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".
2.5 这感觉像极了春晚，我想看的不过是一台出人意料的好戏，结果来的又是一坨无数层次各种强扭自我感动的屎。
｜22.04.12半个多月前就已经看完了，后劲一直绵绵密密持续到今天。第一次和红熊猫分离时meimei挣扎着拒绝和暗处的那部分自我做交割，我从那里就开始一路抹眼泪，放映到最后几乎是扯嗓子嚎啕。turning red的历程和东亚女性的成长、我的母亲、我的青春期何其相似。接受自己的emotion好难。就像《神奇动物》里的默默然一样，我们（东亚女性）每个人的身体里都有一只红熊猫，它当然也可能会变成有严重自毁倾向的默默然。
不愧是你 皮克斯。断奶真的对父母和子女来说都是难事。其实我们都不用说对不起。我喜欢那只红色的小熊猫，我不会让它消失。
接受自己，与自己和解。中国传统文化中对自己的“完美”要求也会传递到下一代，每一代都在重演，不过好在总会有突破的一次。
勉强及格吧禁不起推敲。诸多亚裔的刻板印象，非常尴尬，甚至有乳的嫌疑。总的说来好像讲了一个故事就叫做怎么别人都没事就尼玛你有事，还是大事。这种高等华人对其他族群文化困境和身份认同矛盾采取无视的态度真的很欠揍啊。
▫️因为是线上流媒体发布没有上院线，这部长篇肉眼可见透出“预算不太够”的味道…比起这几年已经看习惯了的皮克斯迪士尼大制作，环境建模让我以为这是2010年出品的动画（Sign……稍稍有点可惜了！Pixar第一位长片女性导演加油！未来可期！
东亚噩梦用美国梦化解。有些未明之处，熊猫力的母系传承与李氏祠堂的父系宗族是有根本冲突的，导演似乎回避了这个问题。
出乎意料的好看。形象设计、剧本创意和对亚洲家庭关系的剖解都很有意思，后半段名场面频出，观影体验爆表，不愧是皮克斯。
好可爱啊！【感觉这个男团过不久就会宣布成员solo不解散。
皮克斯总能戳我泪点，总会把那些抽象的情感和生活的哲理用动画的方式具象的展现。成为父母眼中期望的你，和接受不完美的自己，东亚孩子的共情。虽然还是西方视角下的东方文化凸显，但可以理解在文化语境里表达至此已经很厉害了。动画的萌点和趣点做的也很好。
3.5，看之前就觉得这个熊猫挺可爱的，没想到后面还有这么大一只。虽然挺商业化的，但是电影中的隐喻做得很棒，对于中式家庭的解剖也比较到位，与年轻母亲那段转场有点想到那个公益广告，与《雄狮少年》某种层面上发出了一样的怒吼：释放你心中的野兽，做你自己。
可爱到爆炸，主题和执行都好棒。2022 的年度最佳，来得比 2021 早了一些。
母女关系描写的也太好了，从不理解，争吵，和解
我觉得砸破法器变熊猫这个设定挺好玩的，其他的就…导演和包宝宝是一个，怪不得。
在偶像面前变身小熊猫不可怕，可怕的是在偶像面前和七大姑八大姨们一起救自己那crazy的妈妈
一只「赤化」的熊猫。母辈们被压制的东西可以有很多种解释：从生理到精神的女性欲望、华裔身份，甚至可以共产主义后遗症。红色是经血、是怒火，也未必不会是「红色中国」——强调朱明也是意味深长。第二代移民还是典型的东亚式精英，第三代在多元的氛围里完全没有隔阂。由此我感兴趣的是，身份认同是否在流行文化的渲染下，以模糊、笼统、大而化之的姿态进入新一代的表述。
你永远可以相信乔布斯创立的这家灵性动画工作室。单靠温暖高频的力量就能把人看哭的动画也就是皮克斯了。美美进入镜中分离灵魂，回首看红熊猫猫泪目那一幕处理得太触动人心了，所谓的最大的灾难其实正是最深的祝福，一切只取决于你如何看待上天给予你的礼物罢了。
“献给我们的女儿，妈妈，姨妈和外婆，你们有魔力！”
太吵了！整个叙事的节奏几乎从头飙到底，这样就太累人了。而且故事的模式虽然看似成熟，但其实还是浮在表面，缺少一种触及内心的力量。顺便说句，那个什么4-Town，确实肤浅得可怕，挺叫人讨厌的……
中国式青春故事，作为中国人不能在电影院看到实在是太遗憾了
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