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".
结尾随即陷入无尽的仓促生硬反转之中。
没几分钟就让人头皮发麻的片子，哲理深沉的台词。
叙事技法挺拙劣的，宝莱坞式的形式感犹存，并不对胃口。但即便如此，这道直面社会议题的大杂烩已经足以震荡观众的味蕾。其原因，才是当下观众或不是观众的人们，所面临的困境与无力——揭露出这些，是本片对国内观影环境的最大价值。
而它的主题公正和法治，我觉得法治已经深入我国民众心底了。
我以为只是讨论正义，还想着对手律师怎么这么蠢，结果居然是个套路片，也还是不错的
让指责的人戴上手铐的政治
披着政治的 复仇故事 没必要这么编。其实细节更能说明一切
印度现实主义题材影片在题材震撼程度方面是越来越高，剧情叙述方面也更加庞杂，竟玩起了多重反转。美中不足是在影像语言和风格探索上始终原地踏步，甚至有些退步，不像韩影那样成熟多样。
大尺度爽片，令人那啥的是，印度也是什么题材都能拍啊……
希望国内有一天也能拍出这样畅所欲言的电影。
影片感觉为了去揭露一些现实问题设置了一些不太符合逻辑的情节，导演的想法是不错的，但是在实现剧情的合理性是有问题的，他想去鼓动印度的人民的觉醒，但是目前电影太浅层了，只是在煽动，并没有触及灵魂，应该从更加深的宗教出发，印度的问题不是政治，而在于宗教，在政治上那个部长是不会开车去撞孩子的，这是剧情逻辑最大的败笔，而之后的情节因为这个败笔显得没法立住，电影要说人话，要符合现实常理
很多高光时刻，但也有些地方的故事模糊不清，法庭上那场戏最精彩，一再反转，在大众狂欢中以为自己得到了真相与正义，但实际上只是一种情绪宣泄，叫嚣着正义却成为了屠杀的刽子手。情感成为大众被操控的工具，一旦大众情绪被煽动，理智将不复存在。媒体应该是报道真相的媒介和话筒，却成为了政治工具。我们该如何在这个信息时代的冗杂信息里分辨真假呢？如何能知道自己的革命将刀剑指向了真正的敌人而非成为敌人的工具呢？革命万岁，但是革谁的命？既觉得讽刺又觉得有点无力，但是大概我们都需要狠狠的摔倒才知道真正正确的方向。坐在旁观席上，我们任何人都可以发表意见，但是是否有勇气付诸实践呢？不怕犯错不怕流血不怕一切黑暗。随着鞭笞，火焰将蔓延开来；随着鲜血溅出，一定会有救赎。
一直在反转，每次反转都揭露不同主题，像看了好多部电影。说是大爽片不为过。
题材很讨喜，但问题在于似乎太过执着于情节上的设计导致整部电影并不是那么流畅。故事性上塞得太满，导演和编剧应该学会做减法。/问题真的不能忍，但多一星给法庭上的调度，and女老师发声那段真的太飒了
好糟糕劣质的节奏…不是好电影，哪里体现了敢讲？ 就像是营销号的知识量，也就糊弄天朝电影爱好者，大清都亡了！还闭着眼。
如果律师真正辩护的就是那四位嫌犯，就算被害人是“完美”的，就算真实情况确实是四名嫌犯奸杀被害人，只要嫌犯一天没有受到法律的审判，就没有人可以判他们有罪，更不能用私刑。法律应该体恤民众，但更要超越民众的偏见。
结尾差点意思，总体来说很不错，看完了能引发人的思考。
标准的宝莱坞流水模式，开头我以为重看了旧片子，连配乐都如此类似。但正如高赞评论，至少人家还能拍电影含沙射影。
7.9分左右。
脱开电影说一句题外话，如果毕志飞还想继续拍摄多主角电影，可以来这部电影里面取经。
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