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".
最近爱看恶俗…故事虽然老套…但是画面美音乐美就够了！！
剧情像海王写给安徒生/GC/EVA/新海诚/萤火之森/进巨的情书，完全不像老虚手笔。老虚亲自操刀泡泡应该都是血肉质感，最后克苏鲁苏醒灭世。唯一的看点是立体机动装置，继板野马戏后最伟大的作画发明。男主在女博士夺还站后向队友道谢表示没有你们我自己赢不了。但是说实话能赢靠的是女主，队友这一战主要功能还是拖后腿。
画面很不错，让我看到了脑中最想看到的画面之一，要是男主不是那种我最烦的冷酷帅哥人设就好了。
果然卡司太大定律一直以来都是应验的，只有在大佬还没成为大佬之前的合作才是有效的。
叙述上，虽然画面很唯美，但是剧情部分太少，反而像是加长版音乐mv，配角除了喜欢大姐的队长和惹事小孩外其他队员没任何印象，有这个一个半小时多的时长都不够刻画好BB的人物吗？
个人评分5.3/10【D】
看完感觉浪费一个多小时，剧情这都讲的啥玩意儿啊，一头问号。画面一远景人物就模糊，一切近景角色就跟打了美颜滤镜一样，差别这么大真的好吗。音乐方面，一首歌用全片。全是槽点……
2D/3D 结合的很古早, 值得刷一次.
一个不知道脑子里想什么的男生和一个不知道什么来历的女生，发生的没头没尾的强行浪漫故事。海的女儿，画面惊艳，故事稀碎，华而不实。
为什么日本人拍废土朋克也要强行小清新啊啊啊啊
日本近几年动画电影产业能不能别再造出这种画面精美但故事稀烂的垃圾了？对得起人家画师吗
难为泽野弘之了 在如此糟糕的剧情里 还是恰当的做了绝佳的音乐😄
海的女儿加上科幻的外衣，再加点跑酷。美术动作设计都非常的赞，但故事，故弄玄虚，实则老生常谈，到最后也没解释清楚泡泡是怎么回事。
画面是一流的好看，人设是一流的中二，这两点我都很喜欢！小畑健的原案设计 + 泽野弘之的音乐，堪称我心中的完美搭档！
奇幻末世版七仙女和董永+海的女儿，除了跑酷动作设计可圈可点、音乐还算悦耳、男主听力过敏算个亮点之外，其他都很俗套了。东京又被花样炸了，都末世了还忙着跑酷，一群少年身体素质惊人，男女主莫名其妙的爱情，女主又一次牺牲自己拯救男主。再次证明了动画电影比起画面更重要的还是故事，画的好的多了，故事讲的好的就少了。
看的不是很明白，人鱼公主的现代版？莫名其妙
虽然剧情很问号.但不得不说原画真的好看惨了.
特写时换画风是个什么操作？而且，导演不觉得泡泡太多会很恐怖吗
看在有那么两个打动我的片段的份上，勉强三星吧。
三星。果然这种国家队阵容，要么神要么寄，本片很不幸滑到了寄那一栏。剧作散的一批，东一榔头西一棒槌，啥都想讲，啥都讲一点，但啥都讲不清，毫无重点和头绪，这剧情到底讲了个啥（一开始还想着老虚怎么这次那么拉，后来朋友科普说老虚一开始就甩锅了hhhh），一切都那么莫名其妙。全片全靠着WIT精致的作画，荒木哲郎标志性的“立体机动”设计和泽野弘之的配乐死撑。
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