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".
真的，像《媽的多重宇宙》那種片子，我才不在乎它的主題/內核/故事價值呢，i just dont fucking care，我只想為它的cult氣、激情，創作力量同幻想舉手高呼。真的，什麼亞裔母女家庭有沒有刻板印象，結局算不算傳統又落入俗套，i just dont give a fuck。我只想知道製作團隊是磕了多少藥和菇才搞出那麼多東西，Whatever they had⋯⋯i would like to have some. 謝謝
把所有的调料都塞到一个锅里然后没有开火的味道。
唯一不同的是，你放下自我保护的屏障，你打开了心扉，你愿意去沟通，你愿意去努力，你愿意和解。
白人眼里最完美的和解：认清你是垃圾我也是垃圾我们祖上三代都是垃圾人类更是垃圾，只能在一次次的失败里反复沉沦，被小小的煽情打动后继续怀揣随时可能破灭的希望过狗屎一样的生活。但东亚亲缘关系远比电影里那些花里胡哨的穿梭要复杂得多，套用元宇宙概念只是诞生了新时代的流量密码。
年度十佳之三 从中看出太多东西了 但最重要的是如何为了一个具体的东西抛弃手握住的所有可能性 现代稀缺 但这似乎就是我们自己的父母 “因为一无所成 所以潜力所达可以做到任何事” 前期只是在铺垫如果女主可以 会怎样 反派因为可以所以怎样 但后来就变成了如果我无所不能 但我还是选择那个最确定的珍贵的东西 只能选择洗衣店和经历一切后选择洗衣店太不一样了/无论反派还是女主 每个人的愿望都是那么朴素 女儿想要母亲共情 从此不再孤单 丈夫用善意对抗世界所以被视为软弱 人们用看似或笨拙或狡黠的方式交流 只是想离身边人更近一点而已 而爱也被看作宇宙终极奥义 就像能力可以multiuniverse 爱可以普度众生 也可只分给特定的人/临近结尾女主靠怪癖驯服所有人给我看笑了 只要找对人 没有哪种爱是不对的
东亚人一生的课题：我值得被爱吗？如果我平凡，庸碌，不合规范，不达标准，我还值得被爱吗？世界上有那么多人，宇宙里有那么多我，这一个是如此渺小，当你有其他机会时，你还会选择爱我吗？父母是这种外部审视的最初最近最小单元，而爱是唯一的答案。
This really is the everything combo, it has everything that I wanted and things that I didn't know I needed. it's audacious, funny, original, technically dazzling, and yet, in the heart of it, spoke to me on such a deep personal level. Thanks for reminding me why I love cinema
真正的天马行空!以一个华裔移民家庭的矛盾与和解为故事核，进行了一次多元宇宙世界观下的哲学探讨。以存在对抗虚无，以善意面对混沌。在看见无数种可能后，我仍然选择和你在一起。
bgm又多又吵，女儿和老公不论是台词还是演技都烂到我难以忍受
感动？
折腾了一圈下来，中年女人终于接受了自己的女同女儿，无能丈夫，还有缺失的父爱，同样理顺了自己混乱不堪的前半生。喜剧动作版的《宇宙追缉令 The One 》，中年妇女危机版的《黑客帝国》，多重量子纠缠叠加态下的《平行宇宙》。准华人班底下的奇幻喜剧科幻家庭动作大片，想象力绝了，《超新约全书》下的全知全能的《Lucy》。
能看到这么好的电影是我上辈子修来的福气。
这个时代的哪吒故事不再讲割肉还母剔骨还父，而是让母辈发现压抑的自我，由果溯因。但这样的出口实在太过理想了，好像只发生在移民华人家庭。我们看着近身的故事圆满，却要对着破碎的现实饮泣。
很长，用如坐针毡形容不为过，除了杨紫琼以外的所有角色毫无演技可言，情节乱七八糟，美式鸡汤虽迟但到，带着脑子进场结果人都不给你任何思考余地的，躺着被灌输就行了。这就是电影的未来吗？
看得我好累……许多陈旧的、使用过度以至于廉价的要素堆叠，熬成了一锅大杂烩。这五分钟负责华裔生活，这两分钟负责报税勾起美国人情节，这两分钟负责交代多元宇宙设定，这三分钟负责讲亲子关系，这两分钟负责讲大尺度段子（买票进场怎么没人查我ID？），这三分钟负责《瑞克和莫蒂》式多元宇宙串台脑洞。剧情/科幻/无厘头/华裔/亲情/爱情/大尺度从四面八方，各加猛料，洒了两个小时鸡血，让人在电影院里觉得格外疲惫漫长。情节一路狂奔向多方和解大团圆，妈和女儿从来没有互相伤害的意愿，真是恭喜发财。只有石头的部分，能令人眼前一亮。
这不是电影，是命好题目的短视频集合。列好框架，一直打磨往里面加散装素材，最后扣题，太生硬，太学生了。
用丰富到泛滥的想象力讲述了一个东方式的团圆故事，用有限的经费把多元宇宙玩出了花。
开头处理得太凌乱了，后面因为被煽到所以看得有点生气。I’m so NOT prepared for this. And the mommy issues are so damn REAL. Fuuuuck. FUUUUCK. (Also I chose the BAGEL to avoid all the overwhelming stuff in THIS universe. I still believe I made the right choice. @永樂大戲院
8.杨紫琼，以往总觉得她长得苦演的苦，这次全靠她死撑
真正属于21世纪的电影，一切都是21世纪的，一部真正的杰作！太精彩了！绝对的时代精神！
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