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".
那个前程似锦的女孩。人的生命不能只换来一场烛光游////行。不是这个代价。不能这么衡量。
剧情推进太刻意了。印度片的结局都只是让人意淫。当然，这个题材能拍出来非常不错
为什么明明是一部保护女性的法律，却有年龄限制？这是一个多么值得思考的问题！
一部现实意义超越电影本身的佳作。印度跟韩国很类似，总能非常勇敢地将国家存在的问题拍成电影。想起之前经典的《熔炉》，因为一部电影，改写国家的法律。有关印度女性被强奸的问题并不是什么新鲜事，却依旧震撼于片中借女主之口提到的官方统计数据：“平均16分钟，就有一位印度女性被强奸...”，除女性问题本身，电影同时也提出一个被讨论过无数次的问题：平民投诉无门，最后是否只能诉诸暴力来获得国家机器的关注？
就在你观看电影的128分钟里，有8个女人被强奸了！ 终于，有人拍了这样的电影！ 你找到强奸我女儿的犯人了吗？Case 122. 为什么指责受害者？视TA们为耻辱？
故事有点太弱了，悬念感较差，一开始我就猜到了女主为何杀人，也猜到了她其实一个小孩也没杀，也猜到了那个送蛋糕的司机肯定是帮凶。通过反社会的方式来宣扬正义，这样的故事要拍好，悬念感 + 叙事节奏 + 富有冲突感的情节（杀人质、警匪对峙等等）缺一不可，可惜这个故事里一个也没做好。如果是本土电影，那么必要的引人共情的叙事背景肯定是必要的。一个弱女子，对着警察放了两次枪，竟然毫发无伤，印度警察确实太孬了。要不是因为女主太美了，我最多给2星。
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」。
印度人拍现实题材发力要比韩国电影更狠啊，高举高打，形式感拉满，我很喜欢，因为故事开头有点像，而且同样都很有形式感，画面的感觉又特别像误杀1，所以看得时候数次想到误杀2，但落脚点和出发点都比误杀2更深刻严肃一些，真的很不错，很工整很好看，缺点就是故事的节奏其实非常紧凑，但呈现出来给人的感觉还是有些拖沓
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
阿三始终在电影里找到幻想的正义感……现实该怎么烂还是怎么烂！每16min就有妇女儿童受到伤害的阿三国改变不了邪恶现状……那么多年拍电影意淫和谐社会可悲哦……
又是一部套路化的庸俗之作，能不能有點創新。
印度人拍现实题材发力要比韩国电影更狠啊，高举高打，形式感拉满，我很喜欢，因为故事开头有点像，而且同样都很有形式感，画面的感觉又特别像误杀1，所以看得时候数次想到误杀2，但落脚点和出发点都比误杀2更深刻严肃一些，真的很不错，很工整很好看，缺点就是故事的节奏其实非常紧凑，但呈现出来给人的感觉还是有些拖沓
7.0 还是一样的故事，但这样的“发声”片不嫌多。
虽然剧情经不起推敲，但很佩服印度敢拍这样的电影。。。。
三星给印度，一星给印度的“好邻居”，印度的未来是光明的吗，我不能断言，但我祝她越来越靠近文明。是世界的懦弱与包庇逼得女性化身斗士，她们深陷仇恨，却不将仇恨散播，舍命成仁，灌溉善之花开满大地
所以，让一个国家在法律制度上有革新，真的只能通过以暴制暴的方式才会有所成效么？
又是一部立意高于电影本身的作品。老实说这电影陈思诚看到了也不敢拍啊。
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。
一般这种类型片，男性罪犯要求的是保护家人，或者像小丑要求无政府主义。女性罪犯要求的是修改法律用以保护所有弱势群体。是不是只有受害女性被逼的要杀死你们的孩子，你们才能听她的控诉？如果这样的“弱者”多一点，可能强暴还会少一点。别再欺负女人，否则让你们断子绝孙。
请国内之前叫好的同类型电影误S2学习一下如何不做作的让一个被逼上绝路的人为正义劫持。同时学习一下公众与媒体在面对这些时如何不做作的煽情。若是能再从电影立意上再深入一些，就更好一些，当然这事也不能奢望，毕竟一个拍电影的，说了不算。但也有药神这个例外的出现。
Copyright © 2015-2023 All Rights Reserved
