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".
We're all small and f******king stupid...
挺酷的，一些烂大街的元素和主题，却能剧作上三翻四抖讲得不油腻；有一些段落又真的很有新奇感，虽然缺少一些真正特别勾人的情感表达，但还是非常棒的执行力。
说正经的。
可如果她放手接受女儿的虚无主义，再焕新自己的存在主义，会不会更好。
中年妇女发疯文学，虽然最后还是 Love&Peace老套路，但真的让我找回了小时候热爱电影在录像厅激情澎湃又哭又笑的初心。
太失望了，还以为能看一个脑洞飚飞的爽片，结果被掰着下巴猛灌一碗“在宇宙中心呼唤爱”的鸡汤。用多重宇宙搭了一个看起来绚丽实则不堪一碰的花架子，试图掩盖其土到极致令人作呕的精神内核，看他们在舞台上强行演一出“我们一家多有爱”的戏码，真是让作为观众的我尬得坐立不安。求求你们，有精彩的人生就去过吧，别再“为了你我愿意报税了”。
目测，这是十二年之内（从盗梦空间开始），最好的，也是思想最深沉、情感最触动、理解最深刻、感受最丰富的科幻/奇幻电影。
“正因为你什么都做不好，所以你无所不能。” 每一个失败的我分裂成优秀的我，另一个平行宇宙中不再渺小愚蠢的我。
好久没这么全神贯注，细节意料之外的电影了！惊喜至极！用天马行空的视觉来表达抽象的情感与关系，核心依旧是爱与和解，那些流经存在的细节不正是支撑我们活下去的动力吗？凡事都是一个圆，乐观与悲观只需要换一个角度去看，圆内核心尽是爱，就算人生不如意甚至全宇宙崩塌，千万别忘了这个内核，不是爱能拯救一切，而是爱定义了我们的存在。看了杨紫琼的采访谈到这个剧本时动情哭了，说这辈子等到属于自己的剧本了，真的值得！眼花缭乱的视听语言非常纯熟精致，两个导演太令人欣喜了。
奇奇怪怪 可可爱爱 内容好满 故事核心又很简单
我以为这是个要讲爱与理解的故事，但是母亲和女儿关系的来回拉扯，让我意识到，比起理解，父权社会下的女儿更想要尊重，在尊重她是个独立个体的前提下，还爱她，理解她，肯定她。真实的关系中哪里能划分得那么清楚，情感是复杂的相互交织的，每个人想要的，是自己爱的那个人爱自己，用着自己想要的方式。
制造了黑化女儿的母亲在拯救女儿的过程中黑化，被爱人拉回来又在原生家庭中反复，最后合家欢的喜剧。
不能说非常喜欢，但主创人员请受我一拜orz，结构严谨，要素齐全，面面俱到，左右逢源，致敬各种电影，穿插各种梗，还很疯狂不算油腻。每一句鸡汤后面都还能给出一个具体的操作。这一切都是怎么做到的？最难的是一开始的部分，有点无聊，之后渐入佳境，把女儿的怨念转向外公的控制，一个老套的核心故事，但能装进这种新瓶子里我是服气的。。。
能把一个简单的家庭伦理问题拍成这样我真的respect🙏大震撼
生活到底是永恒的苦痛与虚无，还是可以选择相信的爱与善意。在无垠的多重宇宙里游荡，选择走上救赎的道路，那么多一眼望到头的结局里，无意义的黑洞充斥着绝望的引力。可在这种种无意义的背后，我选择坚信，一切的矛盾与争吵都可以和解，所有的爱与善意都不会被辜负。
很强烈的风格，小命题拍出来浩瀚无垠的感觉，女儿的演技真的好喜欢，压迫感十足啊，这可比隔壁蜘蛛侠的平行宇宙好看多了
非常喜欢女儿的演员，特别贴合角色
哭到噎住，谁生小孩谁造孽，当妈的除了包容全宇宙，没有第二个选项可以选。小孩选择回来还是因为她妈说give us a chance，我:…….This is a thankless job. And your job won’t love you back. 母职惩罚is real.
思维奔放，离奇怪诞，天马行空，醉生梦死！瞬息全宇宙，发现所有一切都没有意义，所有一切都是虚无，那就试着用爱情，亲情，友谊这些所有基于感知的，来赋予没有意义以意义。PS：形式相比内容太过耀眼夺目了！导演在这里尽情施展他浪涛般汹涌的才华！看得双眼迷离，令人目炫！
太怪咖了我的妈呀！简直没有一处"正常"的喜剧点！无厘头、恶趣味，还有一个个奇葩的脑坑，使我每一次的"哈哈哈"都紧跟着"什么鬼!?!"。疯了整个宇宙，谁能想到，最后竟被悬崖上的两坨石头招哭了。
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