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".
一场制作精良、不惜工本、呕心沥血的大型MV。一出祖孙两代割裂与和解的样板戏。祖母完美苛刻的背后是害怕失去的保护欲，而米拉贝这个角色本身并没有成长，她的不完美才是解开捆绑家庭魔咒的真正魔法。瞧瞧多好的主题呀，但就是没劲啊。
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
有点无头无尾，魔法的出现如果给一些逻辑，后面更能驱动它消失与重返，会更好一点吧。现在就忽然就来了，忽然就没了，忽然就回来了。虽然也在表达家人的忽视，与爱，但总的来说还是有些破碎。
很90年代迪士尼风格，歌舞剧。
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。
她让大家找到了/认识了那个不完美却真实的自己，让外祖母意识到“奇迹不是每个人被魔法赋予的天赋,而是每个人自己(Miracle is you)”。 Don’t be strained by what you’ve got (power, gift…). Open your eyes, be imperfect, be empathetic and be YOU.
Let It Go，Just Follow Your Heart.
lmm不愧是饶舌歌手
这段语录，其实是迪士尼写给自己的信仰，那就是「保护神奇」
葫芦娃一家人是怎么被麻瓜狂灌鸡血汤pua的
《Surface Pressure》《We Don't Talk About Bruno》最喜欢的两首歌
很多评论说里面有政治隐喻以及封建观念的披露，也许只是隔靴搔痒，一笔带过。整个家族的形象，这么多人物，也没有在这100分钟内塑造完整，有点脸盲了。
迪士尼还能更差吗 歌不行 剧情不行 主题不行 啥啥都不行
故事有点薄，传统的合家欢大结局，不过值得一看。
怎么还有一个TARDIS梗
来自家庭的痛苦经年久月，而和解太快一笔带过就像在受害者的脸上再啪了一巴掌，无形之中为家族长辈和家族规矩又开脱了不少，难怪有些人看了很不舒服。不过全女性的动画人物设置倒是挺可爱的
有一天终会面对自己的内心，接纳自己的平凡，并坦然接受他人的帮助。
预告片看完整篇。墨西哥人民对德州侵略者的控诉（？
就是一部用成熟、成功元素堆砌起来的商业片，感受不到“人”的真情。魔法还得存在，家人拥抱就得和解。说真话的舅舅当了多年的隐形人，真的很难从他的家人身上感受到爱，连名字都不能提，还能惦记他的安危吗。
这创意是有点灵感枯竭的意思，不过悬疑解密部分完成度还行，可惜高潮再次回到套路。近年迪士尼家庭主题的故事基本从少数族裔那找，有色人种某种程度像是传统守旧的代言词。
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