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".
这是我最喜欢的电影之一。你可是被英雄花砸中的人啊！【电影传递了那么多有人却只看得到眼睛大小。
你能在一部动画片里看到工地，贫穷，也能看到理想和浪漫
剧情老土陈旧，毫无惊喜，高潮处更是令人尴尬得脚趾抠地。为了三个主角的励志人生，否决了其他所有辛苦锻炼的舞狮队伍，这是看不起舞狮？还是看不起努力？这种片也就哄哄小孩子了，我不配看。
你要梦想，还是生计？
阿娟是我们底层的每一个人，是内心有火眼里有光的每一个人。他是少年，也是藏在我们内心里的雄狮。如果没有经历生活的磨砺与洗礼，如果放弃挣扎选择躺平，我们终究还是被人看不起的病猫。电影的最后，阿娟还是继续到上海打工，现实没有因为舞狮改变什么，但舞狮的精神永远在心底支撑着他度过每一个人生的难关，这才是信念，才是传承的根基。
因为重要的不是结果，而是过程。
配乐超级赞。各自笑点恰到好处。想二刷。
后排有个小学生样的女孩，糯糯的对着屏幕喊了几次“加油，你可以的” 。美术和音乐真是满分的存在。一个彩蛋梗是师父师母是“阿珍爱上阿强”
可以给四星半。看片前没有任何了解，片头过后一瞬间就被画面震惊了，应该是我看过的国产动画里环境建模最真实最出色的。无论是乡村、城市还是树林、街道的环境质感均如照片般现实，非常惊艳。相比真切的环境，人物造型、动作有不少夸张成分，倒也不违和。舞狮的题材和热血的剧情、广东地域风土文化、粤语粤音、《功夫》《黄飞鸿》等港片文化的元素交织，相得益彰。情节设定十分套路，但在传递足够“燃”的热血感、节奏感、力量感的同时，也展现了城乡发展与阶级差异的现实。收尾戛然而止，倒也干净利落不拖沓。阿猫阿狗也同样要追梦，咸鱼翻身后仍然是咸鱼。
近五年最精彩的国产动画，只能用大胆形容。属于当代中国的故事，制作技术精良，很多镜头layout设计极为讲究，环境刻画无比真实。虽然个别台词有优化的空间，但感动却是无比真实的，音乐更是让全片拔高一层。硬说的话前半个别转场可以做得再好一点。个别角色配音水平也有提高空间，没有全用广普配音是一个遗憾。
很让人震撼的电影，直面社会中的丑恶一面，剧情也是层层推进，正义战胜邪恶的杰作！不过别指望在国内能拍出这种题材了。
为什么不能小眼睛呢？是不是也是被一些主流审美裹挟？ 我们的人生可能不会被这一次奋不顾身所改写，但是人生有这样一次奋不顾身，也会让人心不会死。
可以接受斜眼，因为这是病
现在看表现少年练习的地方过多了 可以插入多一点舞狮知识介绍
这才是正能量啊！如果没有真实的苦难，怎么会有理想的光辉。简直是印度版的捕蛇者说，仅是看电影中的暴力镜头就已经很让人感到不适了，但谁又知道现实存有的暴力会残酷多少倍，而那些棍棒是真实打在人身上的。电影很规整，不同段落的法庭戏的打光蛮有意思的。
所以结局才那么好，在割裂中找到平衡。狮头挂在那里，生活依旧，梦却也在延续。
那些说燃的，早上开早会多吼两句一样也很燃。
呵，这片可比三只松鼠的性质恶劣，三只松鼠有可能只是被长期跪舔西方的PR公司给坑了，但这片可是改了原画，特地全员眯眯眼就奔着去拿国外的动画奖的哈
终于，国产动画开始落地关照现实，讲的不再是凡人变成不凡英雄拯救世人，而是凡人变成自己的英雄。
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