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".
中国电影很多时候更不是一个人意志的产物。
在最后一跃前，透过狮头看到的前路，又高耸又透亮。我很替他们担心，担心他们把握不好结局的度。得不得第一都似乎差那么一点，明显主创做得比我想的更高明，形不到意到，就像落水的少年和飘扬的残缺狮头一样，是对追梦最好的注脚。
一本歌颂无产阶级自我成长和斗争的杰作。只要心中还要鼓点响起，我们就是雄狮。
很久没有底层人民的故事了。对一扫而过的那些镜头反而有了升华的感触——穿着一样工服的快递员，在店门口早上喊加油的房产中介，通勤路上买包子的普通白领。。。大家都不要忘记听自己心里的声音呀！
虽然台词和剧情还有进步空间，但是从视效风格的制作和在地文化的表达来看，称得上有国漫自己的风味了。以及…五条人的道山靓仔、椅子乐团的rolling on，还有九连真人的莫欺少年穷，首首击中我了555
2⃣️还有就是舞狮这个题材非常非常新，虽然人物画的真的不好看但整体作画运镜还是很流畅的，特别是舞狮的动作；
辱华的不是眯眯眼，而是国富少年穷，李白说过，天生我材必有用，雄狮少年打工去~
但是就是…前大半部分一大堆笑点真的get不来（这俏皮话写得也太傻了），其中几个场景的人物站位布置也好别扭，包括笑料文本本身的陈旧逻辑和太平缓的念白节奏都让抖包袱抖出来特别重的表演成分，这笨拙得有点烦人的幽默感好像我几个好瞎搭人话的同学，以及他们说完一个烂梗后其他人不理睬并显出死吗脸的场景，淦。
我们看到的是少年，我们欢喜狮头挂上擎天柱，容易忘记的是后面站得更远一些的阿强，那个阿娟长大后成为的阿强，以及更远处的阿珍。
喜欢里面所有的力所不能和所有的奋不顾身。让我们在没有勇气改变的人生之中衷心为别人祝福鼓掌。
呵，这片可比三只松鼠的性质恶劣，三只松鼠有可能只是被长期跪舔西方的PR公司给坑了，但这片可是改了原画，特地全员眯眯眼就奔着去拿国外的动画奖的哈
远超期待，一改国产动画的浮夸，对市井的描绘真实且自成风格，人物性格尤其是怕老婆的部分拿捏精准，一度有种在看真人电影的错觉。九连真人和五条人的配乐非常熨帖带感。结尾回归生活的彩蛋也的恰到好处。真正把镜头对准了主流商业电影很少触碰的底层人物。能看到《黄飞鸿》甚至《百鸟朝凤》的影响，虽然故事陈旧，但是瑕不掩瑜，感觉是近期国产动画的天花板，岁末惊喜！
本来我就喜欢黄飞鸿喜欢醒狮文化，这部动画虽然还是热血励志咸鱼翻身的套路但是真的好燃啊！恰到好处鼓点和唢呐让我在汗毛竖起和满眶热泪之间反复横跳！奔着九连的《莫欺少年穷》来的，还意外收获了五条人《道山靓仔》和椅子《Rollin On》～稳稳我的2021年度最佳了！
一气呵成！那些鱼塘、骑楼、木棉，可太让人感到亲切了。当然了，还有特别广式的土土的幽默梗。
我心中年度TOP1～～～但，为什么不是粤语！为什么不是粤语！！为什么不是粤语！！！本片最大的可惜……我作为广东人，看到现在还有如此本土的国漫，我真的很感动😭
喜欢里面所有的力所不能和所有的奋不顾身。让我们在没有勇气改变的人生之中衷心为别人祝福鼓掌。
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喜欢里面所有的力所不能和所有的奋不顾身。让我们在没有勇气改变的人生之中衷心为别人祝福鼓掌。
I AM WHAT I AM.
但是分开庸作和佳作的差别就在于套路之外的部分。
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