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".
正义不会迟到，为那些底层的人奋战，为有良心的人们喝彩！
7.8 印度人民神话，律政英雄形象抚慰暴政。相当细腻地刻画，困难的反转的幅度不是很大。再次申明影视化的回忆的残缺性和不真实，拱卫对官方说法的不够真实的批判。
30分钟男主角才登场，也是神奇的安排，搞得开始的时候真的不知道电影要讲啥。电影没有刻意的宣扬对立，鼓动变革，但正是这种克制，假设根据真实事件改编，更让人感到种姓制度的可怕。
身处社会底层的人，也必须在有“强权”帮助的情况下，才能强强对抗，不过自身的坚定也是影响结局的关键，片中女性几次的决绝让人热血沸腾，不畏强权，只要真相。律师竟是历史真人，伟大！你这么做是为了达成什么成就吗？不是，只是为了心中的正义。年末2021片子里，类型，时代，地区，完全不同，我却看到了同样的东西，果真心有如来。
一个国家能拍出这种含有深刻自省的电影真的很值得赞赏，每每看到这样的电影就会想到《熔炉》里的那段台词“我们一路奋战，不是为了改变世界，而是为了不让世界改变我们”。
如果我朝没有审查制度，一定能拍出来比印度更深刻的案例，让人们恢复对司法体系的信息
“魔鬼并不存在，而是人创造出来的，那肯定是人按照自己的模样创造的”。
另外盛赞本片女主的表演，在这样高强度多场次的崩溃绝望与决绝的戏份里，每一次都让人印象深刻，也不会觉得像哭多了，泪多了的乏味。表演可谓细腻中的大起大合。
半夜本打算分两天看完的，但剧情还是吸引了我看到结束。虽然还是避免不了一些印度电影的通病，无法融入剧情的歌舞之类的，可整部电影带给人的只有震撼。受害者妻子的塑造我非常喜欢，坚强的女人虽然贫穷但坚守信念。
大部分人就是滥用自己那点微不足道的权力罢了，出了事还得别人给他擦屁股………很多故事就是这么来的
普法啊！“为了民主，我们必须是极权主义者”，印度很布尔什维克啊。
这是印象中我看过的揭露政府机构腐败的最真实最朴素的现实题材电影。印度某帮某部落没有政治权利的底层人种，一直遭受当地警察的欺压，运用暴力将人逼供致死，诬陷人顶罪。本片男主人公之一的拉贾坎努就被打死在狱中，得知这个心里真不是滋味。电影非常走心，时间很长，但是并不乏味，在律师钱德鲁的争取下，庭审一直在持续，每次听证时间很短，但是都是律师争取到的宝贵开庭机会。印度在现实题材电影方面不逊色于韩国。
没有歌舞也可以做成商业片，配乐太格格不入了
印度都有这种政治黑暗的电影了，很厉害！希望天朝也能觉醒。
底层人民真的太惨了，就像被权力脏手扼住了咽喉，他们呼救无门，他们拼命挣扎，他们痛到窒息。这不是励志片，这是恐怖片！更可怕的是，时至今日，仍有「印度一桩谋杀案关键证物被猴子偷走」这样的新闻
并算不上很妙，伏笔埋得太明显，显得很蹩脚。但要表达的东西倒挺真诚的，其实这样一个故事放到其他国家必定觉得不真实，但在印度真不好说。
系简炜。任大。
为弱者求正义加分了，有个迷思？为啥印度、韩国这种社会现实电影拍得很煽情、动容，但事实却进步很慢，相比于中国，是我们更看重实干而忽视了拍电影的叙事技巧吗？
“这将是一场艰苦的战斗。”
严格来说，本片是达不到这样高的分数的。但就题材和意义而言，它完全值得100分。印度都能拍出这样的电影了，真的大受震撼。
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