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".
任何人的组成，都是千丝万缕的爱拼凑在一起才诞生，前因后果并不重要，如何下去也不重要，你我才重要。对于很少看同影的来说，都很少去想过这样的家庭，也会有家长里短的矛盾，甚至更多，我想过两个人都是99%的奇妙设定，却也不及0.01%的戏剧冲突。另外三个孩子之间不也挺好磕的吗，已经是我2022的十佳之一了。
我们还在为同性合法权益苦苦挣扎😁
绝佳的光影布景构建出空旷冷峻的舞台效果，悲剧气氛有了，但搭配这样一个血腥的故事，多少有点奇怪
这个男孩 值得拥有这个世界上所有的爱
我好喜欢哦，一部主流电影气质的作品。从《爱你西蒙》之后，同志电影越来越亲切了。
唯一的亮点可能就在于剧情设定，难得一见有关同性情侣家庭离婚争夺抚养权的伦理题材，然而整部电影却一直处于严肃和喜剧抓马之间徘徊的尴尬地带，对人物的刻画十分粗糙，毫无新意，演员的演技也过于浮夸缺少细节
【C+】说实话，就算把其中的夫夫家庭换成夫妇家庭，剧情也不会有太大改动。一贯的家庭狗血抓马戏，LGBT元素的注入是它唯一的创新点。
我喜歡這樣的電影小品，一個半小時，節奏很快，充滿歡樂，立意很好，故事也足夠現實。
原本就生活在有两个父亲的家庭里。结果其中一个出轨，俩闹掰后发现其中任意一个都和自己没有关系，自己是生育自己的女人和失去的前夫的孩子。
看了bts才知道这片子用了这么多VFX来做，甚至把shadow涂在了set上面…如此德国表现主义，牛哇
共同的经历和情分造就了人之间的联系。但我还是很不喜欢 出轨是两个人造成 的说法。
PS：先进的意呆利也还在双父的出生证明定义上这么纠结嘛，看来平权之路依然任重道远啊~
片名取得好啊，爱就是这样，又复杂又真挚
巧妙的意式喜剧，恰如其分的真实，温暖中的感动……尤其作为LGBTQ的一员，很有很有共鸣！（哎，也许有生之年没法见到在国内能有如此的“抓马”和崛起）🏳️🌈🤟🏻🏳️🌈
爱才是千丝万缕的羁绊。
我咋就这么喜欢给轻松的电影打高分呢？因为我是个不轻松的人…其实是很一般的电影昂，可看可不看
算是比较套路的同性家庭剧，探讨的问题也是框架内，还好演得有灵气。
被真诚、热闹与温暖包围的“《两个爸爸》”，青少年成长抓马与家庭喜剧并行；“家”会是什么，什么造就了“我”，这个故事或许交出了远比设置更丰富饱满的答案。
学校因为疫情封校，在寝室里断断续续地一天看完了这部电影。可爱的意式抓马，恰到好处的节奏，一边看一边感谢编剧的才华。三个少年在浴室里那段真的钛好笑了。中间有很多亮点，装得进步实则保守的自命不凡的女士，还有surrogate议题，"你的家人和我们的一样烂，回到现实吧"，爱与诚信万岁！如果原本相爱随着时间变得形同陌路，就放手吧，潇洒。维系人之间关系的不是血缘，而是爱
我既讨厌人类喜新厌旧的动物性，又依赖人类相互羁绊的社会性。
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