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".
挺不错的方言电影，没有国产电影的尬戏通病，是老百姓自己的日子。
另外有趣的是，一个典型的男权视角故事，镜头对准的却是两个女人，可以看到一个女人是如何主动承担起维系男权家庭关系，另一个女人如何被这种“担当”挤压，这个设置，恰巧掩盖了主创糟糕的性别意识，大大减少观影不适感，就如借助县城文化呈现，减少了贫瘠的电影质感带来的影响，反而透露一丝鲜活
动作戏加一星鼓励。。。大家都说剧情简单，这哪是简单？这剧情 简直是降智，全员人物单薄 太过服务于剧情，潦草，太多地方为了装而装。
很久没有看过武侠动作片了，颇有之前大手笔古装电影的精良制作与细节。故事简单紧凑，矛盾冲突围绕“公道”展开，多线背景并行却不混乱，侠义的表现也很热血，服化道、场景、调色都十分耐看，雪景和雨景两场打戏作为一部网络电影可圈可点，过瘾！
差点被片名劝退系列，没想到成片这么自然坦荡。还是能看出制片粗糙的部分，但也正因此感受到了导演的大胆和选人慧眼：启用素人的风险并不在于专业素养的缺乏，而是人的秉性和阅历是否贴合情节。事实证明浸润过潮汕本土民俗和闭塞婚姻观环境的人，释放出来的情感和默契胜过一切所谓的演技教科书。作为一个从小成长于类似骑楼民居的岛民，拜神烧香流水席和祈福，还有片中母亲的人物形象，像极了以前每年寒假回老家，我娘人前亏我李草包，人后说我是李老师的样子。只有爱，会带来一地鸡毛的家，也能修复一地鸡毛的家，人性的卑微和美丽皆源于此。 P.S. 玩具船长的客语bgm是真好听又精准啊
有几个场景仿佛看到了8，90年代香港武侠片江湖感的残影，夕阳，瘦马，野火，酒壶，残剑，漫天飞雪，孤独旁白，徐克，李仁港的既视感，但故事什么的就真的一塌糊涂。但网大做到这种水平已经很惊喜了，比某些上星剧的制作都精致。
很简单的一部电影，没有什么剧情，也基本没讲什么东西。但是看得我好感动，眼泪哗啦哗啦的。可能是“妈妈”太过自然太过真实了
优点和缺点都特别明显的电影，但这个电影的质量相比网大有点屈才了，可以走院线的。故事很简单，而且有点模仿座头市，谢苗的演技略微弱了点，体现在台词上功力上。武打设计真不错，谢苗的身手挺好，然后导演最后雪战那块儿确实有想法，也表现的相当不错。那个女的设计很失败，感觉就去送了个死，而且死的还挺莫名的。不过这个电影确实可以看看
最后一场，一人一马，雪中对话的场景，简直不要太美了！凛冽、粗犷、残酷又热血！
虽然很多地方也显得幼稚，故事简陋至极，倒是整体不错，动作部分还有惊喜，谢苗是个好演员，在这种网大里有些埋没人才了
精悍+精良+精致，古风武侠片，各种武器+弓箭，宇文家设计得更像日本黑手党派，还有一个日式族徽。PS：没想到长大了的谢苗这么丑。#20220612
之前看到评价说很直男啥的，还有些担心。看完发现是多虑了，男主的确挺直男，但整部电影的气质还是真诚细腻的。而且感觉男主在整部电影中并不重要，只是文化冲突的边境和支点，是婆媳关系的催生者。映后送的周边红糖肚脐饼真的很好吃！
唐山事件后再看简直绝了 这就是给她一个公道！
“用你酿的酒洗你的血海深仇”，不是很复杂的故事，但拍得很精细，剧本、节奏、运镜、取景都看得出功夫。3.5星片。
怎么说呢，把那个从剑戟片到新武侠年代的东西几乎是原汁原味地翻出来，简直近乎于一种文化保全。表演略寒碜，但胜在干净利落，无论是节奏还是动作。
3.5 瞎子的过去可以再丰满些 虽然故事线简单 但还挺好看的 人走江湖 行侠仗义 瞎子看得比谁都清
讲方言的电影还是可以多一点。故事很平淡，充满生活气息，美中不足的是感觉妈妈的思想转变有点快，没太多衔接
喜剧片他问你为什么没剧情，恐怖片他问你为什么没剧情，动作片他问你为什么没剧情，但为啥故事片他不问你为啥没喜剧没恐怖没动作呢？豆瓣er就是这个贱毛病，一帮不懂啥叫类型片的沙雕想要又要还要…网大拍成这样，干净利索镜头语言还到位，要什么自行车？一个团队你明明看到他的诚意了，你还问，你拍的还不如黑泽明好看呀！我都替导演心累…为了一碗酒的恩情，在乱世中行侠义道，这不就是中国传统武侠的浪漫吗？哪单薄了？
还原我们潮汕家庭的婚姻观念，他妈简直跟我妈一模一样
拍的真好～最喜欢最后妈妈在飞机上陷入沉思的镜头！在那一刻我仿佛听见她内心的千言万语，些许激动，又些许伤感无奈。忙活了这一辈子，竟没有坐过一次飞机，“是不是觉得你妈啥也不晓？”太真实了，太触痛了。
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