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".
《青春变形记》的剧本要拍几版？咋了全美国的亚裔就只有青春反叛期的烦恼可以拍吗
1⃣️一小时左右便开始哭个稀里哗啦2⃣️即便还是传统“和解”故事的内核（我不喜欢），导演却天马行空赋予哲学/黄暴/无厘头的想象力，让故事爆发新奇的活力，导演玩疯了，这是创作者的热情与诚意，永远respect3⃣️电影给我一种解题之感，看主角一步一步往下做，导演害怕观众等待的答案不够震撼，于是拿来了甜甜圈/石头/塑料眼拔高4⃣️多元宇宙概念好火5⃣️挂念两块石头和树上的Evelyn&Joy娃娃6⃣️细品老公演技，不仅要帮助女主搞清状况，还要告诉观众目前是哪个宇宙的人格，演的太好。
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
每个角色关于"爱"的点都很感动
家庭和婚育价值观偏保守，但喜欢女性意识部分和母女关系部分，非常喜欢信息量爆炸的视觉奇观和呈现方式，属于现代工业的成就。
不要妄图让每一刻都充满意义 你就是你 总有人爱你
虽然本质还是东方人腐朽的家庭观，但是其中绚丽的浪漫主义实在太精彩。
后半段几乎全程泪目。那么多个营营役役的宇宙里 我们或许有着这样那样的身份 顶级习武者、高级饭店的厨师、热狗手指的女同、光芒万丈的女明星甚至没有生命特征星球里一颗石头——在这些的身份里 也会有失望沮丧——打不过别人 厨艺技不如人 和女朋友吵架 和初恋男人的爱情无疾而终 无法和女儿拥抱等等 当然 躲进黑洞百吉饼才能结束这些噩梦 所有的一切都会虚无 重归尘土 但是就像和Joy的对话 快乐时光本来就那么少——但再少我也会珍惜啊！就像老公再没用他也用自己的身躯挡在自己面前也会努力跟税官说情 这就是他的力量啊！回想这些年的点点滴滴 那些包容妥协 那些真心付出的爱和陪伴 那些讨厌的Google眼 其实都一直放在那里对我美好地微笑着 啊 原来都在重复着一个简单的道理：人 应该活在当下。PS杨紫琼演得真好！
我以为这是个要讲爱与理解的故事，但是母亲和女儿关系的来回拉扯，让我意识到，比起理解，父权社会下的女儿更想要尊重，在尊重她是个独立个体的前提下，还爱她，理解她，肯定她。真实的关系中哪里能划分得那么清楚，情感是复杂的相互交织的，每个人想要的，是自己爱的那个人爱自己，用着自己想要的方式。
引经据典，信手拈来，一次类型片的大杂烩，影迷梗天花乱坠，香港电影（尤其是动作设计）或成为最大的养料，作为一个曾经的香港影迷真的会感动。多元宇宙，荒芜世界，颓废人生，唯爱可cure。👩🏻👧🏻👨🏻👁👩🏻❤️👩🏼👨👩👧
6.7/10 前半部分观感其实还挺好，打戏也还不错，一场关继威复刻成龙办公室的打戏，一场女儿出现的花式首秀。但后面越来越飞，随着眼花缭乱的多重宇宙蒙太奇、重复的打戏、聒噪的说教，再难以让人进入。这片在后面走入极端，放弃故事A，大写故事B。对于普通观众，那些虚无主义和存在主义的哲思，在没有一个A故事的共情，是很难得到的。不过本片有很多迷影致敬，这倒给了影迷的一些满足，也仅于此。
另一个角度的电影语言。非颜值化的，西方化的，男性视角化的，主流电影逻辑化的表达方式。这样的表达方式其实在日本见过，但是并没有引起波澜。这部电影其实是用了好莱坞的语言叙述了一个亚（洲）文化。第一次我想给六分，是因为这样的电影不但有趣，而且具有很强的探讨空间。我喜欢导演的“天马行空”。作为女性，从故事上来看，不管是作为女儿还是妈妈的角度，都有很能共情的世界观。
批着科幻片外皮的伦理教育片，披着伦理教育片外皮的高华高潮片，恕我不能同香蕉们共情
就像是把《超体》提出的概念进一步深化God is a Woman绝不可被脚下的方寸所束缚，这一切只是瞬息，如露亦如电，而我们拥有的是广阔的平行宇宙，拥有无限的可能，总有一个自己在实现着完美
非常喜欢女儿的演员，特别贴合角色
果然，如果一个电影里有原生家庭，那么这个世界的灾难就是这个原生家庭导致的
创意是新创意，内核是老内核。 有种勤能补拙的感觉。
用宇宙来解决家庭问题，有前卫感，也有形而上的深度，但真的绕太大圈子了。感觉有点儿套大马拉小车。
这会不会成为影史上第一部以美国华裔家庭为背景的cult film ?
看哭三次，有我想看到的一切，简单（岩石世界甚至做成PPT），真诚（杨的一颦一笑都让我想到自己的母亲），还有各种傻得可爱的设定（菊花侠、热狗手指、料理浣熊），所谓“天马行空”不是要有多么超绝的想象力（平行宇宙早就烂大街了？！），而是它真的挖空一切心思把你逗笑又让你感到温暖，中间从银幕拉回影厅一幕是对这部电影最好的注解，我们何尝不是留恋着银幕上的平行世界，一遍又一遍地从中汲取“能力”以应对生活中的琐事，而最终也是最老生常谈的事实是，我们所能得到的最大的能力就是去爱
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