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".
正常与疯癫，医生与疯女人，禁锢与自由，看清自己，看清一切。
爸妈一言不合就把女儿送疯人院这真是亲生的吗？在feng县事件以后来看这部片子，别有风味。究竟谁是疯子？疯子剥夺人的所有权利，成为猥琐泄欲的掩护色罢了。
女人版飞越疯人院。剥了一层皮，又一层皮，也仅仅一层皮
当你说出他们的罪行时，他们把你关紧单间牢房，说这个房间很有历史意义你是幸运的
内涵不错，但形式单薄的女性主义题材电影。在男权社会下，女性被完全当作装饰品，她们不能形成自我见解，不被允许形成自我见解。通灵，这一看似与自我意识不搭界的能力，也可以被理解为是独有个性的表征，而在那种社会氛围下，女性的个性化被视作病症，必须被铲除。精神病院，批量化的锻造出物品化的女性，女性唯一被允许的自由在精神层面上，而女性可以借助的自由力量也来源于精神层面上的自由。
如果最后结局是大家都失去了魔法踏踏实实做普通人我就给五星。这才是family对米拉贝最大的尊重。
制作精美的没话说，颜色绚丽音乐好听，故事就稍显老套了些。@橙天Luone
实际上不止女人，特别在那个年代，几乎所有人都被人为的定义了。一旦有人跳出自己身份所带来的框架，就会被打上疯子，精神病的标签。整个社会就像无形的枷锁束缚着所有人，为的是稳定的社会结构，但它只服务于少数人。
舞会的调度可以做得更好的，空间还很大，喜欢最后的信和兄妹的剧情
剧情一般，也不知说了点啥，全冲着两个女主角去的。
我想，在今天那种信仰某种同一性（无论是神圣的货币、支配他者的权力）的人的眼中、感觉中，那种不包含多元性、异质性的维度的“点”是否会失去探索对象世界的丰富多彩呢？
Il est bien difficile, de savoir qui est fou ce soir.
精神病学历来是个有意思的事情，古有火刑架上的女巫，近有精神病院里的疯女人，却从来没有听说过疯男人。总归一点只是男性对女性的规训，和中国女人裹小脚是一个道理。主题是个好主题，不过导演私心虚构了一个真的有超能力的女人，不然估计女主只会和古往今来所有的同胞一样，被禁锢住永远没法脱逃。
女版飞跃疯人院。世人皆疯狂，却只待自我幻灭，得不到救赎。（大提琴的倾诉感好强烈）
但片子过于冗长乏味。
我是女的 我也喜欢希特勒 所以可以把你送到集中营吗？
就这样，我们获得了自由，获得了强大，获得了永生
从世界各地攫取和再加工当地文化，迪士尼算是找到了制作动画的捷径，显然一次《寻龙传说》的失败是不够的。其实迪士尼的想象力还是业内顶尖的，动画里有很多灵光一闪的地方，设定和概念都很有趣，然而强行合家欢的结局暴露的是迪宝宝陷入叙事匮乏困境的现状。
节奏有点慢，结局也觉得有些仓促。。但是故事很不错
看到一半很怕又是飞越疯人院的结局，还好最后爱战胜一切。嘴上科学理性实际最迷信盲目的方式，很是讽刺。
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