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".
皮克斯的又一部佳作，主角是个有脾气的小女孩，反抗与撒野的外在物化实体表现，那么多规矩和束缚，是成年人世界强硬施加的，小孩子不应该背负那么多枷锁。
是不是画风很熟悉。回头发现是《包宝宝》的导演。
影片重点描述青春期中国式家庭的压力，像这样逼得太紧张的家庭，全球都有，有的是父亲严格有的是母亲，或者全家包括亲戚都严格，这种现象只不过亚洲比较普遍。
Only one panda is cute?
好莱坞的编剧模版真不错：传统家庭，青春期叛逆，隐瞒，事情败露，冲突，和解，大团圆。换点元素，加点可爱动物缓解一下火药味，套一套模版就又是一部新片了。哦，对了还要突出一下“多元化”美利坚主旋律，这个倒是不难解决。对于皮克斯这种以创意闻名的品牌属实不得劲。我怀疑被迪士尼夺舍了。小熊猫还是挺好rua的。
imdb的差评让我get到一部以十三岁青春期女孩为主的合家欢电影得让多少封建人/自由人不爽：）
对标的应该是coco？皮克斯对民族文化和奇幻元素的融合，还是关于家庭和成长的主题，但这部无论画面还是剧情都太草率了点
命题作文般的创意，看似深刻的主题表现出来过于浅显。整片给我的所有感觉都很像《魔法满屋》。
好莱坞的编剧模版真不错：传统家庭，青春期叛逆，隐瞒，事情败露，冲突，和解，大团圆。换点元素，加点可爱动物缓解一下火药味，套一套模版就又是一部新片了。哦，对了还要突出一下“多元化”美利坚主旋律，这个倒是不难解决。对于皮克斯这种以创意闻名的品牌属实不得劲。我怀疑被迪士尼夺舍了。小熊猫还是挺好rua的。
笑不出，很多地方没共鸣，会觉得比起现实，也太像糖果了…感觉是一个温和化了100倍而且故意搞错重点的恐怖片。但即便如此，也不想太差评，比空白好。
仪式和幻境段落还算有趣，整体不如预告片。可能总有一天东亚的女儿要鼓起勇气对妈妈说，我没有那么完美，让你失望了。
我觉得砸破法器变熊猫这个设定挺好玩的，其他的就…导演和包宝宝是一个，怪不得。
很细腻地刻画出了华人世界里女性在成长时的隐痛，以及扭曲的母子关系。换成其他形式的亲子关系同样成立。母亲这个反派形象很有代表性，以爱为糖衣，包裹着沉重的期许与难以抵抗的控制。很惊喜的一点是，影片写出了小美因渴望惯性的认可而导致的内心幽暗，她不断推诿以求自保。而母亲的底线是，只要女儿听话懂事就会天下太平。听话才是真正的毒瘤，是压抑痛苦的根源，但长辈给它取了个新名字，叫成长。第三幕的场面、节奏以及主题的呈现都太棒了。
有朋友真好。学生时代真好。MeiMei生在欧美真好，这样的结局certainly won‘t happen here。
有点低龄向了，但是这就是13岁时候的我啊！
红熊猫包含了小女孩青春期的各种躁动，含义也很丰富，尤其它的传说，红熊猫可以是祝福，也可能是诅咒：来月事能生育，长大成女人，是好事是坏事也都一念间。这种人无完人，接纳多面自己的观念灌输，就很适合给容易自我怀疑的青春期小孩看啊。怎么平衡好身边各种亲密关系，平衡好家庭和外面世界，平衡好传统和新鲜，一道道都是要跨的槛。真的很明亮可爱，本来红熊猫毛茸茸就很萌，还动不动爆热血日漫星星眼；竹林、诗画、“照妖镜”、宗祠祭祖、道士做法之类也都很有中国神怪故事印记在，整个片就跟小美一样，可爱得古灵精怪。
emmm…可能看之前被灌输了很多，所以看的时候少了很多惊喜。定位低领化，我也能接受，所以就很顺畅的剧情。虽然最后有被燃到，又燃得有点刻意。
看这部电影前需要了解一点，性解放不等于性开放。
妈妈的全部……不敢苟同
三星半，前半段实在是吵吵闹闹，但是抵不过亚裔母女关系的处理就是很独特。另外，无条件支持在皮克斯闯荡的中国女生。
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