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".
不讳疾忌医，能正视问题，就有解决问题的可能。
印度电影有的问题，它全都有，节奏冗长、无节制的歌舞、主角光环强大、角色扁平：好人伟光正，坏人丑恶无比。胜在故事讲述得还行，不至于像其他印度电影，连看都是煎熬。
震撼、愤怒、敬畏，印度在很多人眼里依然落后贫穷充满犯罪，但这个国家敢于正面自己的缺陷，总好过一片歌舞升平，把肮脏龌龊埋葬隐藏。
与我第一次看预告片时的想象有些不同，我倒是希望拍的神幻一点，后三十分钟太说教了。
非必要不看印度电影，出发点不错，多少有点在侮辱智商，给你的美国人大哥去看吧！
与思悼相比要轻松许多，黑白画面颇有山水意境，不过对昌大故事的演绎总觉得有些多余。
跟 A Quiet Man 有点类似，都是 异乡人/外来者 的故事模式。人物弧光很完整，反体制化的若铨，和先被体制化又挣脱的昌大。
超越的思想、精彩的人生，是动人的电影，更一点点描绘出复杂深沉的历史图景和残酷现实。好看！
印度电影有的问题，它全都有，节奏冗长、无节制的歌舞、主角光环强大、角色扁平：好人伟光正，坏人丑恶无比。胜在故事讲述得还行，不至于像其他印度电影，连看都是煎熬。
误杀3有了，印度政府怎么放任这些辱印电影全世界传播？
妻子一次次不畏强权，被部落首领威胁，警察威胁，更高地位的人威胁，数次以为她，一个失去丈夫，怀孕带着女儿的农村妇女即将对命运妥协，拿着协商的钱，过下半生时，她都选择挺起胸脯站起来，与其说是律师伸张正义，不如说是颠覆低种族人的一种反抗。
印度电影有的问题，它全都有，节奏冗长、无节制的歌舞、主角光环强大、角色扁平：好人伟光正，坏人丑恶无比。胜在故事讲述得还行，不至于像其他印度电影，连看都是煎熬。
打五星不是为了影片质量，五星是为了那些底层无法发声的人们。
是一部和安静的电影，大部分时间还挺轻松的，只是徒弟当官的部分，现实有凸显了它的苍白。最后当然有另一种安静，一种愿做平凡之人的一种生活态度。这种师徒关系，是养人的。
在流放地，做个黑色的无名者。明净之物，可寄托我心。
不用说百年之前，即便是当下，也有很多人只能写自己的“玆山鱼谱”。看了一些近代史，最令人感慨的是风风雨雨之下依然坚持下来的那些人。可是，可是，道阻且长，何处求索？
猛烈讽刺了警界的黑暗，但还是克制了：总警监保有良心，叫女主姐姐穿上裙子的老警员也保有良心。电影上映审查局：嗯，允许上映
不用说百年之前，即便是当下，也有很多人只能写自己的“玆山鱼谱”。看了一些近代史，最令人感慨的是风风雨雨之下依然坚持下来的那些人。可是，可是，道阻且长，何处求索？
没想到在这一年的结束时候，我终于看到了这一年最好看的电影。幸运啊！
多希望我们的导演也拍一拍我们古代的文人，那些才是我们的文化自信，而不是某战役和某战役...
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