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".
大概这是西方对于东方的普遍刻板印象了，学霸且没个性，不敢于表达自己的想法，与父母相处处于绝对劣势~这么大的巨兽在演唱会出现完全没有引起其他方面的关注吗？加拿大人民果然心大~本来对于小熊猫被称为panda挺介意的，上网自行科普了一下小熊猫还真有学名可以被称为red panda的，这玩意比大熊猫还可爱啊哈哈哈~闺蜜几个都好可爱，又刚又勇又有担待，死党属性点满了属于是，这样的妹子能处~开演唱会几个哥们也不要命，怕是信了小指头的话觉得混乱就是阶梯吧，一点不惜命啊~梦工厂著名的东方IP是功夫熊猫，迪士尼这也有了自己的小熊猫，不管疫情如何，还是对于迪士尼和梦工厂的神仙打架充满期待呢，所以压力来到了梦工厂这一边，下一个项目是什么呢~
三星半。青春的当口，父母的精力全部都放在让你的身体如何健康发育，让你的成绩更加优异，让你向着更完美的人类发展。这是他们心理层面所认为的不易让你受伤，却忽略了你的心理才是最颠簸的一角。女性，尤其是华人群体中的女性，会更加懂得母亲爱你到极致便成了窒息，这是母亲自身都难以参透的谜题。石之予通过影片传达的，并非是精巧的变奏，而是想通过这样的方式，告诉每个人，人生处在关键节点，你本就拥有的更多选择，更多可能。我们总会做错，但错误折算出的成长高度，才最为宝贵。转到人生的下个路口，也别忘了爱你的家人，以及，一声姐妹大过天。
血月/红色/初潮/欲望不是一种隐喻而是明喻，导演的镜头台词生怕你不知道它们的关联。在这个明喻的语境下，封印小熊猫女主痛苦挣扎的场面有如ge礼。但念出咒语实施这酷刑的与冥顽不化的却是母亲们，插科打诨告诉你瞎念什么咒语都无所谓和衷心告诉你接受欲望的是父亲们 —— 似乎是女性的血脉在压抑女性自身，男人们保持着无罪的不在场证明，并抱着看破不说破的态度。让人拍案叫绝的是，男人的不在场恰恰是这整部电影故事得以成立的真正“原罪”—— 女主的母亲告诉我们，女祖先是因为男人的不在场(忙于战争)才不得已在红月与众神签下契约。女祖先为了在战争自求保全必须牺牲情绪成为非人的怪物，并且遗患给后代，这是何等的代价。—— 这有罪的不在场是否才是这部电影的真正隐喻？
至少在描写代沟时，电影能够直视成长与教育的继承问题，横亘在两代之间由社会发展带来的观念差异，在母亲再次「成为小孩」后得以及时和解——这或许侧面解释了母亲的红熊形象为何如此巨大，除了多个长辈的期望外，不断在内心衍生的自我厌恶也一直相伴而生。最终，驱邪仪式在传统与流行／技术的交融下完成，未尝不代表了一种意义更为深远的「和解」。
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……
又恢复到了皮克斯一贯水准，女性成长与解放自我的故事，可惜没有进影院直接上线，红色熊猫又能卖一波了！
个人觉得，尤其说这部电影是呼唤女性解放，倒不如说这是一部华裔儒家文化融入欧美社群的过程，集体的继承仍在，但个体的活力却显著的增强了，新移民将开创新的未来
3.5，挺好的，亮点可爱瑕疵也不那么致命，在个体/华裔/女性的三重话题之下尽量统一了故事逻辑，虽然在解决方式上有些潦草（比如演唱会啥的设定），但是整体还是蛮可爱的。
一开始直白话痨的流水式真没有皮克斯的影子，但看到后面越发现画面的精致，人物的关联还是能看出皮克斯一如既往的精致细腻。国人大抵更能理解和感受片中所展现的矛盾点，毕竟我们的文化是内敛含蓄的，感情是相对自我的，所谓鸿沟，矛盾，隔阂都是两代人缺乏沟通造成的直接结果，美美在开片就点题说到了“”孝顺父母固然很好，但为之太过，你也会忘了尊重并做你自己！”谁说不是呢？
Oh, my god，皮克斯。我想但凡是个热爱生活的人，都愿意把灵魂交给你去创作！这样的观影体验简直太棒了！无可挑剔…… 最近皮克斯的动画有感觉逐渐往东方用力，但方式还算不错，有更大的潜力可以挖掘。人生的每一个阶段、性别、年龄都是可以用来讲述生命意义的。 皮克斯就应该享有这样的赞誉，它值得！
无法共情的是人从来没有family issue吗？那我挺羡慕你们的
故事虽然没啥新意～剧情老套一点～但是还是可看的～红熊猫挺可爱的～
变成一只大熊猫空降到HOT演唱会的现场和朋友们蹦蹦跳跳应该也是十岁的我最想做的事吧！
2022-03-21 粤/ Hereditary.
月经初潮的女性体验和东亚家庭的代际关系都想处理，却都只停留在了极其肤浅和刻板印象的表层。美式流行口水歌也不合适作为有个性爱自由的象征。看过最难看的一部皮克斯。
自卑敏感，羞于见人，暴躁而极具破坏力，性意识觉醒，红色对应着月经，其实变身就是一个青春期隐喻。而渡过青春期的秘诀正是这样两点，朋友，和接受自己。靠朋友维持情绪正常，也只有找到自己的优点和与人交往的方式，才能获得更多朋友。
可能改变世界的最后还是女性吧，可能改变中国的还是女性吧
3.5分，还不错，挺可爱的，想不到可以用这样的方式讲女孩们的成长烦恼。只是不太明白为什么设定是2003年？华人家庭的气氛也似乎有点儿太古代了。
你永远可以相信皮克斯，披着亚裔成长皮的女权片hhhhh释放被封印的小熊猫！以及，这个母女关系真的是过于像我和我妈引发不适
本片堪称一代和二代华裔移民家庭和解指南/谁又没从中看出一点自己童年的影子呢
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