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".
眼泪真是不值钱，哪里能想到十多年前看战国大合战、大人帝国反击战、夕阳下的春日部男孩时掉的眼泪，居然在这几年连续质量平平的时候，忽然来了这么一部五岁小孩的青春记事，果然在线的剧本和真诚的内核就能赚到感动和五星~~又对剧场版开始期待了~~
剧本有点糙，想塞的东西太多，结果最后都差一点。青春这个主题抛出来的太晚，仿佛是剧作层面的机械降神，把所有问题都抹过去了，且主题和情节不够匹配，情感聚焦不起来，强行抒情的痕迹太明显。其实大家都知道小新的时空是永恒停滞的，成长的分离与格差社会都是强行来的命题，但要做得好其实也没什么问题，可实际却是这块主题的完成度实在是太低了。严格来说其实是低于小新剧场版的评价水准的
蜡笔小新好就好在故事简单，不搞花里胡哨的，就专心讲好一个主题
【“对孩子们来说，不存在无意义的事情吧。”】
谐音梗很好笑，结尾很燃。果然蜡笔小新搞悬疑都是扯🤣
他愿望也很简单：在申请信开头就写了四个自己最好的朋友，各个都是精英。就想大家上了小学都要在一起。
4.5分：蜡笔小新系列最爱的一部！青春是什么东西呢？青春是恋爱，、是分手，青春是孤独、是陪伴，青春是自信、是自卑，青春是满足、是后悔，青春是沉默、是发光，青春是人情道义，是特立独行，青春是狂欢，青春是曾经拥有、是活在当下，青春是…“一千个读者就有一千个哈姆雷特”青春的定义“千奇百怪”正因为各有各的青春才让青春这两个简单的汉字变得意义深刻或一见就笑，或一目潸然，填鸭式教育从某种意义上本就是反人类的教育，如果内卷成为一种狂热一种理所应当，相比最本质的美好也都将烟消云散。孩子永远最真挚，蜡笔小新永远是最好的动画片，实话实说我也经常拘泥于自我内耗慢慢失去了最初对于事物的体验，谢谢小新让我再次反思自己，聆听自己～
前半段我还看不出这么高评分的原因，后半截竟然热血了起来哈哈。用最幼稚的小孩最幼稚的故事讲最浅显的道理，难怪那么多人喜欢看蜡笔小新的剧场版。我再也不说小新是傻子啦！
期望过高了，没有想得有深度，推理元素没有想得多，结尾我没哭出来。一如既往塑造了很多路人角色，不过都是学生，缺少往年剧场版成人角色的复杂性。各种元素还是杂糅得很好，但故事线太多太杂了，靠“精英”这个主题把所有故事抓起来，虽然发展很流畅，但观感还是累。春日部防卫队除了妮妮都有个人的剧情，妮妮待遇不公啊（笑）
青春是什么…是存在内心不管几岁也不觉得自己年华老去。
讲文明，树新风。
当风间想成为精英，怎么看待身边不思进取的伙伴？“春日部小队是暂时的，我们终于有一天要分道扬镳啊” “所以才要享受当下！” “那就等我成为精英之后，我们再一决胜负吧！” 关于青春中的悔恨、冲劲、迷茫...批判了唯分数第一的普世价值。搞笑的小桥段不少。
悬疑向剧场版绝赞（虽然是小新味儿的无厘头悬疑，dying message也太搞了），个人认为这是小新最好看的一部剧场版。
近年来最好的蜡笔小新剧场版了，最后一段青春无敌的奔跑让我想起了看大人帝国剧场版的感觉。一部有着反对过度精英主义的中心主题内核，歌颂青春的剧场版，以侦探推理＋日式青春的形式呈现。对孩子来说，和伙伴们在一起，也许没有无意义的事情，很多鸡娃父母，把自己对于万事万物赋予意义的焦虑辐射强加在孩子身上，其实可以看看蜡笔小新剧场版。其实春日部学院倒很像社会缩影，有中坚的所谓精英，有被体系抛弃的落水者，有离群索居的游侠（露露），有反叛者，有迷信精英体系的统治者。
立意可真高！数值化的计分系统，AI与人类，精英式教育，不圆满的才正是人生啊！就算知道到分开，也依然要努力奔跑
千潮和小新父母的对话："在被别人嘲笑啊""这都是常有的事，他正是为了朋友而拼命努力""对于父母来说，输了也好，被嘲笑了也罢，只要他能挺起胸膛活下去，这样就足够了。"
没想到破案后才是高潮。风间的信，父母无条件的支持，陪伴在身边的朋友，鼓励和支持，争吵和和解。
为什么每一年的剧场版都这么好看呢 鸟型风间太可爱了！
很多地方都看得出《花之天下》从《大人帝国》里汲取了不少养分，无论是无数人围观的比拼结尾，还是用力到人物变形的画风，应该都会让不少小新电影粉梦回二十多年前。只是很可惜，由于恰好最近重温过《大人帝国》，我深深知道它好的地方并不只是一场比拼或者一个画风那么简单。
我不喜欢人类，但是，我喜欢你。～～～～～年度最甜表白～
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