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".
因为是方言电影，所以很想看。对于潮汕文化不是特别了解，但父母对于孩子的“期望”，家庭与爱情的矛盾都可以共情。只觉得最后强行圆满的结局毁了电影。
剧情、情感渲染都非常到位，最后同志游行那段高潮简直满分💯
5大学看过一点2012年的《鮀恋》，方言听不懂，情节矫情，弃了。
现在我们碍于法律而不离婚”
印度这样宗教信仰浓厚的地方都有pride parade，是谁狠狠羡慕了
绝对不是说支持形婚
也太好看了吧，不狗血，感情到位很细腻，也不戏剧化，战胜一切的都是爱
老妈很灵，电影所谓的生活流遇到矛盾点就露怯了，汕头片段的风土人情和到了杭州拍西湖有什么区别，景观感太强
里面的一些人物塑造作为平权片我看得超级不舒服了，不过想想背景是印度也合理了
没偏见，只是这么堂而皇之地把txl说成正常生活的真情实感，还是看着挺别扭的。
影院里另外7个人我猜应该都是潮汕人，作为唯一省外代表听着潮哥潮姐们洪亮的电话与嬉笑怒骂声，声临其境体味潮汕另一种“文化”也挺奇妙。作为一个去过汕头超过10次的喜爱潮汕的外省人，蛮失望的。镜头没有拍出汕头10分之一的美，故事呢很潮汕的没有超出一毫米的套路情节，暂也不必强求之，但都2022了能不能不要用10年前的镜头拍20年前的机场狗血离别。能想象导演真的很用力把家乡讲给大家听，但除了祭拜，粿条，小公园，和厝里大嗓门的男男女女，这些堆砌的符号的功能仅仅是带我又出差一次汕头一样，好吃好玩之外记不清什么，也留不下什么，也许是要求太高，或是这些要求甚至只是凭空想象，但允许一个喜欢潮汕的外省人，期待潮汕人的精神，崇尚着潮汕人的信仰，热情于潮汕人的传统，甚至那些嘴里喊的，大家听的所谓封建，也值得一探究竟。
意外地非常不错！2022开年的爆冷黑马！潮汕方言的小成本电影，讲述在深圳打工的儿子带女友回家见父母的故事…
请这样的电影越来越多吧！它的出现能包容一切的缺点。
没想到印度短短几年就已经可以拍出这种电影上大荧幕，两个画面~一个是游行，还有个是男主出柜后和妈妈抱在一起看得我泪流满面，想到曾经自己出柜时的场景……
就冲着最后父母的接受和理解 这电影我觉得还不错 母亲和他相拥的时候的大哭 感觉是心疼他的委屈和妥协
“这种事为什么会发生在我们身上？”这句话太痛了
电影源自生活，又总是在美化生活，前半段充满烟火气，妈妈形象很真实，克服偏见接纳外省给了电影一个美满结尾，或许这就是有别于生活之处吧
也太好看了吧，不狗血，感情到位很细腻，也不戏剧化，战胜一切的都是爱
开头二十分钟，胖女孩相亲，梅林茂《花样年华》配乐出现了三次，真的很网大的感觉，甚至是恶搞视频的味道。。虽然我旁边两姑娘快笑疯了。。然后分手也分得太草率了吧。。但妈妈真是好，真实，可爱，演员也演的好。。媳妇就是工具人。。如果不是我预期太高，或与我期望的完全不一样，我可能会给三星。
想想印度那种宗教环境，这部电影敢拍，要是还能公映，那确实比我们进步😂
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