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".
妈妈总让我想起我妈，不忍心打四星。
男女主的颜很出戏 抛开他们的画面还是很电影感的 剧中的妈妈好搞笑哦
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。
带你去见我妈，大湾区的爱情，真心可以跨越地域跨越文化
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！
2022.01.21 更多地可视为潮汕民俗片，介绍本地的传统生活。正如很多人说的，对于母亲为何排斥外地媳妇，为何又接受她离过婚，并没有交待清楚。特别是在2022当下很难想象外地媳妇这个话题还会被拍成潮汕电影，而且这位妈妈看起来也是通情达理，如果是婵真大妈倒是有可能。当时在考虑如果再加上一个宗教信仰不一样的问题，那这电影真是把所有潮汕婚配问题都踩中，还好没有。
2022.1.11
有亲情，有爱情，有家庭，也可以说是人文片，就是还有一丝纪录片的味道，几位素人演员的表演真的很棒。国产电影还真是小成本小制作更容易带给人惊喜。相比蹩脚的中文片名来说，这英文片名真是绝妙。另外，这部片子竟然是4K60fps的。
很真实，也很温暖 最近特别喜欢这种淡淡的情感剧本 很高兴听到好久以前喜欢过的宝藏乐队玩具船长的音乐 ~
很真实，也很温暖 最近特别喜欢这种淡淡的情感剧本 很高兴听到好久以前喜欢过的宝藏乐队玩具船长的音乐 ~
最近的院线我推荐这部哈
1.离异外地女友遇见潮汕妈妈，难比出柜。2.粿、卤水、拜老爷、生儿子、小舅舅、做生意……潮汕文化一窥。3.大团圆结局。终结在机场分别，去掉杭州一段会更真实。爱情本来就很难。
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..
3.0；影片最后，泽凯和母亲一起去了静珊的家乡杭州，其实杭州也是一个民俗很重的城市，但这里提到民俗重，并不是拿它和潮汕做对比，而是继续去佐证前面所说，民俗会因为时代的改变而改变，可有些东西，却是变不了的。飞机之上的母亲望着窗外，她是认可静珊的，这个外省姑娘给了她做婆婆的感觉，她也是喜欢静珊的，如果不喜欢，她为何又千里迢迢来到这个女孩的城市？...
去过的汕头糖水店，很怀念啊！
配乐选择得很好，很贴合潮汕风情。
年轻一辈的演技让人有点难顶，但老一辈演得很真实，故事乏善可陈，但是毕竟是难得的方言电影，希望以后有更多更好的
特别好，是看了很多中国电影都没有见过的好。细腻，真实，又哭又笑。
女主演技一般…男主合格…男主妈好评！那种老一辈的传统观演绎得很有共鸣！
潮汕女人真是一年到头烧纸，“贡献”了多少温室气体啊。
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