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".
好像看懂了，又好像没懂，终究是我没有一颗纤弱而又敏感的心。
没有想象中的好，反而更像是一部特别陈旧的烂俗电视剧，还是在歌颂一个默默付出的非常传统的女性形象，很像小时候在cctv8看的那些家庭伦理剧。
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女主这种强势疯批太合我胃口了哈哈哈哈哈哈 女二这种温柔姐姐型我也可以！！！！我都可以！！
徐帆这次的表演，
日影的温柔和情感宣泄，对于百合来说刚刚好，结局也很好，至少能让人心里面做梦是he
这是我见过最累的妈妈，也是最咄咄逼人的妈妈，这女儿是我见过最叛逆最气人的女儿之一。她像是所有人的妈妈，为了每个人而操劳，为了每个人而活，却唯独活得不像自己。张歆艺的刘玫似乎更让人能感受到正能量，演技也好。徐帆说话太做作了。全片每个人都不咋正常，都有人性的缺陷，这么多千奇百怪的奇葩角色，人物间的冲突矛盾却出奇的简单，虽然哭的我鼻涕一把泪一把，但艺术展现我并不认可。
许亚军佝偻着背坐在医院长椅上的那个远镜头是此片唯一可圈可点的地方。
没看简介就直接看了电影。本来以为是普通的校园爱情故事没想到意外还不错😲整体的镜头感都好压。色调也很沉。很容易对影片有一些先入为主的感觉。一度以为会有凶杀案件的那种感觉。山田杏奈本来就长得一脸不高兴。不知道该说是这个角色很适合她还是说演技好了。演出了一股非常反社会的感觉。不过比起她更喜欢女二。马上把名字加入可关注的女优小本本里。作间的戏份倒是。比我想象中的好。可能是因为这个角色本身就不是太有表情浮动的人。哪怕他棒读我可能也看不出来。有那么一两个镜头是真的蛮帅的👏电影本身感觉是打四星差不多了。再给一星我们小作的初映画吧😋
是不是只有去世了或者得绝症的妈妈才是好妈妈？才能让人想起亲情？这种无下限消费眼泪的故事真的看够了
在一群浮夸的演技🀄️，爸爸这个扮演者演的太真诚了
很久没看到如此三观的女主，很疯但也很带感，结局的话真震惊我全家。男主人设不行，看不大明白他对两位女主到底是什么感情，还是女主之间的cp感拉满了。
她是女儿的母亲/奶奶的母亲/丈夫的母亲/弟弟的母亲，可偏偏没能成为自己身体的母亲。
看完发现居然就是韩国的那个《世上最美的离别》，徐帆老师《唐山大地震》抽搐式演技重现。第一次在北京四惠桥开车看导航居然能不迷路开错道，这个妈妈是个狠人，果然是学地理的。全片看完也不觉得感动，只觉得压迫和恐惧。看完只想对所有的女生们说，你可以选择成为一名母亲，但是你不用成为所有人的母亲。
今年北影节主竞赛片之一。
关于女性的价值，关于中年女性在家庭中所扮演的不可或缺的角色，都是很可以挖掘的话题，可惜本片太TMD肤浅了，肤浅的狗屁不通。让徐帆比驴还累，比总理还操心，比女儿还娇嗲，这不是女性的力量，这是神经有病。
塑造了一个承担所有琐碎苦难的中国女性 以绝症为转折点赢得人间真情
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日本高中生的爱情这么复杂的嘛！两女一男的三角恋我居然都没看懂到底谁喜欢谁绝了！女主暗恋男主睡了女二！女二跟男主交往然后跟女主睡了！男主被女主告白还知道女主女二睡了！然后男主女二还要一起去东京！结局是女主找女二要再睡一次！给剧情四星 这剧情让我觉得我的感情世界太简单了
日影的温柔和情感宣泄，对于百合来说刚刚好，结局也很好，至少能让人心里面做梦是he
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