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".
在我心里，所有的艺人谁有婚外情，黑木华也不能啊。这真是可以看出，动漫与婚外恋题材，太火爆了！
完成度还不错，小女孩作为导师角色挺新颖的，导致导师比英雄戏份更重。主题挖掘不算深，冒险占据太多部分，没空间施展了，不过对于历史虚伪叙事、男权社会好战本性的触及在动画片里已经足够了。另外提醒我了，动画片里的台词能简约就简约，一句废话也别说。
3.5，结局不算惊喜，节奏可以再稍快一点。
红兽=中国，故事书=媒体，闭关洗脑的漂亮族，好像都对得上。不知编剧什么背景，有点反向洗脑的意思了
我喜欢海盗怪兽题材，但是我不喜欢平庸的故事
这个结尾跟《夏日友晴天》一个毛病，不讲逻辑强行he。听这个bgm一度以为自己在逛muji。海兽真的好萌，海岛风景也美，可惜太少了，要是能出个只有海兽的番外篇感觉会比电影好看，哈哈。
一开始以为是爽剧，感觉女主会教训出轨的男主，结果竟然也不算是，有趣的地方是故事把漫画里的情节与现实搞得非常混乱让人一直猜测到底是真是假，结尾还又来了个反转，总之算是有点意思的电影吧…
现实和漫画真亦假时假亦真，很有意思的作品。
利用漫画来不动声色地报复出轨老公，真的厉害。
看透不说透，用画来解构。没脑子就别搞婚外情。爱穿衬衫的柄本佑还是那么傻呵呵。
感觉是编剧们坐在一起，先堆了一堆tag：漫画+公路片+密闭空间+出轨+复仇+黑木华，拍脑门说那我们就编这么个故事吧！骨架搭完，所有起承转合全水过去，桥段都是片儿汤话，一句真正用心的台词都没有。
金子大地小哥真的好撩，奈绪真的太欲了，一度以为剧情要向她饰演的主编角色和漫画家妻子的角色靠近，然后产生情感。
这大概又是无法上映的禁片吧，在某些国家。
女主圆圆润润的，有点福原爱的感觉。女人，就应该活出自己的样子。
7，典型日式“妻子的复仇”。
「假作真时真亦假，真作假时假亦真」。简单的几个人物，并不复杂的场景，寥寥数笔便勾勒出这样一出精彩纷呈的又无比完整的「小品文」，霓虹还是厉害。黑木华的人畜无害腹黑复仇妻子形象深入人心，柄本佑天生就长着一副这种出轨男+绿帽男的脸，且演技浑然天成，角色塑造入木三分，更要点赞。开放式结局着实有加分，到最后确已分不出「戏」与「戏中戏」之别，思考空间很大，厉害厉害。
故事超级老套，但是海兽真的很像我家喵喵……太可爱了。
掌控车和掌控人生的讨论挺有趣的, 坐在副驾驶和握着方向盘是完全不同的角色啊! 虽然最后有点泄气, 不过柄本佑吃鳖的样子真的是太好笑了!
好看！这种电影或许是只属于日本或者是有日本特色的电影，“漫画创作＋人性伦常”这种标签我是非常喜欢的，丈夫在妻子的漫画创作下察觉妻子知晓自己出轨，两个人的冷战，争吵都随着漫画情节的推进而推进，整个过程啼笑皆非又极其治愈。黑木华和柄本佑的组合也很适配，欲望纯真的碰撞，“外遇”对象同时到来的修罗场，看预告期待了很久，也算没有辜负期待。评分8.0/10。
婚后的爱情就是这么难以捉摸，但现实不是漫画，任凭你如何修改故事走向，变节终究击垮秩序。黑木华演得好。
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