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".
我们的动画电影，什么时候才能跳脱出“只有变强大，才不会被欺负”这种简单粗暴的逻辑。
把人当人
可能是口碑过好期待太高，看完觉得就挺套路的一个励志片，好多台词都太中二太尬了，而且从设定上来讲，舞狮这种需要台下几年十几年的练功，让他们一组几个月速成，多多少少是对武术人的不尊重了。
这才是国漫应该有的样子啊啊啊啊啊
这才是国漫应该有的样子啊啊啊啊啊
这部电影就像一个能量巨大的情绪炸弹，带着观众在100分钟的时间里坐情绪过山车，喜怒哀乐不断的翻转。为了让观众能够时刻准确的get到情绪，台词、配乐和角色的表情齐上阵，导演调动一切能用的视听手段，把情绪直接给到观众。热血和燃成了观影时最直接的生理反应，而且动画这种形式，刚好完美化解了真人表演时热血的中二感，有大众爆款的潜质。虽然是一部动画电影，它讲的却是一个非常现实主义的故事，讲留守儿童，进城务工和贫穷等成人化的社会话题，为了让少年们舞狮，剧本在角色身上加了好几层外力，为少年的舞狮提供行为动机和逻辑的合理性，完成了一个技巧扎实的好故事。看完这部电影，你会深切体会到那句话，少折腾话题，踏踏实实讲好一个故事比什么都重要。
看完了第一个想说的是，如果不是国产动画，这片儿一定会被骂长相乳滑。形象设计确实和“美”不沾边，但气质很对，它是一部关于留守儿童的电影，从直观上首先就做到了平民底层的质感。
制作一流，从制作上看甚至可以说是目前看到最好的院线国产动画电影，非神话和非名著题材确实值得鼓励，总体来看很广东味，能在银幕上多看到南方故事还是开心的。但剧本的问题大到没法让我略过。每个转折位都像完成任务似的逐个打卡，叫阿娟的女角色有何用请问？台词分分钟尬住，“被木棉花砸中的英雄”，你来广州每年随便砸几百个好伐。从小西关长大的人看片子里的荔枝湾，真的是莫名诡异。另外最不舒服的一点，每一个和阿娟PK的舞狮队都是出阴招的，舞狮好歹也算习武之人吧？所以就阿娟那群人的精神就叫雄狮精神，整个圈子都是垃圾？（陈家村那位的转折也超突兀），值得一群废柴少年就算断腿都要拼下去的精神气就仅仅如此吗？喜欢的部分大概只有佛像和结局了。虽然剧本这样，但也希望票房好一点能继续做，或许下一部可以考虑拍拍爬龙舟？
可惜看的配音版，也许正是因为剧情很好猜所以才更可怕吧
某国至今拍不出律政片，原因可不仅仅在审查啊
狮头里主观视角望出去的一线天地，摩天大楼挨挨挤挤间的一缕朝阳，下下铺板条割出的一方逼仄，这就是病猫们努力生存的空间，在遥远的梦想和困窘的现实之间做两难选择——然而仅那一束窄窄的光，一串激昂的鼓点，就足以支撑起这些失意的无名之辈越上高阶；无疑具有港式小人物励志风味，咸鱼如何翻身，梦想怎么达成，在生活洪流中不由自主的我辈是否能安身，最终以兼有现实意义的笔触和携有夸张戏谑的写意合力完成热血输出，这些或许并不独创的元素被糅进一个张弛有度的故事，很有看头。
ps,喜欢片中典型的印度电影音乐；
有生之年，印度要是能彻底概念种姓制度，我倒立吃X
～～～～～～～
其实我并没有觉得有那么那么好看，当然在我这里大圣归来、哪吒之魔童降世也就是还行，只是对于动画电影我会更多持鼓励的态度。当然本片确实有很多积极的意义和可圈可点的地方，很多人评价里也提到了，首先不再是老掉牙的神话题材，是原创IP，而且还偏现实主义，又有较多的方言和地域特色，更有九连真人和五条人的插曲，对于舞狮这类传统文化的展现和最后的高潮部分都非常值得一提，同时结局回归现实，对阶级的展现也算是比较难得的。相信张苗自己都没料到电影口碑会爆得这么出色吧，陈思诚不知道会不会焦虑，或者感到背后一丝凉意？误杀2会被截胡吗？其实我持谨慎乐观的态度，以及并不赞同在工作日进行点映的策略。下周二误杀2的点映会看出端倪，毕竟背靠万达，雄狮在市场上能跃升到擎天柱吗？拭目以待！
电影里的整个警察系统都烂在根里里，黑漆漆的，官官相护，从高层到警察的一线人员都已经没有心了，只能说印度真敢拍啊。
热血励志又残忍现实，我愿意给满分。岭南小镇、乡间泥路、农村大巴…现实场景的呈现精细到可以以假乱真，舞狮也不只是个传统文化的空壳，这才是国产动画该有的样子！那些张口闭口就是“乳化”的人不是蠢就是坏。
pps,看的版本是机器翻译吧，太差了……
配音真的很难受，其他的都很完美。有问题，正视问题，解决问题。CN加油。
这不就是中国人自己的超级英雄片吗？不是拯救世界，拯救人类，而是接纳自己，打破恐惧，迎难而上。广东边陲的小镇，留守的病弱少年，外出打工的父母，镇上的阿猫阿狗，备受欺凌、孤苦、穷困，但内心却有火焰。想成功，想做一头雄狮，想有奇迹，主宰自己的命运。有人说这很狗血，像一碗烂俗的心灵鸡汤，可这正是底层中国人的生活。有渴望有什么不好？成功是不容易，可人都有做梦的权利。人有信念才能所向披靡，哪怕一生只成功一次。
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