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".
迪士尼水准之上，但相对于它家好的故事来说太贫乏了，以爱发电的主题内核快被用烂了，一眼见底的叙事走向，比冒险类的动画少了些华彩的段落，自我认同的部分其实也是千篇一律，但画面的流畅度，以及出类拔萃的配乐实在不忍心给出低分，轻松一刻绚烂多彩一如既往，这种流水线的制作团队，其他国家制作都不一定能达成，能多看一部是一部。★★★
有些趴很clumsy有些趴明显就是lazy writing，有点浪费了这么妙的Columbian 魔法大房子（*wink*）设定，但在疫情已经折磨了全世界两年的当下，看一个两代Latino快乐跳舞找寻自我的miracle故事好像也很开心。
看完了就知道为什么剧情不丰满了，完全是把音乐剧变成电影既视感，电影让动作和特效更绚丽流畅，大屏幕看完全是一种享受，林漫威的确厉害，全片没一首难听的歌，不说了我继续去听第10086遍Bruno……
我觉得还可以吧，虽然剧本不是很好，但是当舞台剧看还行，画面绚丽，歌舞好看，人物虽然脸谱化但是故事想传递的家庭的关系还是正能量的，值得和小孩子一起看一下
这个格局真的是迪士尼吗？带一丢丢惊悚气氛有那么几分好感，但是本片本身就是期待值低，观后还真的对得起这个“低”了。
老一辈：我爱你们，所以我要你们每一个都完美无缺。年轻一辈：我接受你们的不完美，是因为我爱你们
我们主角就是假装经历了一番艰难旅程，成长了哦——这未免太虚伪、太无聊了吧
嗐，這可不是現代教育的動畫版嗎？每個人都是充滿天賦、獨一無二、精力充沛，所以你不行就只能證明你inferior你活該被擠壓被排斥被怪罪被邊緣，童話裡才會沒有平凡人的立足之地，才會有逆轉的神奇勵志命運。仍然是後殖民敘事的遺緒，哥倫比亞拉美風情萬種，迪士尼的世界之旅算是post-quarantine的補償吧。【UME-BB】
2022年，第94届奥斯卡最佳动画长片！画面再美，没有好故事支撑也没用。这种水平的动画引进也没多大意义。
迪士尼流水线产品，毫无特色，恹恹欲睡，手紧不及格。
你们家复兴的关键是你姥肯向你这么个小孩低头。画风和音乐都很好，喜欢。
这创意是有点灵感枯竭的意思，不过悬疑解密部分完成度还行，可惜高潮再次回到套路。近年迪士尼家庭主题的故事基本从少数族裔那找，有色人种某种程度像是传统守旧的代言词。
就这是金球奖最佳动画？这是奥斯卡最佳动画？选不出来可以放弃这项
一不留神买成了国配，整个就像在看一场一般的中文音乐剧演出。
越简单越老生常谈的基础道理 不就是最难执行的吗 审美和美学太完整了
画面很艳丽，剧情真的很一般，最后还是小感动了一把
相比之前的海洋奇缘还是差一些，元素太多让人头发胀，特别是前面的节奏太赶了
前半段好棒呀，美工、歌曲、舞蹈都特别棒，创意感满满。可惜的是后面剧情发展还是不可避免地走向了套路与烂俗，唱了几首歌就全家欢了，前面的好和后面的差简直形成鲜明对比。
lmm不愧是饶舌歌手
抛弃刻板固着重拾初心的主题看到末尾还是温馨感动的。但情节的铺陈和叙事的手段也明显扁平单一了，有种旁逸斜出的缺损和失衡感，阿嬷和伊丽莎白的人物塑造与变化实过于迅速呆板。此外，歌都很好听，但一旦对其的插入达至频繁甚至高而乱的话就更加凸现出不完整的“拼凑感”了。一次合格的表达配一段不合格的故事。
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