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".
刻板印象背后真实可爱的小人物，温暖朴实得让人感动
很有诚意的电影，每个地方都有每个地方的嫁娶困局。女主很大气
虽说都是素人演员，但演技都不觉得生硬。笑料和当地文化结合的非常到位。
好棒的电影哦，感觉挺有生活气息的，我喜欢他们家潮汕的那种房子，自带庭院干干净净的样子
真的好有爱的片子啊！妈妈演技好自然好自然好妈妈，又可爱又真实，最后第一人称的vlog拍摄简直神来之笔，把转折的突兀都给磨过去了！好棒！真是一部处处都有美的片子，这踏马才是深圳！比什么小孩强多了！
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。
后半段出乎意料地放在了妈妈的视角，处理得很好，不徐不漫，细腻温柔，表演也是“土”得恰到好处
剧本有待打磨，演员都是素人吧有些不太行，女主的网红脸太出戏
整个故事的灵魂人物还是妈妈啦，妈妈的演技弥补了很多电影技术上的不足，故事变得更朴实。女主虽然长得比不上明星，但也是挺耐看的，那么问题来了，长得漂亮高学历经济独立事业有成的女孩，活脱脱一现代女性模版，为什么能看得上这样的传统家庭..
越来越喜欢也越来越想看看这种发掘本土文化的方言电影，可能是语言逻辑和叙事铺垫更加亲切吧。故事情节可能老套，但是当它不着痕迹地融入到市井生活里，并不觉得乏味。
优点在于细节捕捉的很好 演员演技自然 缺点也是这个 呈现了一部分的生活片段 但却没有升华 结尾转折有点尴尬。。最后感慨一句 潮汕婆婆确实厉害。。
这部电影令我感慨万千，一是反映了潮汕地区的风土人情，二是反映了大龄适婚男青年说服家长找离异另一半的故事，三是电影中对妈妈的拍摄细致入微，还有老奶奶对孙辈早生贵子的期盼，故事结尾是喜剧，喜欢三人西湖边的合影~
年轻人经过九年义务教育以及大城市教育后，回到村里的处处不兼容。这种尬滋味一言难尽
那个沙发和一江春水的沙发一模一样
希望这种小众贴现实的电影能多出一些，演技的最高境界是演不出来的真，多少影帝在妈妈的真实面前都败了
天台分手纵深，女人走入夜色中。
很市井很接地气的一部电影，虽然不懂潮汕文化，但大概是闽南文化中也有很多拜神宗教习俗以及传统观念，所以观看过程还是蛮能理解影片的文化背景，繁琐的拜神仪式，街头巷尾的独特社交文化，三姑六婆式无边界感的关心与交流，以及精干而外刚内柔的妈妈，都演绎得真实传神，故事不算复杂，但起码讲完整而不违和了，有笑有泪，男女主天台分手场景以及最后妈妈坐飞机的面部表情变化桥段，都太令人泪目了。另外冲着妈妈的扮演者的精湛演绎，也值得四星推荐，好过太多华而不实的大制作国产电影！
意外的不错，从主角到配角都人物丰满，角色全部都立的住，包括和妈妈拌嘴的那个老阿姨
虽然要看字幕，但是很喜欢这样温情而不煽情的电影；也喜欢电影在机场告别，体现了中国人的含蓄，喜欢电影最后妈妈做飞机的感受描述。希望未来能见到更多这种类似的电影。
竟然看哭了，一度感觉是纪录片，太真实的潮汕风土人情，前半部乡土人情片，后半部都市爱情片，合胃口！
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