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".
哈哈哈，在印度人眼里，美国就是背信弃义的叛徒吧
孩子不是自己的，也可以做父母！
所有的倒戈和反水都视若儿戏，窜谋半天尽是无聊的废话文学。
本片在暗示，(魔法世界) 联合国选举被一种神秘东方力量所左右。
题材相当不错，表现的是代孕的问题。可惜导演将其拍成了肥皂剧，让影片缺乏深度。
为了这个题材多打一星吧，前面都很好，又好笑题材把握也不错，大概从生下来是个正常娃开始崩坏的。。。其实还挺好奇这种法律问题怎么界定的，以及真是个唐氏儿该怎么抚养。。。
我哭得好伤心。
讲了代孕 没讲完 最后又升华到了讲人性 打了个代孕的擦边球而已 一般了
像我这样腐癌入脑，有cp嗑就万事大吉的人都无法原谅这玩意，啥！也！不！是！二十分钟能讲完的破事硬是搞了两个半小时，全片精华只有魔法基佬伴的十分钟二人转，其他建议睡过去。全国疫情给了它脸了，不然开分最多3
题材相当不错，表现的是代孕的问题。可惜导演将其拍成了肥皂剧，让影片缺乏深度。影片在角色的设置上，先设定购买的美方与出售的印方，然后又以民族属性划了条道德界限，并据此批驳美国夫妻的自私与印度人的无私与博爱。至于代孕的现实问题及道德困境，导演则无暇顾及，或者说没有能力进行深入探讨。好在故事热热闹闹，观影过程并不沉闷。
动作戏太少等不到等来的是基友大型分手现场，主线淹没在爱情亲情和基情的合家欢之下也只有一点点神奇动物的戏份，最佳的蝎子那段又黑色又幽默但转瞬即逝。三星全是情怀分。
题材不错，不仅印度，乌克兰更是整个欧洲的代孕国家，女性商品化，工具化，不得不让人思考这政府是什么玩意。
本来可以拍成喜悲剧，结果每个人都成了圣母，所有问题都靠每个人的高尚道德完美解决
电影感觉有点平凡了，应该再深度反映一些客观问题，让电影更有深层次的表达代孕这个问题有诸多风险的含义，虽然最后那对美国夫妻与自己和解了，把代孕的孩子还给了代孕妈妈，他们收养了一个孩子，但是这个电影也深层次的说明了，代孕风险很大，既然有了生命，就不应该随意抛弃。
多线叙事严重影响了节奏，缺少一幕分量足够的高潮戏
受害者不一定完美 施暴者必定有罪
8.不要再卖腐了感觉不出一丝一毫的爱意 要我硬磕就有点过分了吧
像我这样腐癌入脑，有cp嗑就万事大吉的人都无法原谅这玩意，啥！也！不！是！二十分钟能讲完的破事硬是搞了两个半小时，全片精华只有魔法基佬伴的十分钟二人转，其他建议睡过去。全国疫情给了它脸了，不然开分最多3
本来以为是探讨代孕，没想到也探讨了血缘和亲情，希望每一个孩子都能有爱他们的父母
后半段升华了，伦理困境，看似圆满解决，但终究不代表合理合法，婴儿不是玩具，只是说明生者养者为母非亲生也可为母，后续的成长得不到保障就不会这么圆满了，这种风险最后都由弱者和其所处的社会承担。
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