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".
歌是真好听，剧情后半部分就开始扯了，一看编剧大河内一楼🌝，懂了
平淡但温暖的剧情（中途多次落泪）+有趣的人物设定+精彩的歌曲（迪士尼Classic+Pop的新元素 很惊喜 好喜欢surface pressure那首）真的很好听！
画面美，情节已经到了说不过去的地步。3.5 @陆家嘴中心百丽宫
没想到tao酱唱歌也挺好的
傻白甜 nothing happens like always
概念不错，但剧情调度很奇怪，结局更是一副急就章的模样，外婆开窍基本没铺设、主角为什麽没魔法不解释、某不重要男角和其中一名家人突然就在一起，而歌方面也没觉得多好听，感觉自《疯狂动物城》起迪士尼动画工作室就一直没拿出高水准来（《无敌破坏王2》个人觉得属中上而已）。
我也顺便畅想了AI的令人生畏之处。
日本动画电影依然是那样的舒缓，温暖，明亮，就像阴天中云层投出的一缕阳光，恰好洒在了你的桌上，给人美好的生活期望。诗音是AI机器人，她进化了八年，只为找到绫，给她和守护她的幸福。片子的声乐好听极了！
Bruno那段苦情戏真是有惊到我，反向寄生虫是吧。
男主画得太丑了……所以ai和女主才是真爱我看出来了
跟前几部歌舞的区别是这部一直在看镜头吗，第一首歌舞有点失败，后面几首还行（路易莎、布鲁诺），特别阿嫲讲述自己故事时本来没想哭的，无奈配乐太会调动情绪。冰雪奇缘踩地动作，海洋奇缘how far I'll go，长发公主发型都能看到影子。这豹子是迪斯尼的水平吗..女主天赋是家庭调解师吧
故事不错，后期的剧情走向有惊喜，歌也不错。期待值虽然不比近期另一部音乐为卖点的动画电影，实际品质却远超预期，五星好评了。
人类总是对未来寄托美好的想象，就像故事里的AI一样，确实看着挺感动。日本人看来也逃不掉这一套社长是光荣正确的都是底下的人在捣乱的思维
影片低龄化，人物设计脸谱化，印第安舞曲风格不搭。
近年来迪士尼动画里最音乐剧的一部动画电影，仿佛置身于舞台之前，台上的一切都是百老汇的精心制作。最惊喜的莫过于整个魔法设定只是一个背景板，更多的是用一种糖水的方式去修复祖孙三代的裂痕，也很高兴看到结尾没有落入俗套地让奇迹去修复一切，一砖一瓦的砌筑让整部影片有了更深层次的意义。
啊！诗音好爱女主！多年的寻找与等候只为了让她幸福！最后去了卫星上也远远守护！绝美爱情！（
还行，纪伊老师作画太相似了，男主好像知花实央
这剧情也太老套了，大河内在干嘛啊，就当听个歌了，远不如vivy
是小时候的想法，家里的每个人都拥有一种魔法，布景精美，色彩绚烂，是梦幻岛啊
看到后期剧情的展开，本作到底是走bg好还是百合好让我不禁陷入了沉思……
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