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".
最开始的设定让人想起勇敢雄心，最后发现原来是皮克斯版的绿巨人，用李安的话说，每个人心中都有一只红熊猫，代表那个曾经叛逆的自己，当好朋友都觉得酷时亚洲妈妈则执着于把这只红熊猫赶走，真是人间真实。那咒语怎么听都像是小兔子乖乖把门开开，有些出戏了。
太难得了，这么文艺又这么生活化又这么细腻的国产爱情喜剧片不多了，虽然是中年人的爱情故事，但却很有共鸣，爱情只存在于神话里，老乌活成了神话
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2.5 这感觉像极了春晚，我想看的不过是一台出人意料的好戏，结果来的又是一坨无数层次各种强扭自我感动的屎。
这部片子估计男女之间打分差异会较大，因为里面所讲的母女关系、女孩成长、闺蜜情谊都是非常微妙且独特的，也只有女性才能更有体会吧，否则看起来就是一部青春励志卡通片。并且导演把这些点处理得很符合动画片的形式，纵然里面的母亲对女儿有很多管控过度的错误行为，但片子并没有采取批判的方式，而是通过母亲暴走之后露出脆弱的一面，让女儿和母亲之间身份互换完成双方的成长，这是最赞的一点！我自己也有一个这样的母亲，因此也塑造了追求完美的我，希望我也能释放出自己的小熊猫，与它和平共处。
“红化”不是指来月经啊。是指释放被束缚的女性能量。
我疯了，谁不想变成红熊猫啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊？！！！
话说这类片子才是正经“扛摄影机的人”应该多拍的电影啊！甚至看出了一些早期伍迪艾伦和埃里克侯麦的遗风，表演下沉够彻底，沪语和人设的搭配非常和谐，真正在过生活而非表演生活——虽然小资调调软绵绵的，但和上海的城市属性又十分投契。// PS. 徐峥一戴上假发就是真文艺，倪虹洁老师太棒了！
zzzq太多了 倒胃口
迪士尼的中国元素总是很奇怪，就像你去了国外中餐厅吃到了麻婆豆腐炖草莓那么怪。
万万没想的，最后最贴近华裔、亚裔的片子不是花木兰，也不是尚气，而是这部由皮克斯出品的《青春变形记》。
关于青春期的躁动。影片一味鼓励青少年做自己，但是为什么做自己如何做自己却缺乏说明。只能看到小毛孩脑子一热为了爽可以不顾一切，背后的隐患却避而不谈。不过爆米花嘛，无脑爽就行了。
和《包寶寶》一樣，石之予依舊說了一個兩代隔閡的故事，上一代再一次試圖吞噬下一代，不過這一次又進了一步，還有女性性啟蒙的隱晦表達，用魔法來表現五千年性壓抑是一場如何的災難。Whatever，求求迪士尼讓4★Town正式出道吧，是時候讓90年代流行曲風再次翻紅了
【8.3】片子的主要矛盾来源于“传统”的亚洲家庭里的家庭观念，但是最后解除矛盾的恰巧也是主角一家根深蒂固的家庭观念，算是一种比较理想化但是温暖的结局思路了。虽然说整体的剧本比较简单，单薄，但是几位角色的关系还是挺让人回味感动的。整体算是4星电影，但是，就是说，作为小熊猫一级爱好者，我角色地球上应该没有人比我更喜欢小熊猫了，好感度直接拉满！
老少女战士和4towns的remix太燃了！！！
D＋/ 太粗糙了，到头来家族女性这条线还是处理得非常奇观化。可以清晰地分辨出来哪些人物是注入生命力的哪些又仅仅是剧作填充起来的。尤其是后者还承担着文化表达，这样一来各种功能性就显得赤裸异常。而且这个文化表达的设定也实在是经不起琢磨：怎么就杵着这么个如此独立的母权氏族脉络？而在这个脉络里怎么就又纯然地自立着得以解决最终问题的母女情了？不过喜欢那些身体切换时轻盈的处理，美美蹦跳着穿过城市飞向演唱会的一小段太美了。
大概这是西方对于东方的普遍刻板印象了，学霸且没个性，不敢于表达自己的想法，与父母相处处于绝对劣势~这么大的巨兽在演唱会出现完全没有引起其他方面的关注吗？加拿大人民果然心大~本来对于小熊猫被称为panda挺介意的，上网自行科普了一下小熊猫还真有学名可以被称为red panda的，这玩意比大熊猫还可爱啊哈哈哈~闺蜜几个都好可爱，又刚又勇又有担待，死党属性点满了属于是，这样的妹子能处~开演唱会几个哥们也不要命，怕是信了小指头的话觉得混乱就是阶梯吧，一点不惜命啊~梦工厂著名的东方IP是功夫熊猫，迪士尼这也有了自己的小熊猫，不管疫情如何，还是对于迪士尼和梦工厂的神仙打架充满期待呢，所以压力来到了梦工厂这一边，下一个项目是什么呢~
《心灵奇旅》的成本是1.5亿，《智能大反攻》成本不到1亿，现在花1.75亿美元就做出个这？
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不要道歉｜开头第一段独白我就窒息了，接着越来越窒息：把孩子视为私有物，任意评判随便瞎想，完全不听甚至不让孩子说话；找一堆冠冕堂皇的理由不让你看演唱会，实际是心疼钱、看不惯流行文化和嫉妒你的快乐；亲子之间没有信任，心里都是秘密；孩子最无助的时候不是一起面对而是想着怎么把孩子藏起来把事情压下去，孩子全靠外界支撑…类似题材里，勇敢的心把妈妈变成野兽，亚洲背景当然是拼命压抑自己的孩子变野兽，虽然主题落到了inner beast.真可笑，她们竟然认为驱逐循规蹈矩以外的部分留下的才是ture self.现实中根本不会发生大团圆。有些人讨厌这部片的点非常奇怪，好像这样塑造一个妈妈是禁忌似的，Why are you so defensive?是你没胆承认自己母亲就是这样，又或者你自己就是这样剥削孩子的母亲？
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