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".
各种设定真的好真实，简直就是在讲我本人（开玩笑）… 正片竟然没有Bye Bye Bye真是让人失望😂 但是竟然有Bootylicious… 准备再看一遍粤语配音版🐼🧡
就是说女的好不容易嫖一次要从性原型心理一直谈到legalize sex work才能完成全套self found心理建设，男的脱下裤子就差不多了。累还是女的累。感觉这电影虽然看着是挺人文，但是细枝末节都透露着predictable………………
青春成长不只多角恋、堕胎、自杀，还有同辈的压力，家庭的束缚，象征意味明明白白，恰到好处，人物可爱，情节轻松，愉快的观影体验。
被四个女孩的友谊狠狠的暖到(虽然有些小插曲)
It’s fine to be wild sometimes.
4.5。1.疫情之下最正常的电影，青春期的叛逆与成长的主题被包裹在魔法、变身的外壳里，这是典型的皮克斯动画作品。2.未成年之前生活在父母的规训之下，成年工作之后生活在社会与法人组织的规训之下，这是大陆一代又一代人的真实写照。3.为人父母，接受孩子的不完美，为人子女，追求自由，努力做最一个真自己。
而我一直保持了红熊猫的样子 成为了家里的异类
太像青春期的自己，東方式的教育是父母總是過度保護自己的孩子。你希望達到他們的要求，做一個perfect child。對於一些不符合他們期望的個性，感到抗拒和害怕。需要花很長一段時間來磨合，接納自己的不完美。片中兩代母女皆有此問題the far you will go，the prouder I will be。導演父母和美術總監都是華裔，早在bao就有合作。看紀錄片此次核心團隊都是女性。真是太棒了！Abby太像渡邊直美了！
第三幕极大缓解了“形态”过度复古的第一幕带来的cringe
阳光姐妹淘，很美好
皮克斯不会让人失望！故事设定在千禧年的多伦多，这种时代感和华人社会独有的一种关系特色结合地特别好，有一定年纪的华人会觉得特别感同身受。感觉竹林和中国古典乐器这些元素被西方影视玩得特别好。外婆阿姨们变身加上男孩乐队那段大合唱看得让人莫名其妙热血沸腾，太可爱了。
三星半。题材和结构很有趣，但台词不够精彩，功利的“踩点”感太强，且过分正确而折损了趣味。还有，只有我觉得这个男妓毫无吸引力吗？他讲话好像在竞选社区领导啊，真是倒找钱都不想跟他做。
3.6分。 还不错，可供解读的地方挺多的。
22_067。很可爱，谁不想把脸埋在一个大大的毛绒绒的温暖的生物上呢起码我挺想的只要我不用处理它掉的毛发和排泄物就行（……。但形象还是相当刻版就是了，几乎不存在的父亲，管制小孩行动学习和朋友，控制小孩一切的母亲，到后半剧情就是真的，可能就是针对观众比较低龄吧。另外我真的挺介意那段像粤语又不是粤语的是啥东东啊
居然熬夜看完！！！！真的巨巨巨巨好看。对妈妈和女儿来说都算成长片！明天白天会跟两个女儿二刷。她们俩现在在呼呼大睡。
對我而言堪稱是“中式（或廣式）家庭子女的噩夢重現”，被時刻與更完美的人設（父母自己或者別人家的孩子）進行比較，永遠要壓抑自己內心的需求，永遠要帶著對叛逆的負疚感，朋友要經過篩選，不能行差踏錯，永遠要選擇他們認為的正確答案，才能被認可。一旦不能成為他們所預期的那類人，會得到“生舊叉燒都好過生你”的指責。絕大多人沒有機會像美美那樣，得到嚴苛父母的一句“對不起”，哪怕父母的錯已嚴重扭曲了一個孩子的認知，內化成了是孩子自己選擇的人生，即便這並不適合ta，即便會給ta的人生留下巨大的禍根。想起前不久跟我媽溝通的那樣，她說自己喜歡“乖的小孩”，我便表明“她其實根本不喜歡孩子，因為懂事和乖，不是孩子的天性，我也是，所以我不應該要孩子。”
今年最值得一看的性喜剧（也希望关注老年人及女性性需求的电影成为每年的标配或曰常态类型），更难得的是，除最后一幕的女服务生外，全片仅有男女主二人，且大部分时间都局限于狭小的室内空间中，却毫无枯燥拖沓之处。调度与空间运用足够丰富，所以也没有太突出的“舞台剧感”。台词遍布妙笔，字字有味，幽默自嘲、批判揭示与心路梳理皆有。男主演达利尔·麦克科马克不仅颜值身材气质声线俱佳，而且演活了这个本来差点儿平板单薄到家的男妓形象。艾玛·汤普森的表演更是难以形容地精彩。缺点也有，就是一些设定和剧情推进还是比较套路、理想化或有主题先行之感，比如女主事事循规蹈矩的性格、宗教老师的身份与男主的原生家庭创伤经历。最后依靠自慰达到高潮与对镜的自我凝视、悦纳与和解相当点题，也很有力量。（8.5/10）
窒息感太过真实，导致中间暂停了几次，缓解之后才能继续看。
属于皮克斯的第二梯队，这次是东方人会共情西方人会猎奇，都会喜欢何乐不为呢，很接地气，也是这些年东方元素动画里最能够感同身受的一部，另外这个毛茸茸的真的萌，还有男团大场面真的很搞很到位，电子宠物很怀旧
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。
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