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".
拍了半部好片，前面半部还算有模有样，场面安排及气氛营造还颇有声势，也能从中看出很多好莱坞类似影片的影子。下半部则一泻千里，完全垮掉，当然这也是影片的整体构思出现了问题。印度人思考问题还挺爱走极端的。
我们有什么资格鄙视印度呢 至少他们的电影可以直视这个国家的阴暗 而我们却把扼杀在某个地窖里
女性孤勇者。多希望这是真实故事改编，多希望她最终促成了法案修改。
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……
可怕的現實…但實際上不以暴制暴根本無人在意…
黨呐喊都聽不到，無動於衷的時候，只能采取極端行動了。之所以極端是因爲是唯一的出路。
这种片子才是电影这种艺术存在的意义吧，为什么不是真实案例改编呢，毕竟在非战争年代能够沉稳、冷静、大胆、周全、无私地做这么一件惊天动地的事情不可想象。从警长到总理，但凡有一个环节是男性主导那女主都很难成功，这种共情引发司法进步的点子韩国用了最多，美剧《终局》下步估计也是这个走向，再看看国产的这些，真事不敢拍，一拍就毁。
“If I don’t ask, then they can’t say no.”
虽有瑕疵，但这个真的作为女性，我一定要打5星，希望更多的人看到。为啥印度这类的片就拍的很好……立意真的，太重要了
一部意义远远大于电影本身的电影 尤其是结束后的黑白字幕出来时 深深让我感到作为印度女性的无奈与悲哀 而这样的问题也远不止只在印度发生 女主很勇敢 令人佩服
也许是我先看了<误杀2>，也可能是因为我不喜欢这个平实到一点悬疑感觉都没有的摄像，更有可能是一直为了悬疑而悬疑的音乐。感觉电影可能在印度电影里还算可以，但紧张和悬疑，与<调音师>给我的感觉一样：为了悬疑而悬疑，为了反转而反转。
并不是女权，而是基本的正义和公理！影片最后借报纸说出“印度醒来的星期四”这样理想主义的标题时，我们该用怎样的内容去反哺被社会扎得千疮百孔的人们与和谐美好的社会呢？有的电影可以用逻辑、理论来侃侃而谈，有的拍出来就是一种胜利。
自你开始观看这部电影，据统计，在印度已有8名妇女被强奸...
一贯地有些节奏过缓，但是能拍这样的题材还是特别值得尊敬。
虽然剧情经不起推敲，但很佩服印度敢拍这样的电影。。。。
很少看印度电影，主要是怕看动不动就跳舞唱歌。这部电影还不错，说实话，女主演的挺好，就是不明白为什么用这样的方法复仇。如果少一些幼儿园部分，多点她复仇的准备可能更刺激一点吧。
成为改变，看到改变，也许是这部片子最重要的意义。
感觉全片就是个苹果耳机广告鬼片式的音效和转场显得很low 几乎到了最后五分之一才点出性侵的点 全片亮点就是片尾字幕了 不过敢拍能演还是羡慕
可怕的現實…但實際上不以暴制暴根本無人在意…
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。
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