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".
其实是励志片，我却看不下去。整篇下来印象比较深刻的只有音乐，对于布鲁诺离开的原因，一直觉得莫名其妙，这个年代了居然还用这种梗。有点点失望。
看完之后问女儿你最想要哪种魔法🪄，不带犹豫的告诉我听懂动物的语言，so，2022年的第一场电影，能否在将来实现的魔法，都一样值得期待！
迪士尼自然是有能力拍出经典的，却一直在求稳，《Encanto》也是这样。它有一些精彩的、视觉上吸引人的场景，LMM的音乐片段也足够好听，但情节总让人感觉不够成熟和琐碎，没有进一步的打磨。当然，它依旧是有魔力的，我想不到除了迪士尼以外谁还会不辞辛劳地一遍遍说，我们真正的天赋是我们自己，“No one is youer than you”，还是难免要抹下几滴泪。
Outcast 这种主题本来挺好，可是没用合理展开。一下子和好也挺扯的
你可以永远相信迪士尼，但不代表所有作品都是意浅言深。
老套路的高中生拯救“世界”剧情 三星半，多的一星给纪依。
诗音翩然到来之日
朴素ai主题的尽头-让别人幸福 欢迎人类自我感动
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）。
青少年童话，歌声萌萌哒，逻辑不能太追究。
AI 在校园生活的故事。明明故事有点俗套，但还是被感动到了。部分桥段像是迪士尼电影的歌舞片段。
后现代童话之如果这都不是爱，是好看的。所以不要说观众口味刁，用心的作品永远动人。
5.5/10。「魔法屋出现裂痕」大概是看完这部电影后对目前迪士尼的最大感受了。（Live）
羁绊不错，就是最后进楼救AI那段过于尴尬套路
前半段：这AI好假好烦，毁灭吧；后半段：卧槽毁灭不了！赛博幽灵缠身，还占领了太空！
You are more than your gift.
我也顺便畅想了AI的令人生畏之处。
https://movie.douban.com/review/14545574/
開頭才發現是J.C.STAFF製作瞬間挫了一下，所幸成果是他們骰到高分的作品。整體架構像是《Vivy -Fluorite Eye's Song-》（希望帶給人們幸福的AI歌唱機器人）+《龍與雀斑公主》（近未來高科技架構世界與封閉內心的女主）的感覺，縱使沒有丟出什麼特別的想法但不依賴龐大的野心與無用且濃厚的說教意味，只留下講好故事的真誠，讓整體令人感到賞心悅目，也就夠了。
特别喜欢空手道那首歌，有趣！！音乐上确实雀斑公主更好，但是这片子算get到了日式校园科幻动画的精髓，甚至是个暗线百合故事！！看到备份内容的瞬间我整个人都不好了（褒义
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