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".
选题很好，非常好，且直击社会痛点，但拍的冗长又乏味也是真的，偶有小惊喜片段，还算不错，三星。
16个孩子的意义就是每16分钟的意思，最后的标语有点多余了
女性被强奸可能一生都活在痛楚中，而那些强奸犯却换张嘴脸继续好好活着。都看到了吧，不，他们熟视无睹。
老生常谈的事，
剧本特好，演绎特好。她低沉的接受又挣扎，多么需要那一个慰藉的拥抱。
立意很好，也直戳印度的社会现实，可惜为了推进剧情顺利发展牺牲了一些逻辑和合理性，三星半。
邻近结尾处拍得很棒，反转也挺犀利，不错的印度电影。
这电影早点上映就好了，「误杀2」就能套拍这部了，起码更精彩些。不行，这部主角是女性，不适合肖央。算了，让他饰演校车司机，加点戏，和女主在幼儿园里多一些互动。这样最后揭秘时给观众更大震撼。
内容大于电影。在宣传上，印度电影逐渐有韩国电影那味儿了，敢于“自黑”。
也正是因此
这个国家的人装聋作哑，除非你对他们大喊大叫。
就是一点不明白，五岁孩子失手杀人，根据法律该如何裁定责任？监管人该承担什么责任？这个悲剧能在多大程度上避免？
比起弱点，桑爪更应该借这个片拿奥斯卡。估计是公司没好好操作。
国内买来翻拍的话，会以什么做切入点呢？贩卖人口？
【7.2/10】能猜到背后有隐情，老师不会真的伤害孩子，前面悬念即便做再好也不会很惊悚。印度女性生活在水深火热之中，所以从真相上来说并不新鲜，但在其环境下社会意义还是很大。本片制作应该挺大，搞得印度人好像都是在都市，人们生活得都挺光鲜，警察好像也挺高端，国家挺文明还有个厉害的女总理。电影最大的bug在一切都太理想化了，事情几乎都按着她一个菜鸟罪犯的掌控在发展，要么运气不错没出太大纰漏，男女两人反抗都被女主一人干倒了，男警官知道女主动机后，立马真心忏悔自我检讨，我们太想出名了忽略了伤害，总理也很圣人不顾危险同意来现场和罪犯面谈。最后反转我倒是没想到，但是不是也有点硬呢，那么一个坏人，从开始就表现得就是一个怂男人。
其实之前听过一位著名的法律学家说过，不给强奸犯判死刑是因为，如果判刑过重，可能会导致强奸犯破罐破摔，在犯罪过程中杀了受害者。
全剧浸透着悲凉，无助的感觉，桑德拉的演技无可挑剔，发自内心的悲苦，面无表情的苍凉，寻找亲人的焦灼都表现的很出色。
印度啊，电影拍出来了又怎样，结尾的字幕依旧揪心。不过，这片子似乎幼儿园老师很好当啊，小朋友都很配合。
【备注】每一个受害者背后都是一个家庭，每一次吞声饮气背后都是更可怕的隐忍报复，关注女性只能从女性入手
与今年的开端有异曲同工之处，似乎解决社会议题最硬核的方式不是问题本身，反其道而行之的放大却成了正解。这种社会根部的病态在放大镜下被暴露的体无完肤，犹如这部电影突如其来的一个个印度式切镜，闪的你不得不心中有数。
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