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".
凑合看完. 老美是想拍熊猫不敢拍,最后换成小熊猫的吧....
幸亏没有公映，不然会被别人看见哭。能变身是一件多么酷的事。
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………………
this is so wholesome
所有人都應該多看幾遍這部作品，性愉悅并不可恥，女性更應該更好地瞭解自己、愛自己。男主說他的夢想是看到維納斯，蘇珊就是啊，下垂的乳房、鬆弛的皮膚、發福的腰圍，最後接納鏡中一絲不挂的自己時，那姿態分明就是煥發著波提切利維納斯光彩的維爾倫多夫的維納斯。
PS：浙江专升本时间由原定的3月26日，推迟到5月14日，所以我的观看这部电影的时间也提前了。日期反复无常，这已经是第二次对22年浙江的专升本时间做出调整了，太考心态了。
哪个furry控看了不想原地打滚尖叫呢？但受制于串流定位和“萌即正义”视角下的野心滑坡，仍遍布预期中套路和1.0的地方（缺少“魔力”的东方景片陈列，公式化命题写作，闹腾的叙事节奏），以至于最后把少女自我成长和跨代际沟通衔合起来，是有些顺拐也说服力欠佳的。从《包宝宝》到这部的母女冲突矛盾，能看出石之予在真诚自白跟迎合好莱坞工业标尺间的试探，还是希望她下次放手做些更有挑战性的项目，毕竟作为皮克斯首位华裔女导演，值得带来更多低回流连的表达。
有可爱也有好笑也有时代和文化。但主线故事矛盾点真是让人捉摸不透，变熊猫就没有坏处啊，那可不就留着了么。｜20220401 和一个留学生姑娘聊过之后发现了理解小熊猫设定的新角度，也被她介绍的多伦多打动了。
我选择成为我自己。这个世界比较没用就是情绪宣泄，比如说什么你知道又能怎么样呢？仿佛你真的知道了一样，所有的东西你都要先知道了再说，在你不知道之前，你不需要任何的表示，我现在不和人争吵了，因为开始意识到，每个人只能在他的认知水平基础上去思考，以后有人告诉我2+2=10时，我会说，你真厉害。”
乖惨了哈哈哈哈哈哈哈，成长鸡汤啥的无所谓，难得有个华裔主角故事，还有我们的小熊猫宝！
每一个女性，都拥有爱美、好色和快乐的权利😭
3.有朋友（男）在全剧最喜欢爸爸，因为只有爸爸apprecaite美美的熊猫，我当然觉得他的屁股坐得不偏不倚的（嘲讽的意思），猫爸在虎妈面前还是有存在合理性的
中间很感动，又有多少人选择抛弃心中那只猛兽呢
与家庭、与自己的和解，真的是亚裔创作永远的主题。配乐非常东方非常好听，等原声碟~
基本是“咯咯咯”和“呜呜呜”交织的观影体验，所以，还是要尽可能守护住自己的小熊猫啊。
和之前某个时刻的自己和解了😭😭😭😭😭我不必感到羞耻的😭我不必😭😭狠狠共情😭熊猫太可爱了，我好爱那个动情的眼神动画😋😋
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
预告比正片好看，相较于我的期待来说正片比较失望，没看之前看到超过8的评分，在想哇看来不会差，但看完之后再想，为什么居然能有8？？以中国传统文化为背景的想法很好，但剧情和表现形式稍微有点低龄化，内容也有点浅和散。不过和pixar相对比较常见的邪不胜正啊阖家欢乐啊的主题比起来，中国传统中子女与父母的关系更加复杂，所以这种压抑和反叛我们来看应该是更加感同身受的。不过话说回来，追星这点也很真实哈哈哈。整个片子最给分的是红熊猫真的好可爱！
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虽然是皮克斯的动画，但整个氛围都是东亚的感觉，啊哈哈，看到她们追星那个小眼神了吗。我很喜欢这种具象化的过程，得知这是祖传的就可以想象得出ming的小熊猫一定很大，只是没想到这！么！大！
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