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".
诡异的总能看到我妈的影子和我家的亲子关系。
这是翻拍韩国电影《世上最美的离别》？拍的如此做作
关于妈妈的电影总会有所触动的。这类电影观众有共情就略微别在乎剧情和其他合不合理的用电影专业角度去评价了吧，
影片改编自韩剧《世上最美的别离》，最大问题就是，所有人物的人设就是为了让你哭，加上同类癌症题材电影并不少，以及故事的中规中矩，后期略拖沓，让人或多或少有点小失望。导演编剧非常能抓住时下要点，用绝症将母女情与夫妻情作为主线和串联，同时用扶弟魔、阿尔兹海默症、工作欺负新人和当小三作为副线，配上流量明星的耍大牌和需要提词器才能完成采访等，基本上涵盖了现在大众都很吃的瓜，也是在用各种生活元素，尽量去讨好不同观众，让你总能在其中一段情节中找到共鸣，但这戏剧性实在是太强了，个人会觉得有些过了，虽然很好哭，有些地方也有爽感，但哭完爽完之后也就完了，没从根本上做出改变，还不如多强调母爱的伟大呢。另外，徐帆老师在本片表演稍微浮夸了一点，反而是舅舅的扮演者陈明昊老师十分出彩，毕竟人物弧光全片最强，更容易出彩。
Maternal love defeats everything.
徐帆随便说说话就成了电影，而其他人连话都讲不好
套路电影。什么时候国内不再拍这种道德绑架的亲情电影，国人的育儿观和价值观就真的进步了。现在这么拍，是真的很多人吃这套。没了子女会死的那种………
万万没想到，这部当年在中关村天桥拍摄时我差点蹭上出镜的作品竟给我了今年迄今为止最差劲的影院体验；徐帆的这个表演属于是那种极差却还自我感觉良好的，真令人无语
很感人，感触颇多。很多时候就是快要失去的时候才懂得珍惜。
看的时候一边因为生理共情哭得稀里哗啦，一边觉得自己看这么差劲的片子还会哭就很好笑，又哭又笑真的把我看崩溃了。没什么角色和剧情可言，就是一个典型东亚女人的后半生（除了意外得病）。患病在这个故事里都被当作一个煽情的工具了。真的真的真的希望全天下的妈妈们都身体健康，母爱太伟大了。
有共鸣的作品，徐帆和张婧怡都很棒，人物弧光很完美。
她不在了 我可怎么办啊
片中她也说，自己苦了一辈子。好难过。因为，这可能是大多数女性/妈妈的人生
三星半。但是不得不说，这部电影真的好催泪，尤其是徐帆的演技，太像那么回事儿了，明明是老生常谈，但她的演技四两拨千斤的炸人的泪，我只是无意看了看，结果哭傻了，赶上今天北京第一场雪，谢谢世界还有这样的好演员。ps：这世间就有这样的妈妈，不要拿女性价值观评价一个女人在时代背景下的选择，你可以说时代，但不要说母爱，你没有见过，不证明这样的女性不存在。也不证明这样女性的存在，就是白活了。播种过爱的人，从不是错的和傻的、更不可能是无知驱使的。
因为徐帆的演技 我哭成个渣渣 徐帆 徐帆 演技上神 修炼成仙
驾护航，但过度的关爱又会成为无形的枷锁。。。
演员不错，剧情还行吧。我突然听到赵晓苏声音！
单说导演技巧是真的毫无亮点。这种故事催泪是肯定的，谁都有妈，但是煽情部分怼脸给特写，就怕你不哭，我觉得是非常低劣的手法。
疾病叙事，白气球南极科考那条暗线不错，想起知乎上的一个回答：我妈虽然平凡，但我想用自己的眼睛替她去看看这个广阔的世界。
就他爹的无语，季佩珍你图啥啊，扶弟狂魔，扶了几十年，照顾阿尔兹海默症的婆婆，女儿也不省心，丈夫跟没有一样…泪点在最后小美看语音
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