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".
印度电影总是可以像卸妆水去除粉饰，尤其最后一句话更促动观众内心（2022-14）
〖20220406〗原来是呼吁强奸定罪的电影啊
突兀的拍摄手法 不知所以的摄像镜头 不必耗费如此长的时间 90分钟就可以讲好故事 甚至更精彩 立意十分优秀 对于法律的意义应探讨的更深刻 女性牺牲自己推进立法进步 十分理想化 但是最起码这个社会应该认识到女性被强奸不是女性的错 男性才是最应该被教育的那个
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。
有点「荒蛮故事」的爽感，也有「日本之耻」的效用，更多个伊藤诗织和亚米站出来，这个世界终会少些邪恶。
拍摄低劣，表演呆板，像anglebaby 一样瞪眼皱眉，人物角色转换生硬，想像韩国一样反射社会问题真不是这样的洋垃圾，女主拿着枪一点也没有威慑力，好像在拿瓶牛奶，你喝啊你喝啊，你怎么不喝？我怼着让你喝……
需要慢慢了解对方，才能渐渐成为朋友，而不是一下子知道你的所有喜好，就顺着你喜欢的倾向来。这不是交朋友的方式。Ron is a cute little thing
故事中规中矩，胜在社会价值。有的时候知道这是一种商业类型电影，但不影响它敲响人心～
波涛汹涌的观感，却夹杂着复杂的情绪，类似于韩国几年前擅长的类型结构，把动机和成因埋藏在过程中，给出强烈的冲突和危机，抽丝剥茧的靠近真相，一直到吃蛋糕的情节处，才恍然明白一切只为得到一个机会的一次诉求，电影的意义远远大于类型片的形式，技术层面来说编剧太痴迷于玩弄观众情绪，以至于文本处处透着急功近利的心态，过于理想主义的投机取巧，完美立意的篇章下也充斥着漏洞百出的低级错误，即便如此，强烈的戏剧张力下好像时时都在贴合合理化进程，反而给了观众更持久的观感，延迟的直播，滞后的国家系统，迟迟未来的正义，给腐败媒体和腐朽机关一记响亮耳光，面对装聋作哑，唯有入地绝境，不让巨石坠落，怎能掀起惊天波澜？★★★☆
结尾真的太炸了，虽然知道导演不可能无缘无故叫个酱鱼司机来，但还是没想到是这么玩的，女主在警察面前很暴徒，在孩子面前很善良，这个社会让她变成这么疯狂，太心疼了
3星半。非常非常难得，这片居然没怎么犯大部分印度片的“不顾整体质感，只求即时就爽”的通病。虽然还是有些自说自话，但这片整体看确实把质感做出来了，从始至终叙事都没崩，保持了一个比较好品质度，立意也清晰的表达出来了，女主自身的气场也把这个人物立住了，真就还不错。
剧情节奏很好，没有歌舞表演的印度电影越来越合我的胃口，影片立意很好，反映社会问题，印度电影在女性题材上真的做了很多。另外，说跟误杀像的，我真的黑人问号，这部片子误杀了谁了？
难得看到一部没有歌舞的印度电影。
三星给印度，一星给印度的“好邻居”，印度的未来是光明的吗，我不能断言，但我祝她越来越靠近文明。是世界的懦弱与包庇逼得女性化身斗士，她们深陷仇恨，却不将仇恨散播，舍命成仁，灌溉善之花开满大地
立意很好，羡慕印度还允许这样的电影被拍出来，但是从电影本身来说剧情结构和节奏还是有比较大的问题的
讨论的问题，挺有意义。但是剧本，拍摄和演绎，都非常做作，毫无代入感。
Holy shit！印度现实主义是要向韩国现实主义宣战了嘛？
把PM设定成女性这一点我很喜欢，对女孩来说肯定是种鼓励。除了逻辑和结构问题，本片将女性的诉求和强奸问题过于简单化了，拿capital punishment当落脚点是为了噱头，男编剧怕是根本不敢写强奸背后真正的问题吧。一部为了拍而拍的电影，既然censorship无阻碍，那就是立场和能力不足致使本片远远没有戳到痛点。
“情绪是一种资产，你从年纪增长里学会它“。想说的太多，又发现无话可说，因为该说的都被说过了，现状依旧让人无力。看到最后，我真的理解了她的悲伤。
一部印度乌托邦的电影，不过能拍出来就值5星了！
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