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".
一部我在简中边偷乐边等续集的电影，导演别逼我求你。
爽文电影。由“那一夜，我们看话剧”，“那一夜，我们喝大酒”，“那一夜，我们看费里尼”等篇章系列组成，引发多年前的那一夜幻梦布道。从情景喜剧角度欣赏，可能远好过从文艺角度切入。
世界是少数几个人的游戏，我们只是各种规则制度下的尘埃。
开始看不进去，后面两次反转还是相当精彩的～
这是电影吧？唉....这是一部风格糅杂的电影，既像韩国电影那样煽情（偶尔说的印度英语也恍惚间让我以为是说韩语），又像国产电视剧一样动不动来个恢弘的音乐，有时又好像好莱坞电影一样来点帅气特写和慢放。这是一部很“正确”的电影，就像《辩护人》一样，但我不认为是好电影。
印度电影人已经意识到，以种姓制度作为内核，可以包装出各种各样有力量的电影，很容易得到全球观众的认可，本片亦是如此。导演在故事讲述的方式上很下功夫，先将案子抛出抓住观众，随着男主角在影片过半时登场，抽丝剥茧，真相一层层被剖开，几次反转合情合理，每个人心中都有一份正义，很热血，很励志。问题在于，故事讲的太满，越是宏大叙事越应该留白，留一些观众思考的空间，太满了反而显得炫技了，破坏了观影感。“一个国家的尊严，就等同于它给女性的尊严”，为这句话加多一颗星。
P.S.已加入豆列：伪文青鉴定指南。
可以和《杰伊比姆》较量一番，这个片小漏洞挺多，但题材可，故事线丰富，反转可。印度电影真的越来越好了呢。而且我真的一点都不讨厌电影里有大量印度歌曲和舞蹈（虽然本片没有舞蹈），非常好听和合适啊！
若你问什么是爱情神话，辛苦做好了一桌子的菜等人落座，辛苦办了的画展目的不是画的人，不觉得白辛苦，没有回答。
暴露出的险恶
手法有点太老套，人物塑造也蛮刻板，好多渲染情绪的慢镜头，下半部的反转有点厉害，男主的故事有些一带而过，如果改编成mini剧也许能讲得更好，一部电影杂糅了学术腐败、把控舆论、操纵民意、女性处境、种姓歧视等等议题，虽然讨论都不深刻但也着实让人惊讶印度电影已经掌握了流量密码（褒义）总之瑕不掩瑜！一个不负责任的预感，再过五年陈思诚会买下版权翻牌成误杀5哈哈哈
韩国电影和印度电影有反思，有揭露，我们当然用不到，我们有战狼就够了。
但又似乎踮踮脚也还够得着。
富婆倪虹洁找中年徐峥，邓小闲的徐峥找拖油瓶离婚女性，对男人的要求这么低的吗？一个文艺的对你好的男人，要找中年男人也得是《人潮汹涌》里万茜找刘德华啊，看看索菲亚罗兰都知道找20岁的文艺大学生老乌。。。
2.人是最可怕的动物，政客又是人里面最可怕的动物！政治家特别需要演技！
之前看过数次罗翔老师的那条视频“律师为什么为坏人做辩护”，看了这部电影终于理解其含义。一个律师，不仅站在群情激愤的对立面推进程序正义，甚至站在昏庸的法律体系、草菅人命的政治体制、遗害千年的种姓制度的对立面来推进正义。庭辩的精彩程度不如同类的几部神作，但整个电影的思想高度是我们难以望其项背的。
"媒体的存在是为了报道真相 还是媒体所报道的一切都是真相？"
评论区跪族又定体问了哈哈。后一个小时确实出乎意料，从一开始的谋杀案，以为讲女性的安全，到煽动革命以为是颜革，媒体舆论，程序正义，学阀延毕逼死学生，到最后的政治惊悚。主题一变再变，感觉塞进了太多东西，导致每个都讲不好。最后十几分钟还要反转又反转，弄了一出复仇记，一出良心觉醒，特没意思。
你可以说这是某一部分的真实上海，也像是经由老乌讲述的索菲亚罗兰，像那双 Jimmy Choo，有一点真，又好像不是真的。到得后来，我们关心的早已不是真与假，而是人要如何直面自己的余生。几乎每个人都在海量细节和绵密台词的加持下稳稳立住，以至于连鞋匠的咖啡时间，我们也不会觉得有那么难接受。好的故事就应当这样讲。你说老白喜欢做饭，他就真的是贯穿全片地在做饭，在张罗点心，在餐桌旁生活。片尾微信对话框里，两个人一个没有标点，一个则一丝不苟地连明天见都要加上句号。你会因为这些被细心关照到的东西而信任讲故事的人。记住这个导演了。
不知道有多少在电影院大荧幕看的，或许窝在家配咖啡当背景音还算惬意，但是本人及女性朋友观影体验如坐针毡，入不了戏。
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