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".
Turning Red用红熊猫来隐喻女孩的初潮真的好棒啊，尤其是作为一部动画片，用这种方式轻快地讲述这种题材，皮克斯真的好有心！妈妈辈对其（性）压抑，但美美选择与其和解，选择坦然接受自己的身体，成为一个女人并不是一件需要可耻的事情。不过其实就算不完全是隐喻也无所谓啦，包括初恋、追星等一系列事情也涵盖了这一叫“青春的烦恼”的灾难。作为一部北美华裔题材，本本土中国人其实都很能理解其中那种中国式完美家庭教育的辛酸，相信北美的华裔一定会非常感同身受吧
1. 老乌自行车被勒令推走之前，跟酒馆要了一杯乐加维林，最后追思会老白给大家倒的就是乐加维林。
不能欺负woody allen不能发话随便一部叨逼叨逼都说像woody allen吧，女性发声的编导片为什么找个男主演非常奇怪
几场群戏都很惊艳。观众顺着老白眼光来到展览馆看到李小姐和格洛瑞亚在一起宛若知心好友聊天时，老白荒谬的像个外人，那一幕简直了。
不一样的地方是两性关系的设定不再刻板狗血，反而都是活生生有自己想法的独立人格人，每个年龄段都是。
可太好看了！嗲得嘞，灵得嘞！虽然浮于表面，可这皮相真是美啊！观众看得开心，演员演得开心，导演拍得也开心！
生硬直白的不像pixar，转折来的尴尬且突如其来，所有的角色都是围绕主角成长的工具人，把《包宝宝》的故事无意义延长，就挺没劲的
虽然事前没有了解，看到中间就知道一定是女性导演拍摄的。男人拍不出这样立体的女性。
4.导演自己卖电子香烟梗
费里尼纯属牵强附会，那个莫名其妙的片子的中文译名也属于莫名其妙，片尾也自嘲了这一点。
好久没有看到剧本写得如此有趣巧妙的国产电影了，可以碾压大部分无脑商业爱情片的对白，也好过某些文艺片故作深沉的便秘腔调。
小神话。市井，烟火，小资，文艺，腔调，味道，很上海。但很小的面向，方方面面都过于干净、美好了一些。
导演水平比《夏日友晴天》还要弱一截，问题倒是如出一辙：情感到位却又维持绝对保守，触碰议题但又总不够勇敢，结尾高潮华丽却毫无必要，设定立足于隐喻而故事却本就无需隐喻。并入迪士尼后的皮克斯，依旧在创造新世界，却很少再创造新规则，更多的只是在把幻想向我们早已熟悉的社会和类型片原型上靠而已。
这是我过得最快乐的一个平安夜了
我们调侃爱情，我们戏说爱情，我们拥有爱情，我们憎恨爱情。节奏随着电影如同一出戏剧小品层层上演，女人们调侃女人，女人戏说男人，女人们调侃爱情，三个女人一台戏搭一环一出再一套，拍出了属于自己的小资小调。脱离了硬板的腔调，吴侬软语调侃的语气敏锐指出了「何为女性」「爱的价值」。偷偷致敬了费里尼，我们需要爱情，我们更是神话。2021年末两重惊喜，陈正道用《爱很美味》把女性群像还给电视剧，邵艺辉用《爱情神话》把给女性的价值还给电影，一剧一影，Chick Flick的春天在苏醒啦！
突然就想起十多年前，细伢子们聚在我家一起看《2001太空漫游》，有人睡得很香。
往往能更加客观的看待如今的上海
上海，费里尼，索菲罗兰；小资，话痨，中年危机，真的是全都踩在我的点上。没想到生活中熟悉得不得了的场景，就这么被搬到大荧幕上，爱死了。
实在太圆滑了，算计过多。现在我对肤浅的girl power、所谓的多元化、自由对规训的胜利以及一切毛茸茸的萌宠非常厌恶。而且，本片对华人家庭的描述充满着偏见式的、标签化的描摹。与同时期的《雄狮少年》相对比的话，我第一次判国产动画胜皮克斯。
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