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".
你可以有一百种理由嫌弃印度，唯独印度电影不行！我们在印度电影中看到了人生的深度，也看到了这个国家的贫穷与残酷，但总有那么一丝光温暖着人心，这可能就是印度电影最大的魅力。
#3.5 ；影片里没有涉及到的真正英雄：原型案件里有一位人物，即印共（马）的地区负责人R.Govindan，在影片里几乎没有表现。但实际上，他是一直为此案奔走直至拉贾冤案昭雪的关键人物，甚至受害人妻子得以见到钱德鲁也是在他的帮助和支持之下。警察冲进村子胁迫拉贾家人时，也是他将拉贾的妻子和孩子藏起来，使他们免受威胁和殴打。他为这个案件耗尽心力，受到过数次死亡威胁，投入了十多年的个人时间，最后甚至因此而放弃了婚约，直到39岁才成家。
但在人心里剔除阶层歧视还有漫漫长路。
当一名部落男子因涉嫌盗窃而被捕时，他的妻子求助于一名人权律师以帮助伸张正义。
为了社会底层的奋斗 那么的激动人心 好看的印度电影 你 永远可以看不起印度很多东西 但是印度电影永远都不能轻视
按照国产片这几年的尿性，很可能本片会被翻拍，然后背景基本又是泰国，然后还要被吹上天。真是滑稽。
印度的犯罪题材会跟社会性问题一起做，而不是做单独某个随机的犯罪行为，这点真的做得很好。
世上最难直视的一是太阳，一是人心；而有些时候历史亦如是
2022第一部五分…为天地立心，为生民立命，为万世开太平…
低种姓演员的本色出演！苦难使他们不需要演技！给了观众好的结局，让我们对世界对人还抱有希望，但黑暗的现实仍在继续，低种姓和贱民仍然活得不像人！这个奇葩的国度！
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。
很可悲的一件事是，当不公正发生时，低种姓并不能通过任何方式讨回公道，最终还是要依靠高种姓的良心。
我上次有这种“你们这个司法体系要维护法律尊严简直小菜一碟嘛”的感觉还是看「华盛顿邮报」哎！灯塔国也就勉强算了，但是我现在竟然在羡慕印度？？？
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？
至少在电影方面我们没有资格嘲讽印度。如果还有人说：他们能拍又怎么样，拍了还是一样的情况。那我只能觉得可悲，因为不能拍的人在嘲笑可以拍的人。
类似于划分种姓造成的各种人权问题永远无法完全解决，能有人站出来帮助平衡就不错了。生命比金钱重要，名声比挨揍重要这些道理，有时候却是光脚的人更明白。
真实事件改编，一个含冤入狱的低种姓者被毫无人道的严刑逼供，妻子为帮丈夫昭雪，找到专门致力于底层人民发声的人权律师，一路坚持与奋斗的故事。
其实我们也能拍出这样的电影 只是没人敢拍也没人敢过审
三星半。题材先行。男主的塑造深得天朝主旋律精髓，过于伟光正，几乎没有任何缺陷，人挡杀人佛挡杀佛，所有问题都很快解决。反倒是低种姓部落的塑造非常真实动人，暴力的呈现非常直接与震撼。
再次验证豆瓣冷门分类的标准可能是影片剧情和绝大多数中国观众的生活差距要够大。起码揭露黑暗的那一半差距要够大。
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