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".
迪士尼水准之上，但相对于它家好的故事来说太贫乏了，以爱发电的主题内核快被用烂了，一眼见底的叙事走向，比冒险类的动画少了些华彩的段落，自我认同的部分其实也是千篇一律，但画面的流畅度，以及出类拔萃的配乐实在不忍心给出低分，轻松一刻绚烂多彩一如既往，这种流水线的制作团队，其他国家制作都不一定能达成，能多看一部是一部。★★★
挺一般，故事量非常少，我以为魔法消失背后有什么故事但是实际上消失时故事就快结束了。一堆歌曲展现一下几个人物的能力和小内心，电影就算完了。故事好空洞的感觉，好像什么都没看，就是一堆华丽的歌舞画面而已
迪士尼水准之上，但相对于它家好的故事来说太贫乏了，以爱发电的主题内核快被用烂了，一眼见底的叙事走向，比冒险类的动画少了些华彩的段落，自我认同的部分其实也是千篇一律，但画面的流畅度，以及出类拔萃的配乐实在不忍心给出低分，轻松一刻绚烂多彩一如既往，这种流水线的制作团队，其他国家制作都不一定能达成，能多看一部是一部。★★★
画面好看，大力姐和花朵姐的歌都好好听。姥姥以一己之力养家开始看哭了。就是女主和花朵姐和姥姥和解的部分转折好生硬。
这个剧本被说平庸还是有点被低估，迪士尼在歌舞质量和全家温馨其乐融融的立意方面是完全有保证的，虽然结局是着急了点，但整体上大差不差，如果非要搞点形而上的东西才叫立意深刻的话，那还不如直接不要恢复魔法，一家子回归普通人的生活，但是这里面就要折衷一个问题，如何让人物从小朋友理解和成年人感触上达到了一个平衡，个人觉得这个结局至少70分是有的，另外拉丁文化和各种意象也OK，LMM的作曲更是好到没话说！“或许你的天赋就是否认。”所以，挑剔是可以被挑剔的，但好也是真的好啊！
好温馨好主旋律的童话，爱你只是因为你是你，而不是你的天赋。每个人都有自己的门把手，能打开的不是奇迹，而是自己的生活，也只能打开自己的生活。抱怨无用，羡慕无用，努力让自己的生活更好才有点用。
5分给Bruno，除了we don’t talk about Bruno外简直一无是处
希望迪士尼永远当一个造梦工厂，告诉小朋友一些简单的东西，在这些电影里别再过度解读，别再多想，如果只从纯粹的角度去看，它告诉我们，每个人都可以有不完美，都可以在面对家人时，放下防备。奇迹从来不是我们的能力，而是我们每个人存在的本身。
它居然没有彩蛋，像拍着拍着钱不够了，老板说差不多得了吧下班回家吃饭了。结尾特别匆忙，mirabel因为没有gift一直被全家若有似无地排斥，外婆也对她严厉，吵一架房子塌了就瞬间和解了？bruno逃家数年变成不可说的男子，结果一出现就冰释前嫌全家抱抱，那他躲在墙壁后这么些年就没有一次听到大家谈论他不觉得问题很大吗？歌大部分很好听，画面绝美，神奇的casida谁不想拥有，塌房之前算是精彩，就是高潮没顶上去，最后大团圆就立刻结束，也算是干净利落，肯定没有续集。
【2022.21】内核的设定真的蛮奇怪的，强行用爱拯救一切
这啥呀。。。太低幼了，格局也小了。动画还得看皮克斯。
试图复刻frozen/coco的样子，但是逊多了，不过相似的地方很显眼，当一个世界所有人都没有魔法的时候，elsa是另类，当所有人都有魔法时，mirabel是另类，和祖辈的隔阂实质上是两种价值观的对立，祖辈更像是初代移民家庭，一切为了family，family first，而M这显然更像是新生代的价值观，注重individualism，这世界上不是所有的事都可以被界定为黑与白，好与不好，家庭里的bruno和isa，还有那个weather mood的，都被designated，处理的如此简单，这两种价值观矛盾无法调和，但是迪士尼将这一切都简单化了，唱歌就解决了，坦白就理解了，这无法说服我，甚至让我觉得这么简单会很荒谬。well music is good
看完了就知道为什么剧情不丰满了，完全是把音乐剧变成电影既视感，电影让动作和特效更绚丽流畅，大屏幕看完全是一种享受，林漫威的确厉害，全片没一首难听的歌，不说了我继续去听第10086遍Bruno……
本以为魔法屋和外婆背后隐藏着什么黑暗的秘密，然而修复魔法屋的方法竟然是米拉贝去拥抱伊莎贝拉，这剧情是迪士尼动画写出来的？
老一辈：我爱你们，所以我要你们每一个都完美无缺。年轻一辈：我接受你们的不完美，是因为我爱你们
色彩绚丽动画丝滑
故事非常非常老套，标准的迪士尼剧情，但还是感觉出了点儿亮点。还是值得一看的一部合家欢电影。
1）中规中矩的合家欢电影；2）适合小朋友，挺有教育意义～
emmm if only we could explicitly make clear the queerness of this
作为迪士尼的歌舞片，确是有失水准。
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