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".
我永远相信迪士尼🥲和朋友看完坐在影院里对着片尾字幕默默流泪相互递纸巾，感叹一些得不到的东西。南美风情的歌舞太有感染力了，哭一会笑一会好解压。讲家庭题材是迪士尼的拿手好戏，从来没有失手过。题外话就是，我本可以忍受黑暗/如果我不曾见过太阳/然而阳光已使我的荒凉/成为更新的荒凉。
剧情并不出彩，但是诗音的无关性别和物种的情感很饱满。插曲《[RO:M》在片中的地位在我看来可以比肩《sparkle》之于《你的名字。》了，这五分钟的片段就是全片的精华，前面都是铺垫。或许更适合拍成《阿茹末妮》这样的短片，片尾留白就够了。
内核非常的青春片，故事节奏很流畅，画面表现力也很强。虽然对于类似的故事套路很熟悉了，但最后发现诗音是“谁”的时候还是很感动。
缺点很多的一部片子，但不妨碍我喜欢它。人物刻画的不够好，情节和转折也都很突兀，不过全程载歌载舞真的好热闹好暖心。
J.C.STAFF# 3.5 全员恋爱 不是和竹马恋爱 是和AI恋爱 也许？感受到幸福的真谛就是恋爱吗（？ 歌挺好听的 故事就嘛嘛吧 结尾月亮公主不错 比较喜欢的反而是母亲的职场线 但就还是一个挺传统的故事
有点强上价值又上不去的意思，但看完首位影评，还是蛮有意思的。
一开始还疑惑就这样的人工智能怎么可能不被发现，直到真相揭晓，原来是一个感人的故事。
dbq我看不懂……动不动就开始唱歌看得我实在是太劝退了……
确实跟Coco很类似嘛，都是拉丁美洲文化，都很重视家庭。有能相互支持的家人确实很好啊。要怎么样做才能获得这样的人际关系呢？
J.C staff献祭了几乎全年的tv，确实这部电影制作水平很高，有些情节也不错，但剧本漏洞让一些好的桥段黯然失色
吉浦康裕江郎才尽了。我本想这么说，但他某些一以贯之的表达，没有被浮躁掩埋。
唱歌太多了，实在太多了，但是又没有像冰雪奇缘那样出一个精品爆款，不停唱歌很烦。
青少年童话，歌声萌萌哒，逻辑不能太追究。
一言不合就唱歌就一股浓浓的迪士尼味道，但是柔道歌舞部分非常好看。恰到好处的天真烂漫跳出恐怖谷，虽然是AI的陪伴也很长情。
透明线超好磕罗曼蒂克“我正在看着你看着你目不转睛”“在你身边默默守候”“成全了你的碧海蓝天”人机百合💗
Just have no good feeling with this family.
还蛮可爱的其实，也是故事规模很小但是很精致，大家觉醒得都比较突兀，但是在一些细节上做得很好。拥有魔法其实像是外婆年轻时候的悲痛唤来了魔法，其实这个情节很有些神话隐喻的感觉，神话和传说中的女巫总是由于强大的痛苦爆发出力量，成就了某段传奇，痛苦、悲剧和磨难才是魔法之源。女性的痛苦（以及为家庭各式各样的牺牲与奉献）其实这片里隐隐约约一直在回响的东西，只不过动画片大家还是要得到HE的就是了
开头ai突然唱歌还有点尬，越看越喜欢啊！纯纯的感情多来点好不好啊！
给满五星是因为tao酱的声音太太太太太优秀了！！！！！！了不起😭
如果大家不再重新获得魔法也挺好的，有几首歌印象很深，迪士尼在政治正确的路上越走越远
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