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".
魏翔看得出是憋着劲在演的 剧里剧外都是终于有机会当男一 配乐的那首粤语歌很好听 完全反应了小人物的心声
女演员为摆脱黑老大纠缠，找演员扮演杀手介绍给黑老大，同时骗演员说是拍戏。双重误会下搞笑连连，看得非常开心。
5.0分。“麻花版”喜剧之王。称不上电影，更像是一出闹剧。
日版我确实没看过，但中国版，拍的索然无味，看得出来是一眼就能看出来的虚假高饱和度的特效，故意拍得像舞台剧一样，原版也有类似画面，意大利人交易和舔刀那两段倒是有点意思。
没办法进入设定，《一年一度喜剧大赛》里最差的那一档差不多
从开头的世界观的非现实布景就觉得本片大致没有什么逻辑可言，全片看完也觉得角色的行为设定矛盾太多了。作为喜剧片来看，笑点差点意思。魏翔的表演还是有一点用力过猛，台词功力比起沈腾还是有差距的。
主演不愧自己的名字，喂观众吃翔，这是电影吗？这就是一坨屎
还好片尾有“魏成功”的鸡汤:
我有点想看日本版了。
1、看完才发现本片翻拍自妻夫木聪主演的日本电影《魔幻时刻》。2、电影很有荒诞幽默的风格。灯光、布景的舞台剧风格明显，表情也比较夸张，也是话剧风。3、可能因为魏成功太想当男一号了，真的相信那没有摄影机也能拍摄的无稽之谈，别人就说他是傻子吧，以至于魏成功杀了哈维之后，吉米真把他当傻子逗。然而最后魏成功用自己当演员的经验，还是把米兰给救出来了。
很体面规范的喜剧片，一年下来又苦又累总得看部开心轻松的电影解解闷，该回收的线索也收回去了，荒诞的笑声让故事本身退居二线，也是笑过之后才能意识到周星驰的天才和珍贵。
没看过《魔幻时刻》
不带脑子看其实还行，但真的荒诞无稽到极致，想想智商都被摩擦。
魔幻时刻的几个著名片段演绎的都不错。片子最大的意义是，给了魏翔这个开心麻花团队常年绿叶一次几乎可以说是量身定制的机会。虽然机会是留给有准备的人，但有这个机会也是很不容易的。四星给努力的人。
缝合大杂烩，迷影梗乱炖，全是无聊的笑点堆砌毫无感情，没有丁点属于本土的价值思考和改编创意。
无惊无喜，一笑而过。倒是魏翔戏里戏外同步实现了担当男主角的目标这一点颇感神奇。
笑了，莫名，细品，差点什么！魏翔式搞笑功力不够！继续吧！
看完谁不说一句魏翔值得！
很奇怪这样的电影创作思路，夹杂很多电影梗却拍的丝毫不像电影，魏翔的大男主电影还是值得敬佩的，甚至整个电影的笑料也是有的，但真的不太好沉浸。原因在于《喜剧之王》打的底子，《魔幻时刻》的骨骼，《教父》、《荒野大镖客2》补的相，整个一个缝合出来毫无自我形象的电影这就是最大的问题。加上戏剧和电影不明的界限，对于一部电影的评价来说真的不太合适。甚至最大的笑料可能是剧中导演自然光、摄影机消失、无表演的表演的艺术追求理论瞎扯之后一副卑躬屈膝的样子，让人忍俊不禁的同时又有些悲观。
魏翔的表演与人物相得益彰。其他人也没有那么油了。
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