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".
不是公主愛皇子的情節，但也算大路而在預計之中。婆婆努力維持魔法屋外面風光的形象令人想起某人……主角雖沒有神奇力量，卻可以改變眾人的命運。另外般奴舅舅其實幾搞笑及可愛。
画面像是用Coco的模板换皮的，但故事远不及。和remember me相比，一个魔法家族的成员不会魔法的焦虑，能得到多少观众的共情？
It’s bigger on the inside! 作为合家欢还是合格的，结尾扣一星，就当一群快乐的麻瓜不好么？
我觉得还行。有《身在高地》和《百年孤独》的影子，伊沙贝拉像美人儿梅梅。
总体是一部儿童向的，不是成人向的动画。不过，最终能前行是因为和最近的人之间达成谅解并互相支持，点还是蛮对的。
动机和反派设置都太弱了，想成为家族的骄傲然后修补奇迹房屋。由于场景都在家里，所以着眼点都在家族相关。唱歌桥段有点尬，但总的来说还是一部合格的圣诞合家欢动画。
我觉得还可以吧，虽然剧本不是很好，但是当舞台剧看还行，画面绚丽，歌舞好看，人物虽然脸谱化但是故事想传递的家庭的关系还是正能量的，值得和小孩子一起看一下
感觉不错哦，老少皆宜，一大家子人一起去看的
也可能是期望大失望就会大，你期待迪士尼做时代的先锋，它给你看合家欢爆米花。所有深入讨论的尝试都浅尝辄止，难道是因为疫情期间大家宅家，米老鼠担心孩子压力太大，特地拍个电影告诉你们不要鸡娃？
凭豆瓣top1的长篇影评这部电影就值得五星了
No.1 22年和小朋友一起看的第一部电影，从成年人的角度看还是显得简单了些，但后面长达十几分钟的片尾工作人员名单让人知道，制作一部动画片幕后有多少人在参与。
有点：魔法屋还是挺可爱的。背景设定：平职新玩家，到一定岁会有转职仪式，随机抽取职能、新技能、解锁新地图。人物设计：拉美群体，政治正确。故事内核：还是you don't have to be perfect 那套，迪士尼老套路。结局：我看到他们家丧失的魔法，靠自己双手，相互扶持，重建家园的时候还有点惊喜和感动。结果, 最后一刻魔法又回来了？那前面说的: "家人本身就是Miracle， 你不仅仅是你的Miracle你更是你自己", 就是随口打嘴炮而已？心口不一
7分。这次是拉丁公主么？感觉像是中美或者拉丁美洲附近的故事。画面，音乐，色彩都是迪士尼的拿手好戏，绝对不会让人失望。特别是鲜花二姐，有她的画面就绚烂繁复到了让人不适得程度。但可惜故事内核还是太过一般，反正我看到最后也是没明白女主到底啥能力能弥合家族，似乎突然所有人都反转爱到一起去了。这水准放在公主系列上还是属于比较下乘的水准了。
放低预期后看发现还行，迪味很浓，像看了台华丽的晚会。勉强有趣的设定下，迪士尼用最擅长的方式把它包装的非常精致，精致到可以忽略一部分故事性（对我个人而言），横向比较还是挺不错的，跟自家那些顶尖的去纵向对比自然差了些，动画嘛，也不一定非要有格局和深度，这部还是很适合小朋友的。
如果我说我喜欢会变花屋子是很梦幻的公主屋的姐姐伊莎贝拉的话，我是不是不够正确呢。
故事太单薄，女主连挫折都没有，幸福而无趣的人生。
畫面及立意都很好，可是轉折實在太單薄，令理應最具劇力的部份說服力大為削弱。
这个画面也太可爱了吧！各种魔法的画面都太美了！每个姐姐的主题曲画面都做得太好了！魔法世界总是让人欣喜！
合方面都很平庸甚至有点过时的一部，感觉迪士尼在丰满自己的人种宇宙
这片比《青春变形记》差远了，凭啥拿奥斯卡！？
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