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".
最后，功夫茶是真的好喝的，单丛最好喝了。
《back to love》
有地方浓郁色彩这一点很不错，潮汕在日常有听过有很重性别不平等存在，看到评论区某条热评发现影片还是粉饰得太好。另影片里拿非裔和胖女孩开玩笑真的很冒犯
关于爱情，关于家庭中的亲情，很多细节表现的都挺能引起共鸣的，也一同宣传了一下汕头的当地民俗特色，也期待之后有机会去玩一圈。
7.5分。很久没看到这么认真探讨代际问题的院线电影了。“妈妈”的表演撑起全片。结尾那句“妈妈是不是很没用啊”，一下子把整部片的意蕴提上去了。
珊珊好像张碧晨啊，总觉得她下一秒就要拿起话筒“循着光照的方向 把你遗忘”
很荣幸超前点映能见到导演和主创团队到场，导演在采访中说了一段话让我觉得挺触动的，他说现代社会农村趋向于城市化，潮汕风土人情和方言文化能保留完整很珍贵，作为一个热爱家乡的胶己人，让更多人认识潮汕人就有了一种与生俱来的使命感。想法非常好，但没能跳出外地人对潮汕人的刻板印象，而且故事讲得很平实，没有惊喜。
有种刻意营造出的真实，有些段子幽默是不是太过头了，演员素人还是稚嫩跳戏，冲突做的不错，是个完整的故事
还不错的小成本故事片，有用心好好讲一个故事，对国产片来说，这就很难得了，并且地方语言——潮汕语和潮汕语歌曲的运用也是加分项。
不足是，故事层面过于简单、老套，有些地方不够流畅，转折没有说服力，强行大团圆还不如就定格在机场那场戏；男女主角CP感不够，有的素人演员看着太出戏；空镜部分有点刻意。
潮汕话真的太亲切了，也只有懂方言的才能get到各种笑点，中间落了几次泪，确实是泪点也挺低的，不过整体上能拍到这样的效果真的很不错呀
美中带有不足才是生活本来就有的样子，导演最后让妈妈的接受，恰恰也是电影美中不足之处。。。妈妈的反应都是那么的真实，彷佛就是自己的母亲一样，但大多数的时候在儿子已经放弃的时候，妈妈反过来再接受的概率还是很低的，深爱我们的妈妈只会一直内疚，内疚到不知所措。。。但不得不承认，电影已经足够优秀，素人演员的表现也足够真实，剧本和场景都让我十分的享受。。。看过很多反映小人物的台湾电影，忽然觉得，无论他们看待大陆，其实台湾人民骨子里面的东西不就跟电影里看到的潮汕人民一样么
味道过于纯正！很完整的情节片，完全听不懂潮汕话的人也能有乐趣。对于想了解潮汕风土人情的人来说更是很值得一看，这就是现当代的潮阳风味。恰好，对于潮阳人来说，当然更是难得，有真，本人口音的片子。我们熟悉的演员和主持人，我们熟悉的妈妈的讲话八卦方式。啊潮阳人认证，这个味道醇。
故事剧情不复杂
电影本身还挺一般的，有一些小彩蛋，看得出来导演是资深影迷。
妈妈演得真好。有一个潮汕海边的空镜让我想起恋恋风尘最后那个云卷云舒的长镜头。
吵架长镜头。鸡毛掸子。背景乐。
妈妈不同意，马上就天都塌了。妈妈又同意，马上又阳光明媚。😓😓
不过也是为了切合他们两人分开的主要原因。
75分/实在真实。我甚至更愿意相信珊珊回了杭州后没有后续了，结尾的he是故事的完美结局，不是真实世界里的结局。音乐好听，故事简单而温情，看得很舒服。冷门佳片。
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