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".
TV版动画11-14集的合辑篇，主要内容就是三个主角第一次相遇
以一场婚礼开场，以一场葬礼落幕，确实非常英国。英国人真的是对婚礼葬礼可太有执念了，顺便感慨一句距离第一季开播竟然已经过去12年了。
好看好看好看好看好看好看好看好看好看好看好看好看好看好看
一个作品被多次分割成不同的作品片段来播放，真会赚钱啊orz。
兩條故事線都頗有意味：其一是經過兩代人的爭論，電影工業最終憑藉經濟的原由進入莊園後，給唐頓帶來的種種摩擦和改變，特別是莊園大小姐Mary為出身下層的女明星配音，令唐頓以標準的英倫腔形式在大眾文化中留聲；其二則是一樁六十年後方才顯影的現實愛情戲：老夫人意外繼承的法國南部別墅，有著迥異於唐頓的風光、天氣和建築風格，它所引發的遺產和血緣的雙重迷案，也帶來了對於唐頓代表的老上流社會的秩序和體面的惘惘威脅。在電影形式層面，兩線的交叉略顯生硬，令全片更似是兩集電視劇的拼貼；但在主題的層面，這戲裏戲外的兩條線，都意味著一種新興的大眾文化時代的到來，唐頓莊園的貴族們必須在這一“全新世代”（A New Era）的形勢中走向未來。2022年5月28日20:00於永漢電影院3號廳。
就是把几集汇成一部电影？有点随意啊，每集间接得不是很好，有重复
好家伙，看到的时候在想啥时候出的新电影，搜了才知道原来是合集。😂好吧这个合集还是很爱的，善逸一刀斩进了我心里嘿嘿。
真女仆安慰假伯爵夫人
2022 年 6 月初，因为疫情而关闭一个多月的北京影院刚刚开业，在影院看到这样的电影，真的感慨万千。那些生活中的美好如此脆弱和易逝，但我们仍然要努力去追求那些小小的美好。（英国演员真的是人均莎翁剧备选啊）
看完这部动画感觉还不错，之前也有刷到过，挺喜欢这部动画的，只是感觉才刚刚展开就结束了，推荐
从婚礼到葬礼，默片到有声电影，时代的眼泪。
good old-fashioned television writing. 我觉得观众，尤其是国人，最喜欢这个系列的点一定是作者所描述的由这群各色人等形成的封闭但又自洽的community。对这种community的执念其实是非常共产主义且反现代性的。作者倒是尽力抹去了所有的政治意味，只是在凸显人情冷暖的部分。但是这个结构太容易被填充和扩写成一部庄园里的“政治惊悚片”了。（第一季和后面零星的情节有那么一点点这方面的意思）一路看下来还是熟悉的配方，剧粉还是推荐去看。只是制作就比较偷工减料了，不太能够到欧美主流商业电影的水平……
希望可以一直拍到二战后 | 电影班子入住，大表姐配音，老太太继承了曾深爱她的法国伯爵的一套房子从而引发的私生子的猜疑，巴罗辞职跟了男电影明星，老太太驾崩 | 还是那个年代的服饰最优雅了
这次迎接电影剧组，创意是来自《古宅老友记》嘛？电影版一直在配对，连小厨娘、老厨娘、太太的贴身丫鬟，甚至巴罗都配上了，有点替老太太的贴身丫鬟可怜，唯一没成对，主人还去世了。
爆哭😭
流下了真情实感的眼泪，为老太太，也为这个系列。
从4月初因为置身县城，唯一影院关停而丧失了影院消费习惯后，直至5月底才看到这个。绝对是困难时期以优秀故事让人情感满足的好片。A New Era始终好过past
还是那些旧人物，还是那些老景象，情节不重要，围绕这些角色能编出无数的故事来。
唐顿真好，于我而言是夏尔一般的存在。伴我长大，仿佛是平行世界里的人，不管世界如何动荡变化永远温暖善良。
电影版会有第三集吗？我觉得够呛，应该到此为止了。
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