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".
社会现实向的叙述性电影。滥用的国家权利，腐败的公职人员，以及以及命如蝼蚁的平民。即使如蝼蚁，也努力需求生存的美好，和尚存的那道正义的微光。如果不那么冗余的话，可能会更好一些。
很可悲的一件事是，当不公正发生时，低种姓并不能通过任何方式讨回公道，最终还是要依靠高种姓的良心。
印度政府虽然与我们水火不容，但是他们电影的优秀常常让我无地自容，电影的瑕疵就是结尾一个给了一个人正义，这个人却是个死人，活人却只有一个道歉，这也可能是创作组给我们深深的暗示。
这是真实事件改编吗？前半段真的太绝望了，钱德鲁正义之光。
故事好，拍得没有那么的强悍。略显冗长，去掉歌舞加快节奏。可能还会再好一点。
我宣布这电影是我的年度最佳！越往后越精彩简直扣人心弦！律师的正义勇敢聪明是一方面，丈夫已经死了也拒绝要赔偿战斗到底的妇女更是让我感动ToT结尾小女孩的二郎腿真是满满的希望！太好了！哭泣！
我总觉得imdb对印度电影的评分偏高，这个不算
为弱者求正义加分了，有个迷思？为啥印度、韩国这种社会现实电影拍得很煽情、动容，但事实却进步很慢，相比于中国，是我们更看重实干而忽视了拍电影的叙事技巧吗？
真是人靠衣装马靠鞍，男主穿正装跟条纹T恤完全不是一个人。 （这个评分为啥这么高感觉就中规中矩啊（最近看了两部印度片 那边刑讯逼供也太可怕了
印度又一部超级震撼的电影，题材火爆，节奏把握严丝合缝，虽然带有一定的理想主义色彩，但思想性极其深刻，印度电影已经在引领世界电影的走向了。
有点太神话男主了 但是基于真实故事还是挺有意义的
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
印度电影从不会让我失望！前三十分钟就非常好了。去年光看了简介我就没什么兴趣，到2022年想想2021整年都没看过好的印度电影，无奈看看这部。对不起，2021我错过了这部电影。原来是共产主义电影。想起国内那个偷窃的妇女，被带去警察局，她的幼女饿死在家中的故事，也是security系统的问题，可以拍
在以前的印度电影中很少看到的政治派系斗争的影子，不断描绘的令人发指暴行与无耻谎言，让人感到这世界上没有安全的地方。
没找到好的翻译，观感体验很差，需要了解一下印度的背景知识才能看懂
至少在电影方面我们没有资格嘲讽印度。如果还有人说：他们能拍又怎么样，拍了还是一样的情况。那我只能觉得可悲，因为不能拍的人在嘲笑可以拍的人。
本以为是像《钢琴师》那样的反转悬疑片，结果是《辩护人》这样的人权斗争片。片子本身的节奏没什么问题，正气凛然。不过律师的破案过程过于平顺。不过类似这样的揭露黑暗面的影片，国产的还是应该再多一些。
最近平顶山刘玉琨事件。。。痛心
他们放走毒蛇与幼鼠，不会拒绝别人的求助，
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。
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