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".
在“蜘蛛侠”之后看这个，有一种神奇的感觉
很欣慰我还保留着自己的小熊猫。
太好看了吧，有青春期的躁动，有和父母的摩擦，有母女的相处，更有做自己的青春期感悟，这么多命题完美的融合到了一起，影院上映再去刷一波
（6.5/10）看来最近对于皮克斯与迪士尼本部差异的区分还能用，虽然开头看起来好像好像木兰呢（当然是动画版，真人版不配），但放心，这一部不会存在一个汇聚一切焦点的“公主”。即便完全不考虑导演的那部短片和这种东亚背景的设定。这么说就更接近CoCo了。死党与家人的群戏相当出彩，虽然也没什么意料之外的惊喜吧，在该满足观众的地方做到了合格。小熊猫太可爱了，周边必须入一波。
好喜欢小女孩的性格 妥妥的社交牛逼症
最后和妈妈在竹林那段看哭了，好熟悉的窒息感，但我选择自私点
预告太可爱了，期待！！
13岁女孩暴怒会变成红毛熊猫， 母亲要求克制收敛，用仪式把怪物收走，小女孩坚持做自己，拒绝历代传统对女孩的规训。母女之间的怪物大战，认真讨论的话就是所谓女德与女性觉醒的战斗，肤浅追星看演唱会和成绩卓越乖巧孝顺并不是互斥的，那怪物和小女孩的真自我共存也是。
剧不剧情先不说，就说谁能阻挡住一只红猫熊呢？！
3.5。不知道真正的美国华裔移民家庭究竟是什么样的，因而观影体验多少产生了一些距离造成的旁观感。你可以说故事的主题表达其实并不十分深刻，甚至于有一种流水线的量产质感，但是也不得不承认，在想象力和他国文化的处理上，迪士尼还是独树一帜的，这也不是仅凭精良的制作就能达成的效果。
仪式和幻境段落还算有趣，整体不如预告片。可能总有一天东亚的女儿要鼓起勇气对妈妈说，我没有那么完美，让你失望了。
太纯净了，太通透了，太形而上了，每一个词都在谈论肉身，可每一个词却都指向灵魂。进退失据和义无反顾，悔恨与慰藉，衰败与新生。赎尽对他人和对自己的歉意，然后抵达巅峰。
既想讲中国，又想讲美国。既想谈深刻，又想图一乐。马儿一边跑，一边吃青草，马儿没吃饱，跑得也不好。中美不如功夫熊猫。深浅不如头脑特工队。既不好笑，也不好哭，很无聊。关键在于，核心不是普遍客观的两难，而是一种儒教吃人疾病，适合批判，不值一辩。这几年美国电影流行走类型元素叠加融合的路线，但儒和发展心理学真的不搭，既没有关联，也没有冲突，就好像吃米饭就热狗。概念先行，命题作文，除了毛发，别无诚意。
太萌了太萌了，前半截节奏稍微有一点慢导致我看睡着了（也因为最近感冒）。。本来觉得4星，看完结尾决定给五星
西方电影中的中国元素经常是粤港台风味，中国字是繁体字，角色言语是粤语，弄不弄就要舞狮，家里经常有牌位供奉，这种文化并不是中国文化的主流，所以经常会被中国观众所嫌弃。本片就是如此，本片中的角色都是外籍华人，生活的区域是外国的唐人街，还出现了道士作法等封建迷信剧情，这些剧情并不能代表真正的中国文化。这种伪中国文化电影是不可能引进国内上映的。
还是要感谢皮克斯在心情不好的一天作了陪伴，美美在仪式中顿悟了熊猫是自己一部分的时候有一丝小感动，有些笑位也是很好笑的。但对比皮克斯以往的水准不算特别高。
woman power，还挺棒的关于母女关系、成长与自我意识觉醒的故事，虽然难免有些俗套和东方的刻板印象，不过小熊猫实在是太可爱了。。。这个不引进真的可惜了
拍给abc看的，所以共鸣点不多，场景很漂亮，母亲的造型很刻板，更像民国的妈妈，居然还有满清的装饰，旗袍可以接受。不过，对于歪果仁这个设计已经很好了！
成长的叛逆，终会和解的，华人形象难得的高光。
这不和Encanto一毛一样？轻飘飘地像部大学毕设而不是电影…另外对家庭羁绊不感兴趣的人真受不了这类玩意儿…
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