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".
从最后打出那三行字幕，这部电影就已经完成了意义。受害者的痛苦，并不只值得一场烛光游行，吹哨人的勇敢，并不该通过以暴制暴才能被看见。「如果天塌下来正义才能伸张，那就塌吧」。
有時候覺得印度這些社會現實片子，都成了套路片。根據我親眼去看到的印度，印度并沒有因爲這些印度電影，變得好一點點。絕望。但有這些片子還是好的，越南就沒有這種現實電影。另外，女主角和女警长，明显的伊朗人啊。印度这种白净的伊朗种可能低于总人口10%.女警长演员只比女主演大3岁，看着也是大美人
自从看了三年A班后，就免疫了一切绑架题材电影，但说实话，这部电影不好看的原因只是在于，作为一部电影，它是不好看的，单这一点，就无法让我继续深入它所要探讨的印度女性命题，这种商业化、类型化的表达，远远没有现实主义表达来得更有说服力
扯个闲话，幼儿园还是别太乖，闹一点老师就会第一个就放出去吧。嫌吵，耽误事。。。。。
印度的影视作品总有种横冲直撞的气质 不精致但很鲜活
印度社会有着各种各样的问题，但至少还有人会思考，并通过电影这种方式去警醒别人。不止印度如此，很多国家都有各式各样的法律，但制定法律的是人，选择实施和是否遵守的也是人，如果仅仅因为有某部法律存在就代表社会变得更美好了，那只能说想得美……
虽有瑕疵，但这个真的作为女性，我一定要打5星，希望更多的人看到。为啥印度这类的片就拍的很好……立意真的，太重要了
3.5星吧，电影的节奏就像印度人做事一样，慢悠悠的让人紧张不起来，没有代入感。
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……
刚刚二月，印度就已经释出了「年度天花板」级别的电影，这真是让接下来十个月的宝莱坞「亚历山大」呀。剧情离奇（虽有抄袭《3年A班》立意之嫌）、节奏紧凑、开门见山，不冗长不拖沓无歌舞，代入感强，挖掘深刻，表演精湛，尤以台词设计异常出色。主题依旧是印度人对于整个社会体制的「反思」与「自检」，抽丝剥茧的叙述，真相也依旧让人不寒而栗。牢牢锁住四星，看今年的印度电影，还有哪部能超过它。
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电影意义大于本身。法律的设定如果都需要电影来警醒，国家武器已经是聋子的耳朵了。
7.7 “这个国家的人，你若不对着他们的耳朵呐喊，他们还是会继续装聋作哑的。”《长夜难明》《开端》和这部作品的“犯罪动机”是相似的，作恶之人横行法外，公权冷漠傲慢，弱者绝望诉诸暴力，才得些许正义回还。窒息的死结。
立意很好，但实在受不了印度电影拖沓的节奏，时常出现的慢镜头，最无法容的的是乡土剧水准的配乐，真的，现在国内很多网剧的配乐都比这个高级。。
3.8吧。立意和落脚点都挺好的，就是这个剪辑真的是……一言难尽，每次突然推荐突然给个音效真的是有些受不了。如果音乐不要那么冲或许会好很多吧
这种古老的又沉重的话题，什么时候可以消失。
结尾真的太炸了，虽然知道导演不可能无缘无故叫个酱鱼司机来，但还是没想到是这么玩的，女主在警察面前很暴徒，在孩子面前很善良，这个社会让她变成这么疯狂，太心疼了
至少敢说，敢拍，敢面对。希望现实可以越来越好。
在主题面前，所有关于技巧的讨论都是苍白的。
一个普通人想伸张正义只能用这样的方式，电影影意义远大于形式，印度电影在这类题材上真的很优秀，通过一个事件拍成电影，并最终推动立法和变革，无论是女性独立还是社会公平，总有勇敢的人站出来来推动这一切。如评论中大家指出的，电影在细节上还有很多改进点，但整体完成度还是很高，尤其结尾那段字幕，足以让观众明白这部电影对印度女性意味着什么。
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