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".
整部片其实都是以“反差”来让人兴奋，虽然知道这个套路，虽然很多也不合逻辑，但关注他的内核，可是杠杠的发人深省
不剧透，太精彩！对咱们也有深刻的警示意义。
【B-】敢拍，会拍，但本质上还是套路化的印度犯罪庭审片。
如果真是这么拍，就真的敢拍。
反转太多其实有点毁我的观感，但是律师掷地有声地喊话还是蛮让人感动，尤其是唐山事发后不久看这个片。“一个国家的尊严等于它给女性的尊严”
几个反转来得质感不足，没有营造出让观众信服的氛围就反转了，极其缺乏震撼。
且不说这部电影拍得多好了，咱们国家是说都说不得，更别说拍电影了，笑死。
“这就是政治 为了赢我会玩任何肮脏的游戏”。“一旦被这种疯狂所煽动 他们就不只是党员了 他们会成为信徒”。政治家们只会让公众看到他们想让公众所看到的对他们有利的舆论导向 也只允许公众发出他们想要的声音。同时再煽动公众的情绪和热血为他们所用。联想起从去年到现在发生的无数公众义愤填膺但至今依旧悬而未决的事情感慨良多 什么时候我们国家才能拍出如此复杂深刻直面现实的电影啊。P.S.学生果然还是最容易被当枪使的一群人啊。
停在律政片最佳 多了些政治批判也还好 但最后还是免不了印度式复仇的套路的俗
过誉，隔靴搔痒。视听感像电影，情绪煽动性极强的新闻专题片。配乐和歌曲不错，歌曲部分常速欣赏，其它1.5倍速飘过。以现实中印度强暴案的体量和深层根源来看，都改编电影直到看吐也难有改变的一天。电影其实是以谋杀而非强暴致死来规避风险，在没有原型事件情况下编拍并通过印度电影审查，国情不同，无需代入。2022·6·28 8.6/2189 短评889条 %83/13/4 【IMDb8.4/8300 全球票房313.51万美元】
女主过于漂亮，印度种姓是刻在脸上的，女主和她母亲过大的视觉差算是选角不当。整部电影节奏、镜头反胃，BGM巨吵，由于庭审效果，两次反转没能带来任何惊喜，这部电影最成功之处是——它是印度电影。
反转推动情绪，情绪转化力量。别人的远见，文化的坚持，勇敢的冲劲，摆在那里，不得不服啊！
口号谁都能喊，难的是如何做。这种题材电影，那个国家电影工作者都能拍，难的是是否解决了现实问题，而不是一而再再而三的拍。重视对方，才会想尽办法控制审查；当达到了蔑视的程度，谁管你，反正也掀不起大风浪，你想怎么拍就怎么拍。我并不希望以后我们国家这种类型的电影遍布，如果真的到了那个时候，说明真的烂了。任何人都以为自己了解真相，然而你看到的却是别人要你看到的。
基本叙事框架还没搭好就已情绪先行。
反转太多其实有点毁我的观感，但是律师掷地有声地喊话还是蛮让人感动，尤其是唐山事发后不久看这个片。“一个国家的尊严等于它给女性的尊严”
高分不是来自于电影本身，而是来自于现实角色的带入。
法庭那段好厉害 不过男主没胡子好普 有了胡子带着专业能力加拄拐的反差有种运筹帷幄的魅力
思维的深度！情节的翻转！在抖音听完了解说！
有的人佩服印度和韩国敢拍还过审，但他们或许不知道，这两个国家所拍摄的敏感题材电影并非子虚乌有，虚构出来的，而是已经到了反反复复发生，全世界皆知的地步。韩国的腐败世界有名，几乎每一任总统都贪腐受贿被弹劾，印度的贪污腐败更是根深蒂固。韩国性侵案也很多，不止是娱乐圈还有孩子。印度的腐败阻碍了他们的经济发展，强奸案影响了他们的社会和谐稳定。今年几部印度关于这方面题材的电影我都看了。片中的2019年的案件确实发生过，当时传到国内只是奸杀焚尸，并没有说是谋杀。不管怎样，我觉得再多这样的影片也唤醒不了印度人民，因为民主制度的缺陷并不适合十三亿人多 印度。上世纪八十年代跟我们在同一起跑线上，如今被我们远远抛在身后。再过十年印度还是会如此。等着瞧吧。某些人不要觉得看了几部印度好片就觉得印度电影胜过我们这很无知
戏剧性拉满，他们已经不满足于揭露和批判高犯罪率的现实，开始将矛头对准玩弄权术的政客和社会制度。虽然改变很缓慢，但这是个有希望的国家。
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