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".
电影不应该是工具，无论对上面还是对下面来说，但针对眼下现实这几乎是不可避免的
故事很震撼，电影不太行。原以为是个单纯的jian杀案，然后发现是为了阻止举报的仇杀，最后才知道是为了选举设计的一出戏。一开始以为律师是坏的，结果发现律师是好的。一开始以为警察是好的，结果是坏的。本来信息量就已经非常大了，最后一部分又用闪回的方式试图讲清楚律师与政客的恩怨，试图讲清楚律师是如何被冤枉的，警察是如何看清现实后帮助律师的。最后这部分我觉得再拍一部电影也很紧凑，而本片只用了十来分钟闪回，观众只能大概猜测一二。所以电影最大的问题是顾此失彼，头重脚轻，结构是不平衡的。
而它的主题公正和法治，我觉得法治已经深入我国民众心底了。
突然觉得 很无奈
片中台词：1.媒体的存在是为了报导真相，还是媒体所说的一切都是真相？……2.政治家最大的武器你知道是什么吗？情感，公众的情感，是疯狂，他们的思想、智慧、还有决策，都会被这种疯狂给推翻，一旦被这种疯狂所煽动，他们就不只是党内员工了，他们会成为信徒，我们要点燃他们的情感，当他们因为这种情绪而忘记其他一切的时候，我们就能实现统治。……3.…为了维持权利，为了重获权利，这四个人只是他们的工具，选择那四个人，购买那四个人，并杀死那四个人。他们哪来的自信？… 这种自信就是本国的政治，法官大人。让提出问题的人闭嘴的政治，让指责的人戴上手铐的政治。但无论你如何试图让他们闭嘴，无论你把他们关进哪座监狱，都会有人提出问题，而且，必须有人回答。因为这个国家不是任何人的父亲的私有财产，这是我们的国家！我们的！
律师是阐述的是不是就是真相 他哪有时间做那么多功课
诸如韩国印度等大部分国家在电影里能够触碰的话题尺度要超出我们太多，这类影片的受众靠别人的作品来反观自身，从而获得某种程度的心理慰藉和释放。与我们内心不可告人的期待基本一致，这也是很多印度影片在我们这里获得好评的心理基础。就拍摄手法而言，印度导演多少年始终固守的抒情手段、渲染技巧都太过陈旧，叙事的节奏与逻辑就好像在做复制粘贴，所以在印度干导演的难点全部来自内容输出方面。一部将政治、女性、教育、司法体制糅合在一起的犯罪片，后半部分密集的翻转让人生厌，尴尬不说，漏洞百出。
哪有什么真相
21世纪会是印度的世纪，越南电影也分级了，都在进步！
一边跪，一边哭。
反转着实牛逼
就是最好的帮凶
题材大胆，多重反转，已经很好看了，秒杀如今的一众国产电影
结尾反转略显刻意，电影的主题和情绪煽动性极强
后半段的反转略精彩~结尾有些拖沓，不干脆~
属实是给我看笑了，虽然知道每一步要表达什么，但这也走的太笨拙了；全片除了导师压榨博士那一段，没有一处像是超过10岁的人写的
不剧透，太精彩！对咱们也有深刻的警示意义。
近两年印度这种社会题材电影，总是想装进去的内容太多，满则溢，再加上全程垫bgm不停渲染情绪的拍法，总归看多了会让人疲劳。
可以剪的更好看。
印度电影在亚洲已经攀上顶流！
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