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".
动与静中选择了动，但又感觉动的不够彻底。ai不会包裹住腹部的水手服正好方便暴甲，酷。
人设单薄，歌曲略多，讲述了一个充满中美洲风情的有关家庭和睦的简单故事。
画面很绚烂，有点百年孤独动画版的味，剧情弱鸡就弱鸡吧，过年合家欢。
是小时候的想法，家里的每个人都拥有一种魔法，布景精美，色彩绚烂，是梦幻岛啊
前半部分还以为是很尬很中二的未来AI畅想广告片，不过アイ的回忆点出主题后观感直线提升。果然还是对这种跨越时间的爱恋和AI自主意识爆发结合的主题没有抵抗力。
只有迪士尼还在坚持做这种纯粹的真善美歌舞片了！开头超级惊艳，色彩、运镜、歌词、曲风，完美！一首歌就把Madrigal大家族介绍干净。中美洲哥伦比亚风情，拉丁音乐从来不会让我失望。很遗憾后半段剧情发展过于简单直接，欠缺一个高潮，也欠缺一首高潮曲目，主人公作为魔法家族里唯一不会魔法的孩子，遇到的挑战和困难却很少。
优点的话只能是诗音了吧。啊，想要一个这么天然呆的元气女友啊，重点是外表文静的反差萌。还有爵士挺好听的。然后就没什么好话可说了。
2022年了，吉浦康裕还在写老派人工智能故事，这是我喜欢他的原因。复古却独树一帜。首先这是近年罕见的技术乐观近未来SF，从日常起居到大厦安保，细节谨慎遵循合理的边界；其次能感到吉浦一直坚持把AI作为叙述核心，从《夏娃的时间》起，人类围着AI转，AI不单是对照体。诗音看似突兀天然又在深层合理的表现把控刚好，跳脱出恐怖谷；最后技术宅的浪漫啊，什么太阳能镜面反衬月色如静谧的海、小学三年级开发对话机器人、近地卫星督促告白、默默从镜头里守候女孩八年，独特的感动比《你好世界》真实质朴太多！男孩女孩相遇和机器人歌唱似乎从《颠倒帕特玛》和《阿茹茉妮》一脉相承，倒是无论写出过《苍之茧 》《水之语》的吉浦康裕还是刀片达人大河内，居然都开始阳光起来了？结尾有点《秋叶原@deep》。主机像垃圾桶这个伏笔很喜欢。
https://movie.douban.com/review/14545574/
看完总体感觉就是个平平无奇的动画电影，主题就是家庭的温暖，但是情节简直没有任何逻辑。。。
依旧是平庸和天赋间的冲突，因为天赋高因此被寄予厚望，因为平凡因此被贬低嘲笑；似乎在每个角色和地位上的人都会遇到不同层级的压力和失落。动漫的前半段优于后半段，尤其是歌曲的部分。
立本人有病赶紧治吧，AI题材栽死几个导了，救救我吧！//智能音箱成精过于吓人……看晕过去2.0
日本歌舞青春科幻片…真想揭露的时候太感人了，宠物对主人般的爱，独宠的爱，专一的爱。
好的未来就会在不知不觉中被我们用心创造出来。。。！
一月份真的沒什麼電影可選 一個人去看得這個 太棒了！影院視覺效果滿分
吉浦康裕和新海誠同時期開始拍攝獨立動畫，從視覺風格化的角度來說，早期「水のことば」等等比新海更具實驗性，挑戰了很多不同的表現手法，對於硬科幻的AI倫理主題的思考也更深刻。但可能也因此沒有像專注於「戀愛與跨越彼岸」等村上春樹主題的新海那麼早進入商業大眾視野。這些年下來，吉浦只有「夏娃的時間」等幾部作品，算是厚積而薄發了。雖然這次預告和主視覺一開始並不是很catchy，但在下片前去看了早場，完全有種中大獎的驚喜。刻意融合致敬迪士尼公主音樂劇的元素，還有對於近未來生活風景的描寫，還有出乎意料的轉折伏筆，有一種在青春校園故事中看到微型《攻殼機動隊》的快感。編劇有了「惑星奇航」的大河內一樓助陣，把寫實感抓得恰到好處。但也因為含蓄的佈局和宣傳策略，再加上疫情電影院的冷清，真是太可惜啦！
本来是很期待的，看完觉得有点平，人物都很可爱但又没有什么特别的魅力，除了那个出走的不可说。女主和老奶奶和解那里好突兀。
神奇的魔法房屋与一家人，延续了迪斯尼浪漫瑰丽的想象，影片用色绚烂，配合精巧的场景设计与各具鲜明特色的人物，演绎了极具美学触感的魅力故事。歌舞同时是一大特色，深化了视听效果，提供了愉悦的享受。
宣发真的要背锅了 预告搞得我也以为是探险片 结果其实是全家福 汉密尔顿的制作人真的厉害 歌都太好听了 设定每个人物都很喜欢 大家都很可爱 米拉贝有没有魔法我觉得都可以 继承外婆的能力这个解释最喜欢 是下一任家主了 但有一说一剧情是有很大问题的 后期不足 冲突解决的有点太简单了 好多都没交代清楚 希望之后还能出续集
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