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".
社会主义化的《平妖传》，官场污秽一片，庙里也不干净，只有农民淳朴善良，一毛也不多拿。狐狸一家亲情感人；另都学会点石成金了还要讨好权力阶级，果然中国好狐狸，公务员铁饭碗才是正道。古典悲剧结尾。旧上海美术制片厂的传统中国动画，二维和抽象的美很好；没有文艺复兴的文化基础，不必一味追求好莱坞化。
那时的中国动画真是艺术的凝结，毫不千篇一律，故事也是禁得起一看再看，可以当作传世寓言的。
现在看来逻辑真无聊 不知道小时候什么感觉 不打分了
其实几个狐狸也不过是想让自己生活的更好些。
三十来岁了，在电影院一本正经看小时候看的动画片，想必那些滑稽的片段童年看时我应该只会哈哈大笑，现在我不会笑了，而是不住地感叹幽默桥段、画面和搞笑动作设计的是多么有创意。在被日漫和美漫统治的今天，看到曾经的国产动画是这样有自己的风格和特点，无法不去惋惜它的凋落。“不重复别人，不重复自己”，这是主创人员督促自己艺术创作的信条，或许也可以是现在国产动画创作者遵循的准则。
蛋生的师傅是个具有革命性的英雄，他无视天国的规矩，将幸福之火播撒到了人间，他忍辱负重，为了人类的幸福牺牲了自己，师傅，你太伟大了。
天宫“秘书阁”执事人员袁公乘玉帝赴瑶池聚会之际，击开石龛门，私取天书下凡，将天书文字刻在云梦山白云洞的石壁上。袁公因泄露天机，触犯了天条，玉帝罚他终身看守石壁天书。一天，袁公踏云巡山，路遇蛋生，为了将天书传于人间，他嘱咐蛋生等白云洞口香炉升起彩烟，带上白纸，拓下洞中石壁上的天书。蛋生按袁公嘱咐拓下了天书。袁公又指点蛋生勤学苦练，运用天书为民造福。蛋生攻读天书，治蝗救灾，为民除害。狐狸精恨蛋生妨碍其作恶，耍阴谋窃去天书，勾结官府，继续祸害百姓。蛋生追索天书，与狐狸精多次斗法。当蛋生与狐狸精争夺天书时，袁公到
袁公被抓走时对蛋生说“你要好自为之啊”，在修复版看到片尾剧本文字描述场景:白云弥漫，天地苍苍。非常震撼，很正统的中国美。
儿时果然是看过的，83年的？那时有彩色了吗？做成这样，真是了不起
其实我小时候没看过，所以对情节就没什么情结。奇趣美可真不容易！母狐蹦迪那段可太劲了！小皇帝的锥形设定也很奇趣。好色之徒的刻画惊人直接。按京剧脸谱代入角色真是太棒了。没想到始作俑者是BBC？@梅龙镇
2县太爷，府尹。官越大，越贪。
深夜看的，惊到我了。和现在那些一味山寨的垃圾一比，更是唏嘘。
这部动画耽搁了多年,去年还是今年终于完成.作为当年中国传统动画的水平和一个对于我们的童年有意义的片子而给予四星.
BBC看了新剧本说资金不足决定退出的故事真是笑死我了……
三个狐狸精的升迁之路几乎就在影射或者揭露这个世界的本质，蠢贪坏几乎是天然孪生三兄弟，在闹剧背后却是正派人的污名与贬斥，「蛋生」本质上只是一个清道夫，或者一个会法术的「看到皇帝新装的小孩」。
ps.这部节奏很赞！值得学习
反观现在的国产 甭提了 再加上某局搅和 真是一点进步没有
没想到编剧是包蕾；以前的美术片真是精品现在是商品和废品；其实剧情还是有些说不通的地方比如得到了天书妖狐为何还要伺候权贵咧；一些搞笑的细节并不比好莱坞差而且很有东方风味；小时挺害怕狐狸精啥的所以没看全。
大概是中国最好看的动画之一了
2021.11.6在电影院再次看到了4K修复版。音乐🎶好棒。每个人物造型都很有趣。最后一个画面（袁公被带走，蛋生不舍的呼喊师傅），电影院里一个小朋友，哭的哇哇的……说明电影真的好棒。
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