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".
笑死 美国人看完都说“在中国真好啊 唐氏综合征的孩子都能能自由追逐梦想” 😅
五星拉满，看的过程中有情不自禁的大笑，也有无法自制的流泪。这是一部既有现实的残忍也有童话美好的影片，或许都没有那么极致，但幻梦交织不正是电影的魅力吗。画面音乐非常优秀，故事可能不那么新颖，但情感上的感染毋庸置疑，非常推荐观看。最后谢谢李白。
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。
前半部缺点真的不少，好多地方都尬翻了，但是后面节奏越来越好，一飞冲天直接燃爆。另，从中看出了灌篮高手和功夫足球的影子。另另，还能从这片里看出辱华的人是有多自卑？
这种细致的现实质感太惊艳了，化解了大部分时间的无聊老套。其实最后到达情绪高点也不是因为人物，因为我完全不信，而是鼓声太燃了，画面太美了。
可是李白说过“天生我材必有用”，李白还说过“仰天大笑出门去，我辈岂是蓬蒿人”，还是李白他说“长风破浪会有时，直挂云帆济沧海”。难道他说的这些话都是骗人的吗？难道他是一个骗子吗？如果他说的这些话都是假的，那为什么大声念出来的时候，依然会觉得热血沸腾呢？
所有中国传统文化的元素都没有刻意去卖弄，以及对残酷现实的直面与迎难而上的态度，但又是一部真正创作扎实的优秀作品~
在它之前，未有任何国产主流动画的主角，是个在工地睡下下铺，白天搬砖晚上还要去送外卖的少年。
讲故事的能力非常差，台词尴尬得我把沙发皮都抠了，镜头的流畅性差（导演想表达的东西太多了，多到生怕观众不知道)，合作编剧以后就换一个吧。
对比我天朝大片，唉…
虽然床底睡的是烂泥，但在天台闪转腾挪便有光芒。即使背上扛的是咸鱼，但在狮尾扛起狮头便能翻身。佛祖不理解弱者的祈祷，老天听不到病猫的咆哮。当你手上裂了口子，脚背沁出鲜血，当你在高桩采青，在长凳韬光，当你拼尽全力冲向擎天柱的时刻，那撕裂的狮头露出半张脸，你阿娟定会出人头地，命若雄狮。
连音乐也不放过，把《功夫》和《成吉思汗》稍微改改就变成自己原声了吗？《世间始终你好》《十年埋伏》换个版本用。
他有一个梦想，曾遥不可及，可当它因为他的努力终于触手可及时，生存又让他必须放弃。
可怜人看可怜人 眼泪里都倒映得是自己的影子……
0元点映活动去看的，完全浪费了我青春里宝贵的2小时，可能我本身就不是影片的受众年龄层吧，怪自己太天真，以为这种动画也拥有被成人接受的可能性。
其实周星驰《少林足球》《喜剧之王》这类伪励志片的精髓在于，一个情境能够同时存在滑稽、荒诞、热血、无奈、苦涩、悲情多重不同面向的情感力量，让观众在瞬间不知道笑还是哭，悲还是喜，当然以这个标准来评判是站着说话不腰疼，但本片真的是过分按部就班，过分套路，过分励志以致幼稚单调。
从猫崛起成狮，从男孩蜕变为男人；谁曾想到还有首歌的唱词里，竟然也映衬着同为年度奇迹的 “Rollin’ ”。对于传统文化消失之中的着紧拥抱以及身处时代洪流间的主角困扎，有《百鸟朝凤》焦三爷与蓝玉那般神韵；将成长故事的出发无形拔高，也无形弥补了对其它配角脸谱化、台词略微造作的瑕疵。但没想到更出色的是彩蛋，真人剧/电影越来越不允许“平凡人”的故事得到讲述，并飞速地吞噬着这些人的空间；动画提供了最后的庇护，要撑下去，也要讲下去。
终于不再教我们有梦想谁都了不起了。
如果说大陆电影这么多年有一部最接近“周星驰”内核的电影，反倒是这一部。影片对于小人物下手足够狠，明明以为到了最底层了，发现还有下下铺。而最后的励志一方面很燃很痛快，但另一方面，它并不会真的解决任何问题，它只是一种纯粹精神上的飞升。
真的很烦什么都要吵到乳化上，你这么容易被乳你是什么玻璃？叙事节奏放在真人电影有很多瑕疵，但是放在动画上还能接受。传统题材和底层叙事结合得也很棒，音乐都是我的菜。而且能在中国大陆自己的片里看到真实的乡村，不是诗化也不是丑化的真的很不容易好吗。
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