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".
相比成年人的苦难生活，你会发现电影里的环境和包容性是无法实现的，至少在我们这一代人之间。看着红毛熊猫如此的释放，反而让在现实生活中处处碰壁的我觉得难过。
反叛是不可避免的阵痛，揭示我们周围痛楚的真实原貌，自由本是天赋，直到开始被爱之名捆绑，当扭曲的世界被赋予了正当，纯真的连结便无容身之地。欲望确为洪水猛兽，但它为的就是席卷摧毁掉禁锢人性美好的神祠，不止关乎少女青春期于传统家庭中的成长叛逆，也关乎个体直面未来顺应自我演绎生命的本能。无论谁人何时何地，立于当下的反抗都是一种美德，不止为自己，更是为未来的人、为过去的人、为死去的人，为抵抗失败被迫弑杀的人，这是新世界拯救旧世界的唯一方式。片中那些看似刻板的东方审美元素并非重点，它或许看似面目狰狞，但不要因此就贬低唾弃，就像经过粉饰的红色熊猫(怪物)，终究会在终局被宽恕共存。不会恐吓到人们反而会可爱到融化的设定真的好皮克斯，鲜明又活泼，依然用极为形象直观的设定喻示刺穿这个灰暗世俗中每个人类的寓言宿命。
红熊猫真可爱，毛茸茸的我也想要抱，牵起少女时的妈妈那段看得我流眼泪，说这部里的华人家庭是刻板印象之类的影评，只能说都是幸运的人
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！
导演中国背景让这个故事更东方更易懂，但是本质还是一个讲给西方人的故事。在多伦多，在人类大同社会里描绘老祖宗到现在的blessings，也可能是诅咒。最后青春期小女孩meilin和爸妈和解，和小男孩和解，和朋友和解大团圆。高潮部分完全没想到是我妈不让我变成红熊猫，所以我妈变成红熊猫来打我，全家一起上阵变成红熊猫帮妈妈拖回来...动机不明确，且在多处地方出现。便利店小哥成了衬托妈妈的家教严格而多余。外婆的警告说红熊猫力量变大，最后也没有get到底哪里需要警惕？为了看演唱会这条动机还是明确的，借熊猫赚钱星星眼可以get，而且看得出编剧的可爱之处。但突然给我一个为了和解而和解的结局，我真的没有被说服（是不是还提了没必要完美，要对家人好一些的大道理，太浅）好在画风舒服可爱，配乐东方特色浓厚，还是惊喜的
母系氏族，全员红发，全员可变身红熊猫！
前半比后半好。。。后半像写不下去了想潦草匆匆收尾，但前半是真不错。
女性视角青春期性喜剧，文化元素非常到位，不过坐实现实背景之后一些细节设定就透出了微妙的虚伪感，例如2002年哪来这么diversity的后街男孩……
中国小资之最，处处体现着上海小资生活和浪漫，中年人有钱有才有闲，又懂生活，又有三五可以玩在一起的好友，真是我向往的十五年后的生活。
我们上海女人真的又可爱又变态，其他都是骗鬼的呀。
很棒的译名啊，都真的很有想法，前半段毛茸茸的红熊猫，后半段虽然有点奇观，也不失为一次有趣的探索，人物上摆脱了亚裔nerd的刻板印象，琳和大家都个性鲜明又可爱，女孩们的形象都很有趣，除了一点尬舞其他都是很真诚的友情和女性情感，妈妈还是包宝宝那种感觉有点差，爸爸真的可爱，特多生活细节真的很亲切。场景的分镜很有想法，Toronto的楼宇+瓦片祠堂效果奇佳。可惜红熊猫和祠堂的内核还可以深挖一下，至于这种传统观念的压迫感体验还是蛮真切的，两种文化的碰撞也是点到为止，但可惜节奏上前后有些割裂，家庭共识的走向也有点生硬，不过导演第一次动画长片，交出这个答卷还是很满意的
也想抱着合影😎🤩为什么不在电影院上！！小女生的友共情部分刻画得很棒，最喜欢一开头情不自禁发春的部分太可爱了😆
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！
太可爱了小熊猫，小熊猫战队完全可以组成战队保护地球！
好看好看好看！我就是这样长大的！不许去演唱会和犯花痴的桥段太有共鸣了！谁不能在这个妈妈身上找到一点自己妈妈的影子呢哈哈哈！仪式的疯狂走向我太喜欢了！片里各种粤语超标准发音也让人听着非常舒坦：新怡~~~
小熊猫很可爱，外国人拍的中国风，学到一点点，但总是差点意思，无奈剧情实在是一般。
很舒服，从头到脚每个细节都很舒服，上海话很舒服，每个人演技很舒服，情节推进和最后结尾也很舒服。想了想这部电影让我如此轻松舒服的原因，无非是把现实生活做了一比一还原罢了。这个编剧和导演是有生活的人，希望以后还能有更多这种作品诞生让我花钱。
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。
3.5/5，靠一点可爱和毛茸茸取胜！故事很常规，内心monster的故事融在家族文化和历史里，文化性很强
老少女战士和4towns的remix太燃了！！！
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