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".
不过是用着神似《少林足球》的剧情设定加上留于表面的“雄狮”口号，多亏了这样珍贵的传统文化题材，才显得没那么套路，结尾高潮部分不错。
真的是非常中二 片头水墨画竟是全片最精彩的部分
缺点很明显，几乎成缺陷，拯救只有推翻重来。
暂时只说说优点：
真的很棒！无论是从动画的技术，视觉效果，以传统文化舞狮艺术为基底设计动画色彩和场景，从比赛时的美工到动作捕捉的快速敏捷这次都好得无话可说。开篇是类型化叙事，虽然人物原型，台词以及出场人物和剧情都是非常类型化甚至在前边有一点尴尬，但可喜的是这次的剧本圆满地完成了一个故事，从事出起因，几次成长的转折波澜，将社会问题很好结合在一起，非常真诚完整地讲述一个故事。最触动的点在阿娟去城里时三人用舞狮欢送他，在阿娟前往上海打工的前一晚决定放弃梦想时最后一次舞狮追光，哪怕仅此一刻沉浸在与梦想同生共死的悲壮。结尾处理的非常好，即使将狮头套上了最高点，阿娟前往上海打工的命运依旧未改变，而这才是生活的真相。但那又怎样，从那一刻起阿娟的命运已经彻底改变了，只要有一刻，我们是闪闪发光站在属于我们自己的顶峰就够了
画面和配乐很绝，很喜欢开头细猫与结尾雄狮的呼应，不知道算不算个隐藏小彩蛋～
没在故纸堆里挖童话，人物造型不再模仿日美漫画。
现实主义的人文关怀介入一定消解了无厘头与励志类型片的俗气，些许故意煽情但有效，文戏一般台词依然没能跳脱国产式尬
雄狮少年终成咸鱼 少年永远不是病猫 人生永远不能雄狮
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。
今年最喜欢的国产片，配乐与画面的精彩配比，每一首都很自然。当现实主义遇上传统文化，无可复加的是小人物咸鱼翻身的温暖故事，国漫新思路。
虽然嫌弃故事老套，但是又很吃这一套，真的很热血很好哭！不得不夸一下这部电影的配乐，每个配乐的出现都有让电影加分，尤其是在前半段剧情有点拉垮的时候。还有就是画面，太好看了吧！导演真的牛，期待以后更多好作品！
3⃣️浓浓的广东味儿我太爱了呜呜呜，每一首配乐也都非常绝，不是那种工业流水线做出来的曲子。
美术造型等可打85分，故事人物58分，可惜得很
有个更通畅剧本就好了。
这不是我们的《东京教父》吗？热血的故事只是现实主义底子的糖衣，骗大家来吃吃看。
一本歌颂无产阶级自我成长和斗争的杰作。只要心中还要鼓点响起，我们就是雄狮。
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
2⃣️还有就是舞狮这个题材非常非常新，虽然人物画的真的不好看但整体作画运镜还是很流畅的，特别是舞狮的动作；
热血并不会贯穿一生，但只要有过信念 就足以照亮灰暗的时刻，该上山下山，路还是在脚下。喜欢朴实生动的乡村镜头和结尾的克制。
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