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".
4.5。聚焦文化传统舞狮，本广东人看得莫名的怀念。庙会，舞狮，以及鼓点，一切都是那么熟悉。总会被片中的人感动，「我不后悔。」「我后悔啊！」又想起那个高楼舞狮的少年，灵动的狮头迎着阳光。片头片尾相互呼应，孱弱的病猫成长为了一头飞跃高空的雄狮。末尾的彩蛋没有必要，就让梦停留在那一刻吧。醒来后还是回到了现实。
粤味十足的国产原创佳作，已经被剧透还是深深感动，精气神魂皮兼备，可以看到岭南宗族社会文化在90年代末期阶层分化社会大流动时代中的变与不变，非常棒。这么好的作品要被拿来讨论那种无聊的话题简直亵渎，一句都不想讨论
4.5 大病困境底层家庭，现实中的李白式浪漫，看过的国漫中对“少年气”最好的理解与呈现。
🎬《雄狮少年》
国漫精进到这个水平了，太棒了！！！五星！音乐也是！
从剧情到画面到技术到配乐都好赞。在广州城的高楼屋顶起舞舞狮那一幕好美，有这一幕就已经是经典了，想到了《燃烧》的暮色中起舞……最后集体鼓点也好赞。国产动画已经如此之厉害了！应该在春节档继续上映的，这明明就是春节档电影啊，又美又燃又励志（虽然也很心酸但也更真实更符合中国国情啊）。
综合来看属于近几年国产动画里最扎实可喜的一部，那种动画里常见的花里胡哨不接地气的问题得到了极大的改善，虽然是热血少年向，但意外地写实，留守儿童和舞狮文化结合的也很自然，喜剧部分和比赛的情绪感染力都到位，没有依赖神话IP加分，五条人的歌曲和各种梗的运用也很增色，很推荐去看，毕竟南狮实在是太可爱了没有人可以不被萌到
尚气都不敢找这么丑的人当主角，这部片子做到了。
1.久违的国漫黑马之作，追梦少年的赤诚与坚守真的让人热血沸腾。2.导演敢于以地域性的舞狮文化为动画题材已实属难得；对留守儿童和弱势群体的守护，更让我们看到创作者的真挚之心。3.最后舞狮大赛的高潮时刻层层递进，让我们相信，励志的光芒永远都能鼓舞着少年们勇敢前行。哪怕你是别人口中的“病猫、瘦猴、肥猪”，但当梦想的聚光灯照亮内心的那一刻，就会有奇迹发生。
好喜欢！中国动画终于从“工业追求”和“中洋结合”的路子外出现了一部‘正常’的动画电影。它是现实的，又是主流的；是广东地域特色的，又是全中华的。做一头不低头的雄狮，做一位内心记得鼓点的人，这两点可以与大部分的观众发生深深的共情，同时又那么纯粹，感动。
说实在的 一开始看剧情梗概和预告，预期放的还是挺低的，剧情走势无非是俗套的那一套呗，平凡少年通过自身努力改变了什么。但实际上，是 又 不是。好好讲故事，真好。五星给配乐给剧情给镜头。给狮头。给那一颗扬起的水珠。
勉强三分吧，前半段台词太差，情节全程生硬，为了热血而热血，很难共情
第一次带娃进电影院，意外收获好片子。一个热血励志又尚未脱离现实的故事，糅合了留守儿童等社会热点问题，画面节奏配乐都恰到好处兼具趣味性。孤独迷茫少年森林深处许愿的场景、打工趁夜里楼顶练习舞狮迎来清晨第一缕阳光的场景、最后在所有狮队击鼓助力下拼尽全力将狮头挂上擎天柱的场景，都值得回味。也喜欢最后的彩蛋，摘下狮头，少年终需回归“打工人”的现实生活，但狮头下舞动的记忆真实地给予了他生命一抹亮色，成为往后余生面对困难努力生活的不懈动力。ps.结尾《莫欺少年穷》真的蛮贴的，get到了乐夏时没有get到的妙处~
不太适应人脸建模，前面入戏慢了。想二刷补一下前面漏掉的细节。这部电影不能说是2021年最好电影，因为它太棒了，我以后的人生都会有它的画面。
4.5。聚焦文化传统舞狮，本广东人看得莫名的怀念。庙会，舞狮，以及鼓点，一切都是那么熟悉。总会被片中的人感动，「我不后悔。」「我后悔啊！」又想起那个高楼舞狮的少年，灵动的狮头迎着阳光。片头片尾相互呼应，孱弱的病猫成长为了一头飞跃高空的雄狮。末尾的彩蛋没有必要，就让梦停留在那一刻吧。醒来后还是回到了现实。
很难不感动。每一场舞狮都特别漂亮，狮头又做得生动可爱威武。人生好辛苦，好无奈，但却能有那么一刻是有信念、有勇气、相信奇迹的…
从片名和开头就能大概猜出故事类型和剧情走向，如何让电影不落俗套且精彩纷呈才是关键，这一次技术和故事都没掉链子，电影不仅仅聚焦逐梦这一经典类型，并且将很多社会元素融入其中，传统习俗、留守少年、城市务工紧贴当下，更有如巷口追逐、组团逐梦、咸鱼翻身、群狮争王这样致敬港影的情怀贯穿始终，从碌碌无为到永不放弃，从求神拜佛到孤注一掷，从家庭温暖到团队默契，电影里的每一次的呈现与每一次的转变都让人动容，更有天台独舞和雄狮崛起的高光时刻，完美把形式和故事合二为一。国漫一直维持这个水准，崛起也不光光是个口号了。不过如果把女性角色补充点背景就更好了。
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
文本和音乐跳脱出商业用法，告五人、九连真人深度服务于剧情的方言歌词自带地区文化色彩；从广播里的少年强则国强，到挨打后听到的红日初升其道大光，最后内化成腾跃时的雄狮腾渊鳞爪飞扬。
相当优秀！说角色设计辱华的人，谢谢你们为该片的宣发推波助澜。
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