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".
印度的问题不只种姓制度这一方面，一两个案子治标不治本，电影只是代表一些觉醒，要想解决问题需要一个长期艰难的过程。还会有很多不为人知的被歧视被冤屈被虐待被杀害的人永远抱屈衔冤了。
根据真人真事改编。比所有“最美检察官”、“第一S记”等主旋律人物传记震撼有力量得多。
真实故事很厉害，但是电影就还是印度电影。不过印度至少现在能拍这样的故事了，而我们在一个虚构的故事里都不能说警察有黑暗面
比较套路的印度电影，教育意义大于电影艺术。最大的亮点是几位男性受害者的表演，刑讯那一段绝了。
虽然男主走路带风，但却没有被黑警暗杀。虽然印度贫富悬殊，却可以做到司法独立。
为本片所折射出的良心起立致敬！种姓制度、贫富悬殊、妇女地位低下、卫生条件落后、宗教迷信……使我依然不认为印度是文明的现代化国家，但并不能否认这个国家是完全没有希望的，是不会进步的，而进步不能指望TZ的自我优化，进步是每一个人的一小步，从一点点的努力争取而来，内部监督往往无效无力，外部监督才是正确之路。本片的主角律师是一位包青天式人物，将矛头直指暴力机器之一the police，凭坚毅与正义将公道还之于民，这恰恰是底层民众最希望看到的，印度拍出来了并展现出来了……反观我们，或许可能永远也拍不出来了吧，是因为不公不存在吗，未必
我宣布这电影是我的年度最佳！越往后越精彩简直扣人心弦！律师的正义勇敢聪明是一方面，丈夫已经死了也拒绝要赔偿战斗到底的妇女更是让我感动ToT结尾小女孩的二郎腿真是满满的希望！太好了！哭泣！
虽然男主走路带风，但却没有被黑警暗杀。虽然印度贫富悬殊，却可以做到司法独立。
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？？？
为什么会选择性无视突兀的歌舞和转场，还有一塌糊涂的剪辑节奏，时长？
此时不想讨论叙事，类型，技法，形式……
作为一部类型片，有些地方的处理实在太目的话了，几乎是一点美感都没有，好直白。但作为电影，镜头内的美术设计、镜头语言都是看着很舒服的。而接近三个小时的电影，节奏也一直在线，张弛有度。歌舞环节，音乐还是最好的背景，取代舞蹈的是镜头内的自然风光和人物状态，电影的连贯性在这一点上做得很普世化。
“伊鲁拉人直到今天仍因虚假指控而被监禁。”PS：这似乎是印共（马）拍的电影，钱德鲁律师似乎是一位共产党员。另外因此去了解了一下印共，真是让人刮目相看。8
印度电影传统而娴熟的叙事方式，作为电影本身来讲，称不上极其优秀，IMDB9.4也是虚高，但它贵在真实，贵在毫不遮掩地袒露自己丑陋的伤疤，最大程度地印证了艺术来源于生活这句话。相信只要历史是向前发展的，这个国家最终将消灭种姓制度。
感觉是现实意义比较重大，作为一部电影和一个故事来看，影片的叙事节奏过于拖沓，充满了无关紧要的细枝末节，和这样高的评分应该有的影片质量比较不符合。
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。
聚焦描写的社会题材，警察与平民，高种姓与低种姓。这种问题不仅仅在印度有，在其他国家也是存在的，比如美国的黑人问题，这种高压低的这种无助感，简直是让人浑身冷汗直冒！
谁能想到这是真实发生且还在发生的事情呢？PS剧情过于冗长，看了一大半也大概猜到结局便匆匆睡去。
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。
这部电影有十分明显的缺陷,但现实意义也值得打五星。暴力场面令人发指。
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