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".
可以不谈电影审美，但必须要有基本的审丑能力！
3.26MOMI 屎里找蛆磨碎了当高蛋白喂要饿死的婴儿画面太印象深刻了
电影很好地完成了风格的转变，至少效果是达到了的，电影院里前半段笑声不断，后半段鸦雀无声，真正地做到了"有笑有泪，喜剧的内核是悲剧"的大众低俗标准，可惜转场的生硬导致全片漏洞百出，然而这些都在观众的哽咽中抛在脑后
被捧得很高的贺岁档 感觉剧情有点俗套 全片唯一的亮点大概是她妈也穿越了吧
打我有记忆起，妈妈就是个中年妇女的样子。所以我总忘记，妈妈曾经也是个花季少女。
在这个时代还能看到这样一部作品是幸运的，近些年华语第一！
非常不错的一部电影，看完给人不同的体验，新的感受
3.26MOMI 屎里找蛆磨碎了当高蛋白喂要饿死的婴儿画面太印象深刻了
一般，故事老套，范式表现，穿越梗用的生硬，复古情调模板痕迹严重，就像点了一键滤镜，观影全程很努力去感受了，但还是没法共鸣，贾玲哭戏那段彻底出戏，再没进去。衔接和感情比较突兀，隔靴搔痒没搔到痛处。
8.3分绝对是太不正常了。《李焕英》你不能说它差，但也绝对称不上好，只是前些年综艺大电影版的变形罢了。主题选择了“子欲养而亲不在”，表达上却仅限于一味的情感宣泄，里面其实你很难找出一个完整鲜活的角色，母、女也只是传统文化几千年来堆砌出来的固定形象，除了伟大和孝顺找不到更多的形容词。
这不是电影，这是小品，虽然哭了，但它就是一个一个段子凑的。
四星半。主线剧情类似于活着和霸王别姬，但是中间穿插的丰都冥界耳目一新。感受到导演强大的美术功底。全片以舞台为核心的布景更好地表现了 人生如戏，戏如人生 的概念，令人想起了 狗镇，但又极其中式意境美学特色。独成一派。唯一美中不足感觉主线的结尾略为意料之中。
叹人生，最难欢聚易离别。颠沛流离起起落落的一辈子，小人物也有自己的金榜题名，洞房花烛，他乡遇故知。
同样是女性导演的亲情题材，许鞍华《桃姐》8.3分，张艾嘉《相爱相亲》8.4分，就是把贾玲纪念母亲的真诚用心全算上，它跟蒋雯丽《我们天上见》——同样演员出身的导演处女作，同样纪念自己至亲——也差了几条街，后者的确是一部电影，蒋雯丽之后没再做导演让我觉得可惜，而贾玲如果之后再做导演我只会觉得她是飘了。
穿越实在烂大街了，再加什么花样也是烂大街；非要搞喜剧最后是悲剧那套，那干脆拍个正正经经的电影多好，喜剧元素剃掉不完了；演员实在太熟，跳脱不了以往的印象；剧情有的地方过于尴尬... ...整个片子就像一个个小品合起来的冰糖葫芦，但最后几个放的都是苦瓜。另外，平心而论，冲着前期的笑料，片子可以勉强给及格。但是，这个片子放春节档就离谱！！贾玲最后几分钟就不停在哭，还要勾引你也跟着哭，大年初一的，看这玩意儿图的啥？像我这种母亲已经过世的更看不了这个，气
摊手。打个两星凭着我的权重把分拉下来。
6.30 台北中正堂
穿越实在烂大街了，再加什么花样也是烂大街；非要搞喜剧最后是悲剧那套，那干脆拍个正正经经的电影多好，喜剧元素剃掉不完了；演员实在太熟，跳脱不了以往的印象；剧情有的地方过于尴尬... ...整个片子就像一个个小品合起来的冰糖葫芦，但最后几个放的都是苦瓜。另外，平心而论，冲着前期的笑料，片子可以勉强给及格。但是，这个片子放春节档就离谱！！贾玲最后几分钟就不停在哭，还要勾引你也跟着哭，大年初一的，看这玩意儿图的啥？像我这种母亲已经过世的更看不了这个，气
没有什么落入俗套不落入俗套的说法，观众买账就好，连近年来越来越不爱哭越来越铁石心肠的我都泪眼婆娑地和我妈一起看完了并惊呼真好。每陪妈妈看一次电影都感慨又少了一次。我觉得李焕英阿姨不幸却又幸福，养育了如此出色的一个女儿，在2021年年初让全中国人知道了李焕英，知道了李焕英和她的女儿，我相信李焕英阿姨一定在天上看得到，贾玲也相信她的妈妈在天上看得到。
这种情绪不是浓汤宝能兑出来的煽情，哪怕我和她的人生轨迹并不相同，但我也在电影院里体会了一把贾玲的过往青春。
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