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".
有惊喜到，笑点十分密集且有质量，每几分钟影厅里就发出爆笑声，情节自然不俗不尬，情感升华也真挚感人。这种片子是笑和泪交织本能的感动，几乎可以忽略掉贾玲初次执导的的生涩感。
整个放映厅都哭惨了，一时分不清是电影里在哭还是观众在哭…
从头哭到尾，全程暴风哭泣，哭到无法呼吸。这不是对电影的评价，这是一种极其剧烈又私人的共情体验。
得知真相的我眼泪掉下来，那一段太好哭了😭我和我妈两个人都哭😭😭😭
我能感受到贾玲的真诚。给她四颗星。祝她越来越好。另外的感受是男女的悲欢真是从不相通，电影院里女的基本都哭了，我旁边的男的在问女朋友，到底有什么好哭的？
看得出来是想表达对逝去亲人的感情，但整个表达方式太像春晚上的小品了，不停地强行搞笑和强行煽情，但剧情合理性的设计却置之度外了。
也不禁思考李煥英除了母親的身份剩下些什麼 說是少女到底還是母親的身分成全了作者歌頌的偉大 其實有在被預設感人的「母親」身分的自我犧牲中感到一絲不適
虽然宣传在说催泪，但我感觉还是笑点更多。对沈腾的演技又有了新的认识，以前以为他只会演王多鱼那种角色，没想到这回出场还真带着点文质彬彬那味儿。
是回归到情感的宣泄吗？那除了电影明明有更好的表现形式在吧？不要单纯为了情感而情感，真是低俗不堪
不能说多好笑吧 沈叔叔和陈赤赤俩人是真油腻 简单的商业片 没什么期待 故事虽然有不合理的地方但相对完整 已属国内大荧幕华语片的难得 真的求各位导演大大把故事讲清楚吧 不要炫技了🙏
没有感觉特别好，如果撇除十几分钟的泪点，其他部分都是很平庸的电影。这部电影最大的特质是真诚，还有最后打在字幕上的“从我有记忆起，妈妈就是中年妇女的样子”，这句话太动人了，太发人深省了。
她奔向的不是女儿，而是死亡啊(๑•́ωก̀๑)这个电影真的值得二刷，因为可以从妈妈的视角再次解读一些话和一些事件行为，比如结婚证那么重要的东西，为什么一个亲戚给你撕了你一点都不生气。真的很棒的一部片子，值得满星！
大型追悼会现场不哭不是人系列。细思极恐的价值观。无法认同。子欲养而亲不待是千古难题，是谁都不能承受的大悲痛。所以对它的理解和表达应该更加理性、艺术、高级。追悼会式情绪推动法，效果倒是好…… 终究都还是要回归当下和真实的。
贺岁档最好哭，看的最舒服的电影了。笑点多来自自嘲和语言艺术，表演中的小细节做的也非常好。最后的反转实在是太顶了，就算那时你猜到又如何？情绪依旧无法控制。强力推荐带上父母一起观看。
结尾反转的时候，发现好的演技 好的剧本 真的可以骗到观众，明明有那么多蛛丝马迹，但是 英子 带着光芒的女性 把观众统统吸引了。 我妈妈也很喜欢，她觉得不做作，不为了让人笑而笑 哭而哭。
8.5分。太好哭了吧，不过估计回家和我妈的关系还是老样子。只能在电影里感受亲情，也算是一种悲哀。
看了影评后，特意约妈妈一起看的。可能因为被一定程度地剧透了，所以前面很多暗示的小细节哭得比较厉害，发现妈妈也穿越了那里反而平静了许多。看完后跟妈妈散步回家，聊了我和她，也聊了她和外婆，算是成年后聊得最深入的一次。妈妈为了这个家庭真的牺牲了很多，希望自己以后能尽可能地让她快乐。
感人是真感人，好哭是真好哭，真挚是挺真挚，但是镜头语言和调度也的确不行。让我无法从电影的角度给出特别高的分数。还是推荐去看的。看了第二次还是能哭到浑身发抖，和母亲有关的电影果然是我的死穴。
想要通过作品释放自己的一些情绪、遗憾，是创作原动力的其中一种吧。看电影的时候，能感受到贾玲的这种释放，这也是我看这部电影最大的获得：从一个创作者的角度。
没有感觉特别好，如果撇除十几分钟的泪点，其他部分都是很平庸的电影。这部电影最大的特质是真诚，还有最后打在字幕上的“从我有记忆起，妈妈就是中年妇女的样子”，这句话太动人了，太发人深省了。
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