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".
镜头语言跟故事情节走的朦胧路线
太好看了吧，大概近半年没有看到让我激动的电影了！
节奏不错，蛮紧张的。女主演技也不错，虽然是棚拍，但总体到紧张气氛还是给演出来了。几个人的降智是因为人心不齐，相互猜忌伤害，导致了最终的失利，女主是幸运的
［慎入，少許劇透］
故事奇奇怪怪，意外听懂路人说主角malaka什么的
周末晚上看看还是挺刺激的，就是感觉结尾有点anticlimax
大杂烩，一开始的感情就非常浮于表面，难以入戏
一场疲劳驾驶引发的车祸，不但与爱人阴阳两隔，还不幸卷入政治阴谋。当然主角光环下，必须是金刚不坏之身——中枪没事，挨刀没事，沿途还总能遇到好心人捎一程，帮一把。印象深的倒是希腊雅典街头充满烟火气的市井风光，以及随处可见的、与我国同出一辙的各种小广告和涂鸦。
我的妈，这拍了个啥？感觉啥都有，但最后竟是逗你玩？政治惊悚拍成这样小打小闹也是够了！除了一直有的悬念营造的还算不错之外，好像没啥优点了。砍妹都沦落到这个地步了吗
画面很美 但是印度拍这个题材的电影 还是欠很多火候
意外的耐看，孤身对抗警察，CIA，却不是那种老套的动作电影，相比之下，主角更加平凡，甚至可怜孱弱，让人同情。最后从高楼跳下砸到车上，我本来以为是电影套路，后来才理解，是真的想死，有点伤感
讲了一个出国玩后深陷争端危险的故事。虽然男主一直在跑，但怎么也紧张不起来，无论是节奏还是阴谋本身，都令人犯困。记得之前看过一个设定类似的片，讲的是白人一家在东南亚国家遇到暴乱逃亡的事，好看个100倍吧。
哭了，电影结束两个小时之后想起男主牵起妈妈的衣服深嗅，开始爆哭。啊真是又美又破。寻找自由，慰藉孤独，都是人海中的孤岛
以为是极限攀岩类型片，其实是惊悚犯罪片，只不过把地点搬到了峭壁上，这点子不错，看着挺新鲜。影片10分钟进入正题，毫不墨迹，中途节奏稍有些拖，但成本太低也拍不出什么出挑的桥段，总体还好吧，算是安稳顺下来了，说不上哪好，但也没太大毛病，可以看。
我觉得这部，比那些只知道复仇反杀，又拍得极其套路的电影还是要好上一些的。
开头差点弃了，中段开始发力，蛮有意思的电影
这种陷入阴谋的倒霉普通人冒险故事好像也没啥新鲜的，但是这些主角居然都挺能打。
印度的同影都能拍的这么棒，出乎我的意料，虽然姐弟爱上同一个男人的设定多多少少有点狗血，但是瑕不掩瑜，很多桥段有致敬call me by your name，每个人都应该有段刻骨铭心的爱情呀
里面的诗好美啊，无论是电影本身还是现实的情况都是一种禁忌，虽渣，但也算浪漫。
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