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".
印度的歌舞每次都是我最爱看的地方了。嘿嘿嘿，就感觉节奏十分不错，而且有的地方还好笑。
“这个大家族给了我很多的爱，但我还是会时常感到孤独。”深深地共情了……电影中间有点无聊，但还是一部能让我留出眼泪来的好电影。苏米被爸爸接回家的那段，我觉得爸爸心里有两种情感在搏斗，一种是不理解、接受不了，另一种是替女儿感到难过，难过这么多年她一个人在坚持着。后者战胜了前者，不然怎么会那么难过的讲出“为什么偏偏是我的女儿”。值得一看的电影。
赞赏印度和韩国的勇气，比中国人敢拍，可能他们没有广电总局这样机构存在。这部片子结尾太美好，但是后面的生活还会继续，问题还会存在。
片里的好多首歌都好好听啊，感情很浓郁。另外很多潮汕风俗展示，拍出了专属的潮汕片，虽然很多元素其实还可以再多加强一点，但做到这样已经很不错了。
永结同心原来是永结同心，中国文化真是博大精深哈哈哈哈
影片讲述了很多潮汕地区的风土人情，在祭祀风俗上的方方面面，其实是有起到宣传当地文化习俗的作用，潮汕地区给我们的印象也不再是之前那么死板。在这个充满人情味的地方，里面的人也在不断地适应迅速发展的社会，不会固步自封。
很多地方都看哭了，细水长流，先看了这部，确实很成熟了，但其实有点太电视剧了。
虽然但是，三段主角的情感经历也太水了，一见钟情然后光速确定关系，两个半小时的时长，何不认认真真讲好其中一段。
出柜场面感同身受得压抑 如同女主哭着对父亲说 这一切早已在心里预演过上万次 能想到最坏的结局 但依旧希望能被爱的人理解 /无论何时 都会为彩虹旗下自由的跳舞 亲吻所打动 love is love
2018年才将同性恋去罪化的印度，2022年已经拍出直面有关形婚, 同性恋领养方面的电影了！
老兄，这可是🇮🇳片诶！！！！！！！18年才正式废除JJ罪，22年就给得出这样的影视剧，这不得近乎满分支持下？！
硕士学历七八层楼那么高，可惜离过婚；
拍得很像生活纪录片。素人演员的表演很真实了。节奏不太行，到后半段让人完全失去耐心。
梦幻般的结尾 但现实已经很惨烈了 电影是可以梦幻理想一点的
上礼拜休假后从顺德回来，很多朋友问我到底是顺德好吃、还是潮汕好吃？我不假思索地说潮汕。我喜欢那里，所以我觉得那里什么都好。这部电影的取景应该是在汕头的南澳岛。事业有成的泽凯决定带女友回家，外省人和离异的身份 很难让守旧的母亲接纳，没有强烈的戏剧冲突 一切都很自然流畅，就像隔壁邻居家发生的事。全程无小窗地看完，前半部分拍得温馨又真实 有几处甚至忍不住笑出声，电影中的妈妈不是专业演员 但是却把潮汕妈妈的保守与贤淑原汁原味地保留。深圳城市与汕头乡间、科技发展与习俗传承、爱情与家庭，既有冲突又互相融合。看到泽凯拿出写着「潮汕方言三甲测试杭州卷」的时候，不由得想起很多很多年前 小乖教我说汕头话，我在电话这头像小孩一样咿呀学语，一切就好像是在昨天，但是像那样无话不谈的日子 之后再也没有了，只是那时我还不知道。
剧本太薄弱了，冲突，和解，都是很老套的部分，好在比较真诚，再好一点可以是潮汕版的四个春天。
特别好。青年无力撕扯故乡脐带，故乡则在叹息着接受新的规则。妈妈演的最好，但明显在都市的戏，导演就没有在汕头的灵动了，有点可惜。
很成功的小成本电影。刀子嘴豆腐心，挑剔保守却也勤奋善良的母亲形象塑造得鲜活立体。传统潮汕文化与都市文明的碰撞、择偶问题上代际观念的差别、母子之间的恩情与矛盾，影片想要实现多种因素的平衡实在不易，故不得不使人物形象在某些方面趋向与现实不甚相符的美好（例如女主除了离过婚几乎没有“缺陷”、潮汕母亲完全不看重日后的孙辈是男是女），从而实现一种让渡，如此才能为影片画上圆满句号。正如简·爱继承遗产，罗切斯特断腿眼瞎之后方终成眷属一样，影片的设定有保守主义之嫌，但已然是文明向前迈进的一步。一星给演妈妈素人演员。
领养领养领养!通讯录不会改变人的价值观哈哈
单说电影叙事的话会觉得还行，但是能这样拍且上映，真的太棒了吧，最后游行那一段很感人！
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