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".
有人说作为一部电影拍很烂，但是电影的本质是什么，不就是传达信息吗？贾玲能够沟通这种方式把对母亲浓烈的爱意和遗憾表达得淋漓尽致，作为观众我感受到了。这部算是春节档唯一合格的影片了吧。
抱歉，一部喜剧电影，基本笑不出来，实在没办法给高分。两位男演员，一位的角色莫名其妙毫无作用，另一位都这模样了还演厂长儿子呢？小品式电影，各种拼凑。小品更合适，本身也出色太多。
感觉一般吧，就是哭哭哭的电影，太煽情了，拍摄表现手法感觉也是有些稚嫩，片尾曲不错
穿越不是意外，而是与千万次的祈祷撞个满怀；离别不是空白，只是换另一种方式回到未来。无法执手那一段红毯，就任你安排疯狂的青春。难以出席这一场演出，就陪你谢幕荒诞的舞台。幸福不是更好的选择，而是自愿的奔赴；喜剧不是繁杂的堆砌，而是真诚的书写。
我妈妈确实希望我健健康康快快乐乐长大 她也曾是个花季少女
作为电影完全不及格，就是一个最低级的烂小品，所有编剧方法都老到死并且无趣并且完全无效。
当年看小品版本喜欢得不得了，也哭得稀里哗啦！这次电影版，感觉笑点多少有点尴尬，不过结尾翻转真的没想到，很喜欢！这本是贾玲自己的“为了忘却的纪念”，但全国人民记住了一个“妈妈”的名字——李焕英！扣一星是因为没有用《依兰爱情故事》这首歌！PS：张小斐是真的好！
我全程无动于衷，旁边两个大妈也没啥反应，倒是听到前排年轻人抽泣~能感受到贾玲用心、真诚，但感人的是母亲本身，而不是电影。这种煽情porn真的对观众的成长没啥好处。中国母亲已经很苦了，虽然她们自己并不觉得，“牺牲自我、为了孩子、绝不叫苦”仿佛是中国一代代母亲摘不掉的标签。这些形容词已经常常让人们忘了母亲首先是一个人。真的很希望电影作为一种媒介，能够引导我们走出这种传统的畸形的亲子关系。
笑点在各类小视频里已经基本消耗完了 泪点保留住了还是件好事 这部作品从后三十分钟直接看完哭其实也可以 从制作专业程度上 似乎还比不上几年前的夏洛特水准 但是真诚 真感情让这部片子在中国电影史上绝对是独一份的 其他的致敬自己亲人的电影我相信在情感表达和作品设计上 目前来看还是李焕英高度和逻辑设计最好 剧中想表达的几个思想也是挺有深度的拼爹 小人得志 为母争光 以及母亲为孩子的付出表现 都挺不错的 就是采访中表达的母亲更是个独立的人这点好像没怎么表现啊
好奇怪的体验，从来没有过的。看这个电影的时候，影厅里那些说小话儿的、评论的太大声的，没有引起我一丝反感，甚至感到，怎么形容呢，就是，那种很感谢大家跟我一起看这个电影的感觉——对，那个词是亲切。虽然一想就涌起哭意，但我是被治愈了。谢谢你，贾玲。
带妈妈一起看的，妈妈也是国营厂的车工，也有一个老是爱喊她大名的女儿。反转后真的完全无法自控地哭得稀里哗啦，然后给妈妈递了一张纸巾。出来后妈妈说，是有点感动但没有哭，是你递给我纸巾我才想哭。贾玲处理细节蛮好的，各种喜剧桥段也很好笑23333
完成度和质量能达到这个水平真的挺意外，有几个小bug但瑕不掩瑜。母女对酌那里哭了😭 。处女作加一星
渐变的色彩，消逝的时光，母女二人共拥的记忆，贾玲用电影的方式写给妈妈的情书，果然影像是最能且最有效调动观众情感的桥梁，唯一不足的是，我们不能把催泪或者感动当成电影的评价标准，真正的情感，应该是让观众去体会，去感悟和去参与其建构，而不能一味地去灌输和煽动。
既然母亲能在匮乏中让孩子快乐，为什么平凡的我们非得等到拥有什么才去回报，让妈快乐是很具体的很眼前的事情，不要让它变成遗憾。
Q:贾玲的第一部电影，完美吗？
结尾反转太好哭了 感情过分真挚 没法客观评价
还有能说道的地方在于它向我们展示了在无数催泪作品中都存在的关于“爱”的淫荡结构（催泪的原因）——作为窥视者的全能终究在其发生阶段就暴露（包裹）于母系他者的觉察之下，导致这种全能感的回溯性丧失和主体的回溯性被觉察，它召回了我们自身的某种“崇高（排泄物）”，我们把自身的脏东西献给了积极配合的“神”。就像中学语文课本里的那句箴言：“天下最幸福的事情就是不知道自己偷偷做的好事，早被人看在眼里！”这也就是为什么这部片子成功利用母亲超我向大众传递了新保守主义的价值信念。如果说改革开放以来，现代化making的原子主体迫切寻求某种倚靠，那么回归“始发纽带”便成了这样一种淫荡增补。我们都想在唤回一个“家庭”中的主人，在物质时空上指向改革开放初期的无穷可能性；在伦理上指向包容/吞没我的母亲，对前俄狄浦斯的倒错
2点场的电影，人都坐满了，大家一起笑，氛围很好。最后差点忍不住哭，不太好意思在熟人面前哭来着。大年初一，牛年大吉，希望家人健健康康，平平安安。
贾玲导演的处女作，实在是太好了，太惊奇、太动人了。求你们都去看，觉得不好找我退票钱。
生活是最好的脚本，贾玲老师只是呈现了她和母亲的这份真挚的情感、她对母亲的思恋和不舍，至于她是不是好导演，将来会不会继续导演，她导演的好不好…对于这部戏而言我们作为旁人真得无需什么点评，我们只需要笑中带泪的祝福就好。
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