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".
开头开的挺好了，事件冲突挺集中的，越往后开始飞了，但没有崩，总体还行
前半部分：各种突发事件让本来不富裕的家庭雪上加霜。后半部分：温情欢乐家庭喜剧。
懂了，这就是share house的超长广告
先抑后扬是不错，但是合租真的不是解决问题的正确方案，你不能只看到它美好的一面
本来以为是严肃题材，结果拍成脱离现实的温情喜剧。强大的阵容多加一星吧。不过点心的老板娘怎么会不存钱呢？这个太刻意了。而且他们家其实等于完全没有收入了啊？！😱最好笑的一幕是草笛光子对天海佑希说你这样的进不了宝冢。
氛围很轻松 结尾不现实 有个好婆婆 其他人也没给家里添什么麻烦 就这样还要卖掉房子养老
人到中年双双失业，刚好命中近期失业潮焦虑，虽然片子没有切实可行的结局方案也没有逆风翻盘但却意外的搞笑和治愈。毕竟生活方式有那么多呢～
前半段的喜剧感拉满，最后又转向政治式的缓解焦虑工具，成为了四不像的宣传片。
还是很典型的日本电影，可以一看，有意思，反映了当下一些问题
原作其实也就没能给出明确的解决方法，电影让整体基调更加欢快有趣，一众搞笑艺人加盟让书里讨厌的角色都顺眼了起来，其实还算挺成功的改编
很欢乐，进度条和时间融为一体很舒服的看完了。教育疫情没收入的我，思考省钱的重要性。平实真好。
后半部强行扭转变得无聊了，前面看的很现实很压抑啊，最后的结局不能接受，现实中群租是不行的
氛围很轻松 结尾不现实 有个好婆婆 其他人也没给家里添什么麻烦 就这样还要卖掉房子养老
最喜欢的天海佑希松重丰，不难看但有点失望…
电影还是太过理想化了，放在我国一般家庭子女早就因赡养费打官司了，而没几个老人如片中老奶奶优雅有尊严的老去。虽不是个爱热闹的人，但能保持良好的心态却不是一件易事。养老问题一直是人口老龄化之后最突出的社会问题之一，用喜剧的方式探讨养老问题确实很新颖。但我还想插句天海佑希也太能抗老了，虽然片中穿着朴素但还是美……
有点类似于贺岁片，老面孔汇聚一堂，剧情皆大欢喜
电影看完了才知道是天海佑希演的啊，这是我看的第一部她的电影啊！之前只是传说哎，好欢乐啊这个电影，在日本生活果然很难，前面我还一直跟着他们记账，所幸后面是温馨的结局啦
提供了一种养老方案，人生难在接踵而来的苦难，但是总有办法过下去的，宣扬这种价值。
人到中年，危机重重，但所有的困难都被有如神助巧妙地化解了，对于严峻的养老问题，都只是点到为止，隔靴搔痒，轻松+愉快的养老小品。共享住房可能也是大趋势，但把房子卖了去跟别人合租，真的不是脑子进水?
影片最后变成乌托邦式养老宣传片。一定要温柔对待生活和家人，人不能眼界短，做事不能太武断，容易忽略背后的故事，不如再多些爱心和耐心。前半段看的焦虑后半段也算皆大欢喜。但是还是打不了高分。
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