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".
不过是一个并不高明的泄私愤而已，不过片尾的最后一句才是本片的中心思想（看影片这段期间全国已经有8名妇女被强奸！），本片是为了印度女性争取一些权益，引起政界关注。
用看似极端的方式，撕开自己的伤口，来挑战另一个真正极端并且烂进根里的问题，女主真的令人尊敬~
7.0 还是一样的故事，但这样的“发声”片不嫌多。
ps,这部电影中出现的印度女总理，强奸犯死刑，IC814事件均是真实发生过的，印度电影在纪念和反思历史，这真的值得学习，很有意义。
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。
立意挺好的，可是作为悬疑犯罪片来看的话，漏洞有点多。
3⃣️（小剧透）影片最大的亮点不仅在于讨论了“性侵害”这一女性痛点 还在于注重对侵害后的个体的心理创伤的描绘：长期的物质依赖、抑郁、亲密关系恐惧、依恋焦虑、PTSD等
滥竽充数的慢动作和无时不刻的失败配乐毁掉了这部电影——可这似乎也是宝莱坞电影的标配，可以看作是我们所熟知的MV电影。但问题就在于每次随着配乐的推镜头实在是突兀而可笑，和导演却无比热衷将其和稀烂的配乐结合，甚至连女主角在开着的手机视频都能突然用手机相机进行推镜头，这一再制造出十分鬼畜的画面，简直是用用最出戏的调度破坏了凝重的气氛。我和朋友都开始预测bgm和推镜头了，这成为了观影过程的最有趣之处。整体来说，剧本还是太老套了，所有的手法几乎都有前人的痕迹，但它的现实意义绝对是不容忽视的。
as per statistics,
3.5剪辑加分 配乐减分 不给电影叙事本身评分的话 就此主旨立意也值得多想一下 谈论翻拍误杀3这种也算大家的无奈调侃 我们除了在架空世界里隔靴评判 本土原创剧本对法案、机构、媒体环境的讨论空间模糊不定//女总统说情绪是一种资产。是对的，商业类型片外壳能和国民情绪资产关联 即使理想主义 也能有想象不到的良性回报（各方面的）
为什么强奸不能判处死刑？强奸不仅带来伤害，还让无数女性活在恐惧中，并不比死亡来得更加轻松。印度以超高的强奸犯罪率闻名，但至少他们拍出这样的电影，你必须大喊大叫来逼迫世人醒来。
个人呼吁没用，只得绑架集体了。韩片味拉满。题外话：印度人看待问题、拍电影时的迷之自信，实在令人迷惑。一方面，你会觉得多么自不量力，另一方面，他们付诸实践时的坚定，又那么令人肃然起敬。
这电影能看到国内外进几年好多同类型作品的影子，远到《3年A班》《沉默的真相》近到《开端》《新蝙蝠侠》……
胜在立意和前后呼应，技法太差，大量无用的镜头和强作惊悚感的配乐，表演痕迹也很重。补充一点，印度英语让我全程如坐针毡，还不如用本土语。
这让我想起误杀2类似的犯罪情节，如果一个社会把最普通的老百姓，最该被保护的受害者一点点逼成了罪犯，逼成了施暴者；一个生态把大家都愚化成了键盘侠和冷漠的旁观者，那么我们每一个人不仅是沉默的帮凶，更是下一个潜在的被害者和元凶。
制作不错，国际化了！！！
故事很扯，主题“深刻”又肤浅。问一个问题，如果强奸死刑，请问还有强奸受害者幸存吗？反正都是死，灭口了好还是放生好呢？拜托有点法制思维好吗，死刑能解决一切罪恶？
“If I don’t ask, then they can’t say no.”
这个，真的不行的，价值观有问题！除了诡异还是诡异！
期待也能看能到诸如此类更多现实题材，反应社会问题的国产电影
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