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".
都什么年代了，迪士尼还以为这种廉价的爱和包容就能打动人心?
制作精美的没话说，颜色绚丽音乐好听，故事就稍显老套了些。@橙天Luone
载歌载舞风格倒挺适合这种美洲背景的故事 但剧情真是越来越敷衍 家庭异类拯救家族的故事 活力新生代对抗保守大家长的故事 最终结果自然是找回初心 起承转合都死气沉沉的照本宣科 毫无趣味毫无幽默可言 完全是在套模板 空有一个五彩斑斓的皮囊却缺乏打动人心的情感作为内核 更不用奢望这个故事里能看出哪怕一丢丢的与众不同 只能说迪士尼的动画真的是越做越差了
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。
都什么年代了，迪士尼还以为这种廉价的爱和包容就能打动人心?
歌好听，视觉想象力强，价值观保守，四舍五入把寻梦环游记又复习了一遍，这些年最喜欢的迪士尼了，bruno真的很LMM！we dont talk about bruno!!
这个设定其实很真实，我蛮喜欢的，但这个讲故事的方式真的太太迪士尼了
画面没得挑，但情节实在太没新意了，合家欢到连一点锐利都不敢有，问题也解决得神速得几乎莫名其妙，可惜了这样精美的动画制作。
高开低走。设定的展开、大力士姐姐和预言家舅舅的人设都立得很稳，但从花姐的转变就开始突兀了，从此一发不可收拾，后边全程WTF。有一说一，歌舞真不错。
实际上并没有那么差，毕竟画面明媚，音乐动听，而且谁能不爱哥伦比亚风情？设定也很有意思，当然最大的问题是这可以说是个没有故事的电影...
故事的设定不错，但是剧情太弱了，反转也不够突出，整体三星。
昨天看了两部loser成长的故事，剧本都不行。这部因为动画片制作水平在，色彩斑斓又有音乐；看得更愉快一些。但也就bruno no no让我想起林漫威是写了hamilton的人。剧情实在是各种生硬，结尾草率。
还以为最后结局是所有人都失去了超能力，然后变成普通人去生活
因为是迪士尼动画，所以我看了，有点失望，对于女主这个设定，我有点不舒服，出生在充满魔法的家庭的没有魔法的人，不是罪过，虽然最后合家欢了，但是还是有点不开心。
但是这层糖衣下的苍白，还是增添了许多无力。
如果只是美好的童话该有多好，那样便只会记得「Stars don't shine they burn.」「You're more than what you're gifted.」「The miracle is you.」
有人说这是迪士尼最差的动画，我却觉得这还是正常水平的迪士尼动画，至少比《1/2魔法》要好，虽然电影有一个半小时，可是我却意犹未尽，我总觉得电影有很多东西没有交代清楚，比如魔法的来源，我知道只要接受这个设定就好，看的时候我总是期待祖父能有点什么奇迹出现，另外这又是一个关于谎言构建的虚伪的美好家族，打破隔阂最好的方式就是面对他，说真话天塌不下来，还有这个故事的设定，有点百年孤独的感觉，这个马德里，我差点听成马孔多！两位姐妹对那位男子爱，也像阿玛兰妲和丽贝卡！这故事总的来说差点意思，如果人物再少点，戏份再打磨一下，或许还会更好
首先只有在爷爷为保护家人选择独自面对追兵的时候把整部电影推向了高潮…其次和满场的小朋友一起看，夹杂着他们嘈杂的声音，感觉像是小学生春游…就…很普通
现在的动画特效真的太完美了，除了惊叹只有惊叹。相比之下剧情弱了些，不过可能是因为我越来越超出迪士尼的电影受众年龄了吧，歌舞很出彩。
布鲁诺被赶出家门十多年，家人从不谈论他，仿佛从来没有这个人。
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