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".
致敬每一位为底层人民奋斗的英雄，致敬每一个推广赞美这种行为的艺术家
太牛逼了，看看人家印度这电影，全程2小时40分钟我甚至都不舍得暂停一秒钟。印度是有它的缺点，但是更需要有人说出真相，这样才能反思，才能在微弱中有所改变，哪怕一点点也好。结合今天看到的某大导演要拍史诗级英雄片的消息，也就只能苦笑一下了。
期待了很久看完反而有点失望，大人帝国，夕阳和涂鸦是心中top3
走投无路的小民，在正义律师的帮助上走上维权之路。
“一个人是否值得尊重不在于他有多少才能，而在于他用自己的才能去做什么。”
看完只想说，还好还好我生在中国，要是在印度，真不是人过的日子😂
拍法非常不可以，哪来这么高分。近乎病态地直接表现暴行（孟买酒店也这样，算是风格化了吗？你确定观众的反应是你想要的？），却对律师毫无描绘平板一块，简直天降英雄。法官更是无欲求的青天大老爷，最终只能是下面人的错，并不触及系统，是与中国电影同归了。
系简炜。任大。
新风是双向奔赴的爱啊，春日部防卫队的友情线一如既往令人感动，正男心里果然住着叛逆少年，美伢偷偷给小新行李里塞巧克力饼，小新维护妈妈的样子让人忍不住感慨果然这才是一家人～近年来最佳的剧场版！
跑马拉松。
这种片子可以被拍出来，本身就是一种伟大。虽然时不时唱歌让我出戏，男主也过于耍帅。印度有爬满火车的人，印度也有宝莱坞。
又想哭又想笑，让人想到自己的过去，又能感触到当下的人生，青春已不在，但我依旧希望自己能fire，只要我努力，那就不应该被看轻。
我越来越怀疑小新的审美了，这几年的橙子老师这个人物也画的太不用心了吧！？
一个为底层平权的律师对抗体制的故事，题材上确实很敢拍，节奏也算是印度片中比较优秀的序列，只是全片还是没有摆脱印度片的俗套，人物塑造，起承转合，甚至何时起歌舞都计算得非常精准，人物也是比较脸谱化（对于印度演员也有点脸盲），过于伟光正的男主，弱势的底层，邪恶的反派，不过难得的是在本片看到了女性的成长，从开始的忍气吞声到最后敢于向强权申诉，这样的故事确实足够吸引。7.8
一个为底层平权的律师对抗体制的故事，题材上确实很敢拍，节奏也算是印度片中比较优秀的序列，只是全片还是没有摆脱印度片的俗套，人物塑造，起承转合，甚至何时起歌舞都计算得非常精准，人物也是比较脸谱化（对于印度演员也有点脸盲），过于伟光正的男主，弱势的底层，邪恶的反派，不过难得的是在本片看到了女性的成长，从开始的忍气吞声到最后敢于向强权申诉，这样的故事确实足够吸引。7.8
本来挺多问题，看完了解了一下原型，发现本尊比电影里拍得还要牛逼，一直都尽全力在确保公平公正的同时保护弱势群体的权利，也听说电影拍完后导演和主演貌似都受到人身威胁。第一次知道连低种姓都不如的部落人，部落原型被冠以“盗贼”“强盗”的污名，想来电影里的“罪犯有种姓制度、金钱和权力做后盾，但是受害者呢，我们（律师）就是他们的一切。”也不算夸张，人们高呼比姆万岁的时候，呼唤的并不仅仅是这个人，而是某种精神。是爱，是数百万人的眼泪，是希望。
一个90年代发生在泰米尔纳的邦真实案件，从中几乎可以看到所有印度社会顽疾的展现：警察的权力不受监管，警察“遭遇”行为成为常态；种姓制度根深蒂固，不可接触者住在村庄边缘，他们甚至都不允许走入村庄中，在盗窃案件发生后却成为了最先被怀疑的人；身份政治主导民主自由，没有身份就不是选民，政治人物都不会来理睬你，原住民的权利缺乏保障，他们得不到公平的对待，还要被抓去给有钱人顶罪，代替他们坐牢，电影聚焦了90年代中期南印度各种政治势力的争夺，农村成为了一地鸡毛的战场，电影中多次出现的歌舞场景是原住民们日常生活、劳动的画面，配上欢乐的音乐和美丽的风景，在这些美好之下却隐藏着危机，警察的邪恶是如此令人发指，他们成为了自身利益与权力机器勾结的怪物，用泯灭人性的手段来掩饰犯罪，律师形象也非常生动
印度电影终于发展到了直面种姓制度的这一天了
一来感恩自己能投胎到有人权的时代，二来感恩信息发达让更多的民智大开。
看了这部片子觉得印度是有希望的，更加尊敬印度。
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