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".
看完孩子问，妈妈，我成绩不好你也是爱我的吧，当然了孩子，这也是我带你看这个电影的原因之一
挺失望的，感觉改编的很奇怪，真人出演也是很硬拗
郑渊洁的小说的确很难改编成电影，部分演员的演技也有点尬，主角的演技还是很不错的！
怪物的设计也是颇有心思，大眼长嘴的小鸟造型，看起来真的十分惊悚，也不知女主怎么克服的了能和它近距离拍戏的，我隔着屏幕都觉得毛骨悚然。
坐在电影里院里想起来我小时候是童话大王的忠实订户。郑亚旗的访谈值得一看。
北欧近来很多这种恐怖片，好像在说，我知道我们社会好福利好幸福指数高，但是我腻了。
观感很奇怪，又说不出哪里奇怪，不过这鸟应该是女孩阴暗面的化身吧
40分钟就能讲完的伊藤润二式恐怖寓言，而且也的确挺适合日本人拍这个故事，如果把父母角色对调一下或许在豆瓣得分能提高0.5分。
小清新畫風裏的惡心恐怖對比强烈，很有心理壓力。
妈妈对女儿畸形的爱，鸡血体操，完美家庭下的锅底灰。小女孩孵出的鸟最终变成了自己
总之这个碧池太狗了，有这样的母亲真的是倒一辈子的霉。
？！这剧情和封面有啥关系啊？？？除了弟弟戴过一下这个面具...电影里也大都是阴沉天气，哪有这么光明靓丽的！还以为又是那种画面清新，但压抑恐怖的唯美恐怖片呢，结果... 这不就是...超级普通的恐怖片么...不过这个蛋！很不错hhh 家里人居然一直也就没发现，孵出来的怪物可怕，但妈妈也好可怕！果然鸟人最后慢慢变成了小女孩啊，感觉是把小女孩当成了妈妈，但又想变成小女孩，看到她痛苦她也会痛苦，但看到她快乐，她却依旧会有点痛苦，希望她的快乐和她都属于自己。唔~ 就是小孩吧...妈妈就很典（不针对女性），表面风光靓丽是个好妈妈，背后却出轨是个偏执狂。不过那个男的某一方面感觉还是个不错的人？？？最后居然和妈妈一起杀鸟啦！爸爸和弟弟就像个大傻子x 是不是自己女儿根本不重要啦！够能让她风光就好！是讽刺片！
挺好的，曾经我也反复思考过“成绩不好的话还能得到爸爸妈妈的爱吗”这样的问题。
无论是故事的叙述还是小演员的选择，都与前几年的短片《驯兔记》相差甚远。但其间很多道理还是对的，这么说吧，优点都是郑渊洁的，缺点都是导演的。
有什么不能说的吗？要隐喻？讨厌一切设置好立场想要教育别人的片子。
最后母亲亲手杀死自己的“梦想”。我觉得女主“孵化”出来的另一个“自己”才是她内心真正的自己，杀死自由自在不受约束的邻居小女孩和她的狗；母亲的外遇“野种”；及最后对母亲的反抗。
猎奇版Turning Red，不要脏吓了球球了
很怪诞的一部恐怖片，其实并不吓人，个人还挺喜欢
女主长相和档5过于神似导致我全程嗑颜停不下来，甚至觉得结尾的黑发状态更美了……鸟宝宝不吃呕吐物还是挺可爱的。
到了结尾，电影院的妈妈们热泪盈眶，孩子们面无表情……
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