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".
原版《魔幻时刻》剧本非常扎实，只要不乱改就不会差。整体及格线以上，没有屎尿屁等低俗笑点。本片做了很多改编，时长缩短，简化故事，节奏更加紧凑，删减了几个角色，把原版的两个帮派相争也改成了内部争斗。前半部分几处笑点还是照搬的原作，最出彩的就是舔刀子的段落。而后半段的改编和原创的结尾明显不如原作优秀，毕竟三谷幸喜是日本顶级的喜剧大师。笑点不少，但电影感明显不如原作。马丽这个选角十足的败笔，颜值hold不住这个风情万种的万人迷角色，换成万茜不错。片中令我最喜欢最惊喜的就是迷影元素。车牌23333来自猫扑的捶地大笑表情。两个商会英文名合起来就是《魔幻时刻》，还有致敬《教父》《雨中曲》《天堂电影院》，海报致敬《黄金三镖客》《历劫佳人》《疤面煞星》，还有《夏洛特烦恼》里的茴香打卤面。优缺点明显，6分。
哈维尔巴登yyds，和骚潘去年都奉献出了职业生涯又一个高峰，如果戈雅奖的最佳女主是骚潘就好了
就，看了2/3还觉得，这种老板很坏吗？不是挺常见的？…………以及，结尾差点劲。
4。一个成功的老板是如何平衡的。绝佳的节奏
有祖传天平厂的巴登可真够忙的，被辞退的工人堵工厂门抗议，发小因同事第三者扰乱了婚姻导致无心工作，睡了实习生却发现是友人的女儿，他还要帮员工的混混儿子安排工作，如此苦逼的老板，让我想起国片《打工老板》，但巴登毕竟是跟市长有交情的工厂主，指使混混打抗议者，让第三者勾搭实习生，最终总算在工厂评级前夕搞定了麻烦，但纵观全片，巴登的角色并未黑化，因为给他制造麻烦的人都做的太过分了——一次次帮自己发小解决婚姻问题，一次次应付抗议者，这也导致全片的叙事节奏过于缓慢（包括家庭聚会等戏份抻的太长）。而片尾时，敲诈他的实习生还没被解决掉，感觉这故事还没讲完，毕竟像天平一样拿捏平衡的巴登在本片中并未展现什么强烈的个性跟技巧，他只是为了保证经营，在有限度的防守反击而已。总的来说，是在欧洲现代制造业环境下，为资方站队
好一个黑色幽默，捡了芝麻丢了西瓜，还自我感觉良好呢，不过哈维尔的演技真好，演啥像啥。
任命女性主管、阿拉伯裔主管，甩锅假面表演，讽刺值拉满了
编剧很卖力地抖露各种迷影梗，魏翔很卖命地秀“演技”，玛丽很卖弄风情地扮性感，全都透着一股心虚，唯恐别人说自己“不行”。可惜，不行就是不行，你就算把三谷幸喜绑架到片场来也还是不行。
前一半剧情三星到两星半，真的节奏太慢了。后三分之一，事情失控后的情节开始变得好玩起来，三星半！ 女配身材很顶啊
都2022年了还有人用这种梗这种故事背景，看了真是浪费时间，大过年的千万别花冤枉钱去吃这个苍蝇
主题当然是对伪善资本家的讽刺 但另外一方面呈现出来的 当个老板也真是不容易 在欧美那些多少还在乎点人权和民主的国家当老板就更不容易了。
老套而无聊的剧情，但挡不住文艺青年高潮，借题发挥装逼
作为一个喜剧 魏翔贡献了让我近5年来笑的最惨的一个片段。笑到流泪笑到岔气笑到差点断气哈哈哈哈哈 这还要什么自行车。
在一个中国员工看来，这个老板还真的没什么大问题，一切依法合规，反倒是员工们的骚操作还挺西班牙的，希望我们的社会也能出现这样的老板和员工。
精于算计的老板，在他眼里人只分为两种，可利用，和不可利用的，遇到抗议的失业工人，狗急了也会跳墙
可惜了不是真的在嘲讽福报文化，只是一个西班牙生活喜剧，一个小企业主逐渐失去掌控的生活，揭露人性的虚伪。《饥饿站台》那么触动社会矛盾根本的作品总是不多。
看来这种东搬西凑的傻佬胡闹剧就像春晚小品一样永远都有市场。
honestly6分都给多了。可能是文化冲突了，虽然很明白是想讽刺老板的伪善，可是我真的觉得他对待员工已经很用心了，相比之下这些乱七八糟的员工才真的是有毛病…
3.0/10。全程坐如针毡，同去的朋友倒是一直在笑。可散场后问他觉得如何？他又说是辣鸡→_→
没有预期收获的就是满满的惊喜啊！舔刀子和翻译两段全场最佳，片尾魏翔的独白跟片中的魏成功在一瞬间呼应了，好笑又感动！
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