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".
少见的潮汕方言电影，市井气，生活流，将潮汕本土特色都呈现于镜头中，大家小楼，排队洗澡，三姑六婆，邻人嘴碎…由封建守旧的原乡潮汕，与搞钱神话的特区深圳，形成两代人无法消解与面对的情感矛盾，很有现实意义。最值得夸赞的是男主妈妈，演得真好，那股出于泥土的表演，简直就是每个潮汕妈妈的缩影。整部电影最后的情感升华都在妈妈游杭州的vlog，非常真实、动情。
男朋友（潮州人）带我去看的这部电影，他说还挺好看的…整部电影的故事其实很简单，但还蛮真实的，小城市里的故事，爱情与亲情的牵绊，虽然故事挺平淡的，但还是莫名其妙地哭了（自己的泪点实在太低了！）没有太多的感同身受，但还是为他们的故事感到高兴与幸福。
估计外地人看了大呼想逃的程度？那个姑娘大概是太缺爱，要不然自己独美倒也自在。妈妈的形象其实还是蛮立体的，能干，强硬，比较封闭，但也愿意为了孩子努力改变。
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。
虽然导演和剪辑手法生疏，但故事讲得还不错，方言类型多一星鼓励 20220228
一部讲家庭伦理的潮汕方言电影，虽然小众，但意外的好看。剧情围绕在深圳打工的汕头小伙带杭州媳妇回老家见父母准备结婚展开，是国内比稀缺的乡村题材电影，呈现了一些潮汕的传统民俗，以及两代人对婚姻新旧观念的对抗。妈妈是全片塑造最完整的角色，特别是最后飞机上那句“儿子，妈妈是不是很没用啊”，整个角色升华了。缺点也很明显，开头有部分演员演得很夸张，显得有一些尴尬，后面主角戏份逐渐吃重才好一些。配乐很用心，英文片名“Back to love”更好，可惜排片少得可怜。
其实重点不在于年轻一代的情爱纠葛上，在于妈妈对传统观念的抽离（也是妈妈这个演员选的好撑起了整个情节）…而这个问题像是地域性又不是地域性的，这就会给人一种是在抹黑还是在写实的错乱感
这家人特别是爸爸妈妈演得真好！就像大家说的在这位妈妈身上仿佛看到了自己的妈妈，仿佛带入了自己的家乡与邻里，很多地方太有共鸣了，完全稀释了结尾飞奔机场的俗气与女主时而与整个氛围格格不入的气质。彩蛋里的那句“妈妈是不是很没用”在现实生活中我妈也说过一模一样的话wwwwww
语言不通的交流不通带来的喜感。
60 分钟后的剧情靠背景音乐各种加持推进
虽然导演和剪辑手法生疏，但故事讲得还不错，方言类型多一星鼓励 20220228
是一部发生在潮汕故事的全素人演的电影
看到片中间的时候，就在想千万不要是俗套的烂结局，一点也不现实。不过，也真有点害怕这片子有过于现实，还是会期待一个圆满的结局。
除此之外，还具有几分纪录片的真实鲜活和漫不经心。
曾经有经历和这个电影的剧情有重叠，可惜我的母亲和剧中的母亲太不一样了。所以结局完全不同，深刻地给我带来负面的影响。
随便点开消磨时间的电影 潮汕地方电影吧
最触动我的是拜神的那里，儿子找不到垫子，妈妈一进去就找到了，实在真实得过分。
妈妈是主角啊，唯一有人物弧光的角色。很多桥段很干很硬，工具人也很多，男主长得像仁科，女主长得像张碧晨。。。
电影本身还挺一般的，有一些小彩蛋，看得出来导演是资深影迷。
是一部发生在潮汕故事的全素人演的电影
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