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".
预告片看完整篇。墨西哥人民对德州侵略者的控诉（？
19.12.2021 | @ Regal Majestic | “It’s bigger on the inside!” 好温暖的动画，音乐好棒（当然了）
个人不喜欢。在故事不够精彩、剧情特别简单、人物皆脸谱化的前提下，无论背后影射的内核如何真实，也不过是牵强附会，就如小马拉大车。在为“魔法”赋予功能性的时候，那个幻想世界已经失去了魔力，在这一点上，这个故事与生活倒是达成了统一。PS.就连歌都不好听，让人想夸都找不到地方下嘴。
画面精致色彩漂亮 但故事人物还有歌都有点一般 有句台词疯狂下头就是说那个男的要给女主sister求婚“他想要五个孩子”to hell with him有子宫吗他🙄️
能量好高，温暖疗愈，低频振动几乎为零，太适合小朋友看了。其实世界上最大的魔法就是每个人自己，你不需要蜡烛和魔法之门，你就是蜡烛和魔法之门本身，你就是一切奇迹的源头与奇迹本身。你越是看到自己完美，你的魔法便会越是强大。一切天赋、才华，都是工具，去尽情地发挥它们，使用它们，却不要被它们所定义，它们只是你的，就像你的外套，再华美合身却也永远无法成为你。看到自己才是一切的根，如此天赋、才能与魔法才能不断升级迭代，生生不息。
接受最真实的自己，要知道那才是你的天赋，才是miracle
Ag的第一次影院體驗。明顯感受到了文化衝擊，像個狐獴一樣爪著手提著一大袋爆米花一動不動站在那裡。到後來體力不支，主動要求回家。問好不好看，還是說好看，可是聲音太大了。哈哈哈。總的來說還是適合那些因“家和萬事興”、“你看你堂/表兄弟姐妹咋咋咋”遭受童年創傷的朋友拿來愈療一下的。
大力士那段最佳，其它部分放在迪士尼年货动画片中显得平庸无奇
一部披着魔法外衣的家庭剧，核心还是和解，即使没有魔法，也没有所谓的天赋，但每个人都有其独一无二的特质，但是剧作上实在太平庸，甚至有点随便了，矛盾的设置跟解决都可以用一首歌来完成，虽然这是一部主打歌舞的合家欢童话，但这样的处理就多少有点不思进取了。7
推荐长评《焦虑时代的心灵重构——从“外婆型自我”到“米拉贝型自我”》。于我的话，我觉得情节转折不甚自然，群像戏有些难以突出主旨，会有看完懵的感觉。还有就是为啥感觉迪士尼最近的作品很热爱南美土地呀？
7分吧~ 傅首尔主演，美术和音乐还是很不错的，故事重复度高，且略破碎，最后魔法全部复原是个败笔呀！和《Coco》相比中间差了三个《二分之一魔法》。
像是一篇考场上紧急收尾的作文 虎头蛇尾 虚张声势 破罐破摔
没注意买成了国语版，并不影响观影。配乐给我一种迪士尼版芭比+小熊维尼的感觉，一言不合就尬歌，还挺抓耳。
Chinese audience always value a movie according to whether it is awarded, without any independent thinking.
Boring.看到后面我看出点名堂了:就是一山容不下二虎，统治势力怎么看你都看不惯你，你永远无法讨好他们，即使孩子们再努力维持表面还有你的面子，等新一代强壮起来家长弱鸡了，家长还会试图维系ta的威严。要我说，这种家庭离的越远越好。ta以前付出再多现在多归根结底对年轻人就是道德绑架，找你满意的后代去呗，此处不留爷对吧。
内容合家欢，但是歌都还挺好听的。画面超级无敌精美了
一年一度的迪士尼的套路之作，除了对于作为故事背景的哥伦比亚的风土人情的捕捉，其他都不够惊喜，甚至一开始就能完全猜到剧情的走向，而且元素过多，最后的处理方法真的就是避重就轻，魔法和家庭都让人齁得慌。
解构了压力的作品，别逼自己太紧，生活要继续，快乐要继续。
20220113百丽宫。媒体邀请专场。迪斯尼的爆米花，真是不太适合我这个年龄看了，唱歌跳舞太多了。
太落入俗套了，第二幕揭开主角秘密的时候简直让人失落到谷底。但动画的细节还是不错，歌也好听。这几年的动画怎么都聚焦家庭、亲子关系、个人成长了啊？
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