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".
最开始的设定让人想起勇敢雄心，最后发现原来是皮克斯版的绿巨人，用李安的话说，每个人心中都有一只红熊猫，代表那个曾经叛逆的自己，当好朋友都觉得酷时亚洲妈妈则执着于把这只红熊猫赶走，真是人间真实。那咒语怎么听都像是小兔子乖乖把门开开，有些出戏了。
关于青春期，过于共鸣了。拿着两把梳子给自己梳毛让自己冷静下来真是太可爱了。
好看！虽然是华裔主角，也引入了不少东方文化，但内核依然是好莱坞式，不过青春成长的阵痛不分东西，各种元素融合得非常自然，期待导演的其他作品！
满分推荐！被追星女孩们笑到捶地，13岁青春期少女的反叛与和解准确击中了我。曾经望着Pixar电影结尾想什么时候才能看到国人名字，梦想成真了。
希望从小以家国传统和家庭为上又接受西方教育和思潮的我们，都有机会跟长辈敞开心扉并和解和睦，然后接受自己成为自己
只是美美啊，你不好的那一面太可爱了，不会伤人。而平凡的人们，没有red panda。伤人的那一面，只能隐藏起来。
作为一个2002年也才十二三岁的millennial这片子太有共鸣了，4-Town就是千禧年左右的Backstreet Boys/Westlife/NSYNC吧哈哈哈，片中对青春期女孩中二幻想的刻画超好笑。以母女关系为主线很有意思，结尾稍微俗套了一点但片子是好看的！
反叛是不可避免的阵痛，揭示我们周围痛楚的真实原貌，自由本是天赋，直到开始被爱之名捆绑，当扭曲的世界被赋予了正当，纯真的连结便无容身之地。欲望确为洪水猛兽，但它为的就是席卷摧毁掉禁锢人性美好的神祠，不止关乎少女青春期于传统家庭中的成长叛逆，也关乎个体直面未来顺应自我演绎生命的本能。无论谁人何时何地，立于当下的反抗都是一种美德，不止为自己，更是为未来的人、为过去的人、为死去的人，为抵抗失败被迫弑杀的人，这是新世界拯救旧世界的唯一方式。片中那些看似刻板的东方审美元素并非重点，它或许看似面目狰狞，但不要因此就贬低唾弃，就像经过粉饰的红色熊猫(怪物)，终究会在终局被宽恕共存。不会恐吓到人们反而会可爱到融化的设定真的好皮克斯，鲜明又活泼，依然用极为形象直观的设定喻示刺穿这个灰暗世俗中每个人类的寓言宿命。
你永远可以相信皮克斯，披着亚裔成长皮的女权片hhhhh释放被封印的小熊猫！以及，这个母女关系真的是过于像我和我妈引发不适
ABC 导演拍出了上一代亚裔父母亲的特点，希望十年后有新一代导演能拍出来湾区新移民父母们鸡娃盛况
作为一个2002年也才十二三岁的millennial这片子太有共鸣了，4-Town就是千禧年左右的Backstreet Boys/Westlife/NSYNC吧哈哈哈，片中对青春期女孩中二幻想的刻画超好笑。以母女关系为主线很有意思，结尾稍微俗套了一点但片子是好看的！
一个套用古代离奇传说设定的好莱坞式中国故事，强势母亲与叛逆女儿的矛盾与和解，儒家传统与现代文明的冲突与交融，以及加入一点女性自我意识的觉醒，但实际上无甚新意和惊喜。估计东亚人看后比较容易产生共鸣，多少人从小到大活在家长的期待中而不断压抑自己，然后用漫长的一生与只能做个庸碌凡人的自己和解，又在心理阴影的支配下以爱之名去过度干涉自己的下一代。
很棒的译名啊，都真的很有想法，前半段毛茸茸的红熊猫，后半段虽然有点奇观，也不失为一次有趣的探索，人物上摆脱了亚裔nerd的刻板印象，琳和大家都个性鲜明又可爱，女孩们的形象都很有趣，除了一点尬舞其他都是很真诚的友情和女性情感，妈妈还是包宝宝那种感觉有点差，爸爸真的可爱，特多生活细节真的很亲切。场景的分镜很有想法，Toronto的楼宇+瓦片祠堂效果奇佳。可惜红熊猫和祠堂的内核还可以深挖一下，至于这种传统观念的压迫感体验还是蛮真切的，两种文化的碰撞也是点到为止，但可惜节奏上前后有些割裂，家庭共识的走向也有点生硬，不过导演第一次动画长片，交出这个答卷还是很满意的
用一部电影就想讲家庭教育，确实有点托大了。成长的烦恼那么多集，也没敢给家庭关系下定论。况且，听妈妈的话，和独立思考，并不是水火不容。
7分.老生常谈，做自己。父母眼中自己的子女总是那么讨人喜欢，如果哪里错了，也是被人误导的。其实变身是那个吧，青春期到来那个生理特征。经典台词：你努力让所有人开心，但对自己却太苛刻。我们在生活里经常会因为各种原因去讨好别人，而委屈了自己。很抱歉我不完美，很抱歉我不够好，很抱歉我不是你！
这个片子不会引进吧，可能会被一些人说insult，里面的人好像越南裔……标题都给工号们想好了，惊，迪斯尼宣扬××××糟粕引争议，虎妈变红似人猿泰山，花季少女如何逃离魔爪圆追星梦……
一只长得并不可爱的肥胖发红熊猫在唐人街乱串？
在文化和传统的祠堂重压之下，如何变得步态轻盈？石之予的答案是：绕过父亲的阐释，与祖先直接对话。
电子宠物年代的青春期啊 不知道快要三十岁的Mei现在咋样了 估计也不是个干脆的成年人
谁能拒绝可可爱爱的小熊猫，没有人！心中的野兽，封印并不安全，学会如何与野兽共处，才是更有勇气的选择。母女之间好像和解了，好像又没有，希望曾经的受伤者，不要再变为施暴者。
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