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".
二，最喜欢的竟然是男主的妈妈，粗心，没有主见，但是在出柜后第一时间接受儿子，没有锋芒
我记得好像2月14号上映的，然后二月底抢板看了点，是个raj的彩票网的枪版😂这次总算看完了，我真的希望一年后那个孩子是女主跟男主生的😂
阿三都能正大光明的拍同啦，我们是越活越回去啦……
脱离了这种形式保护的他她
爱与美超越种族、性别、宗教，现实和理想的碰撞倒映形婚的种种尴尬，终于忍不可忍奔向自由。重压之下，总有打破常规那一下，尽管冗长，在情感与歌舞结合的部分让人想快进。但片子本身却开了好头，没有给出妥协的结局，人物设置和内心枷锁也因角色而多了几重，蛮有意思的，和兹山鱼谱似的，暗恨不是国产片。
看得感慨万千。相信任何一个有同理心的人，对人有起码尊重的人，都会被影片中二人分别被迫出轨后的遭遇所感染到落泪---亲妈对着你说‘我希望你死了’，亲爸说‘为什么发生在我们家’---好像一个由不得她们选的东西、像个病毒、厄运一样被嫌弃，而他们作为承载人、一个活生生的人，瞬间被家人另眼相看的感觉，我想那滋味谁都不愿体会。而谁赋予的我们、她们的家人去评价她们的权利呢？这个不干涉到任何人利益的纯粹个人性取向，还在多少国家被定为犯罪？管管强奸率吧！女主、男主演员都太精彩，男主最后的归宿也很帅，两对CP同性互动非常真挚信服，比真雄起之类更真实；终于看到印度歌舞片不再是歌颂‘伟大的’异性恋了！印度和韩国电影在反省上真的深感佩服，相比之下我们遮羞布裹脚布太多。还很难得地看到了电影中不常见的东部邦和英裔印度人。
整体很拖沓，起承转合都很套路化的宝莱坞电影，却依然要赞美。因为明明中印国情相似，我们只能感同身受却无法拍出这些故事，谁之过？最讽刺的是，我们的社会、民意和认同明明是在进步，有的东西却倒退得一塌糊涂...
五星全部给此时此刻被北方同行衬托得格外耀眼的印度。7.5
他们的幸运在于家人都友爱，有强大的心理支撑，揭开真相后又包容。感觉是同性宣传片
当然 放歌跳舞 MV这种固定节目，说实话还是有些拉胯。坏的方面国内电影疯狂向宝莱坞靠拢
美好到不真实。但现实那么苦，在电影里做做梦又有何不可？称之为纯爱片儿都不为过。
喜欢家庭氛围的部分，很亲切。姐夫，母亲两个角色最搞笑。
真是很用心又结局完满了TT 能拍与否的区别真是T^T (医生小姐姐也太美了
好圆的月亮，好羡慕，心情好复杂，复杂到抽了一支烟。
要是真的把中国式家庭关系套进去
跟《喜宴》类似的结局，爱情、亲情和社会规则的互相妥协
借热门短评：2018年才将同性恋去罪化的印度，2022年已经拍出直面有关形婚, 同性恋领养方面的电影了。
大家对印度电影这么宽容吗？这片子拿掉“形婚”主题来看，整个影片结构跟国产轻喜剧没什么区别啊，国产轻喜剧还能少拍一个小时。
所以现在还剩哪些地域不能正大光明的拍这样的片子？
一个gay 一个lesbian，在家人的催婚压力下假结婚，在家人的催生压力以及家长的入户监视下败露，一个被动、一个主动，双双出轨。虽然花点时间，好在家人最终都理解支持了。两人在领养孩子的法律压力下维持形式上的婚姻。
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