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".
和室友一起看的。去电影院之前就预料到了，果然很烂。唯一有被笑到的就是艾伦把轮椅推过了。真的想不通为什么要看这个呢？后悔没去看《花束般的恋爱》……
有笑有梗有迷影，但没有那种高级的东西，怎么说呢？比如《喜剧之王》悲剧的内核。
这里有个问题，就是原版里的杀手演员，可从来没拿自己当小丑。所以，喜剧的底色就更加悲凉了。
2.5 前半段大致按原作拍了个表面，后半段开始胡编乱造，显得混乱，也没有高潮，这让我的期待落空。看完不知道电影表达了什么，不过确实有点好笑，但这笑点不是剧本自身引发观众忍俊不禁，而是单纯靠演员的表演和台词刻意来“逗”乐观众，所以我阅后即忘，也说不出哪里搞笑了。私心来说，看着本片再想起原作的妻夫木聪、深津绘里，这落差让我笑不出来。
嗯 再一次印证了普通人不要硬拗美女人设 会翻车
开心麻花/万万没想到喜剧中的插科打诨抖包袱抛网络梗，既利又弊，就像闹剧，大闹了大笑了，回味中却少了一些深度。
对比日版原片，增加的几个笑点都很成功，好笑又不影响情节推动，但好笑却没什么内涵，而原片却不失内涵。目前看来，国产翻拍片的天花板仍是《误杀》。
魏翔一个人在撑5星，马丽比在其他电影里稍微更真挚一点4星，小黄的硬坳实在顶不住…1星，艾伦最后喊的“说谁瞎呢！”4星，平均——3.5星。
各种恶俗煽情拼贴。令人作呕的抠图特效。情节人物，真的是连班级出的小品水平都不如。继星爷之后，就再没有触碰心灵的喜剧了吗？
再就是电影质感不佳，可以说是不好了，画面给人的感觉，就是不实，浮在表面上，陈明昊或是全场最佳，有成为老戏骨的潜质，但是或要摆脱固有人物身份（参考《扬名立万》里的他）。
黑帮太儿戏了吧，没头没尾，还是有点小品的赶脚…
这种逗笑人的方式要比用段子好多了，密集的致敬也看的我很开心，悲剧的内核正好与现实中的魏翔联系在了一起，更能打动人，总的来说挺喜欢的，比想象中好很多，感觉能上7分
迷影情意结应该是核心了，雨中曲、教父等等。但处理得非常生硬，就生搬硬套，缺乏韵味。喜剧的部分有少许可乐的地方，但大部分时候即使笑了也是硬咯吱人。黑帮的部分悬浮。有关人物和感情的部分和迷影情结的问题类似，生硬，好像直白的分段小学生作文。
这部电影需要人多坐在一起看，笑果更强，确实好笑。接下来看看《魔幻时刻》，会不会更好笑，哈哈哈哈哈😄
适合放b站让人刷各种电影梗弹幕一键三连的片子。
尬演片，笑点没多好，倒是看了导演不停的致敬，cue其它电影。你这是在秀自己的阅片量吗？
大过年我只想不带包袱不被教育不被鼓励的没心没肺的笑一下，ok了，及格鼓掌。
虽然翻拍了《魔幻时刻》的故事，但还是《喜剧之王》的核心，穿插了一堆致敬梗，前半部分包袱还可以，中间煽情，结尾逻辑崩了，没收住，可惜了
比预期的好看，剧情曲折逗趣，很适合假期消遣，就是场景太出戏了，一看就是摄影棚，电影话剧化。看多了魏翔的喜剧配角，还真是第一次看到他演男一号，演技还是很过关的，相比之下马丽显得不在状态，眼神总是很迷离，陈明昊有点模板化了啊，这次的角色跟扬名立万里几乎一模一样嘛。
前半段还是可以的，致敬雨中曲确实惊喜，也不尬，但是后面尤其第三幕直接乱套，草草收尾。魏翔真不容易，第一个男主，非常用心的表演。
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