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".
而当我回头时，幸好那座叫做【家】的岛屿还在。
之前隐约的预期是一部动作片，实际上情节也确实由动作推进，只不过设计和执行都稳定维持在广播体操水平，眼花缭乱只是因为用了一些MV惯用手法拍了个烂俗平行宇宙概念，可怕的是概念所托举价值更加烂俗，无厘头和低俗坏品味还能提起点兴味，但毫无节制的慢镜头和那些人故作深意的絮叨实在让人忍无可忍。
摆脱科幻本身就是一个家庭剧，但是家庭剧的内核却完全没有被展现出来，科幻的部分有几分哲学的味道，回归到内核就比较单薄了，爱与自由就是美国电影经常为我们展现出来的部分，所以不是很惊艳，但是杨紫琼都60多岁了，还那么能打，老一辈演员还是很厉害的
看看隔壁Morbius, Lost City, Uncharted之流，票房扑街的背后是灵感的枯竭。这几年好莱坞热衷于拥抱各种主义、各种套路、各种公式，已经逐渐被反噬。很久没有在大荧幕上看到这种喷薄而出的创意和天马行空了。把东方元素演绎的又丝毫不做作，把简单内核描绘的丝毫不刻意。如果今年能有比这更好的片子，那该是得有多好。
不想过多评价，只想说，这得是多么痛苦的人，在人生中有多么后悔的人，才能写出和拍出如此的本子。这两个导演的前部作品瑞士军刀男，其实也是用这种荒诞来表现生活中巨大的痛苦。但是他们最终选择和生活和解，但这个世界上有多少是和解不了的啊
私奔也会离婚，父亲也会厌弃。也许只有母亲，给予你从诞生到死亡所有的爱意。来自妈妈的爱，帮我对抗饥饿，对抗迷茫，对抗伤害，对抗虚无。
结束在两块石头那里就好了。
相当搞笑也相当感动，最后20分钟响起Claire De Lune的时候哭了。即使没有你的宇宙我会过得更好，我依然欣然前往你的宇宙；即使时间尺度上一切都会奔向虚无“nothing matters”，我也愿意和你在一起，那些你我存在的宝贵时光是有意义的。作为厨师、歌手、演员，作为洗衣店老板娘、作为母亲的每一个宇宙，都涉及到至少两代人的纠葛与和解，女儿的lesbian和热狗宇宙中母亲的lesbian桥段非常有意思。横亘宇宙的爱，在没有生命的岩石宇宙都能义无反顾地陪女儿坠崖。
看看隔壁Morbius, Lost City, Uncharted之流，票房扑街的背后是灵感的枯竭。这几年好莱坞热衷于拥抱各种主义、各种套路、各种公式，已经逐渐被反噬。很久没有在大荧幕上看到这种喷薄而出的创意和天马行空了。把东方元素演绎的又丝毫不做作，把简单内核描绘的丝毫不刻意。如果今年能有比这更好的片子，那该是得有多好。
很少有这种越看越想放弃的电影，平行宇宙不是什么新鲜概念，里面每个人都很惊风，每隔五分钟就瞎打一通，有人说这是ta这辈子看过最好的电影，真想不通。。。
我舍友说，在另一个平行宇宙，郭敬明导演拿了五次戛纳大奖。
1.让人时而笑死又时而哭晕的电影。虽然收尾和落脚点有些简单俗套，但不得不说，只有通过电影或游戏媒介方能生成这种将丰足逼真的感官刺激与超绝出尘的灵性领会（相当于同时不断入世又频繁出世）相交融的极致体验。2.本质上是部哲学电影，除了存在主义，还可联系到莱布尼茨（“可能世界”或曰“最好的世界”理论）与尼采（伦理学意义上的”永恒轮回“假说及”超人“理想），最终其实还有佛教哲学——在这个角度上，尽管本片同[宇宙追缉令][无姓之人]等都属于多元宇宙电影，但更似[超体]。3.平行宇宙与超高速平行剪辑的冲击力、震撼感相得益彰，信息量极大。4.小概率的古怪举动，够无厘头。5.亚裔移民生活与代际问题同[青春变形记]，致敬[2001][花样年华][一代宗师]。6.Please, be kind. Especially when we don't know what's going on. （8.8/10）
疫情后最好的商业院线片。其实本质跟《信条》是一路的，用各种信息过载来营造奇观，内核却保守到可能连主创自己都没想明白，很多设定纯靠嘴说也绝非上策。但相比诺兰这种大片模范生，两位Daniel在A24的庇护下能玩得更cult，迷影梗应接不暇（就连丈夫的演员都是当年《宇宙追缉令》的副导演），130分钟亳无尿点更是优秀。最后，希望杨紫琼杀爆明年颁奖季。
我个人是极其不喜欢的。
解决母女关系就是解决多元宇宙危机，像是个Rick and Morty大电影。前半部分的热闹新鲜劲，在后半部分呼唤爱的煽情段落中迅速瓦解，多元的“混沌”怎么过渡到母女单一的“爱”上，R&M体量下Summer大声嚷嚷就能交待的事情，这里用整个第二幕来圆，太容易令人疲惫了。（第一眼看见那个butt plug奖杯就知道它肯定会被塞进某人的butthole
大家是不是对讲“爱”的电影PTSD了？塑料小眼睛才是最重要的呀！看见每个时间和每个空间不同的自己，都同样面临问题；看见每个人，敌人与爱人，都有自己的生活中具体的所爱之物。我想这不算空谈了，它讲了非常具体的事儿。让我们少谈些主义，多理解别人！是吧。
太难看了 跟青春变形记一样难看 原谅我无法跟一个为了让亲妈完全接受自己是女同于是试图毁灭全宇宙的自私华裔共情 更何况这电影还拍得节奏混乱 画面又丑又脏 好莱坞真的找不到年轻的好看点的华裔演员了吗？
导演的自嗨宇宙。核心创意像《千年女优》，母女关系的部分处理的毫不打动人，中间还夹杂着毫无必要的导演恶趣味。
不喜欢前面它玩的大部分花招，除了变石头的那个够“大道至简”，其他的对我来说太无厘头了些。最后有被缠绕的情感关系煽到。母亲说，如果我没有私奔会更好。女儿说，如果你没有生下我会更好。她们一定是这样又爱又恨的状态，控制、依赖、焦虑通通指向那个不敢面对失败的、懦弱的、自卑的、害怕被抛弃的自己。但这种煽情同样让我感到愤怒。对我来说母女关系就是一滩烂泥沼。爱的尽头也不是理解，是绑架。所以果然还是应该选贝果啊！
❤️本来害怕期望过高会失望，结果还是被导演的脑洞折服了，“两个关”导源执导过《瑞士军刀男》，所以还是那种疯狂重口的调调～电影分级是R级，不太适合小孩子，大家做好心理准备哈哈哈
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