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".
咱雅洲人，谁能不共情，谁没体会过里面的一件两件事情，就是好奇外国人会喜欢吗？
有毒的中式母女关系，就像连环车祸现场，无休无止。过度操纵，苛刻压抑，追求完美，以爱的名义，用权力去遮掩表象之下的无能，恐怕只有学会接纳认同，放手成全，适度远离，伤口才有可能治愈。
小熊猫太茸茸了！三星半，不论是不是东亚父母，是个人不会反省都不会有改变。能改变就改变，改不了就逃离吧。
感觉只有东亚人能共情，因为我们都需要为自己辜负了母亲的期待而道歉。
没有老城经历，实在难以与那种古早情结发生共鸣，像在看一个无法进入的宇宙。但其他的我都喜欢，喜欢这种平淡充实的生活积累，钟情于日积月累的点滴堆砌而成的体面踏实。只有一处我的情绪翻起波澜：众人聊得正欢却听到女影星去世的传闻；明知是与自己没有真实交集的东西，但也习惯了如同那远远地一直挂在天边的月亮一样的存在，月亮灭了，不影响生活，但你就是知道月亮灭了，月亮不会再亮了。创作者借角色之口对某些现象发出隔空喊话，旗帜鲜明态度凌厉；我倒是更喜欢最后一段大家看不进去“经典”开始擦护手霜的场面，无法理解的东西，安安静静地走神也不错。
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。
这是属于成年人的“较劲”，这是经过时间发酵的味道，叽叽喳喳的金句，轻松愉快的造作，这是一个关于爱情但不仅是爱情的浪漫。
看完后我更理解了“华裔和国人除了长得相似以外没啥共同点”这一点——他们不是我们，也代表不了我们；被异化的他们抱着一点残存的文化碎片如数家珍，而我们则有口难言。
男的偶像g里g气
说你不贴近生活吧，把字打出来又删掉，看到别人给点的赞立刻心花怒放，这事我都干过。说你贴近生活吧，一个大老头子，天天去喝奶茶，就算是上海老头子也跟开玩笑似的。
东亚文化语境的故事讲述了最普世的情感共情，但有关青春与成长的内核只是中国版的《勇敢传说》和加长版的《包宝宝》。在当今的好莱坞，女性少数族裔的主创团队在出发点就领先了一个身位，何况小熊猫比熊要可爱的多了。
真是无法招架的妈妈的爱啊，反抗过激，麻麻变的真的是太大了，粑粑一定是对大有错误的理解。就是大人做错了一定要认错，不能道歉没诚意，认真道歉！无论如何都不能自卑，这只是一个娱乐动画电影，可能太典型矛盾突出到更自己一点都不搭嘎，但是这种有一种冷叫你妈觉得你冷，终将一直存在下去，直到世界终结。
别人13岁就学到的人生感悟，我都快30了还在学。/这段时间在看山月记 里有写到 每个人都是驯兽者 而各自的性情就是那只猛兽。特别想问自己，那只属于你的猛兽，现在你把她驯服了吗？2022.3.28
看这个片子就像在吃左宗棠鸡。关键当我质疑这不是中餐时，厨子还会以自己的华裔身份反驳我。从包宝宝开始就是这样，我身为一个中国人就从没见过这么离谱的中国妈妈。
又是一部白瞎了设定和精良制作的电影。熊猫形象真的太可爱了，动画制作水平一如既往的高。但这样一个极端母亲的形象以华裔出现，就显得很有刻板印象了，最后母亲黑化成大boss实在让人看的不舒服。从头到尾都透露着美式自由教育对传统东方教育观念的鄙视，看得人很不舒服。一个13岁的小孩懂个屁呀，天天就认识自我，越到后面越烂。
评论区乌烟瘴气，二元思想充斥其中，薛定谔的自尊心，不长脑子的田园女权
又是西方人眼中的亚裔亲子关系。请不要过于妖魔化华裔父母。里面有些情节简直无聊又猎奇。
即使红熊猫代表了叛逆、闹腾、情绪失控，它始终是可爱的，童心未泯把想做的事放第一位的人就是那些保留红熊猫的人，太多人极力去约束自己，生怕闯出祸来，小心翼翼的成人世界与胆大妄为的青春岁月，哪一个更美妙，不言自明，勇敢做自己，不要压抑天性。
挺轻灵的市民喜剧，这个传统其实有点失传了，没想到兜兜转转又续上了，某种意义上也是一种题材红利。这种小趣味小机灵，专心纠结男男女女那点儿事儿，在现在的空气里已经难能可贵。这对「小」的甘心，招人喜欢。
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