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".
题材太震撼，最后的字幕更震撼……觉醒了，希望真的有所改变。
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。
昨日周四，支持五星。本来觉得结尾太过温和、理想，转而回想，也只有在电影中才能得偿所愿。保留一丝光明，为这人间的悲苦。
继《一个母亲复仇》《云端之上》《杰伊•比姆》后又一杰出的印度社会现实题材电影。透过媒体报导可能我们看到的尽是印度这样或那样的不好，然而，看了这些印度电影之后才发现是一个让人肃然起敬的有很多地方值得我们学习的伟大邻居啊。
私心想给五星，但电影也有不完美。留下一星给未来无限可能的她们。
最后那3行字幕，是电影真正的核心。是这个获得了5星。
成为改变，看到改变，也许是这部片子最重要的意义。
No country for women！别再踩印度了，谁比谁烂还不一定呢
一个装聋作哑的国家，就如同电影里的背景音乐，轻松淹没每一段撕心的哭喊。这就需要一个尖锐的声音，如火炬一般驱散虚假的平静。然后，谁也没有办法再假装看不见。
我只能说，磨磨唧唧，故作悬疑。PS：为什么印度本土电影总是说英文，说几句印度话就要夹杂一句英文，真是让我受不了。
印度版《恐怖直播》，用挟持人质的方式道出在印度司空见惯的强奸案，故事不算新颖，但是一上来直入主题毫不含糊，剧情推进迅速，紧张刺激的氛围足够吸引人，但结局处理还是太过理想化。总体还是能引起观众的关注和思考，意义大于形式的一部片子，值得一看
近期看过最佳的女性题材电影，竟然是印度拍的
把ron称作小白再合适不过了。友情就是这样，会让你开心、难过且成长。本来我很不理解最后barney的选择，这不是又回归到用网络替代真实社交的死循环了吗，但不是每一个人都可以遇到有趣的朋友，为了抵抗孤独，只能是短视的妥协。“一只鸟刚刚评论了你的脸”，hhhh
近期看过最佳的女性题材电影，竟然是印度拍的
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。
印度终于关注到这个问题了吗 作为我们熟知的女性最容易被强奸的国家 大概是一群人艰难地拍出了这部电影 凭什么受害者要被心理阴影折磨一辈子 而施暴者却逍遥法外 最好现实也是如此美好吧
在主题面前，所有关于技巧的讨论都是苍白的。
没啥用，还把印度总理设定为女性，依然不能让人相信印度总理能有共情。
反而成了它的特色。忽然觉得，因为这样一个题材，就得这么拍，所有被设置的女性角色，不合理的过程，理想化的结局……看似夸张、虚假的剧情，却有最真实、残酷的底色，发出了印度女性最强烈的呐喊……这就是印度，一个贫穷、混乱、阶级划分严格、贫富差距极大、强奸案世界第一的国家。这就是印度电影，它一直没变，它一直在变，从小到大，我一直喜欢……而这一次，它没有一点点歌舞……
题材太震撼，最后的字幕更震撼……觉醒了，希望真的有所改变。
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