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".
电影意义大于本身。法律的设定如果都需要电影来警醒，国家武器已经是聋子的耳朵了。
躺平坑底是因为剥丝抽茧后的初衷和那句:这个国家的人装聋作哑 如果不对着他们的耳朵喊 他们很容易选择忽略
一个女人需要孤身奋战、耗尽一切才能换来少得可怜的话语权，而现实要比电影黑暗得多，片尾字幕印象深刻，在观看这部影片的两个小时内，就有8位印度妇女被强奸，同为女人、同样身处亚洲，对于这种恐惧十分感同身受。看之前以为会很类似《裙角飞扬的日子》，看完发现探讨的问题确实不同，题材很好，可惜的是拍得一般，制造悬疑氛围用力过猛，几处镜头+音效真的很印度，废镜头废戏一堆，高潮来得太晚，立意大于影片本身。
有蹭热点之嫌 有狗血 有刻意 可是坏人就是要被惩治啊 为什么受害者还要承担更多呢 记住这个星期四 不要再置若罔闻
那个枪本不该由她来开，那个时间本不该落后这么久…
【NO.44】至少还有希望和期待，国内翻（chao）拍（xi）是不是已经安排上了……
影视工作者也在用自己的方式表达
最近围绕女性的电影，越来越多，什么时候不再刻意强调也就取得了成果。
7分。绑架只为获得发声的话语权，将强奸搬上台面，唤醒装聋作哑的群众，推动立法。揭露政府腐败堕落，媒体妖言惑众，套路化和节奏掌握的不错。镜头不算突出，偶尔还有突兀的特写推镜头就很尬。
印度女性面对的环境确实恶劣，以这种非现实的手法去警醒立法者，更像是文学创作的无奈之举，以假想的女性总理的同理心而促成这种后续立法上的跟进，受害者何其多，体制是根源，印度一直是个分裂的社会，却有全世界最多的年轻人，贫穷却欲壑难填，得不到满足的发泄在女性身上，法律作为最终手段在这里显然没起到改变现实的作用，才需要更进一步的强有力的立法。
再次验证，印度韩国的电影都把我们远远甩在后面。虽然他们电影照样拍，恶心奇葩罪行还一直犯……
强奸之国都直面自己的问题了，什么时候把给大家锁喉的铁链取下来。
我非常同意的评论是：电影意义大于形式。故事&人物&拍摄手法，除了开头结尾，我真的只能给两星。还有那个恐怖片版的运镜，我希望导演反思一下 全片最佳，是最后的英文结尾字幕
立意很好，高潮戏尚可，其他都差了些
3.5 立意大于电影观赏性。女性的反抗和发声，需要用16个儿童来威胁，才能引起国家的重视，实在是很无奈。强奸犯该死刑这么理所应当的惩罚，需要一个个曾遭遇强暴而毁了一生的女性去申诉创立，她们被轻视，被污蔑，被污名。而强奸犯却可以大大方方地继续工作，娶妻生子，多么可笑的不公。 任何一个文明的国家都应该支持强奸犯阉割或者死刑。
充分运用韩国电影语言的印度电影，不得不说讲社会问题的片子还是逃不开韩片套路。
很久没看过印度电影了，或者说是几乎没有完整的看过一部印度电影，如果贫民窟的百万富翁算印度电影的话，自那以后就没看过了，百万富翁之前都没印象了。星期四，还可以吧，除了一些人物刻画比较单薄和没有说服力外，其他都还可以，最主要是没有忽然冒出来的歌舞，矮子里拔将军，有进步是好事，值得表扬一下。
话题电影，话题电影也要仔细编排，每次给女主推特写那配乐和镜头用的很出戏好伐。女主某些角度太像盖尔加朵了，尤其笑的时候。
立意非常好 剧情运镜音效有点过 像印度快手小短剧
投资不大，但YAMI这大女主，带劲，过瘾。配乐和剪辑，都应该给加鸡腿~
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