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".
很市井很接地气的一部电影，虽然不懂潮汕文化，但大概是闽南文化中也有很多拜神宗教习俗以及传统观念，所以观看过程还是蛮能理解影片的文化背景，繁琐的拜神仪式，街头巷尾的独特社交文化，三姑六婆式无边界感的关心与交流，以及精干而外刚内柔的妈妈，都演绎得真实传神，故事不算复杂，但起码讲完整而不违和了，有笑有泪，男女主天台分手场景以及最后妈妈坐飞机的面部表情变化桥段，都太令人泪目了。另外冲着妈妈的扮演者的精湛演绎，也值得四星推荐，好过太多华而不实的大制作国产电影！
7.5分。很久没看到这么认真探讨代际问题的院线电影了。“妈妈”的表演撑起全片。结尾那句“妈妈是不是很没用啊”，一下子把整部片的意蕴提上去了。
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。
作为电影不怎么样，但是有助于外省女孩了解部分潮汕家庭，非必要不嫁潮汕男？现实只会比电影更甚。
母亲是最佳女主角。手机镜头里的母亲，你在想什么啊，笑。
片子挺好看，奶奶也太好玩了。潮汕方言真是一个字都听不懂😱
最触动我的是拜神的那里，儿子找不到垫子，妈妈一进去就找到了，实在真实得过分。
整体感觉还好，如果说有什么明显的缺点，大概就是女主和整个电影及叙事环境总有些断裂式的格格不入感，开头在深圳的部分也有点网大的味道，进入潮汕地区后风格开始为之一变，不过，虽然展现了一些潮汕风俗和文化，总体感觉还是太过布景化了，若是能再深入一些就好了，比如两代人观念上的冲突及妈妈反对的理由，除了根深蒂固的传统观念干扰之外大概也和父辈年轻时的经历有些关系，可惜后面没能多作些交代，而且在这个家庭里爸爸的存在感本身也不高，人物形象略显单薄，最后妈妈对二婚“外省”从反对到接受的过程也需要有一个（由某种“动机”串联起来的）情感上的过渡，包括两人的“去而复合”也是如此，现在这样处理不光过于直白，而且也显得太生硬了，结尾的杭州之行放到花絮里就好了
小成本佳作。虽然表演略显生涩，但剧本完成度好，音乐好听，感情饱满却没有故意煽情。
三星半吧。前半部分展现出来的民风民俗和烟火气很动人，后半部分就有点强行HE，人物转折没啥说服力。也罢，贺岁档总需要大团圆结局。
出乎意料的好看，从《鮀恋》到《我妈》，同样的创作母题，十年过去，展现出潮语电影全方位的进步。
主角某些角度太像粤语科普博主第二号人物了，但是细看又挺仁科的
外来媳妇本地郎
寻常巷陌的潮汕风情看着很舒服，故事非常普通，几乎没有戏剧冲突，更像是一段纪录片。男主的人设不错，但演员演的有点麻木，看表情你以为他应该一切都成竹在胸，结果啥也没搞定。看了大半天到机场以为好歹有点高潮了，结果又平平淡淡，虽然你讲的是一段普普通通的生活故事，但也不能照着Vlog去拍吧。
一位女黑人，一句“斯密达”，一把潮汕话，将种族问题、朝鲜局势、潮汕文化糅合得那么自然，大陆爱情片自惭形秽。
文化差异太大，实难产生共鸣。当家庭轻喜剧看的，结果平淡的过于无趣。
挺惊喜的居然是用的练江口音，整体感觉会更亲切一些，毕竟作为潮阳这块的人。而且这部电影其实整个两广地区都适合看，毕竟文化都差不多是这样，都是父母抗拒所谓的外省，然而就因此耽搁了很多人
后半段出乎意料地放在了妈妈的视角，处理得很好，不徐不漫，细腻温柔，表演也是“土”得恰到好处
很真实啊，剧情走向也很好，本地人觉得拍得很赞，潮汕话也很真实哈哈哈，值得五星
出乎意料的好看，从《鮀恋》到《我妈》，同样的创作母题，十年过去，展现出潮语电影全方位的进步。
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