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".
尽管也是从头顺拐到尾的电影，毕竟也是为印度10亿人形生物拍的，多加一星吧。
无意义的事才最有意义呀～
伸张正义才是正能量，掖着不让说不让拍不是。
印度版辩护人，能拍出这样的电影，至少让那些底层人民看得到一丝曙光。
《捕蛇者说》。
青春是 渐行渐远 怀念 发呆 后悔 哭 笑 爱 讨厌 把握当下！
一个印度版的逆转裁判，但建立在更沉重的背景之上。印度电影除了艺术的功用外，还承担着教化功能。所以观众对片子的热情，有一部分源自于现实而非电影。
最大的玄学不是印度的宗教系统和各种各样千奇百怪的神，而是印度电影的时长。看别的电影，两个半小时已经很长，看印度电影，一看两个半小时，第一反应是这么短能行吗，看完果然觉得差口气儿，后面要是多三五分钟能把群众参与进来，意识被影响改变的地方像男主出场时一样再烘一下，把案件影响力的范围、层次感加深一点，且用画面展现出来会更好，现在低种姓、部落的平等权利那里后面没砸实，都是用语言表述的。以及当我们鄙夷、愤怒的时候，不要忘记最多苦难的地方也意味着最大觉醒的潜能。不然，为什么说浪子回头金不换呢。
这电影得分略低，我特意打了个一星去看了下意见一致的朋友们说了些什么，还真是稍微让我有些错愕。这跟韩版辩护人实际没有毛线关系哈，都不是一个立意和思维方式。看完这个电影，能让你知道人在没有社会秩序的维护下能做到有多恶。庆幸社会一直在进步，庆幸都在改变吧，这个时代全世界都变了很多，美国70年代也是各种恐怖如斯……暴力机构一点真的暴力对象搞错了，那还是很吓人的。印度的种姓制度还真是顽强呀，如此矛盾对立的国家，还真是社会学的一个奇迹。一边是部落的落后，一边是高清镜头带来的工业和科技的先进性，实在让人无法理解。看看我们之前的讽刺电影之导演技术，远远不能和这个相比。去过印度的人可能都可以感受到这种无处不在的难以理解吧。
出乎意料的好!是仅次于大人帝国的反击的质量。好哭好燃，野原新之助，FIRE!春日部防卫队，FIRE!青春，FIRE!
小新：“是风间啊!”
致敬每一位为底层人民奋斗的英雄，致敬每一个推广赞美这种行为的艺术家
印度电影终于发展到了直面种姓制度的这一天了
我觉得还是挺好笑的啊，非常蜡笔小新式的动画片，但是意外还有感动。可可爱爱
尽管印度目前为止人权还没得到完全的保护 但是至少人权律师还是有人权的。这片子imdb评分超过肖申克的救赎确实有点夸张 政治意义大于电影本身 确实因为阶级差距过大 所以看起来会比辩护人更残忍。
小新：“是风间啊!”
为可以激发“想做一个对世界有用的人”的激情，原谅它装逼、说教和喊口号了
低种姓部落猎人拉贾坎努因盗窃嫌疑在监狱遭受严刑拷打致死的事件，在身怀六甲的妻子多方奔走之下，于高法真相大白，警方匆促破案刑讯逼供任意栽赃打死人还蓄意掩盖的可耻行径在正义律师钱德鲁的不懈追查下终无辩驳，穷人要的不止是判决，还有希望。
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。
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