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".
此片想要表达的观点无疑是有时代性的，但还是太过悬浮，无论是女儿的宇宙虚无主义困境还是被草草带过的母女矛盾都不够让人产生共鸣，“be kind” “feeling”的表述太过浪漫主义，“Be kind”在某种程度上是解决自己生活问题的一种方式，但真的可以解决人与人的冲突吗？“feel life”“feel love”就可以解决虚无主义的问题吗？结尾在车外的一段对话，本以为母亲会说出之前没说出口的那句I’m sorry,但却是一段说教 一段非常不生活化的独白。总的来说是一部优秀但过誉的娱乐片
感觉是把能想到的元素都用上了，中间还cos了一段王家卫（虽然剧情挺晋江的），一度要被打戏看到疲累时，又进入下一个温柔的反转，一度以为要和解时，又进入下一段关系的激辩。完全因为最后母女之间的对话，让我多打了一星，because敢相信我一个30多岁的人，现在依然就像电影这样和我爸不断争论，然后往往以我的一句“你别管我了”结尾，然后俩人互相沉默，看到这里我真的爆哭。但是过一段时间，对方遇到什么问题，又像没有发生过一样，继续互相照顾，然后继续争吵，然后继续和解，真的就是不断地这样在重复（前提是我已经不再跟父母同住，但每隔一段时间还是会见面）。虽然一开始觉得编剧把结局写成大和解，太不现实了吧，现实中站在各自立场的双方，怎么可能和解？但写到这里，我发现这个结局不过是阶段性和解，过一段时间后，电影会重演。
既有华人的文化内核，也有普世的价值关怀，脑洞更是足够大。但最最关键的问题在于，形式喧宾夺主到了近乎失控的地步了。
2个小时的电影，看了5次才看完，看一次睡着一次，就神奇，结尾强行说教也是大可不必，真的，爱的方式千千万万，放过彼此吧
这是想象力的胜利。真正意义上的疯狂多元宇宙，笑与泪与脑洞齐飞，大写的天马行空，电影视听体验的新巅峰。奥斯卡明年如果不考虑本片，就是瞎了眼了。
母女情更是让人拍案叫绝
我欣賞它讓中年亞裔主婦成為主角和對東亞家庭關係做出了探討的努力（略）等等等等⋯⋯但，電，影，本，身，實，在，太，老，土，了。從多元宇宙要素到無厘頭到致敬薈萃到畫面形式，沒有半點新東西，除了前面說的立意讓人敬佩，其他真的很難吹。
尽管看过上万部影视，这部备受我期待的《瞬息全宇宙》里那些应接不暇、脑洞大开、天马行空的想象画面依然让我感到惊艳，为眼花缭乱的特效与剪辑点赞，通过电影体验非比寻常的超现实是我喜闻乐见的观影趣味。片中还有一些不只是把我逗乐而是令我哈哈大笑的段落：1.抢塞肛门的情节（前面看到奖杯的外形就邪恶了下，没想到后续竟延伸出如此设计）；2.真人版“料理浣熊王”的亮相；3.SM戏码；4.杨紫琼亲自模仿“料理鼠王”；……P.S.：男主角竟然是曾经观看《夺宝奇兵2》《七宝奇谋》时惊喜过我的关继威！& 虽然略显杂乱的故事剧情有些影响爽度，但我个人整体观感还是胜过《瑞士军刀男》。—— 搜啊找啊，总算知道片中石头段落让我联想起的动画短片了，是《轮盘记》。
太东亚了。并且母女关系太特殊了，是所有人际关系中最特别的（母子、父女根本比不上，因为母女关系还包括同为女性的双重互虐困境），因此落点在此太走捷径了。我妈妈有东亚妈的一些相同问题，但与女儿冲突时还会是最后妥协的那个。她是个好妈妈。所以你只要是讲母女关系，剧情演技稍微在线点儿，我就能哭给你看。另外你换再多个平行宇宙也逃不过报税。
脑洞很大，内核很传统，但不妨碍被平行宇宙里不变的爱戳中。
期待过高我的问题，当然杨紫琼早就值得有一部电影成为一代华人传奇女星。但是这部里面融合了太多元素(很多个人觉得没必要的花哨点）+东亚家庭文化+理解的爱拯救世界这个套路确实不是我的菜了。
这种片能写出一大堆文字影评的人是多么主旋律 。什么东亚家庭最美和解，什么母女隔阂伤痕，向往虚无的女儿，存在主义危机？社会学名词谁说得多谁就赢吗？逼出这些陈词滥调简直是影评界的申论。
D— / 如若只是如同Tik Tok+漫威+混剪视频式的娱乐花招以及多元宇宙的商业设定，或许还能享受其中的愉悦性质。诚然，除去同一剪辑手法无节制的滥用让人头痛外，还强行把知音式的鸡汤内容用走马观花的奇观来包装，石头对话那段cheesy到头皮发麻，母对女的挽救是毫无秘密的事实，依旧是再怎么天花乱坠却顺拐到没有一丝秘密的电影。其实不是不能把“假大空”的本真情感讲好，看看「云图」。
女性版《了不起的狐狸爸爸》；结局类似《喜宴》扣一星；香肠手支线把我眼泪笑出来了，但又把税务局大妈支线串起来，也是很绝
有点惊喜，虽然本质上是一个母亲的自我审视，但其丰富的脑洞和精彩的视听语言还是觉得眼前一亮，石头的那个段落堪称精彩。不过这种优点也是缺点所在，后面剧情的疲软反而觉得有些审美疲劳了
对着两块大石头哭是我今年最离奇的观影体验了（
中间节奏一度慢了下来，我还以为要崩了，结果结尾又燃起来了。主题老套，梗也不新，但结合的非常专业，很圆润的把看上去不太适合商业片的一些人物和背景托起来了。不过真的还是长了点… 中间炫技部分感觉到导演们玩儿的太嗨收不住了。
三段式：与自己和解，与家人和解，与社会和解
搞了那么大阵仗，还是一百年前电影表现的那个命题，亲情与和解，彻头彻尾的好莱坞电影，与所谓中华文化毫无关系，哪怕是说普通话和广东话时的口音。
是谁前半段目瞪口呆，后半段边哭边笑，看完又哭了半个小时停不下来？哦，是我啊。各种意义上直戳我内心，看完想坐着高铁冲回家里抱抱我妈妈。
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