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".
于是梅兰妮给我们展开了一幅这样的画面。
女主被關在小房間裡時那種無助感不知道為什麼我一個現代人感同身受。不過結局差點意思，並不是想要女主把所有「瘋女人」救出來，而是總覺得有點不真實。
2.5。关于家庭的美好童话…歌也不太好听，没必要那么多人住一起吧，女主也是挺辛苦的，而且不懂本身就没有gift的奶奶怎么就瞧不起同是没有gift的女主了….
虽然觉得影片拍的节奏挺平静的，可是不知不觉就看下去了，觉得有一种吸引力。好像是一种看起来内敛其实又张扬的东西，然后导演是双鱼女啊，我喜欢，可能这就是法国味？
谈话内容与对应主体不统一的多组莫名其妙的正反打，经不得琢磨且节奏拖沓，主题选取上像是无头苍蝇，大概只有光影上是拿的出手的。梅拉尼导演水平确实很一般，但因为她的态度，值得为其加上1分。（6）
讲女性追求自由独立吗？那为什么要扯上真鬼魂呢。但我喜欢女主的表演
当你看到他们看不到的东西时，他们把你送进疯人院，说这是为你好
基本的都能看懂，我是觉得那个男的应该是被逼疯的，若不是真的喜欢不至于很久都没下手，若不是真的喜欢那女的变残疾了还想和她做，或许是那里面男的才是真的变态，舞会上那个女的啥样还去舔别人手，属实恶心。看不懂这点，背景搞的太压抑了，有些细节确实不太明白。
当你说出他们的罪行时，他们把你关紧单间牢房，说这个房间很有历史意义你是幸运的
不知道为什么看这个也哭，大概是女主角的神奇力量造成，跨越了两个世界的边界……描绘闭塞环境的窒息感，在有限中将人的注意力和思考集中于这一处。女巫，疯子，不被喜爱和不受欢迎的存在，三者间有共同的地方。没怎么明白为什么最后不一起走，是为了完成寓意吗。色调还不错，总体3.5
只能说影片的魅力主要依赖于两位女主，梅兰妮真是标准的冷美人
这片子真是讽刺，令人想到了杨永信的点击治疗……
我得说女主自导自演把自己拍的很仙。这能通灵一点好处都没有啊，这些鬼魂看来也没什么诚意。
我是女的 我也喜欢希特勒 所以可以把你送到集中营吗？
最喜欢的歌是大力姐姐有压力，那首最火的不不不不要提起布鲁诺反而get不到，但无论如何剧作上都过于简单了
一家人都有魔法的时候排挤她，合照都不带她，结果小姑娘还一心为家，又受气又挨骂，太气人了，这难道不是樊胜美吗？一人受苦，全家升天。
观感是好的，看到许多人说节奏慢，但我个人还蛮喜欢这种循序渐进的节奏，每个电影都有自己的呼吸和脉搏，整部电影给我的感觉就是一首古典乐。美中不足的是女主通灵的设定过于超脱荒诞，和严肃的大背景产生了脱离。
这片子真是讽刺，令人想到了杨永信的点击治疗……
不知道豆瓣评分怎么这么低，是因为都不是在电影院看的缘故吗，2022院线第一部外语片献给迪士尼，比去年看的《寻龙传说》好看13倍左右，披上魔法设定的外衣，实则依然在讲述一个家庭的故事。女主角不被家庭成员理解的孤独感，十分能感同身受，画面色彩鲜艳，鲜花特效非常好看，音乐歌声也很治愈，最后女主角与原生家庭达成和解，外祖母讲述外公的恋爱故事，依然是一个温暖人心的故事，一个大家很熟悉的故事，也是一个被遗忘的故事。感谢迪士尼重新把这个故事捡起来！写着舅舅名字的餐桌不会被遗忘！收获了一个治愈的故事和热泪盈眶！＃2022院线03，评分:8.0/10。
这片名起的，我还以为跟魔发精灵、魔发奇缘是一个系列的……迪士尼真的脑浆凝固了吧，或者就是干脆摆烂不思进取了，反正总有新的小女孩韭菜，可以一茬一茬割。无比套路的故事（一个异域风情的家族，小女孩拒绝按家长规训的方式长大，家族受难之时，独自冒险找到破解方法，最后再来个大团圆结局），本阿姨要看吐了。就算是套路，这部也是真难看，连冒险都懒得走出家门了，就讲她家房子要塌了（真·塌房）……太无聊了吧！还是个歌舞片，但也就那样吧。当然好莱坞动画的技术还是顶格的，衣物毛发质感太真实了，好像触手可及。
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