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".
翻转+翻转，指出了很多问题，但感觉都是各种煽动。民众和学生也太好煽动了。
良心发现，英雄出现，民众狂欢。
ET+Wall-E+末世余生，以汤姆汉克斯的气场在，不需要其他演员😂。
7分。给印度电影打分有时候真的挺矛盾的。一方面主题很宏大，或者无比正确，伟光正，就像不少人说的，能拍出来就是胜利。但另一方面如果刨去主题，电影的拍摄水准是在不太能看，不太能感染人。本剧涉及到了女性歧视，政府黑幕等等内容，上下两集两个男主，以及反转还是蛮突兀的，特别是下半段的律师部分，我就奇怪反派们做事就不做全套的么？？好吧，还是能拍出来就是好吧。。。
印度真的敢拍啊，这一部电影讨论的东西真的太多了，从女性到种族，从导师霸凌到强权操控，从学生游行寻求真相到媒体舆论操控真相。任何一个主题都够拍一部电影了，而本片尽管有这么多的元素却又合情合理。当然最后的结局有些理想化，还是个人英雄主义挑战强权。
3.4，印度电影，拖沓好像是不可或缺的一部分。
警察 司法 新闻 教育甚至民众的生命，不过都是政治的工具罢了。这电影太可怕了！
原来是阿甘、大兵瑞恩、幸福终点站啊。
结论说的是唯有在这么棒棒哒的体质下，普通人才有机会干趴下手眼通天的大坏蛋，才能伸张正义，才有能力还人世间一个公道。
没啥动作场面，科幻也只是背景，一个有点温暖的故事
旧金山为什么没被破坏，或者最先恢复生态，难道只有我一个人有这疑问？这片是讲芬奇，更是讲杰夫。末世废土，人类为了所剩无几的生存物质相互拼杀。芬奇命不久矣，为了自己的爱犬能够继续存活，他制造了一个机器人。他在教机器人杰夫生存技能时，一直在给杰夫灌输不能信任其他人类的观念。可是他在培养杰夫和小狗的感情时，却一直在强调“信任”二字。杰夫拥有很强的自我意识，在短暂的公路旅行结束之后，他终于找到了活着的意义。没有主人的机器人，成为了小狗的主人。“信任”在智慧机器和非智慧生物间得以延续。
本片我个人最不能
我们现在看印度电影，看韩国电影都陷入了一种下意识的“相对尺度”感叹，但是从“绝对尺度”上来讲，很多片子的质量是不行的，只是因为他们触碰的议题使得我们给出高分，这其实很令人感慨。这个电影铺满了音乐，每十分钟就安排慢镜头煽情，从任何角度去看都很陈旧。人们的共情共的都是电影之外的东西。
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
可以看出想表达的很多就是觉得节奏可以改改，前面铺垫好长最后十几分钟好赶
“都造出你一天了，你也该长大懂事了”...
谁能想到，末世之下人工智能是因为要照顾一条狗被创造出来呢？
不断反转之中，逻辑也合情合理。但是信奉甘地这个点我很不喜欢，非暴力不合作，本身就是”假革命“啊~
结尾反转略显刻意，电影的主题和情绪煽动性极强
一个完全不科幻的故事,讲人和人的连接,讲父亲和孩子,讲孤独和世界.
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