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".
难得的一部没有歌舞的印度片，印度片质量越来越好了。除了片尾的煽情之外，其他细节等都处理的很好，演员表演也不错。
戛纳级别的广告创意，值得今年的一座全场大奖。十分震撼，被强奸和杀死一个孩子同等重要。
第一部上班期间摸鱼看完的电影，超出预期。网络诚然将世界各地的人连接到一起，创造了很多本不可能的相遇，推荐算法用于网络交友也许也能快速接触到很多兴趣相同的人，但网络终究只是也只能是交友的一部分，现实里面对面的接触，亲眼看得到的笑容，才是将我们连系最紧密的部分。其他人的B-bot只是个bot，而Ron才是一个活生生的“朋友”，他那混沌的算法才是交友算法的最终版本哈哈哈。还有片中强调的，友情应该是双向的，其实不论什么情感，都应该是双向的。最后，片尾曲很好听，片尾的像素动画也很有趣。
反转之后都挺好的，就是前半段那种一惊一乍的架势看着可太难受了，配乐可以拿个表演奖的程度。
有社会问题 有承载社会事件的媒介 就是没有电影
对于印度人敢说敢干这件事，我是服气的。一方面，他们什么都敢干，另一方面，他们还真的什么都敢干。
印度电影常常有种压抑了太久太久后喷薄而出的愤怒。可能没有哪个国家会像印度这样追求平等而苦苦不得的国家吧。追求平等会是个漫长的过程，漫长到有时候你会觉得呐喊并无意义。
立意非常好 剧情运镜音效有点过 像印度快手小短剧
“自你观看这部电影据统计印度已有8名妇女被强奸。” 又稍微查了下网络各国的公开数据，自我开始观看这部电影，英国又有21名妇女被强奸，美国又有64名妇女被强奸。能润快润吧。
难得的一部没有歌舞的印度片，印度片质量越来越好了。除了片尾的煽情之外，其他细节等都处理的很好，演员表演也不错。
一部意义远远大于电影本身的电影 尤其是结束后的黑白字幕出来时 深深让我感到作为印度女性的无奈与悲哀 而这样的问题也远不止只在印度发生 女主很勇敢 令人佩服
剧情推进太刻意了。印度片的结局都只是让人意淫。当然，这个题材能拍出来非常不错
一个半小时后才知道发生什么，两个小时后才是真相，印度妇女太不容易了，要靠这种方式才能引起重视，悲哀。。。
No.2456 立意挺好的，确实小人物想要找大人物对话，需要通过一些特殊的方式。也幸好总理是位女士，换成男的可能女主要被打成筛子了。从一开始就知道女主不会对孩子下手，但有个疑问是，那个假装被枪击的孩子后来是在哪里呆着，一直没出声的呢？
〖20220406〗原来是呼吁强奸定罪的电影啊
听说印度女性出生都要对下体处理到结婚的时候由他丈夫再处理用来证明自己还是清白之身，这样就很容易理解影片里面的女性了
6.5分。又是这种立意很好，但完成度不足的片子。着眼女性权力是好事，但用孩子做人质的那一刻，其实她所有的诉求都已经没有意义了。还玩什么总理当面交谈之类的鬼话，整个后半段几乎完全不知所云。不是你出发点好，你所作的所有事情都能被接受的，感觉就从没人真关心过这点。
仿佛看了一部误杀3。剧情没有什么新意，但是有现实意义。
用看似极端的方式，撕开自己的伤口，来挑战另一个真正极端并且烂进根里的问题，女主真的令人尊敬~
【印度】能够想到（或是不惊奇）的设计——在类型感十足的外衣里，包裹社会议题的内壳；小孩子也必然不会受到伤害，而是仅指向一个更大的目的与更“理想化”的结果。但它能够最大可能帮助观众粘连在它的进程里，女主角的表演同样从冷漠、疯狂再到心死，所跨越的层次也印象深刻；两部分足够有效并保持到了最后。 银幕里的喊话固然激励人心，但现实依然冰冷却艰难；这般反差所带来的遗憾与唏嘘，或许远远胜于故事本身。
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