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".
充满戏剧性和反讽的绝妙同性家庭喜剧，伪纪录片的形式、并行的多线叙事和蒙太奇剪辑都带给人新奇而愉快的观影体验。虽然目前在墙内还没有讨论的土壤，但同婚合法化之后如何以爱重新组织家庭(好多有趣的点——同性家庭长大的小孩常会遭遇的误解和认同问题、反复无常的司法制度对家庭的影响、遭遇情感危机的同性家庭以及同性家庭同样在遵守整个一夫一妻的异性恋传统家庭的道德规约），实在是一个非常有意思的问题。最后所有的荣耀都归“天父”了，真是偷懒的无解之解啊。看到“都是为你好”露出苦笑，看到“法拉达”一阵爆笑。
题材不错，然而只有妈妈演技在线&太drama了
我在这部电影中看到了我曾想象过同性爱情的样子
{★★★} 好疯好尴尬，好网飞的feelgood电影。虽说题材就是男同版的The Kids Are All Right，剧本仍有太多人工与强扭痕迹。但相对的，精彩的拍案之处也不缺--尤其是结尾的滴血验亲。总的来说，它想告诉你婚姻很难，无论你们是否特殊；但亲情能够活得比婚姻更长久。
看來看去都是一個play，毫無新鮮感而言。
我们的家庭建立在爱和诚实的基础上，婚姻是什莫，家庭是什莫，人和人的联系是什莫，有启发。他的蒂蒂真的有笑到！
突然发现男主的朋友好帅啊 眼镜掩盖了他的颜值
代孕家庭新式drama。Simon落下手机情人发来消息被丈夫发现时我还以为是要给他惊喜造成的误会，结果竟然真的是20年婚姻破裂。无论性向，婚姻和爱情到底意味着什么？就仅仅是在一起相守但忽然某一天发现自己不再懂对方不再爱对方了吗？为什么即便是真爱也如此脆弱？人类真的只能凭借家庭的亲情捆绑在一起吗？爱好像就是会结束，无论最开始或最顶峰你以为自己多爱对方。但我不能原谅出轨被发现的Simon竟然没有愧意反而恼羞成怒。他依然可以怀抱新欢度过一个个良夜，被抛下的Paulo却只能孤独地抱着枕头。
3.5.后同志时代从一种基于认同政/治的爱情神话转向了日常叙事，家庭的核心单位依然是爱，爱好大.👌
我的天 好久没看到这么难看的电影了 糟蹋了这么好的题材
这个故事告诉我们：同性夫夫也会中年危机为了出轨闹离婚鸡飞狗跳以及同性恋的儿子也可能是异性恋。and，蒂莉，真有你的（
3.5 题材不错，切入点也挺好双线并行，青春爱情的部分稍弱，但是整体还是有种抓马的感觉，最后的结局还算不落俗套，意大利语吵架加上丰富的肢体语言挺有喜感的。
同性也好异性也好
ohno…爱的千丝万缕是好名字，爱而不是血缘才使我变成如今的模样不是么？ 可是婚姻这么多年，只有孩子是羁绊又让我难过。突然在爱里失望之后，互相伤害不能让状况变好，但也没有解决的办法，它是单向的，这样想着又好绝望，哪天搞不懂对方了真难过。 是可爱好电影，意大利、攀岩、骑车，俏皮和年轻人tla，可爱，喜欢。
听俗的合家欢剧情，很多地方情感剧情都很突兀啊，还好最后没把夫夫写和好，要不然真是俗不可耐。
真心好看！ 2022.3.19 周六在家看完 是喜欢的同性家庭题材 也是第一次看这个题材的剧 里昂很帅哈哈哈哈 电影的风格也是北欧小清新的青春风 最后的结局有点遗憾 两个爸爸分开了 这可能也是真实的地方 很难会长长久久吧 但不影响这个家的温馨 看完很舒服
想了又想还是给四星，对电影来说确实有点不太正常了，对话剧来说更为适合。要是有一天舞台剧的场景能迅速变换，这样拍绝对没错。
最后一幕真的好有爱啊~原来代孕老妈演过猎魔人的Queen Calanthe 我说怎么这么眼熟~ 小男主和喜欢他的那位都很可哦 LOL 就是腹肌没什么铺垫啊 都没见做什么运动……腹肌成了标配吗 哈哈。 另外其实满赞同一个评论 这个故事换成男女夫妻也不会有什么违和感…同志夫夫只是让小男主和另一个男生的互动有了看点吧 时间多的可以看一下 :)
你总是不听 为了孩子好 家家有本难念的经。。。
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