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".
可能改变世界的最后还是女性吧，可能改变中国的还是女性吧
22.07.20｜No.27 - Zと一緒に｜
6/10。把月经来临的女性青春特征，形象化为一头野兽。“变红”从文化结构上隐喻着向外出走的意识，小美的母系氏族之所以都能变成小熊猫，是因为外部侵略造成内部宗族瓦解，需要一种反抗的力量，随着个体追求自由的驱力和传统宗族制的二元对立，小美通过掌握身体的主动权、喜好偶像文化作为反抗母亲的战场，母亲从撕毁同人创作到抱出一堆卫生巾，将小美难以启齿的爱好公之于众或直接剥夺，高潮处小美与巨大化的熊猫母亲对峙的片段，就掺杂着母女关系中积发的负面情绪，小美不再抵抗内心的野兽、自由控制身形，从而融入不同族裔文化的朋友中，但母亲为控制小美变成更强大的野兽，这种危机的解决即要腾出母女共存的空间（父亲在母亲暴走时推出石灰车画圈），也需要爱与共情，小美在竹林深处看到那个因为背叛外婆期待而哭泣的年轻母亲，主动引导她走了出去。
勉强及格吧禁不起推敲。诸多亚裔的刻板印象，非常尴尬，甚至有乳的嫌疑。总的说来好像讲了一个故事就叫做怎么别人都没事就尼玛你有事，还是大事。这种高等华人对其他族群文化困境和身份认同矛盾采取无视的态度真的很欠揍啊。
把反叛当成政治最正确，这对东方人的刻板印象也太刻板了吧
中国导演拍的中国故事 在美国大放异彩...这是好事 里面的场景人物造型都是中国风 中国元素 但是故事发生却在美国 这个让人有点恍惚...成长 剧作很好的 适合青春期的孩子跟家人朋友一起看
Oh, my god，皮克斯。我想但凡是个热爱生活的人，都愿意把灵魂交给你去创作！这样的观影体验简直太棒了！无可挑剔…… 最近皮克斯的动画有感觉逐渐往东方用力，但方式还算不错，有更大的潜力可以挖掘。人生的每一个阶段、性别、年龄都是可以用来讲述生命意义的。 皮克斯就应该享有这样的赞誉，它值得！
这么好的片子为啥不引进到院线呢？真的可惜可惜可惜啊！虽然故事和角色设置有很多cliche的地方，但内核却是动人的，你身体里的那个小熊猫，还在吗？最后母女大战那里好泪目。如果出了周边真的想爆买啊！
故事很简单，矛盾切中现实，风格依旧是皮克斯。50分钟过后，但是，叙事水准急速下跌，刺破了所有未得精心照顾的逻辑，跌入，，，跌入迪斯尼的感觉漩涡。由工作吐槽切入管理认知领域的我，对皮克斯何时被迪斯尼同化得失去灵气这一话题非常感兴趣。眼下，皮克斯依旧拥有优秀基因的惯性，《寻梦环游记》《心灵奇旅》印证着我的判断，不过其下滑的迹象与一七年后的巴塞罗那俱乐部很像。“江山代有才人出”，咳，皮克斯的风骚还有多久呢。
（6.5/10）看来最近对于皮克斯与迪士尼本部差异的区分还能用，虽然开头看起来好像好像木兰呢（当然是动画版，真人版不配），但放心，这一部不会存在一个汇聚一切焦点的“公主”。即便完全不考虑导演的那部短片和这种东亚背景的设定。这么说就更接近CoCo了。死党与家人的群戏相当出彩，虽然也没什么意料之外的惊喜吧，在该满足观众的地方做到了合格。小熊猫太可爱了，周边必须入一波。
Wake up! Red panda is out!
red panda is so f***ing cute！几次感觉剧情都进行不下去了，red panda一出来，剧情就有意思了！看过之后，才明白turning red是一语双关，不仅指女主的变身，还指女主月经初潮后女孩向女人的转变，以及看男团演唱会也是一个隐喻，应该是可以谈恋爱以爱情方式接触男生的意思。只有东亚人尤其是华裔才能理解的，在家庭教育中爸爸隐身control freak母亲和女儿之间相爱相杀的关系，妈妈真的会指责孩子的朋友会带坏自己的孩子。华裔真的会因为自己没有达到母亲的目标而像母亲道歉，最后是两代女儿与自己和解，为啥没有探讨父母的教育方式，因为只有华人知道，父母永远不会改变，子女唯一能做的就是放过自己。满满千禧年画风，不上院线真的可惜了！最后，非裔还真蛮喜欢霸凌亚裔，泰勒是姐妹？
it's all warm and fluffy until you realize there's almost nothing Disney cannot capitalize on, including generational trauma...
有点浅，但对于迪士尼合家欢来说也足够了。想象力不错，女性成长过程中想要脱离原生家庭的那部分自我被具象化成红熊猫，东亚家庭母亲对子女的控制被描述为红月夜的作法仪式。但是电影太温和了，这种控制被美化成了爱与担心，女孩的逃离最后被升华为与自己的不完美和解。而现实中很多女孩遭遇的远比影片中激烈且沉重。
6/10。把月经来临的女性青春特征，形象化为一头野兽。“变红”从文化结构上隐喻着向外出走的意识，小美的母系氏族之所以都能变成小熊猫，是因为外部侵略造成内部宗族瓦解，需要一种反抗的力量，随着个体追求自由的驱力和传统宗族制的二元对立，小美通过掌握身体的主动权、喜好偶像文化作为反抗母亲的战场，母亲从撕毁同人创作到抱出一堆卫生巾，将小美难以启齿的爱好公之于众或直接剥夺，高潮处小美与巨大化的熊猫母亲对峙的片段，就掺杂着母女关系中积发的负面情绪，小美不再抵抗内心的野兽、自由控制身形，从而融入不同族裔文化的朋友中，但母亲为控制小美变成更强大的野兽，这种危机的解决即要腾出母女共存的空间（父亲在母亲暴走时推出石灰车画圈），也需要爱与共情，小美在竹林深处看到那个因为背叛外婆期待而哭泣的年轻母亲，主动引导她走了出去。
换汤不换药的青春成长故事，传统父权玩腻了换成母系氏族，照着大熊猫的模样画小熊猫。对华语文化的理解永远地停留在了某个时期，或者说其实是唐人街文化，或者甚至谈不上是文化，仅仅是符号堆砌，毫无深度可言，这一点上离《雄狮少年》都还差很多。
包宝宝变奏。主讲东亚父母对子女强烈的控制欲，正值青春期叛逆的孩子如何摆脱束缚追寻自我，套用了下东方奇幻元素的壳加以展现。祖孙三代齐心作战那段看得还是挺有感触的，母系女权议题永不过时。但整体感觉就是没啥新意，流水模板套固定公式（隔阂→叛逆→和解→接纳），自皮克斯被收购后作品的想象力表达与创意更迭大打折扣。
同《包宝宝》一样，创作者将华裔家庭亲子间的紧张关系既恐怖放大又温馨包裹。野兽可爱化，足以令幼儿学会去接受自我的不同之处，可也让没仔细看片头的人直到尾声才嗅到皮克斯味儿。
好可爱啊！【感觉这个男团过不久就会宣布成员solo不解散。
一个双向救赎的故事，个人还是觉得挺感同身受的，因为能在角色身上找到很多共鸣，我们忍受着教育方式的弊端所带来的痛苦，但仍然继续履行，让人无奈，所以当后面女主摆脱束缚时竟有一种痛快感。当然，电影并非是在批评，毕竟什么都是有利弊的，但无论是何种教育方式，前提都要让对方有自己的选择
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