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".
这部近四十年前的动画今天来看，不是“依然牛逼”，而是“当代语境下无法做到的牛逼”。可以解读的层面很多，我只说一个最震撼我的：成年男性角色没有一个是伟光正的，包括非常规社会里的宗教角色，甚至最顶级的权力阶层形象也是非常滑稽跟讽刺的。得亏它是老片重映，搁今天的新片应该过不了审，社会舆论接纳空间也可预见地狭窄。
蛋生。大话西游里的黑山老妖长得像那个老狐狸精。
长时间的等待果然不负期待，以校园风开展的无厘头推理，恶搞和荒诞的事件延续一贯风格，升华的友谊主题和精英教育的批判，又非常到位，多线交织的情况下又不会突兀，真是难得的佳作（选材真的很棒），即便野原一家的镜头不多，每每出现却让我感动万分，尤其当美伢广志看到小新跑步时的那番对话，泪已经在打转了，呜呜呜，我的新酱！！
对青春的冒犯与推理，对友谊的追求和憧憬，风间和小新真的太好嗑了。要是早几年拍就好了，这个主题多少有点陈旧了。
2008//2019分别标记过，现在2022仍不记得看过，为什么看一遍忘一遍？我和这部9.1的国产动画到底有什么仇？带着这样的疑惑又看了一遍4K版，中途迷幻到三次差点睡着，结局戛然而止让人匪夷所思，果然是我无法看懂的一部电影：天书有什么好，为什么非要蛋生学会？天书带来了那么多混乱和灾难，为什么袁公就确信一个吃了老奶奶饼可以抹抹嘴说句谢谢扭头就走的孩子，一个可以粗心到把天书丢了的孩子，学会就可以为苍生带来福祉？我确实没看懂。
看4K修复最大的感受就是，现在怎么就没有了呢，怎么就没有了呢……
雖是給兒童看的動畫，卻處處隱含著對現實社會的批判，寓意深刻，意味深長。
蛋生。大话西游里的黑山老妖长得像那个老狐狸精。
最爱独腿小书生，
记得小时候看到狐狸老太婆还挺怕的，太恐怖了
《天书奇谭》最让我感动的是影片最后一段的纪录片，不由得感叹老一辈艺术家们的用心，他们在追求艺术的道路上一丝不苟，每一个部门都有着相同的目标，这不单是物质的快乐，更是精神的升华。
内核很成人，“天道无私”是一种高明的反讽范式。4K重映片尾的纪录片里说，因为和国外合作，才能如此大胆创作，实在让人喟叹。
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。
师父宁犯天规也要培养一个天书传人，呃.....
如果中国多点这些动画片，那么我们就不会老看那先难懂的外国片了。悲哀
女儿说，这是她近期看过的所有动画里的第一名。
对青春的冒犯与推理，对友谊的追求和憧憬，风间和小新真的太好嗑了。要是早几年拍就好了，这个主题多少有点陈旧了。
🎥故事题材：
“奇、趣、美”，“探民族风格之路，敲喜剧样式之门”；
和《大闹天宫》以孙悟空在花果山另立山头，建立造反根据地的结尾相比，《天书奇谭》已经显示出后革命时代的症候了——没有出路。袁公被押回天庭，蛋生无非替天行道，皇帝治下的人间变得更加太平了。
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