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".
张婧怡演技还欠火候，但整体是个好片子，挺匹配当代年轻社畜现状（传媒方向）。还是别带妈看了，妈妈会烦心自己的身体的。张歆艺的角色是亮点，这片子吧……哭是肯定会哭的，就看想不想了。
这大反光的滤镜到底是什么鬼？？？几百年没遇到这种让我真的看不下去的片子了，真·亮瞎眼。
真的不希望一个假妈妈再靠着演妈妈来贩卖母爱贩卖亲情了，这位假妈妈演技的油腻程度真的只有钢炮懂了，油腻啊油腻，残害中秋
希望这种作品不要再出了，为了呈现一位母亲的辛苦和奉献而把各种不好的冲突全部加在她身上，非常刻意且很没意思。什么时候讲妈妈的时候不要仅仅只抓住作为母亲的这一部分，而是更多去呈现她作为人是什么样的就好了；也不要再把母职惩罚当做如此理所应当的事了。
我太爱芋生悠了，她真的是越看越好看，好棒的温柔病弱受！！！
晚上看的这部和早上看的《妈妈的神奇小子》，加上过去一年内地银幕上《我的姐姐》《送你一朵小红花》《你好！李焕英》《再见吧！少年》等，真的厌倦了这类贤妻良母甚至带有“圣母”光环的东亚传统女性形象了！你要能拍成《女人，四十》或者成濑巳喜男那种风格也行，关键又爱搞drama煽情啥热点社会议题都想塞进去，难免沦为电视剧质感，看得人真是累，什么时候国产影视剧才能卸下“我做一切都是为了你好”这种沉重的爱的枷锁呢…拜托都21世纪第21个年头了，不指望能创作出《奥丽芙·基特里奇》这种角色，起码能不能看到部《伯纳黛特，你去了哪》呢？
美雪真的太过于温柔了，接纳了病娇又疯批的爱，让爱也明白了什么是爱
虽然故事在看完剧情梗概后已经可以猜到走向，但还是被里面的真实所触动，一个对孩子关心过度，絮絮叨叨，操持着全家上上下下的母亲，可能她没有什么爱好，没有什么特长，不是什么职场女强人，也没做出过多少丰功伟绩，她不潇洒，也不酷，她不是“别人家”的爸妈，但如果她真的猝不及防的从你的生命中离开，你会发现，她原来掌握着那么多你不知道的生活技能，她原来默默处理了那么多家中琐事、人情往来，当你被迫一夜长大的时候，你才真正理解她的辛苦与不易，她如此普通，却是一个家中不可缺少的支柱，她如此平凡，却是一家人心里最温暖柔软的存在
这片有多好哭呢？不建议和刚认识的男孩子去看，看完后妆全花；不建议戴着美瞳观看，看完后丢哪儿了也不知道；建议纸巾和口罩都得带上，你会需要；建议听完片尾曲出场，平缓一下心情，还能像正常人一样走出影院。ps，希林娜依高唱的片尾曲绝了。
一开头我真的是不想看 忍着看看 本来以为只是烂头 结果演了一个小时还是tmd不舒服 每次情绪上来了都给我掐断 我很难 我有泪流不出 整整两个小时太碎了 让我如坐针毡 整个片子有种往眼睛里塞了根睫毛揉不出来的刺挠
到后半段，眼泪如同喷泉一般泪如泉涌，绝症题材，每次都让我在影院里哭得很舒坦。😭
女主真的好可怕 自私自利不择手段，当她和女二坦白的时候，女二直接说小爱 你好可怕，最后她俩又在一起的了 我的三观🤷♀️
试映的时候看了，虽然是样片，看得我差点昏迷。。。少见的烂片，几乎是烂到了我的所有点上面。。。看完了做问卷调查，我写满了一页的批评(本质上是辱骂)，并在朋友圈说有个大烂片即将上映，我先保密，到时候提醒你们别去看。结果竟然还上了北影节。。。魔幻！
被掌控的时候厌烦，失去的时候有想念，人就是如此矛盾的 生物。珍惜眼前的人吧不管是父母还是自己的爱人。
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今年有好几部国产片都让我怀疑，现在是2021年吗？这是2021年还在拍的电影吗？
看了一小时只能给两星，可怕，我妈要这样真是要烦死了。不知道后面是不是要搞“廉价”的感动。反正看到一小时我真是受不了。
片头出现气球，特别突兀且诡异，然后看了这一家子的表现，还以为是讲女主有阿尔兹海默症。之后的好几个片段，给演员打的光也很诡异，二姐的角色让我一度猜测是女主幻想出来，别人看不到的精神支柱。结尾的科考剧情似乎是和开头有呼应，但因为中间没有任何片段提及，所以只能说是呼应了突兀。看完就觉得，这是一个被塞得很满但不会过渡和铺垫的，且在拍的时候，大演员为了突出自己，还被篡改过的剧本。
看得出来导演或许想表达的东西，但电影给我的感觉就是：心有余而力不足，诠释的并不理想。
「唐山」开始看徐帆演了三次妈 配也好 主也好 特出也好 每次她演妈 都让我哭得稀里哗啦 这部片子算是把她在电视剧里锤炼出的演技完全释放了出来 若不是多年煽情演出的积淀 很多细节是完成不了的 在电影节奏不算连贯的情况下 这种表演方式反而能让碎片式的情节得到传播 张婧仪用最正的女主脸弥补了稚嫩的演技
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