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".
终于有一个女主角，或者说是妈妈形象不再是人忍气吞声，忍辱负重的了。就喜欢焕英的洒脱和大气。
我未来的女儿，我就让她健康快乐就行了。
像這樣演繹整個時代而不悲情的片感覺蠻難得的？比起霸王別姬我更喜歡椒麻堂會的溫度跟調笑；人生不是只有悲劇、不是只有不瘋魔不成活，有被打苦練有挖蛆果腹有風光有落魄，但還是可以笑一笑說「醫療酒精嘛，當然難喝」，這樣活著然後將孟婆湯瀟灑飲盡⋯⋯「喝完湯的客人請盡快離場，下面的客人還在等！」everything is in that line.
整体美术风格完整，舞台效果巧妙的重现时代交错更迭，加上四川话的灵动，如果旧的故事能有新突破就更好了，3个小时略长。
沒看過原來的小品，大概猜到了是給媽媽遲來的情書，但真的特煩這種以私人情感綁架觀眾的片子，說白了就是導演的自我感動。在小品中插穿越梗就很離譜，何況你才從天而降剛醒凳子都還沒坐上張嘴就來句“現在是哪一年”我就真的很想罵人了。小品梗都好過時很爛俗，張江的演員一張嘴真的很想讓他出門直走上春晚，大哥這不是你的舞台。最後日劇跑眼淚直掉強行煽情影廳裡前面笑得有大多聲的觀眾哭得就有多難過，我真的全程白眼，累了。一星給你媽吧，現實中的那位。
因为足够真诚，所以那些瑕疵变得微不足道。眼泪莫名的多，直到后排一个女生发出很大声的抽泣，才松了一口气：原来我还不是哭的最夸张的。
但是作为电影来说，基本上就是抖音小视频的水平。
打三分纯粹是道德绑架，都有妈，颂扬母亲主题下，谁也不敢低分……
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！
在夏洛特烦恼的穿越梗用得已经烂大街的时候，贾玲用亲情再次焕发了生机
2.5 穿越梗是人家三十多年前玩剩下的套路，拍得也很糟糕（导演问题），全程味同嚼蜡，直到最后那个反转。这是皮克斯式的情感/视角反转（参考瓦力、玩具3和Coco），学到了精髓而奏效，可惜又处理得过于繁重拖沓。当然电影之外的真情实感的确很动人。
长达100分钟的劣质小品，无聊的笑料，蹩脚的剧情，最后20分钟硬生生戳人心窝。要是问我有没有触动，自然是有的，但是仍然不妨碍我认为这不是一部好电影。
非常幸运能在大银幕看到这部片子/当中国近代史的洪流穿过邱福的身体 溅出的是一代艺术家的绝唱
生女儿的妈看不了的电影
从片子本身来说，算不上优秀大作。许多人抹着眼泪给出了春节档高分，一方面是其他对手太不争气，另一方面，最重要的原因，大家把高分投给了全天下所有人的妈妈。
但后面逐渐佳境，节奏也逐渐开始变得明了，笑点穿插的非常密集，并且恰到好处。各种反套路的情节也比较惊喜，尤其是结尾部分更是将整个故事的主旨推翻并拔高，有了自己的深度。
贾玲自我感动行，想推己及人，这么简单生硬可还行。陈赫可太油腻了，受不了。
生女儿的妈看不了的电影
绝对五星，名副其实的华语年度最佳！荒诞的艺术，光怪陆离的社会变迁，《霸王别姬》的隔空对唱，模糊舞台和荧幕的扑面而来的丁达尔效应，极具个人色彩和地方特色的空灵的戏梦版的表达
Locarno电影节看的，一个沉重的故事，普通人被裹挟在时代的巨流，无路可退
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