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".
最后在飞机上的那一段看哭了，是真实的紧张。妈妈也很勇敢啊，当年也来深圳做过生意，拉扯3个孩子长大，自己在老家开店生意兴隆，还要负责家里的一日三餐，拜神求神。只是迫于生计，一直没出去玩过。不愧是潮汕的女人，太能干了。
真的好棒啊！我一直觉得我们的一些导演学的太多太杂已经连一个真实简单的生活故事就讲不好了。这个真的是电影不是家庭录影吗？太真实太舒服了。虽然还是不能理解潮汕的传统和排外，但也欣喜看到妈妈最后接受了儿媳。爸爸知道妈妈晕车冒雨去给她买了大概是话梅之类的东西。果然妈妈催着泽凯开快车去机场找姗姗下车就吐了。小舅和家乡的亲戚邻居也都朴实里带着幽默。泽凯和姗姗撑不下去在天台分手，泽凯一个大男人哭得稀里哗啦静下来还叫无言流泪的姗姗别哭。妈妈来了杭州连雷峰塔都要拜啊哈哈哈。总是想着拍出大排场大框架的东西，这才是我们的生活。
可能对于潮汕地区的人会比较有感触，于我个人而言感觉比较一般般，确实是比较真实，但是真实到像短视频，短剧那种，作为大荧幕的电影还是逊色了不少。剧情人物塑造都比较普通。
不懂潮汕话的人是get不到里面方言的笑点，很多土话现在的年轻人很难听到了。
国产院线年度最佳小成本
闽南歌曲是真的韵味十足 在描写人生的苦辣酸甜之时
单看剧情很好看，整体来说顺畅舒坦，烟火气十足，就是结尾突然来了大团圆，猝不及防，没有给转折，减一星，没看够
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。
故事不值一提，但可能太久没看到这种了，有种复古的诚恳，一堆陌生素人演员加强了这种亲切感，当然最值得肯定的还是密集的潮汕元素，当成旅游种草看吧……
都不记得上一次在国产影视里看到这种有缺陷但是真实可爱的角色是什么时候了，结尾那句“你妈是不是很没用”看的我突然鼻酸（给妈妈这个角色加一星）
大赞这个妈妈的演技，每个情绪的把握，台词，都很到位，这个演技吊打很多专业的演员，后面怼脸拍都没有怕。
诚意是这世界上最不值钱的东西。节奏稀烂，看到后面直想快进。不知道为什么，看这部片子的时候突然深切体味到了，“这是一个没有大师的时代”这句话。
男主的妈妈真是典型的潮汕女人，既要做家务照顾老人小孩，还要挣钱攒钱给儿子娶媳妇，最重要的年头拜到年尾
终于看完这部了，一直想看来着，毕竟整天在大厅看到宣传片，虽然片名有点说不出的烂片感觉，不过好在电影不让人失望。演员都演的很棒，这个爸洗澡时和舅父与女友都好搞笑，他妈和眼镜邻居大姐演技超棒，喜欢水鸡兄算命那，水鸡算命这个梗好。这部拍的真好，节奏合适，镜头比上部进步很大，后面那段杭州第一人称视角手机感切的也很合理。那几首插曲不错，玩具船长那段《兄台,你近来好吗?》好久没听了，要不是以前听过还以为是为这部电影作的哈哈哈。
也不知这算不算网大，概念不重要，重要的是我看到了一部真诚的作品，导演简介里也多次提到了“人戏合一”这个形容，真是这样，尤其对我们这种去过潮汕逛吃、但没有深入了解潮汕风土人情的“外省客”，感动之余也更有跟着影片去旅行的另一层收获。再有个收获就是潮汕方言的乐队《玩具船长》，虽然听不懂词，但和台湾的生祥、交工乐队那帮人一样类似的寻根民乐风格也是深得我心。是我愿意给5星的小成本影片。
排外是源自文化自卑，瞒慌是因为身份自卑。所有的矛盾不是因为愤怒，而是因为害怕，深植于根的传承被遗忘，内心深处对失去信任、陪伴与交流的恐惧。你害怕潮汕的枷锁，我害怕深杭的漂泊，但刻板印象的产生不应该由我们来承担。当排外变成容纳，当自卑变成真诚，就能从容骑着三轮车从奔驰身边经过，不剐蹭一点痕迹。带你去见我妈，剩下的，我们大家一起努力。对不起。
男女主演技太灾难了，很难不让人出戏，部分台词也过于刻意，全片cp感最好的竟然是男主的父母
语言蕴含着很多气息，方言电影更有味道。本土演员更生动，用得好。
虽然是杜撰，但比较真实，尤其演妈妈的朴素角色给全剧添不少彩
三星半。非常值得去电影院看的电影，潮汕方言并没有增加观影门槛，反倒增加了趣味性。电影在很多情节上的处理都很好，比如在母亲跟女朋友的选择上，就很现代性。比较大的缺点是，女朋友除了外省离过婚自身是完美的，设定比较工具人，缺少更为个性的设置。
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