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".
妈妈好可爱，好多场景都有一种看似臭脸实则憨憨的可爱。
4.5 很丰满的电影，有地方风土人情，有立体的人物和真实的情感，导演拍出了家长里短和人情温度，选角好，“妈妈”很灵，支持
这是在没有圈看这一两年电影以来映后最温暖的一场，两个女主/导演/观众间都建立起来了很好很真实的羁绊，也正是导演所强调的对爱真实存在的证明。
在电影院听到自己的家乡话，这种感觉太奇妙了，我全程都笑到不行。电影很真实的呈现了潮汕地区的方方面面，家庭成员关系，邻里关系，拜神风俗等等，非常非常真实。所以我很想知道外地人看完这部电影的感受（当然可能外地人根本对这部电影也没有兴趣吧）。对于男主因为母亲反对就也没有挣扎一下的就分手了，我看的时候很错愕，这是正常影视该有的思维吗，不过后面想想，这简直不要太真实了，实际情况往往就是这样的，而不是像影视里面呈现的多多轰轰烈烈撕心裂肺。反正我这个潮汕人对这部电影的滤镜太重了，好玩好笑，剧情还说的过去，那就是非常好哈哈哈哈见
我现在特喜欢这种讲方言的电影，通过语言能直接传达从那片土地蒸腾而起的文化氛围。
不过也是为了切合他们两人分开的主要原因。
很有诚意的电影，每个地方都有每个地方的嫁娶困局。女主很大气
很厉害，拍的挺好！摄影特别用心，剪辑上安排也有细腻的镜头，没有什么特别尬的感觉（有的话，就是在深圳的，在深圳画面很容易尬，生涩），从片子整体来说十分自然了，接地气，身为喜欢看电影的潮汕人，我走心了！
虽然男女主毫无co感。但是南方真好。带入一下静珊离开的心情感觉都要爆哭。很平凡的电影，细节很好，妈妈很真实。就是最后的剧情有点别扭。
故事很接地气，完成度也很高，主题围绕传统文化和新时代爱情观，其间穿插着很多轻松的小幽默，从头到尾给人一种很真诚、很舒服的感觉，尤其几首潮汕歌很有当地风格。缺点是影片最后的转折略显生硬。还有就是看完暗下决心以后也要带妈妈坐一次飞机。
最后，功夫茶是真的好喝的，单丛最好喝了。
真实还原了外地人在潮汕人家饭桌上的场景，一句话也听不懂却莫名的感觉温暖。
平淡真实，质朴可爱。也许生活本来就很可爱，只是有时我们被它繁琐的一面遮蔽了双眼，而忽视柴米油盐这些琐事背后的温情。生活本来就没那么多大是大非，跌宕起伏，每个人的大山都在自己心里，要翻的也只是自己心里的那座山。配乐很好听，闽南方言配上汕头的美食美景，别有一番滋味。
7分，潮汕味道很有看头，故事虽然老套但是完成度不错。前半段节奏好于后半段。阿妈的表演非常到位。
里面的潮汕麻麻太真实好笑了
泽凯妈对“外省再婚女”珊珊的抵触，似乎是潮汕人浓烈的宗族与本地意识的集中外化。语言的阻塞，制造心灵的隔膜。城市对小镇的同化，外语对方言的遗忘，又现几分文化忧患。而其本质，无非是封闭与自洽的空间生态，在面向无法掌控世界的极端畏惧与不安全感。而最终的和解，多少沾上些“延续香火”的妥协。
珊珊好像张碧晨啊，总觉得她下一秒就要拿起话筒“循着光照的方向 把你遗忘”
8.6分！台湾有《孤味》，香港有《天水围的日与夜》，大陆有《我妈》
配乐选择得很好，很贴合潮汕风情。
头一次在影院欣赏到如此具有潮汕地方特色的喜剧片，和导演上次的「爸，我一定行的」是同一风格的作品，特别接地气，对话也是很朴实自然。剧情倒是比较平常，但配已如此有特色的潮汕地方气息，别有一番滋味。从中选取的bgm也是恰到好处，非常用心了。总体来说，还是挺不错的，值得一看。
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