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".
电影不错，虽然俗套，但还是被感动了。男主角还是好看的，代表中国少年，并不丢人。男二号（高瘦那个）是有点其貌不扬，但角色设定本来就是个被人欺负的弱鸡，也不用长得太好看吧，没必要主角配角所有人都好看，那种影视剧也挺假的，而且他的五官和神态真的有点像早期的林忆莲（当然林忆莲要漂亮很多），无论如何这种长相都不算辱华，不然林忆莲就没法来内地演出了。再退一步，即便是不太好看的那个男孩，真的看了电影的话，也不会觉得他丑，因为他的坚持、真诚和勇敢会慢慢让人肃然起敬。只凭一帧截图，恶意煽动民族情绪，无端中伤中国电影，这种行为才更令人不齿吧！
可以啊，《黄飞鸿》《少林足球》的底子，再加一点聪明不过火的城乡和阶层，拿住院线观众应该完全不在话下。
【影院】
一气呵成！那些鱼塘、骑楼、木棉，可太让人感到亲切了。当然了，还有特别广式的土土的幽默梗。
片子真的很不错！外出务工真的很心酸。如果名字叫《醒狮少年》的话，我会给五颗星的。
弘扬传统，科普舞狮，加分。场景写实，很中国城乡结合部，采风的确下了一番功夫。故事俗不可耐，但失意中年与底层混子的逐梦，也可称热血。令人遗憾的便是面部建模，宽眼距加吊眼角，令人出戏，连后排的孩子见到阿猫也惊呼：“这人怎么没眼睛呀！”呔，因此而引发热议，致使大众无法聚焦于电影的艺术价值，埋没了其他主创人员的工作成果，不可谓不遗憾。
可贵在少年英雄不是英俊潇洒的李连杰；可贵在怀旧又不破不立；可贵在展现困境中的人性光辉与人文关怀；可贵在不完满。大象在家乡，在广州，病猫变成雄狮可以跨越顶峰，却逾越不了阶级鸿沟。此外，展现的岭南文化和很努力出现的广东话也很是亲切。
传统迪士尼套路，融中国元素、融港式无厘头梗、融现实题材，镜头调度和叙事节奏令人惊艳，就是我理想的国漫样子，喜庆又支楞。
只要熬过前半小时的一星抠脚趾，就会迎来后半程的亿星燃宇宙——狮半脸、挂狮头、化狮佛前——神来之笔，缪斯亲临，毋多言，辈可吹。愿你知晓，他没有坠入水中，魂即人，身可摧，魂不倒，他护灵魂屹立高处。愿你知晓，他不止赢得比赛，人即神，婵娟去，白狮归，他引生命飞跃凡尘。一部不折不扣「有味道」的电影，相信我，唢呐一起，没有人会问你为什么跪在影院里。愿你永不向现实低头，知晓挫折与苦难不是发生在你身上，而是为你而发生——为你去战胜它，而发生。
文本和音乐跳脱出商业用法，告五人、九连真人深度服务于剧情的方言歌词自带地区文化色彩；从广播里的少年强则国强，到挨打后听到的红日初升其道大光，最后内化成腾跃时的雄狮腾渊鳞爪飞扬。
编剧该给美术磕个头，美术该给配音磕个头，配音该给原声磕个头。刻意的人设与前半段的低俗剧情太赶客。
靠！怎么能这么热血，害得我眼睛里进沙子了。
弘扬传统，科普舞狮，加分。场景写实，很中国城乡结合部，采风的确下了一番功夫。故事俗不可耐，但失意中年与底层混子的逐梦，也可称热血。令人遗憾的便是面部建模，宽眼距加吊眼角，令人出戏，连后排的孩子见到阿猫也惊呼：“这人怎么没眼睛呀！”呔，因此而引发热议，致使大众无法聚焦于电影的艺术价值，埋没了其他主创人员的工作成果，不可谓不遗憾。
九连真人和五条人的音乐和影片很搭。
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…
哪里？哪里？哪里？辱华了？！此片是正儿八经根正红苗的弘扬传统文化的佳片！最后的集体敲鼓不正是中华民族得团结一心？！
粤语2D场，周星驰式的欢乐电影，最后时刻，女主为阿娟敲鼓，还有最后的合影，想起了【秋天的童话】电影结束时，船头尺和李琪相视一笑，当你以为那是他们故事开始的时候，导演张婉婷却说，他们并没有在一起，那只是他们生命中最美的时刻。两人没有相遇可能生命就失去了那一抹色彩，也就没有了后面的故事。人最难的就是面对自己驱赶内心的恐惧，唤醒心中沉睡的那头雄狮吧，祝愿那些为生活奔波奋斗的人啊，愿他们都能守护自己的梦想和家人。
上山下山，只要记得心中的鼓点——给城市背景的无声——《无名的人》的一首赞歌。梦想可能改变不了现实，但能使人在佛祖面前，也不愧做一头雄狮。但行“好事”，莫问前程
一花一草，一招一式，一声沉默中爆发的怒吼，一场逆境中成长的洗礼。
好棒！本土热血动画就该这么搞。配乐非常好。
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