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".
74/100 Yeah it might be an old story but still hope for the legislative push by this film just like Korea.
1⃣️突然登上豆瓣热搜榜的印度电影：一名幼儿园老师绑架了16名小学生并提出一系列要求时，不仅震撼了孟买警察和城市，而且在全国引起了反响
印度的社会问题还是相当严重的，很了不起能有这种片子出来，只可惜他们政府依旧不作为
我们国家禁枪就是好，如果一个大美女拿枪指着我，我肯定特别兴奋，怎么可能像那个男的怂成那样，没法看了。
结尾真的太炸了，虽然知道导演不可能无缘无故叫个酱鱼司机来，但还是没想到是这么玩的，女主在警察面前很暴徒，在孩子面前很善良，这个社会让她变成这么疯狂，太心疼了
74/100 Yeah it might be an old story but still hope for the legislative push by this film just like Korea.
印度版《恐怖直播》，用挟持人质的方式道出在印度司空见惯的强奸案，故事不算新颖，但是一上来直入主题毫不含糊，剧情推进迅速，紧张刺激的氛围足够吸引人，但结局处理还是太过理想化。总体还是能引起观众的关注和思考，意义大于形式的一部片子，值得一看
看到后面忍不住哭了 当一个女性遭受了性犯罪 不管程度如何 对她的一生都会造成不可磨灭的印记 可往往犯罪者却又是最容易脱罪的 或者受到较轻的惩处 对于不能约束自己的动物 就要用重刑震慑他们 让他们恐惧 希望全世界的女性都能有力量保护自己 我会为所有女性电影打满分
电影里三位主要女性的角色都很出彩，棒！其他女性角色也给人留下了深刻的印象。
陈思诚看完电影拍着大腿让公司把这个本子买下来，马上订机票去泰国拍《误杀3》，这次肖央不能演第一主角了，那就演那个警察角色吧。
看到揭露事实的时候还是很心碎，结尾的三行字震撼过全片。
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。
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~
5⃣️被忽视的女性情绪、被忽视的边缘诉求唯有通过暴力才可以解决吗？结合时事 不寒而栗
私心想给五星，但电影也有不完美。留下一星给未来无限可能的她们。
这位支离破碎的女性在最后得到了舆论的支持，some kind of伸张了正义，简直是科幻片。片尾的数字触目惊心：印度平均会有8位女性在我们看电影这两小时里遭到强奸。
我不同意这个提案！！！处以死刑太便宜他们了，直接处以宫刑更为合适！！！
失职的警察，冷漠的旁观者，毫无悔意的强奸犯，拿起枪械的受害者。是时候醒来了。
近期看过最佳的女性题材电影，竟然是印度拍的
选材很好，主题立意很高，但叙事上bug太多，经不起细细推敲，主角的一切都太过于顺利，顺利到不合理。 简单来说就是简易模式版的《王牌对王牌》+《3年A班》+《恐怖直播》，印度在翻拍电影这方面真的厉害。
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