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".
至今仍在心中留着最美的印象
万万没想到最后的马拉松是有热血到我的 甚至有点想哭.大概这就是青春哈哈哈 看风间和新酱吵架 好希望新酱吵赢啊 这小孩儿平时嘴贫 吵架的时候意外没话讲 看得我急死（btw番长也太帅了sos哈哈哈
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
《天书奇谭》作为动画电影的绘画功底即便在今日看来依旧充满着中国特有的美学魅力，独具匠心的画风呼之欲出的是那中国文化深厚的底蕴，而于此中那天马星空的奇想，行云流水般简单却有赋有深厚寓意的神话架构，使电影由内而外皆堪为完美。
并不觉得这部片子如其评分和评价一般神乎其神，但的确反映出四十年前的动画作品走的是于当下不同且显著高于当下的路子。观影的时候不断思考两个问题：一是国内的动画（和动画之外）何至于自我阉割至今天的水平；二是作为艺术的动画或许不只如皮克斯工作室代表的极度逼真一条发展路线，几笔线条带来的审美体验完全可以不输计算机营造的极致光影。
优秀的有点诡异的动画，老狐狸，俏狐狸，单腿狐狸。
玉皇大帝：长明灯，有书不传高高坐，脑袋流油当烛火。
是铁面具～是恋爱～闪闪发光～自卑感～后悔～义气～孤独～狂欢～曾经有过～就是当下～嗯嗯～旺旺～嘿嘿～Fire～～～～～～～～～～～是不屈不挠无限可能的谜团～～～～～～
有众多著名配音，那个把饼套脖子上转圈儿吃的蛋生，嘿嘿～～
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。
能看到制作团队对独特的民族风格动画的艺术追求，人物形象很生动，水墨场景很美，中国音乐和动画配合得也很好，但可能是受限于体制和时代环境，个人觉得故事和人物性格比较单薄。
为什么都说师父死了？看的版本不同吗？小时候印象最深的是缸里出来了好几个爸爸，现在看原来是个中国版好奇心加持的普罗米修斯的故事。
一起看过的。《蜡笔小新》的剧场版到底给豆瓣er下了什么降头，它不难看，但绝对不是一部9分的动画电影。
天書法術、狐狸成精、皇帝小兒、奸詐白臉、善惡兩分，完全是中國傳統文化中浸染誕生的動畫。
推理部分还挺有意思，但就是，没理解为啥是剧场版最佳。。。
压抑，蛋生的声优装嫩-1。俺正太时期看到师傅被抓走的时候都哭了。。师傅长得像达摩。瘸子，邪恶老太，美艳小娘子，荒唐县令。
一神仙带着天书下凡（类似于普罗米修斯，他的结局也像），无奈天书被三狐狸精吸取四处作乱，而男主则是真正向神仙学习了天书要去主持公道，最终男主打败三狐狸精并从此利用天书的能力造福于民。虽然角色“表演”太浮夸叙事也较拖，但影片作画的确水平很高很有想象力，配乐也很好。
据说老狐狸精像马诺，我觉得小狐狸精像范冰冰。
普罗米修斯+民间故事，但剧本搞成这样着实浪费好题材……
肯德基好识货啊！手办到这一款~~好惊喜！！我爱吃鸡！
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