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".
哎呀这电影我吃不消啊！
前80分钟平淡无奇，后80分钟真相抽丝剥茧的过程看的头皮发麻，反转到怀疑人生。 印度拍电影总是有惊喜，什么题材都改拍，都能拍，集政治，人性，法律，悬疑，真相于一体的佳作
量太大太撑了，印度电影就这点让我有点水土不服
就是媒体的夸大，但是这时候又深思，虽然说ZZ这种不是凡人能理解的，媒体有坏有好，那么如何在公平的情况下监督媒体，这个也很需要深思一下。
因为想要探讨的话题比较繁多，所以在剧情的设置上感觉异常地丰腴，与其说是电影，节奏感上更像是一部迷你剧。印度的种姓，司法公正，政治，媒体，社会舆论……几乎都被覆盖了一遍，导演是很明白民众的情绪走向的，所以几处剧情在刻意为之的情况下确实非常有煽动性，但整体看来印度片对人物的刻画还是比较薄弱，许多情节冷静下来思考缺乏一定的合理性。不过看到片中许多台词，真的很难不对号入座，所以，我们的宿敌又是谁呢？
越是在信息社会快速发展的的时代，独立的思考越难能可贵。
多层反转，谁还不是个工具人呢？
在洪常秀之后，拍餐桌戏却无人动筷是不讲究的。
看出来导演的野心了，逆转裁判那段特别好，但是前后太多内容是更多的是给国民看的，外国人看起来会有点没那么容易共情。和故事相比，人物就有点脸谱。
连修鞋匠都端着咖啡杯的上海，
特别好，是《志明与春娇》的那种好。久违了，为这份惊喜，破例打个分表达一下。
地理历史空间、人物处境、人物关系、主题内核这几大要素，唯一跳脱悬浮直白感的是倪虹洁演的格洛丽亚这角色（很大程度靠的是演员自己的本事，剧本提供的发挥空间并不大）。特别要吐槽的是，这片装腔作势的配乐、歌曲起到的完全是负作用，适得其反，每次一出来都把活泼的市井气氛给一下子稀释不少浓度。2.5
小红书一样的电影，浮光掠影，用tag讲故事，看到一半开始回忆读到的各种赞誉，不至于吧？？
电影的调色媚如马伊琍，
影片想要表达的东西很多，强奸、种姓制度、权力政治、官僚贪腐、高校压榨、舆论操纵……关键是这样多元深刻的主题能够被编剧巧妙地用故事串联起来，虽复杂却不至于强硬。当然更佩服的还是印度人民如何将片子搬上大银幕。三层反转，有了法律意识我就意识到了结局肯定有反转。
土耳其绑架撕票，不妨碍夜夜笙歌；
虚浮缥缈的小资遐想和人物，几个女演员仍然是作为镶边符号，只会念碎片式网络流行语。说它消费女性吧，徐峥在里面鞠躬道歉自己先骂了；说它沪语多硬拗派头，时不时又冒出几句普通话，然而无意义，都是无聊片汤话。
原本以为只是一部讲“未审判前没有人应该在正义的名义下被处死”的法律常识的俗套片，没想到实际上是对印度问题的深层反思。除了北朝鲜等少数几个有伟大领袖领导的国家没有社会问题外，能用影视反思的社会总还有点渺茫的希望存在。据说反思深刻，本片很可能会与许多片子和书一样在豆瓣被条目消失。呜呼。
印度电影标准反转，略拖沓,庭审部分有些降智，差点看不下去。结尾些许潦草
所幸底色是徐峥。
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