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".
其实是没什么新意，而且女主角眼神空洞不太灵；婆婆和奶奶倒是很不错，加一星鼓励分
这些小成本的电影真的挺贴近生活的，唯一可惜的是闽南话真的太难懂。
妈妈演得太好太好了，真实，可爱，连那段一镜过都能把控得那么好，细节满满，好喜欢这个角色的塑造和演员的演绎，都不敢相信是素人，满分。
但是方言电影还是要支持一下，作为闽南人，潮汕方言居然可以勉强听懂哈哈哈哈。而且风俗习惯啥的，也跟闽南地区有相似的地方，挺好的，支持！
曾经有经历和这个电影的剧情有重叠，可惜我的母亲和剧中的母亲太不一样了。所以结局完全不同，深刻地给我带来负面的影响。
带妈妈去看的，从小到大一听有人说潮阳话就乐
收获了我对爱情的眼泪～对妈妈从不接受到接收的切身体会～素人演员也演的不错！有超多有趣的笑点～小成本电影还是不错的(⁎⁍̴̛ᴗ⁍̴̛⁎)
妈妈这个角色过于真实，克制的一切尽在不言中，包括看女儿离去的凝视都很感人。奶奶也太有意思了吧，为了抱曾孙手把手教学。爸爸:外省有什么关系嘛，漂亮就行！
结尾略微仓促。追回人家那里表现得太匆忙了。也放大了妈妈的作用。
但是结局有点水，结束收得太快了，怎么两人突然就和好了，没交代清楚，这里完完全全可以让两人有和好的"迹象"再结束，留个开放式的结局。
男主的妈妈真是典型的潮汕女人，既要做家务照顾老人小孩，还要挣钱攒钱给儿子娶媳妇，最重要的年头拜到年尾
私以为如果结局是在机场错过，就更现实主义了，毕竟人生总是充满了遗憾。但我们确实需要再多一些这样的片子。
好片，朴实的现代生活，很温馨很自然也好不美饰矛盾的存在，结局还是理想化了
其实有种帕皮酱混搭小杨哥的感觉
又一部方言版的城市生活剧，只不过这座城市在国人印象中更传统，更保守，爱情不再是一个人的事，而是两代人的事。小舅已经找了黑人妹子当女友，但自己找了个杭州的都得被家里人说，但再大的传统在时代的洪流面前，可能都是不堪一击的，上一代人也得设法让自己走出去，跟下一代和解，跟自己和解，谁说这仅仅是一个潮汕的故事呢？
所以就我一个人喜欢这种生活流的电影吗？妈妈演的也太好了吧，比肩《天水围的日与夜》鲍起静、《桃姐》叶德娴。
不知道为我还挺喜欢这种方言小成本的片子，其实它算不那种晦涩的文艺片，也够不上商业业片。
好好讲个小故事似乎很难
很欢乐的片子，中文字幕的感觉，因为是潮汕话。就整体水准来说，是有很大提升空间。但关键是素人演出的真实感强啊👍。真实的剧情，真实的演出，真实的生活，真实的情感。潮汕浓厚的家族文化，面对外省人的矛盾与冲突，和我们东北乡村爱情故事有异曲同工之处，所以我看得很有家味。“传统”是会带来保守和排外的感觉，但同时也是外省人心之向往和羡慕的温暖感、亲情味。拍片不多，想要体验欢乐+亲情的人，尽快去看吧。
我特别喜欢妈妈这个素人角色
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