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".
无限放大的的夸张与萌，少女心爆棚的爆笑电影。国外华裔。中国风建筑音乐美食。两代人的母女情。02年Teen Pop。
和小包子一样不伦不类，充满了老掉牙的刻板印象。
女儿要和妈妈和解，妈妈要和自己的妈妈和解，更重要的是，要和自己和解，认可接受自己。
挺写实的，家庭里男的要不不吭声要不就不出现，结果孩子出现了心理问题还要怪是妈妈的错。留着熊猫吧，东亚女孩应当要学会愤怒
接受自己，与自己和解。中国传统文化中对自己的“完美”要求也会传递到下一代，每一代都在重演，不过好在总会有突破的一次。
好棒啊，虽然很显而易见的“变红熊猫”是关于13岁的青春发育，上一辈的人都是要克服性格的缺陷，这一辈的人变成了接受自己的不完美。亚洲家庭关系也依旧是延续《包宝宝》的主题，红色头发，变熊（猫），母女关系和解，其实也是延续了《勇敢传说》，不过整体观感都比《勇》要好……
而我一直保持了红熊猫的样子 成为了家里的异类
有趣的地方蛮有趣的，对于小女生心思的揣度，还有七大姑八大姨一起变身那里。恐怖的地方也真的非常恐怖，前半个小时给我吓出眼泪两回。而结局，结局实在是太轻率了，也或许正是因为我们都知道这样畸形的亲子关系根本没有办法得到真正的解决，因此才能用这样打马虎眼的方式糊弄过去。这样的HAPPY EVER AFTER，和现实中将终生纠缠不休的症结形成的巨大裂缝，是全片最让人想要大哭的地方。
前五十分钟看得人气不打一处来，在小熊猫从天空划过的那一刻和解了。
只是美美啊，你不好的那一面太可爱了，不会伤人。而平凡的人们，没有red panda。伤人的那一面，只能隐藏起来。
不就是女性身体和心理的成长，居然弄得这么神经兮兮的，简直对不起卡夫卡。至于反传统的那一面，背离前几代的统去继承更老的统，这是文艺复兴么？
挺写实的，家庭里男的要不不吭声要不就不出现，结果孩子出现了心理问题还要怪是妈妈的错。留着熊猫吧，东亚女孩应当要学会愤怒
每变身一次就会更可怕一点，这么好的一个设置，要是放到以前的皮克斯会怎么呈现呢？还我皮克斯谢谢。
并没看，刚读了条目下一篇高赞超详细解读的影评，心里膈应的不行。这影片里对华裔十足夸张又臆想的刻板印象实在是让人厌，摆足了是华裔制作者在自己族裔身份上挖地三尺找卖点。这篇里列举的种种，从父母对子女的态度，到生活习惯，穿衣打扮，房间布置，不知是哪年哪月的残破符号了，现实生活里许多华裔与之毫无关联
无法共情的是人从来没有family issue吗？那我挺羡慕你们的
五分给turning red的女性团队，支持女性力量。电影里为什么选择说的广东话而不是中文呢。华裔让人亲切，但华裔不是中国人。把红色棕熊比喻成青春期对自己产生印象的各种情绪是形象的拟人方式。从始至终，都是妈妈让妹妹尴尬，一个是带着她去找Devon无地自容的恋爱幻想，第二个是带卫生巾去学校，然后妹妹逃回家在屋顶上跑着说自己要躲起来。最后让我感动的点就是妈妈也经历过美美经历的一切，想想就很心酸，但妈妈还是成为了外婆的样子。对于华裔女性的刻画我个人不是很喜欢，就很强势和完美主义。
东亚噩梦用美国梦化解。有些未明之处，熊猫力的母系传承与李氏祠堂的父系宗族是有根本冲突的，导演似乎回避了这个问题。
第三幕极大缓解了“形态”过度复古的第一幕带来的cringe
男的偶像g里g气
三星给制作 故事逻辑太差了 还都是刻板印象
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