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".
让人遗憾。女性只有通过如此极端的方式才能引起社会注意到她们的诉求。罪恶每日都在上演，管理者和民众却依然如此麻木。题材值得称赞，但整体表达过于理想化，现实恐远不及影片这般温柔、顺利。
印度很神奇，这种反映社会的电影一直在拍，但现实依旧不会变。
我想说：如果一个社会把最普通的老百姓，最该被保护的受害者一点点逼成了罪犯，逼成了施暴者；一个生态把大家都愚化成了键盘侠和冷漠的旁观者，那么，我们每一个人不仅是沉默的帮凶，更是下一个潜在的被害者和元凶
感谢中国共产党我国是不发达国家最早实现男女平等的国家。
可以看 就是切换情绪和l拉近镜头制造紧张氛围有点突兀 还有一些不必要的镜头
立意是很好，但剪辑、镜头、音乐、演技都不行，形式太差了。突然推近镜头，遇事就放插曲，都像是短视频的玩法。过满的配乐把氛围是营造上去了，但剧情却跟不上节奏。总理与绑匪谈判，警察掌掴嫌疑犯，真是好想法。
一直搞不懂为什么印度男的那么喜欢强奸，既然这样犯了强奸罪就该判死刑。
呃，这个片的观感前后是分裂的。本身期待不高，纯属解闷而看，却有所惊喜。
立意很好 但是拍得太形式化了 尤其是BGM好令人无语……一干嘛就叮——咚咚咚——叮——然后放大女主表情 叮——咚咚咚——
印度能把这个社会问题赤果果拍出来就是赢了。
又向女性被强奸案进一步的痛诉，希望社会能向前迈进一步
非常努力地分次看到1:30,感觉后面肯定有包袱，但这部电影作为艺术品和工业品，显然都还差很大一点意思。
不知道真实的印度的总理是不是一位忧国忧民的女性，也不清楚印度强奸犯是不是都被判了死刑……但是在这部电影里，结局是理想的！！！印度这种出现问题，用电影的形式把问题呈现出来，并引导观众去做正确的选择，这点真的太让人羡慕了！
刚刚二月，印度就已经释出了「年度天花板」级别的电影，这真是让接下来十个月的宝莱坞「亚历山大」呀。剧情离奇（虽有抄袭《3年A班》立意之嫌）、节奏紧凑、开门见山，不冗长不拖沓无歌舞，代入感强，挖掘深刻，表演精湛，尤以台词设计异常出色。主题依旧是印度人对于整个社会体制的「反思」与「自检」，抽丝剥茧的叙述，真相也依旧让人不寒而栗。牢牢锁住四星，看今年的印度电影，还有哪部能超过它。
凭什么女性因为这种人渣付出了自己的一生？凭什么普通人只能用这种方式博取关注？凭什么强奸犯可以逍遥法外受害者要压抑一生？一句简单的，她也是体制的受害者就可以概括全部吗？是那些被忽视的女性情绪，那些不被在乎的边缘诉求，那些掌握着世界大部分资源的人对小部分人的剥夺，无论何时，我们都需要站起来，站出来，述说、表达，用你想到的任何方式告诉别人，我们经历的苦难，我们接受的不公，我相信是有用的，总有人是有用的！
要么是看此类电影少，要么是看印度电影少！电影本身只能是中规中矩以上~7分
印度真的不缺好电影 后半段太好哭了 nana只有一点说错了 强奸犯应该阉割凌迟打残废做成人棍让人唾弃生不如死 而不是处死
as per statistics,
难得看到一部没有歌舞的印度电影。
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