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".
战斗干净利落，就是有点短，没过瘾就完事了。
维瑟米尔的形象也太丰满了吧，完美人设，再加上游戏的悲剧结局，天哪不可能有人不喜欢他。
原来是讲的杰洛特的师傅维瑟米尔年轻时的故事，没玩过巫师前两部，看了影评才知道原来这是Netflix自己原创的故事。鹿首精、凯尔莫罕、伊格尼法印这些对于巫师3玩家还是很亲切的。动画对于维瑟米尔的人设很满意，非常还原猎魔人的日常，但是故事情节普普通通，人物动机更是有点牵强，虎头蛇尾的感觉，主要就是看个情怀吧。
作为猎魔人世界的补充和拓展，非常符合小说和游戏的设计，但是配音太棒读了。
2021/12/4（六）16：30高雄in89，生日礼！
都是些很常见的关于家庭处境，矛盾等，往真实里拍，重现旧年代的产物，整体没啥缺点。★★★☆/7.3
整体很赞，主角和青梅竹马跨越时间的洪流依然保留着彼此的爱，结尾狠赚了一把我的眼泪，也算是个尚且美好的收场。
好怀旧啊，还挺动人的，林嘉欣演的真好，喜欢
很认真地完成故事讲述，没有太多的情感导向，完全的上帝视角去思考这个家庭中的每个人物。因为更注重家庭关系，很多社会关系被弱化，孩子在学校的文化代沟只是流表面。#3.5 导演长片处女作而言，成熟了（还是更偏爱3星的《瀑布》）
维瑟米尔老爷子年轻起就见过大场面。
凯尔莫罕 多灾多难 剧情有些不合理但也能接受 gay洛特这孩子打小就强
Vesemir的光辉岁月，剧情和制作质量对我来说都比较一般。连着三部动画看的我对Netflix的冠名/外包的动画都失去了兴趣。
好細膩好細膩 編排足夠用心 有被touch到 莊凱勛還是最帥的台客（⋯） 郁婷的學生頭外表上撞了當年的王淨 不過感覺她戲路肯定是會更寬的 我和左右的姐姐排排坐齊齊喊 身份和遷移 可能依然是下一個decade沒有辦法被「大中華圈」迴避的主題了
镜子里还有她的美国照片，床头放着还是她的玩具，但是过道里的绿植说明了她的根，她问妈妈下辈子想当什么？妈妈只是告诉她爱你，很爱很爱！！
BGM恢宏大气，野蛮辽阔
巫师游戏玩家必看。魔药，符文，剑法，妖灵，振动的狼头项链，算是比较忠实的还原了游戏。对凯尔莫罕被灭的原因虽然相对于游戏做了改动，但也不能说不合理。
故事平淡，有种难得的真实感，相比《瀑布》，更复杂也更深沉，每个人都是失意的载体，美国是个梦，无法回归的泡影，大人孩子都深陷于台湾生活的泥潭，而到最后，最大的欣慰竟然是小女儿躲过了新冠病毒，她得的只是普通肺炎。剧情有多处留白，太多的事情没有答案，也没有结束。父亲到底去大陆干什么，母亲的癌症会不会康复，女儿能不能再度获得友情？都没交待，也不用交待。林嘉欣是我上学时的女神，尽管老了，依旧美丽，演技好像还提升了，加油吧，追上贾静雯。
有新人创作者的通病，如构建社会环境的笔法过于清淡，坦诚有余而内功不足等等。当然优点也较突出，尤其是能和亲身经历拉开间隔，尽管如此也造成了影片始终像在这个充满戏剧性的家庭外围兜转，缺乏一个真正精准、有牵引力的视角。明面上最好的段落确是女孩和马的“无效”沟通，虽然置于前后文来看，总归有些刻意。另外母亲和妹妹在阳台上烧纸的对话也颇具巧思，像这样无心插柳的闪光点再多些就好了。
完成度很高，打戏以及尺度等方面表现不俗，维瑟米尔的青春岁月（其实也七十岁了）
意外的好看，没看过原著，但70岁的爱情毫无违和感~
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