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".
看的时候多次不明白自己为什么要看，一度以为是90年代香港cult片监狱风云。
pps,看的版本是机器翻译吧，太差了……
太水太拖沓，求求印度人雇几个会剪片的剪辑师吧。除此之外，本片的剧情还是很扎实，整体观感竟然有点像律政剧，挺新奇的。
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半夜本打算分两天看完的，但剧情还是吸引了我看到结束。虽然还是避免不了一些印度电影的通病，无法融入剧情的歌舞之类的，可整部电影带给人的只有震撼。受害者妻子的塑造我非常喜欢，坚强的女人虽然贫穷但坚守信念。
他们放走毒蛇与幼鼠，不会拒绝别人的求助，
2022-1-5. 人物脸谱化，所有的冲突都在一分钟内得到解决，只着重拍了暴力，律师伟光正、法官没智商、反派太诚实，看不到人性的挣扎，拼拼凑凑水了将近三小时时长，也就看在题材的份上不打一星了。
高水平快手正能量大电影哈哈。主角自始至终帅气高大上圣人人设略烦，好在有趣的是片子把人物弧光给了一个督察，对主角来说有了个由敌变友，对手惺惺相惜的过程，观感zer一下就上来了。其他的些许套路，反派没有强和坏，只有蠢，这点上不如一些同类型的韩片做的压迫感强和观感好。整体还是成熟好看的，受用
印度这种种姓制度不废除 他们永远无法成为一个强大的国家
可惜我们无法在中国电影里看到个人对体制的诘问。
极其纯粹的感动。种姓制度，想改变了这么多年，尚未成功。未来更遥遥无期。但是这不代表是泯灭人心的借口。每个为他人的人，都值得被尊重。我们人的基因里刻着“利他”。希望时刻提醒自己，保持善良保持谦卑。爱人悯物。
能拍出这样的电影，也不代表这个国家有救，敢来侵略中国领土的话，就给它再来一次双面打印。
南印电影里程碑。尽管有些造神煽情歌舞的桥段，也不能掩盖这个纪实电影的优秀。拍出来这些印度顽痼沉屙，会改变吗？总有一些在慢慢推动的吧。在家，with阿梓
真是人靠衣装马靠鞍，男主穿正装跟条纹T恤完全不是一个人。 （这个评分为啥这么高感觉就中规中矩啊（最近看了两部印度片 那边刑讯逼供也太可怕了
片里那种宏大bgm的半喜剧效果真的产生奇异的效果。我们对这种黑暗习以为常，对希望却表现出各种不适应
电影拍摄的很刻意 但我理解这种他们的愤怒
不知道该说什么，这个电影抛弃了所有无用信息，拍出来十分中规中矩也十分令人震撼的事实。律法题材影片，大抵就应该是这样。伟大的杰伊比姆。
起初对非黑即白脸谱化的人物刻画感到惊讶，过于黑白分明就不可能有人物的弧光了。后来觉得理由无非两个：一个是电影工业不发达，从主创到观众都是心思单纯；另一个理由就是社会真的确凿就是如此，贱民毫无人格，阶级分野层层分明，社会的阶层就是黑白分明。
“一个人是否值得尊重，不在于他有多少才能，而是取决于他用才能去做什么。”印度版辩护人，能拍出这样的电影，值得尊敬！
为弱者争取正义，这样主题的电影永远都是值得赞扬的。
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