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".
普通人的生活，不会因为某次“登高”就实现人生跨越，但普通人的心底，要装着一颗雄狮。鼓点响起，就该迎头向前。
真的不明白这部电影到底怎么得罪小粉红了，b站上面的言论让我感到心寒，越是这样我越是要夸一夸这部电影，好了，我就是行走的五十万我摊牌了
虽然有高能爆笑的情节，但我实在不喜欢这种，追求梦想的故事。
这种边角料电影只能唤起记忆，而非情感。至于为什么那么多人交口称赞才是值得关注的。
为纪念那没入人海无声无息、却又怒吼的人们，你、我、他。每个人都值得被歌颂。
感觉完全就是九连真人那首莫欺少年穷的电影版，表现出乡村少年的困顿现实和雄心壮志。
这剧本太别扭了，完全显示了文艺工作者脱离基层太久了，不了解广东也不了解留守儿童，更不了解普通打工人的生活
本片讲述了一个小镇废柴少年为了证明自己不是废柴开始学习舞狮，并创造擂台上的奇迹的“热血故事”。对于这种热血+插科打诨般的笑料切入在国产类型片已经见怪不怪，国产片《五个扑水的少年》跟这片的套路几乎一样，看不出什么新意，跟哪吒相比，宿命论似乎并没有被破除，即便是拿了舞狮冠军创造了奇迹，也只是跟白富美一起拍了一张照而已，并没有破除主人公作为小镇青年原生的宿命，跟张伟高考之后去上个二本本质上也没啥区别。既然无数遍在强调努力，也努力了，但现实也是一样的一地鸡毛，我热血了，我激情了，但我幸福吗？一遍遍的嘶吼，意义又何在呢？
但明确瑕不掩瑜与居心叵测的分野也必要。
这么现实的题材拍了动画，却又有很多幼稚无脑的内容拍了真人电影。以前都没有认真看过舞狮的头，它们相当可爱啊！要是把师父师母角色交换一下我就可以给五星了，想要看到一些为养家放弃事业又重拾梦想的女性角色。
https://weibo.com/6232023735/L6taUBvAM?from=page_1005056232023735_profile&wvr=6&mod=weibotime&type=comment#_rnd1639732344419 我不认为中国人长这样
写实的动画片，乡下的图景跟我家一模一样，芳村地铁站、荔湾牌坊，广州街道的写实描绘，好感瞬间上升。把广东的舞狮文化内涵做出来了，爬桩是人生爬山的比喻，真的好。分镜和动作设计真棒。事实证明动画还是可以写实的呀，喜欢这种风格~
支持一下国产动画，但故事实在太套路，不是我的菜。东亚作品总有这种“莫欺少年穷”的苦逼内核，总是对“今天你对我爱答不理，明天我让你高攀不起”的套路无比执迷。吃苦本身没有任何意义，人在苦难中学到的东西，在快乐中未必就学不到。
画面和调度堪称一绝 故事虽然没什么新意 但讲述小人物的生活就值得赞赏 据说导演是听了九连的莫欺少年穷才激发了创作灵感 作为土摇爱好者 很清晰的get到了导演想表达的东西 在影院还忍不住哼哼起来 最后想说的是 原来对于眯眯眼这种事 好多国人是不允许存在的啊 所以时尚圈才是最包容的地方 所以优秀的模特要靠出走才能找到立足之地呀 毕竟好多人全是大眼睛高鼻梁的白人审美 这种动不动就审美抵制的集体意识形态 该说是媚外还是自卑呢哈哈哈哈
恰是生活的艰辛里磨练出的英雄 最有创造奇迹的魄力 最近与学生的交谈中也深深感受到这一点。作为当代国产动漫里最现实主义的一部 那一点点故事上的瑕疵和它的乡土关注与正义关怀相比 真的微不足道了。只希望上海能善待阿娟们吧…
男孩成长为男人往往就是在一瞬间，是在坚持拜师求学剃掉头发第一次取得比赛胜利的时候，是在家庭遇到变故扛起养家重担坐上离家巴士的瞬间，是在放下狮头决定去往上海的时候，又是在重新拿起狮头冲进赛场的那一瞬间。结尾收的恰到好处，伴随着九连真人的莫欺少年穷既燃又感动，片尾曲又留住了所有观众到了最后。成功失败并不重要，重要的是别轻易认输。“舞狮就像人生，上山下山，每个人都有自己的路要走。”“只要鼓点还能在心中响起，我们就是雄狮。”
美术设计配乐场面调度都不错但是剧情实在太弱了无论是为了不被欺负拿舞狮当跳板还是去见父母让父母骄傲 阿娟的人物动机都不够充分 那这样舞狮的可替代性就很强了换成什么都可以合理所以其实没啥说服力 就因为一句“你可是被英雄花砸到的男人”病猫就立志变雄狮了？太表面了只能说 一切转变人物弧光全靠台词输出了 我是废柴我是病猫我要改变的自白说个不停（可能受众主要是小朋友？要浅显一点？）另外最后比赛咸鱼脚那趴真的恶臭又讨巧
前期口碑吊太高真不是好事儿，还挺失望的。总体而言，后半段比前半段强。三流剧本，但因为是动画形式给缓解了不少毛病。为了快速进入热血反抗逆袭，前面喊了很多口号来立角色，但其实这样观众很难共情，就很…说不上来，不真诚你懂吧？就感觉现实生活里导演其实并不憋屈，编剧也没有过得很不好，但是他们想弄底层小人物反抗的故事，于是就产生一种被策划出来的“我命由我不由天”的感觉。你是故意卖，还是真的吃过苦，做出来的东西是不一样的。最后，真的有必要把三个主角的眼睛画得让人那么不适么，不谈刻板印象啥的，总之这样处理观感非常不舒服。
父亲工地上摔伤，他进城不是为了讨薪讨说法，而是打工赡养全家，包工头和开发商不受法律约束的吗？
辱华的不是眯眯眼，而是国富少年穷，李白说过，天生我材必有用，雄狮少年打工去~
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