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".
拍摄手法一般，甚至很老套，难得的是这样的题材，而且还是在印度，再过10年中国也未必拍得出这种题材的电影。
印度电影因为受众原因，通常拍得很长（据说影院里好避暑），表现手法中规中矩，通俗易懂，艺术性一般。但也正因此，电影受众极广。印度民众对于心灵和社会问题的关注度与思辨爱好，千年邻居只能汗颜。
你可以有一百种理由嫌弃印度，唯独印度电影不行！我们在印度电影中看到了人生的深度，也看到了这个国家的贫穷与残酷，但总有那么一丝光温暖着人心，这可能就是印度电影最大的魅力。
但更应该当作印度社会矛盾的缩影来看，印度城乡之间的割裂更加显著，城市里西装革履的律师可以引用判例法作为突破口，法官们也乐于倾听和秉持公正，司法的光辉却从来没有照耀过乡村。
和药神一个思路，人物脸谱化，事件简单化，严肃议题类型片化，我也不会用“连XX都能拍出关于XX的电影”这种话来夸人了，毕竟你连漫威都看不了，人家拍个你拍不出来的不很正常嘛
英雄式人物拯救穷苦众生..(竟然一句话概括完了。。这种理想式न्याय的实现自然要褒奖，but哪能港呢，似乎too easy..当然片中也不是很easy毕竟男主亲自下乡实地调查了...只不过在洼地当下比如आठ孩女这种全国रहना &Rap-ist代言领सरकार补助的照耀下，本片的正义到来像是一种非现实的存在。所以洼地的人性消亡已经超越印度了yeah..另，这片泰米尔语拍的吧，还DISS了一下印地语～
富强 民主 文明 和谐 自由 平等 公正 法治 爱国 敬业 诚信 友善
这是一个底层劳动者对真诚品质的坚持，是一个妻子对丈夫爱的坚持，是一个律师对正义公正的坚持。
国产剧水平的节奏也没拖烂这个绝好的故事，天朝何时能有司法正义片？
当你觉得世界病的不轻周围很多沙币的时候，这些历史上真实存在的人和真实发生的事，让你即使在漆黑的大海中央也能相信：这世界依然存在那样一类有神性的人，ta们的存在不为名、不为利，而是众生度尽、方证菩提。
我竟然看完了。感觉看完了一个电视剧。。哈哈哈
“当我们被杀的时候没有人会在意，但我们不能靠杀手的施舍生活”
太难受了，印度种姓制度真的丧心病狂啊！信仰本应该是救人的，但是在印度可以杀人。诛心啊！但是尽管如此，依然对于印度敢拍出来这样电影甚是欣慰。毕竟最绝望的是欲盖弥彰自我感觉良好的周遭。
7分左右，过于冗长，其中穿插的歌曲也是很让人出戏，估计印度人民喜欢吧，有些台词不错，但法庭上的张力不够，这种题材主要体现的就是冲突，对抗，心灵上的碰撞，而印度片却很喜欢在案件本身上下功夫着重描写，以至于人物显的很平，这点宋康昊的辩护人就直接秒杀了，该平静的时候平静，该爆发的时候爆发，把观众的情绪在恰当的时机点燃，而不是四平八稳的看一场审判这么简单。这部电影到底是把重心放在悬案的解题，还是放在律师的破案技巧，还是为种姓问题付出的心血，还是刻画底层人民没有尊严的生活，导演什么都想要，所以拉了不少时长，有些戏一场足够，太多就满了，离佳片还有不少差距
8.5分，这个片子激起了人的愤怒，所以才能有这么强劲的力量。
世界上任何地方都有黑暗，区别在于对待黑暗的态度。你以为藏着掖着别人就尊敬你？揭露了阴暗面别人就瞧不起？恐怕现实正好相反吧。敢于把顽疾和黑暗展示给世人，并指明是与非对与错，就这一点来讲印度就比中国强百倍和有希望。最后加上的一颗星完全是基于跟鸵鸟国对比的情绪化结果。
真实改编是本片最值得夸耀的地方 民主法制的建立和斗士愤慨激昂的斗志是现代人权主义建立健全文明社会的核心价值 片子的剧情和剪辑很标准不花哨 虽然有些镜头有些年代感 但叙事节奏一直在线 人物塑造特点鲜明且工整 而最值得称赞的是一个民族值得承认错误的气度和勇气而不是欲盖弥彰
剧情很虐心，一度我都想离席了，😂但是确实挺不错的，苏利耶的演技绝了，刚开始我都没认出来。故事情节流畅节奏快一点也不拖沓。
感觉是八十年代那种叙事风格，正派反派的理想主义。
资本主义国家的好处是什么都可以拍，但是拍了也没什么用。制度问题说到底还是人文问题，任何制度都是在人的操控下进行，人文落后，制度也无法挽救。最终救赎部落男子的，说到底，还是良心二字。可是，又能如何？印度的问题仍旧比比皆是，当人文落后，每个人都习以为常，良心二字又能起到多大作用？印度的种姓制度不毁，根本无解。
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