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".
同样是妓女题材，印度出了《甘古拜》，国内出了《梦华录》
有些人看到一个女性上位只看得到帮助他的男人，而对她自己的力量视而不见
终究还是拍给男权看的为女性电影，电影里的人物形象太平面了。
向英雄致敬。回归电影本身，过于冗长，又没有太多情节推进，战火连天的音响下，时而会让人觉得乏味无聊。另外，摁头煽情令人下头。
女主让我想到张柏芝。对比国内的90后女演员，演得都是些低智角色。
节奏爽快鲜明，虽然难免被诟病女主角的意识觉醒来得太快，但是也挺喜欢电影的处理的，并不是一味的依附男权，从最开始为了自己去找拉辛这种勇气，到看到嫖客被打后对权力的渴望意识觉醒，前半段很爽文，但是后半段回归深刻的主题中，电影更多想表达的，并不是卖淫合法化的论题，而是身为女性，可以真正的选择，自己想做的，就像甘古拜获选的时候说的，女性也可以是权力和名誉，财富的化身。
单论电影叙事，这仅仅是个很一般的电影。不过神奇的是，看完这个电影之后，我自发地去补习了解了很多二战、军事的知识。能让人打开新领域大门的电影那就是好电影。
看乏了，各种炮弹、各种被炸死，还有一些莫名其妙为了煽情、烘托人物形象的英雄主义的牺牲…
可能过不了几年，我就会像重温建国大业一样想念他
看哭了，
全篇讲的都是为女性伸张正义 但骨子里还是男权 三星都给女主
有点爽文女主的气息，但是很悲剧，电影很喜剧，原型是悲剧，不管再有钱，她们丢失的尊严再也找不回来了。我不喜欢这个电影，主要是女人被利用的悲剧，无法改变受害者被抛弃的命运，看着很励志，实则悲凉。
被甘古拜的解说吸引看完了整部电影。电影的拍摄手法非常优秀，而且女主超酷！撩小裁缝的时候换我都要心动。
女主爽大电影 一路开挂 但是真的好美 好炸 看完确实身心舒畅 歌舞虽然很典型的宝莱坞 但真的是好看 整个电影色彩绚丽又耀眼 让女主的白纱丽又美上了新高度
最后居然是要求妓女合法化…好吧毕竟具有时代局限性
终究还是拍给男权看的为女性电影，电影里的人物形象太平面了。
影片感染力很强，或哭或笑、形神合一、声情并茂把一个被生活所磨的女人演绎得活灵活现风情万种。印度特色歌舞也充分传达了人物心情烘托气氛。仔细观察甚至边角位置的每一位舞者，无一不是神情动作传神投入不落分毫，众人的专注共同烘托了强大的感染力量。印度影片真的是很会渲染气氛，传达情感张弛有度。
所有场景都在stage里面拍的，所以很像舞台剧。歌舞非常迷人精致。甘谷白的胜利很轻松，里面有权势的男人都很容易被说服，都会被她的个人魅力所征服。但是这个历史人物还是很动人。她的初恋把她卖到妓院。因为身份她必须放弃她后来爱的人。最终选择了为女性权益所奋斗。红灯区所有的人都穿了她最爱的白色为她庆贺胜利，连同她曾经的爱人和敌人。
全靠男黑帮老大撑着 支持姐妹继续卖肉 还打个女权宣传。。
讲好一个故事却是是一种能力
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