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".
也不能说太烂，太平庸，主题老生常谈，爱与家庭，但是格局太小，故事有时候唱歌去了就不要逻辑了，整体应该可以讲得更好的，这部歌曲的编曲还挺喜欢的，有几个动人的段落支撑着还是没把整部电影烘托起来。
因为是迪士尼动画，所以我看了，有点失望，对于女主这个设定，我有点不舒服，出生在充满魔法的家庭的没有魔法的人，不是罪过，虽然最后合家欢了，但是还是有点不开心。
海报花里胡哨的跟G5找茬游戏似的 / 又借童话讲成年人的伤痛 / 好家伙，OST有17个版本辣么多
几个人平安夜一起看的，不断地在猜测为什么女主没有技能点，一男曰：莫非她的技能点就是帮别人实现技能？一女对曰：难道她就是蜡烛本体！一众人捧乎。预言那段纷纷猜测拥抱的那个人是年轻的奶奶，众人再捧乎。直直看到最后才发现这是迪士尼的童话，不是成年人的幻想世界，唯一相似的就这其中的（并不是奶奶带来的）艰辛和不如意吧。
这是给大都市好学生订做的吧？魔法代表了每个人的特长，那几首好听的歌唱出了核心：你不必那么完美，不必能力那么强，不要扛着那么多负担，总会有人爱你。这个主题当然不错，但编出来的故事却太生硬了，前因后果都不够清晰。角色都让人爱不起来，因为都太社畜了，而且也都服务于主题，缺乏冰雪奇缘那种鲜明的趣味和个人风格。精华都在歌曲里了，旋律和剪辑都很华丽。
本片的立意不俗，可惜最重要的故事没讲好，或者干脆一点说，剧本直接就没写好——叙事铺垫不到位，人物关系的转变生硬别扭，最核心的戏剧矛盾竟然以草率敷衍的方式得到化解。
迪士尼傳統核心價值觀宣傳片。除了第一次全家福那個時間定格的鏡頭之外，也沒什麼好值得說的了。但帶小朋友去看看還是滿好的。（喜歡順風耳）
迪士尼煽情的功力依旧，虽然，但是在电影院听歌看着眼花缭乱的画面还是被戳到眼泪汪汪的。南美大陆的故事的核心就是Family. 一大群家人住在一起的那种family…… 要怎么做才是对这个家庭有利的，希望与此同时别忘了问一问当事人真正的意愿。虽然，但是这一家子人物的故事，结束之后只记住了布鲁诺的名字，其他人你们叫啥来着？😂 戴眼镜的主角。
迪士尼式的歌舞喜剧，生活在天赋各异的魔法家族，却没有任何天赋的女主角直面挑战，化解家族危机。角色容貌似曾相识，与《料理鼠王》《寻梦环游记》《海洋奇缘》《1／2的魔法》里的角色很像。
有点无头无尾，魔法的出现如果给一些逻辑，后面更能驱动它消失与重返，会更好一点吧。现在就忽然就来了，忽然就没了，忽然就回来了。虽然也在表达家人的忽视，与爱，但总的来说还是有些破碎。
迪士尼已经黔驴技穷不会讲故事了。魔幻哥伦比亚大地的绚丽斑斓真魔幻，没有魔法的少女拯救危在旦夕的家族，结果核心剧情如此空洞无力，全靠林漫威的美妙音乐救场。动感铿锵的大力士“压力之歌”，温腔柔调Sebastián Yatra的浪漫动人爱情之歌尤其深刻，果然情歌就该用西语唱！《Dos Oruguitas》有望成为又一经典迪斯尼动画歌曲。喜欢舅舅Bruno，外公Pedro超帅！！牵肠挂肚的祖辈爱情未达至《寻梦环游记》 的高度，Mirabel誓死保护的蜡烛也不知其作用。外公莫名其妙地失踪，到最后都没让他回来，失望至极。看完才知道Maluma配音了哪个角色，哭。
m2243：离开的布鲁诺不曾离开；普通的米拉贝尔不普通！米拉贝尔与布鲁诺这段挺好玩。"期望"给人压力！
最近迪士尼的电影已经中规中矩到连个反派都不做了。一个带有一些特殊的能力的家族，从吵架到和好的故事，跟《勇敢传说》的套路挺像。选择吃饭的时候无聊的时候看真是对的选择。
还以为最后结局是所有人都失去了超能力，然后变成普通人去生活
迪士尼现在真的就连动画片都要成流水线产品了吗？能把《寻龙传说》的东南亚背景换成拉丁美背景再拍一遍是真的让我没想到。
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
剧情简单老套 电影院大荧幕声光效果不错挺欢乐
唯一感动我的是，出场不多的主角的妈对女儿无私的爱。
🎶我们不提火星哥～
说实话，感觉跟以前的迪斯尼有点不一样！歌曲倒是不错听，可没有经典代表歌！角色都很有趣，没有掉泪的感动！难道是我变老了吗？
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