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".
Finally something new! 虽然有大量视觉奇观，但最最重要的设定还是用了亚裔中年女性做主角，这一改直接给故事提了三级。这真的是我们完全没有能力、没有市场、没有可能做出来的故事了。
屎尿屁的惡趣味是真無感，倆石頭是真浪漫；除了倆石頭外，其他平行宇宙中基本沒有母親和女兒兩個角色connection的戲，所以非要設定女兒是所謂的「反派」對我而言就純粹是硬來；劇作上的人物邏輯多數都讓渡給了花哨的場面和小趣味，包裝無疑是成功的。
杨紫琼真的是太厉害了，非常棒的表演，完全瓦解儒家家庭价值观，去他妈的多重宇宙，我要我想要的生活。
好叙事，好构思，好设计，烂道理。并非糟糕意义上的烂，而是那种一眼能见到底的结局和核心情感。“如果什么都没关系就好了，什么都没关系，那些一事无成所带来的愧疚感和痛苦，就都不会存在了”，女儿从来没有真正觉得过“Nothing matters”，那是一种奢望，也正因为没有办法真正说服自己，才会被愧疚感和压力逼疯到想要自我毁灭。爱是后盾，爱也是细软的针尖，经年累月地刺痛着你，即使你清楚妈妈真的永远“I‘m always here with you”，但这并不能避免一个孩子一生都可能活在“爱”附带着的压力和惭愧之中，且这种痛感时常会超过幸福感。二刷觉得这个结局对于女儿来说反而更加为难，现下“劫后余生”的温情达成了暂时的和解，以后呢？下一个陷入拉扯的时刻，又会不会想到母亲的自毁式付出而陷入无尽的愧悔呢？
很难说不是疫情以来最好的一部电影。脑洞大开，天马行空，但能将荒诞离奇的科幻情节、千奇百怪的想法与创意展现得有说服力且如此感人，已经足够不简单了。而信息量巨大的剧本、极度炫技的叙事手法、完全超现实的设定、超高难度的视觉效果与镜头语言、无数前后呼应的细节、人物情感的转折与延伸、对东亚式家庭矛盾的解读、对人生哲学问题的思考全部完美地汇集于一体，则更让本片看起来像是一部根本不可能被拍出来的电影。所有演员的发挥都好到不能再好了。
披着东亚的皮，核心还是美国人的情感价值，隔靴搔痒
太难看了 跟青春变形记一样难看 原谅我无法跟一个为了让亲妈完全接受自己是女同于是试图毁灭全宇宙的自私华裔共情 更何况这电影还拍得节奏混乱 画面又丑又脏 好莱坞真的找不到年轻的好看点的华裔演员了吗？
前半段确实不错，多元宇宙的表现形式很新颖，后半段感觉玩儿脱了，说白了还是家庭伦理的内核撑不起如此庞大的外衣，各个宇宙的支线铺垫不足显得十分突兀，炫技的成分更多，总的来说更像一部神棍片
BTW，这他妈才叫多重宇宙！蜘蛛侠三什么垃圾，真是验证了什么叫全靠同行衬托
好疯，好嗨，找到了当年第一次看杀死比尔的感觉，甚至更牛逼，因为它竟往昆汀里放进了李安，王家卫里放进了周星驰。
“很多人认为欧洲的过去会是亚洲的未来，事情或许是，亚洲的过去才是亚洲的未来...”
Rick and Morty版Turning Red
电影真的很棒，讲的大概就是multiverse里某一个“loser”麻麻某一天忽然可以从其他multiverse里的自己借助到力量，来对抗大反派女儿的故事。multiverse的设定很夸张时而紧张时而爆笑，布景服化道有一点赛博风。中间很担心电影太飞了，害怕结局拉跨。但是最终还是回归到了家庭里面的用爱和empathy击倒黑暗的主题。尤其是妈妈和女儿之间的冲突，作为亚洲家庭长大的小孩真的太能relate了。很喜欢导演的定位“It’s about a family, and Asian is an important part of it, but the feelings are universal”
Shhh... Just be a rock
像看了一场真人版Rick and Morty，极致地反传统。导演像是个磕了药的任性创作者，创作了一个以“多元宇宙”高概念串联起的港式无厘头功夫喜剧，把无数个巧思融入其中；看似格局大开，实际上依然有意地收束在了东亚家庭的琐碎无华的日常生活之中。这种高概念和小格局的反差感极为工整地塑造了本片的幽默气质：谁能想到，一个不再有票房吸引力的少数族裔中年女性演员也可以主演一部充满《超体》式科幻设定的高投资商业电影，而且这部电影看起来似乎还只是一个只能在艺术院线小规模上映的家庭片。导演实在鬼才，片中除了脑洞大开的巧思之外，还有许多解构式的迷影致敬，并在结局中把那些炸掉大脑的高概念都收束到一个足够治愈的家庭母题，令全场笑到数次鼓掌之后又一起为之动容。
喜欢的人可能会很喜欢。
怀疑和好评们看的不是一部电影，每一分钟我都想问这是在干什么，乱七八糟。还以为我的电影审美和幽默感出问题了。导演是不是看过《叶问4》。我就是这个宇宙的杨紫琼，我是成功之母。华裔导演用轻松的笔触去写父权虎妈，最后也就囿于这一方阴影了。妈就算成了超级英雄还要逃避女儿的追杀，爹软弱无存在感还得硬写闪光点，东亚女真可怜。
上次有这样的观影体验的电影还是汤浅政明的《心理游戏》······ 如果国内能上映的话去支持一下。
明明注意到并点明了一切，却还是不断地滑落向无数年来已经被验证无效的答案。
真的，像《媽的多重宇宙》那種片子，我才不在乎它的主題/內核/故事價值呢，i just dont fucking care，我只想為它的cult氣、激情，創作力量同幻想舉手高呼。真的，什麼亞裔母女家庭有沒有刻板印象，結局算不算傳統又落入俗套，i just dont give a fuck。我只想知道製作團隊是磕了多少藥和菇才搞出那麼多東西，Whatever they had⋯⋯i would like to have some. 謝謝
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