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".
诚意之作，希望往后能多一些这样的电影，少一些圈钱工业垃圾，没错，说的就是陈思诚。
如果我们能功成名就当然更好，但如果我们没有功成名就，难道她们就会觉得我们不配做她们的儿女吗？
知道妈妈也穿越回去的时候，脑子里只是反复闪过她攥着被撕成两片的结婚证说“你怎么就不相信我觉得我这辈子就是很幸福呢”，原来这句话不是23岁的英子说给19岁的晓玲听的，是43岁的英子说给自己女儿听的。我妈也是这样，一直把健康快乐放在嘴边。我多幸运啊，我是我妈妈的女儿。
这是这几年看到的国产影片中，从头到尾让人感觉最舒服的，这应该和导演及编剧是以贾玲为中心的女性团体有关系，在脱离了男性凝视，在不用女性当工具人的电影中，女演员的魅力被无限放大，不知道男观众如何想，但是作为女观众完全感受到了，那种仿佛闪着光的被超放大的魅力，把李焕英不只是作为母亲，更多作为一个飒利的女性的角色呈现在观众面前。
美术很棒，每一个布景都很用心，故事情节的跳跃感有点像韦斯安德森的感觉但又不完全是。
是广大投资人惊觉原来钱还可以这么捞！
电影的所有呈现，打四分其实就可以了，但是多出来一星要给到女导演视角下的女性主题，完全没有让人有任何不适（拉踩隔壁某探3）。没有刻意制造的笑点更没有刻意制造的哭点，一切都是很自然的发生了然后触动观众，这很难得。好喜欢贾玲，有谁会不喜欢贾玲呢。
贾玲这个片子在春节档其实还蛮能引起中老年观众的共鸣的（我妈就抢着要看这个片子）食堂、电视机、工厂这些元素都是他们记忆里元素，也能理解贾玲对于她母亲的情感，但是这个片子实在是有点无趣。
以为穿越是为了改变她的人生轨迹，竟然只是了却自己的遗憾。原来从天而降的大胖妞无论有多重，她都会毫不犹豫接住她的宝儿。裤子无论多破，她都会缝成小狗。今生母女一场，只能化作目送。以为她希望我有出息，原来她只需要我平安。以为她想换个女儿，原来她从没后悔。以为多了解她，原来还是误会了她。
贾玲现在不仅健康快乐，还出息了，焕英阿姨你看到了吗
嗯，观众们对喜剧的包容度挺高的，小品版就没看出个所以然。
多一星是给贾玲的。电影是爆米花电影，煽情也是爆米花式的，如果单独拎电影出来看，发现它只有段子式的笑点，对母亲角色的理解，也囿于“母爱无私”的讨论，李焕英变成了一个抽象的母亲，而不是形象丰满的李焕英。但是我不觉得这个电影是毒鸡汤，我理解是贾玲自身的局限。她所处的相声行业缺乏对女性“母爱”之外的叙述，她自身对母亲的印象可能就是停留在她刚大一的时候。贾玲自身的经历丰富了这个故事，我完全相信，她多年来对母亲的情感就是如电影所展示的，愧疚、深情。这些情感促使了电影的诞生，也让电影中对母亲的认识无法再进一步。换成其他人拍这个电影，都可能是煽情媚俗的，但是贾玲让人相信，她的情感是真挚的，不是自我感动的。
有三类人特别能被带入感动：妈妈、女儿、失去至亲之人，刚好三者我都占据了，几度哽咽。身为女儿，特别能理解贾玲对“有出息”的执念，就是想让妈妈开心，让她有面儿；身为母亲，特别能理解李焕英，只要孩子健康快乐就好；面对亲人离世，无力、无助、无奈，唯有回忆。必须五星支持。
戴口罩看这种电影太反人类了，哭得口罩都湿了，糊在脸上好难受
不好和烂是两码事啊！
实话实说我哭抽抽了 看见张小斐想喊声妈的程度
这破烂电影能成为中国电影史票房第二，是中国电影人，乃至世界电影人的耻辱。煽情、刻意、莫名其妙，什么感动，老子只想笑。
贾玲自我感动行，想推己及人，这么简单生硬可还行。陈赫可太油腻了，受不了。
不至于不至于，逻辑都没有，从电影层面来说问题太多
贾岛三观有点不太对劲，不止这一次电影里体现出来的。相信她的哭喊是发自肺腑的对母亲的思念，但电影本身的质量其实一般也是客观事实，一码归一码
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