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".
要素过多，发腻得很，编剧和演绎都很奇怪，拧得慌不对劲。
开头的几分钟就营造了一个太过美好的世界，为后面的催泪打下了优秀的基础 || 大陆电影的家庭感动；和台湾、美国电影的家庭感动，很不一样。说明大家的生活的确很不一样。在这一点上，我还是更东方，我深受大陆、台湾的电影感动。
其实很多场戏拎出来都还可以，但是揉在一起就特别别扭。无论是角色本身的矛盾，还是徐帆的表演方式，都很难让人有所触动。剧情老套到就算有人说这是十年前的电影我也会信，甚至可以说更贴切十年前的那些理念。
可怕，太可怕了。放弃事业生子是很伟大，但请不要宣扬成母爱就应该这样，而且这完全属于个人选择而不是儿女的选择，不代表她牺牲过就可以不尊重孩子。这妈妈对女儿的控制欲太让人窒息了，这种行为是因为生病就可以直接抵消成关心和爱的吗？当众直接扎辫子，随便翻手机，不打招呼就上单位，这真的有一点点尊重女儿吗？这么强势结尾还在煽情说妈妈想想你过自己想要的生活，你恨不得直接自己替女儿活了好不好？更恶心的是，最后女儿居然认同了，还以同样的所谓为你好的言辞去说服舅舅。另外，徐帆讲话真的太烦人了，给原本就惹人厌的剧情更添了几分嫌弃，这真的不是声音不好听，是她不好好说话，每句话都要带着超级嗲的语气词，一句话说出来总要哼哼唧唧的，从她和女儿吵架时候严肃让女儿站起来的那场戏能看得出来她会好好讲话，只是不愿意。
母亲为了丈夫，弟弟和女儿操劳一生，为了他们好也害了他们。一定要理解上一代母亲的选择，也希望这一代女性能选择自己想过的生活。
宝贝啊，妈妈等不了。（以死相挟）
情节很煽情，哭点很多，同场的几个妹子哭的妆都花了。但是一个认为我是你妈就可以对女儿好无界线的妈妈有时候也是非常让人窒息。翻垃圾桶，翻床头柜，真的很让人无语，有的弯路孩子要走，当妈的也是没办法的，成长还是要自己经历。所有冲突的解决，就是妈妈得癌了。里面没有作为父母的反省，从头到尾只有一个我怎么都没错因为我是为了你好的妈
很工整很规范，该冲突的时候冲突，该煽情的时候煽情，但确实哭不出来。
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或许有一天我也会看不了这种题材的片子
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。
又是一部中国式的催泪电影，类似PPT一样的精准投放密集泪点，只是把我们擅长的家庭电视剧浓缩到了2个小时的影片，留下的都是精华，却缺乏真实的质感，好的的皮囊千篇一律，走心的灵魂万里挑一
一个非常好的反例，导演如何毁掉一个最佳女主角的。
泪点很多，哭得稀里哗啦，好久没有这样了……
和小红花如出一辙的煽情戏码让观众的眼泪如韭菜一样被割得哗哗的。但我依然很纠结湘爱明明是湖南菜！！！
一眼看去还以为是翻拍的阿莫多瓦的《关于我母亲的一切》，结果纯粹蹭热度，实际上是翻拍韩国的《世界上最美的离别》
这个片子就是让你哭了吧，母亲永远是所有人的痛点，一旦失去都是痛苦的。尽管表演上还是感觉有些用力，以及对于男性角色的塑造不太认同，但母女亲情的主题，很容易让我们产生共鸣。
他被选中去南极的那天，发现自己环孕了，她选择了我
假期回家那一段母女戏挺写实的，简直就是我妈本人。现在我也拎包回京了哈哈哈哈哈哈哈。
徐帆为什么演这种电影……这种家庭教育下也能养出当小三的女儿、、为了催泪而催泪，什么时候女性才能活出自我而不是绑定歌颂母爱
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