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".
太东亚了，宇宙崩塌妈妈依旧只在意你是不是同性恋
抱歉。
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。
你问我为啥要对B级片这么苛刻……要真只有这点野心，那不要求多，至少要把片长控制在120分钟内吧？
本来以为是虚无主义的狂欢…但最后发现，还是要去爱去包容啊。从各个宇宙不停寻求母亲渴望共鸣，不也是本来心中那份渴望的体现吗？再参透了虚无，也改变不了那份渴望的真实，也改变不了我们的情感真实地存在…实在是太感动了。
欣赏不来。过于无厘头又把剧情切得稀碎不仅让人难以投入又没法完全放弃理解而娱乐不起来。选角和剧本在华人设定下互相绑架。一比较终于体会到星爷的功力了。
可能只有香蕉人会感动，毕竟伟大的白人眼里终于有他们了。
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。
前半截看得烦躁，后面开始飞起来，而且跟《未来学大会》和《摄影机不要停》不一样，这片子飞得太high了，画面和情绪不停猛冲又急刹车。体感好像坐过山车，甩得不舒服又在想加速、加速！（至于情节，一直都没进入不过也无所谓了）
平凡主妇逃出躯壳，平行宇宙如同cosplay，砍瓜切菜脑体开挂，眼花缭乱love&peace。剪辑和节奏好像怪怪的，闷闷的，有些凌乱的感觉，没爽透。
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）
杨紫琼自己被爱冲昏头脑跟男人跑了，一把年纪后埋怨老爹当年不拦着自己，埋怨丈夫没出息埋没了自己。
花里胡哨的塑料感，让我想起儿时崇拜的金句大师贾志新说过的，我不管她本质怎么样，这现象我受不了。我管这种电影叫海王电影，搞得太多，却不负责。
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。
亲情中矛盾的和解可不可以好好儿讲故事来表达啊，整这些花里胡哨的干嘛，都做石头了还追着女儿跑，我只希望天底下的女人都能做自己而不是妈妈和妻子。
咱东亚人的家庭关系真的就是紧张到，只能在美国电影里靠超能力和平行时空来解决的程度吗？
学渣理解中的多元宇宙就像被毕加索误读的汤姆森和爱因斯坦，徒剩满屏裂碎，可毕加索好歹对着追问敢于朝天放枪，这部电影却偏偏还要絮叨地自圆其说，连石头都不允许沉默（还奢谈什么爱的包容呢）。
影片有着瑞克和莫蒂式的天马行空打底构想，功夫类型作为动作戏份过瘾，成人化的幽默作为强势添加剂，内核则讲述家庭关系的沟通和理解。
▫️如果本片不把落脚点搞在假大空的夫妻感情和母女感情上，专注于多重宇宙，效果也许会稍稍好一点。落脚亲情的科幻很多，这套路本身没问题，但本片因为把所有时间都用于多重宇宙的炫技，我在任何一个宇宙里都看不到一点点这一家四口的亲情联系，只想让他们好聚好散赶紧拉倒，互相都是“没有你我过的更好”！！能打动人的亲情关系是要落在细微的生活里才能产生共鸣的，全片只靠最后一段假惺惺big words和两块PPT石头来说大家很相爱，对不起，不买账，这和我们熟悉的“这都是为你好，我很爱你啊！”没有区别！！
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