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".
很难不感动。每一场舞狮都特别漂亮，狮头又做得生动可爱威武。人生好辛苦，好无奈，但却能有那么一刻是有信念、有勇气、相信奇迹的…
周星驰式的无厘头幽默、黄飞鸿式的舞狮、阿珍阿强、阿猫阿狗、咸鱼翻身、手打牛丸、木棉花、木人桩、广普、广州街市……看到自己的家乡标志传统文化能通过如此优秀的故事弘扬传承，无比庆幸。
3颗半 有出彩的段落 但节奏还是很垮 台词还是很尬
为了音乐和岭南特色的画面给四星，故事实在太套路了些，更有新意一点会好一些。又看了下主创方对于眯眯眼争议的回复，看到成片前草图的大眼睛，看到主人公们拿了法国影展代表东方人物形象，看到主创开始pua大家要对眯眯眼文化自信。我还是一星吧，主创诚实一点吧，明明就是为了去国外拿奖，不惜迎合西方对中国人的刻板印象，连舞狮都是迎合西方，一点不关心舞狮真正的艺术，还pua观众注重舞狮没内涵要上升到小人物内核什么的。🙃
港片的影子在现实里的折射，唢呐一响就真的燃起来了！佛像和狮子，导演对禅机的理解也是没谁了。
很喜欢，说明电影还是视听语言的艺术。开头的长镜、类似黄飞鸿的多机位剪辑、不经意的dolly-zoom都是提升观感的。所有人都知道主人公最后要翻最高的竹子，但怎么说这个俗套的事呢，导演用一个从逼仄狮头出发上仰的主观镜头全讲明白了，漂亮！这个镜头已经让我停不下泪了，而后面精确掐点的九连的歌让我的局面愈加恶化，我想周星驰看了都会高兴的吧。
病猫崛起，这激动人心的鼓点能把每个人心里的雄狮唤醒！前段有多丧，后段就有多燃！影院里我一个爆哭，就算是烂泥的人生，也一定要赢一次啊😭
真的不明白这部电影到底怎么得罪小粉红了，b站上面的言论让我感到心寒，越是这样我越是要夸一夸这部电影，好了，我就是行走的五十万我摊牌了
除了為增加故事必要的戲劇性渲染外，其它在視聽所見所聞處，算是完全忠於大陸嶺南的真實風貌，沒有刻意去美化人物及環境。
开片看了豆瓣几个差评心情很不好，人为什么要如此苛刻呢。扪心自问在电影院看到这样的风格造型不新鲜吗？咸鱼翻身的故事不香吗？狮子不可爱？传统文化不能唤醒DNA？乡村土路，小巷商铺，高楼缝隙的日出，不晃眼？我反正是流泪了。
大赛上，女阿娟激动地看比赛时，身边的男友在打电话。
建模确实存在问题，但是剧本更有问题，充满了男性价值观。和国内的作品比，作品还是有亮点和长处值得称赞的。
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。
开头30分钟非常无聊，看得我都快睡着了。但为啥还是给了五星呢？因为后半段实在是太赞了！观影过程中，能清楚地感受到制作团队对“舞狮”这项中国传统艺术的熟悉与热爱，中段的舞狮大赛简直精！彩！绝！伦！主角的经历也十分贴近普通人的生活，几乎每个情节都能让我想到自己，所以看电影时一直在哭。最让我喜欢的还是结局和彩蛋，虽然主角没说一句话，但一切尽在不言中：“不要因为生活放弃梦想，但也不要为了梦想放弃生活。”这才是我想看的电影，能让我从别人的故事里获得勇气，然后继续勇敢面对自己的人生。
7.5 太套路，人物也很脸谱，音乐是乐夏专场，但也煽情渲染太多次了，不能仅仅因为最后的高光就原谅前面一切的不够好吧。18岁，不用上学吗？说打工就打工，真的很理想化……
大雄配音的阿猫承包了我一半的笑点
亦如同巴拉德笔下被溺毙冲上海滩的巨人，
大陆的动画电影终于有不吃老本的了，原创剧情虽然略显老套但诚意还是有的，结局男主化身雄狮重新回到佛像前的剧情，算得上一个漂亮的收尾。
三个舞狮的少年，一锅广东风味的鸡汤，没有粤语配音真是难受，乐夏BGM要素过多，估计是去年乐夏火的时候蹭热度立的项。从开始到中间其实都不错，很浓的小城生活气息，人物设定基本也能立起来，但是到了决賽，开始陷入覆水难收的自我感动和意淫，一个半路出家的业余舞狮爱好者能进入半决赛和专业选手对决简直就是对观众智商的侮辱。况且为了舞狮拼上半条命的动机其实也没什么说服力，选择舞狮无非就是狮子这个意象契合了大多数人疲于奔命的生活中残存的英雄梦想。为了创造戏剧转折，用了很多非常老套的桥段，各种意象也是过于直白，就怕你看不懂。当然，优点就是分镜流畅，布料模拟挺好，近景特写光照渲染不错，远景就强差人意了。
开头30分钟非常无聊，看得我都快睡着了。但为啥还是给了五星呢？因为后半段实在是太赞了！观影过程中，能清楚地感受到制作团队对“舞狮”这项中国传统艺术的熟悉与热爱，中段的舞狮大赛简直精！彩！绝！伦！主角的经历也十分贴近普通人的生活，几乎每个情节都能让我想到自己，所以看电影时一直在哭。最让我喜欢的还是结局和彩蛋，虽然主角没说一句话，但一切尽在不言中：“不要因为生活放弃梦想，但也不要为了梦想放弃生活。”这才是我想看的电影，能让我从别人的故事里获得勇气，然后继续勇敢面对自己的人生。
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