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".
可以说某英为这类题材的国产片找到了财富密码
18岁的诡计就是过家家的游戏，原谅与被原谅间只有颜值的正义
身体情欲的萌动与心里爱意的爆发本该相得益彰，呈现的结果是差强人意。有一说一，山田的表演太锋利了，芋生悠本是刀鞘，却没有完全接住她。嗯哼，“矮子里拔将军”，好不容易he一下，鼓励一星，虽然这段关系不太容易被观众理解。希望能一直看到山田的“眼刀”，不乖的孩子才有意思。
“哪怕只有一瞬也好”
徐帆诗朗诵般的表演+张婧仪话都说不清的口条+俗套的煽情组合拳，实在很难让人挤出一滴泪，和同样是母亲题材的李焕英比高下立判，不是说贾玲有多高明，但是真心永远比技巧重要，别拿观众当傻子（实在是很难以置信都2021年了怎么还有这种歌颂母亲自我献祭式无私奉献的电影啊，尤其是那舅舅一家，人都吸毒进去了出来又赌博又家暴的还有老婆不离不弃等着呐？这样的去起诉离婚法院都支持你还搞这一套妇女自我牺牲式感动呢？丢不丢人啊我去🙄️）男导演真的一辈子别来祸祸母女亲情题材了真的，你们没那个能耐。
足够真实，所以动人，徐帆的角色真的就是大多数同时代女性的样子，但孩子却是比较不让人省心的那种。在感动的同时，这部电影真的要给中年人提个醒，忙于家庭工作的同时，一定要定期体检，好好爱自己！
导演手法生涩，不会转场，都是生硬的淡入淡出。对演员表演也不太有调节能力。主角的情感与身份设计包罗是挺全的，母亲，姐姐，妻子，媳妇，包括少女时独立个体。但冲击与感染力比较泛于表层。像陈明昊完全该有一场爆发的戏来给全片添彩的。导演浪费了他。
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？
很多人都在批评徐帆的表演，但中肯的说，不适感来自于角色本身，表演本身尚可，深情依旧。
因为这个题材所以勉强给个三星吧。演员演技堪忧，着实难以共情，尤其是徐帆出戏的声音以及张婧仪咆哮式说话......
我真的不相信在我泱泱大国关于妈妈的一切就这样？求求了，妈妈们真的可以精彩一些，这部电影里的内容真的不能是妈妈的一切…徐帆老师这次演得好？也许吧，但说是是故技重施不为过吧？参见《唐山大地震》以及她演的同题材电视剧。
小爱强势病娇独立，可爱！特别！喜欢！
季老师的母爱太无私太伟大了，完全都已经失去自我了，不过也正是她的选择。
没把孩子当成一个独立成年人沟通，没有边界感，不尊重孩子隐私权，这妈妈身上反应的教育问题太多了，即便带着爱方法错的就是错的，可怕的是她从头到尾不意识到自己方法有问题，这也是很多中国父母的问题，一句“我是你妈，我为你好”好像能掩盖一切方法错误。电影里一旦方法错误导致产生矛盾冲突，突然就强行煽情母女情深缓解冲突，电影背后歌颂的这种东西接受无能。两分是给爸爸的角色。
连续看了两部山田杏奈，有感染力也有杀气。片中后期围巾造型+眼神太杀人了！芋生悠也不错！
李小美和仪在电影《我要我们在一起》里饰演的凌一尧，完全不一样。凌一尧是一早认准吕钦扬，一条路走到底的爱情圣徒～
谁能懂我找到冰窖真人代餐的狂喜🚬，本来狗血的三角恋被日系青春感冲淡了，站在女性角度上踩我xp的片
我以为是两个妹子校园恋爱那种小甜剧，没有想到竟是这样的发展
【不要把生命献给无知、平庸和低俗】多有力量！
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。
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