也用借位的也太敷衍了吧？
因為在追完日劇版後，我又看了漫畫原著，大概猜得到電影版內容是什麼，但為了支持還是買票看了。前段是安達調職長崎，雙方因距離產生不安，在一些事件後，安達終於從魔法師畢業，並跟黑澤同居，但居然是黑澤搬去跟安達同居，完全跌破眼鏡，那個房間超小的，要怎麼讓兩個成人一起住，就算是情侶也太艱難XD
看到姐姐没换演员就差不多猜到了 老套吗？可是还就真吃这套呢。。。
剧情是不错，演员也不错，就是有点拖拉，感觉很多没有必要的情节
猫咪五星，BC非常Cat person，拍摄有点不激情...没有electrical，不过黑人和白人在1900年代同台吃饭？
选角导演们现在是一看到天才角色一键打给本尼了。电影本身不太行，某些镜头运动怪怪的。小猫也不够多，难过，预告片里猫猫好多。
boring，浪费这么多卡司。那一组一年四季的镜头，秋天的落叶做的像小软件一样廉价
真实事件其实值得拍的，但编剧导演拍的比较一般，让故事简单程式化，命题作文的痕迹很重，不走心。演员演的也一般
剧情没能产生强烈共情，却被父子两的演技打动。7分，林允儿戏份太少了。
看完片子意犹未尽的又查了路易斯韦恩的生平，欣赏了他更多的作品。这是一个真正热爱猫的人，每一幅作品都充满了对猫的爱，即使是精神分裂，这份爱和激情依旧没有变。
他的一生是孤独的，被禁锢的，但从某种意义上也是温暖的，肆意的。他遇到了一生的知己，培养了在当时看看来奇特的爱好；他有才能去宣泄内心的种种情感，打破陈规后被世界良好接受。不得不说，在一大群杰出的艺术家中，Louis的一生竟能令人得到几分安慰。
又美又伤的片子。所以痛苦与孤独才是天才的归宿吗，那我不要当天才，我只想当个普通人。
真好看，让我想起假如爱有天意的感觉，虽然剧情并不同，但很温暖，方言加持演员演技剧情推进都没的说，韩国人在这方面做的真好，总是知道在哪里使力，让你哭到眼睛疼，却也会傻到可爱傻到笑，很温暖，家人是这世上最打动人也是最容易共情的关系话题，强烈推荐～
7/10
喜欢猫咪的朋友记得看一下这部电影。喜欢里面的所有演员，都是熟面孔。
真的很难面对自己的真实想法 有些时候真的没有那么高级 但直面自己的想法和心境也没有什么不好的吧
导演到底搞没搞清楚他到底要拍男主的才华，还是男女主的爱情，还是拍猫，没重点就什么也没。
6.9 猫猫即是正义! 从传统人物传记片逐渐演变为某种lsd式迷醉幻觉，在一个不断增强的磁场中传导着愈发激烈的电流，导体当然是猫。(nick cave客串好逆天，如果我没搞错的话，他演的是h.g. wells??????????)
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