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".
这真的是迪士尼的作品吗？？？画风和音乐是好的，但是基本的故事没有讲明白啊，能感觉编剧想要讲亲情就是最好的奇迹，但是前后剧情总觉得断裂的，而且音乐真的是太太太多了！！！因为是迪士尼的作品减一分
不知道是不是我自作多情，居然看出了政治隐喻。
Chinese audience always value a movie according to whether it is awarded, without any independent thinking.
这电影不知道是不是政治正确的原因外网评价还不错。。十分钟的时候就猜到了全片剧情
作为迪士尼的歌舞片，确是有失水准。
这是给大都市好学生订做的吧？魔法代表了每个人的特长，那几首好听的歌唱出了核心：你不必那么完美，不必能力那么强，不要扛着那么多负担，总会有人爱你。这个主题当然不错，但编出来的故事却太生硬了，前因后果都不够清晰。角色都让人爱不起来，因为都太社畜了，而且也都服务于主题，缺乏冰雪奇缘那种鲜明的趣味和个人风格。精华都在歌曲里了，旋律和剪辑都很华丽。
很90年代迪士尼风格，歌舞剧。
4/10。看睡着了两次，根本不知道在干嘛。故事在我这是失效的，唯一没有魔法的人必是拯救家族危难的救世主；抛开故事看美术，是美的，但我还不如去看儿童画本，至少它很安静。收尾极其潦草，好希望房子就此塌掉女主背井离乡去过新生活。
因为是迪士尼动画，所以我看了，有点失望，对于女主这个设定，我有点不舒服，出生在充满魔法的家庭的没有魔法的人，不是罪过，虽然最后合家欢了，但是还是有点不开心。
当然在我们看来用这么好的效果制作这种过家家动画是暴殄天物的败家行为，但在人家看来，或许是不忘初心拍给孩子看的动画呢。
如果我说我喜欢会变花屋子是很梦幻的公主屋的姐姐伊莎贝拉的话，我是不是不够正确呢。
没注意买成了国语版，并不影响观影。配乐给我一种迪士尼版芭比+小熊维尼的感觉，一言不合就尬歌，还挺抓耳。
一个简化版的家庭治疗小传。看到的创伤的传递。家族的替罪羊现象被重新理解之后，房子（自体）又重现了生机。房子才真正由更多人共建。从新意识到父亲的物理不在场，与爱的在场，潜在的悲伤被看见之后，才会看到越无力背后的力量与重建。音乐画面都非常美，可惜没有在影院看。女主和家族各个人打交道的时候，可以看到新一代的力量。第二段音乐，稍微有点腻。可惜文本有限，没有看到更丰富的分化出来的角色。
有几首歌还不错。。。。这人畜无害的黑人政治电影太……无力吐槽
色彩绚丽动画丝滑
一不留神买成了国配，整个就像在看一场一般的中文音乐剧演出。
Today's rate is 6.5, and it will be getting higher and higher from today on— when it got Oscar, just three hours ago.
无论遭受何等不公，都要一心为家庭付出，要疯狂赞美家庭，唱首歌一切矛盾都能和解，一切错都能洗白，房子也不用塌。获一堆奖真无语了
音乐很好，最喜欢大姐的那首压力之歌。两只毛毛虫也很棒。外婆的角色略带脸谱化，感觉为了压时长被迫牺牲了一个非常复杂的故事和人性。总体来说还是不错的合家欢电影，分数这么低的原因大概很多打分的观众期望更加成人向的作品吧
大概就是说“爱是魔法”这么一个简单的道理，但我实在无法对这种家庭剧产生实感，单单觉得“为了这个家”这种话确实蛮扯蛋。结局打开一扇门的想法还蛮感人，但是为什么又要让魔法恢复了呢？爱的表现可以有很多种，能力（天赋）既然不是必须的，就不如让它们消弭在风中吧。生活感可能才是家最重要的宝藏啊。
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