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".
最后的处理方式处理的极好
真的无法想象，我们的文化进步远远低于印度，电影里，基佬拉拉形婚，互相帮助。领养出柜接纳，互相支持。爱就是爱，希望国人思想能早日打开，作为lgbtq一员，必须做出努力呀～
社会性不够，艺术性也没有，属于是比较平庸的商业片。但还是三星鼓励吧，头一次从印度电影里边看到了唯美小清新-_-
把LGBT个人认同、社会认同的现实压力通过诙谐幽默表现出来，隔壁比我们玩得好
至少在直面问题，虽然happy ending比较童话
很宝莱坞式的电影 讲述了很多现实的问题 同性情侣 形婚 等等除了乌托邦式的美好外 会遇到现实的压力以及精神的压力 这不是一条好走的路 但是如果身边有人支持 就会不一样 整体不再是浓重的色彩 而唯独在游行时 那彩虹旗却鲜艳夺目 明亮热烈 最后他们都做了自己 最后他们有了最好的结局 希望在现实中 越来越多的情侣 也可以有好的结局 爱就是爱 不应该被区别对待 印度能够拍出这样的电影 我真的蛮惊喜的
7.5/ 电影自反性，影像就是邪教，就是说服他人相信。
就，很真实…前面的部分放在中国来说完全不违和。而且导演真的很懂gay，里面的肌肉，gaydar，然后许多gay也存在的男性毛病，都有体现。男主妈妈的反应真的算是很好了。印度的审查制度真的远超我国了🥲这样的结局真的太圆满了。什么时候我们才能有gay pride parade啊？羡慕子。（男主身材🉑）
剧情的走向还是很理想化的，虽然中间穿插了一些lgbtqa+群体的面临的困境，但总归还是一部充满美好愿景的“童话”，观影过程还是很轻松的。只是真的不要形婚不要形婚不要形婚啊！
3.5如果说拉吉·库玛2015年主演的《阿里格尔》是对377条有罪化阴影下压抑现实的自由之爱的歌颂的话，那么他今年的这部电影则用一种轻喜剧的方式探讨了平权运动背后更加广阔的社会议题，也暗示着印度社会意识的觉醒与进步，当然这个发生在北阿肯徳邦穆苏里美丽山脉下的故事同样带有宝莱坞式的夸张和童话色彩，但至少在对形婚主题的扩展中呼吁了更多的法律层面的诉求，在对传统家庭、家长制度、生育议题、性别和偏见的解构中还原了主人公们自由的抗争的正义与成果，电影虽然冗长，但好在有许多的小细节来调剂，另外电影中有一段果阿度蜜月和在赫里德瓦尔逛巴扎的场景，看到许多熟悉的风景，非常想能够快一点重返印度
印度都拍出来了啊。。。。。能想象我全程都在替换成中国面孔代入在看是怎样一种感受吗。。。。没什么新花样，放在欧美就是套路了，但在东亚刻画得非常应景，每一个妥协都很现实。看完挺难受的。
对男性的吐槽好到位，是gay之前还是男的~~爹跟比女儿还小的女的调情倒不觉得羞耻？反倒是女儿找了可爱女友羞耻、、
这段时间看的印度电影都属于立意好但故事就是讲不好的类型，节奏拖拉故事衔接也有毛病，但好笑的地方是没被影响到，比如带老妈回家的那段。
为宝莱坞喝彩！！并没有流于形式，这是在深刻探讨，勇敢触及并突破！
印度都已经能拍出这样的LGBT电影了，真是得祝贺了。未出柜的男同和女同被家里催婚，俩人只好形婚。结婚后他们与各自的爱人继续相爱，他俩的关系相当于合租室友。虽然女生的感情稳定，但男生的感情比较波折。我一度担心他俩会为了要孩子而勉强在一起，最后变直，还好电影没有狗血结尾。女生被迫出柜后，男生也主动出柜，俩人最后和各自的爱人生活在一起，还领养了一个孩子。这几乎是最完美的结局了。让人感动的是男主和女主的勇敢，以及双方家长的理解。整部电影都是轻松幽默的，有的桥段很好笑，也很感人。
#永结同心#好看。虽然太浮夸了，但喜剧效果和主演能抗啊。还有H&M真的好时尚😂
“你确定要抽血吗，我们可以改成去喝咖啡的”
最喜欢男主哭着给苏曼打电话那一段，如果男主这里说一句I love you，剧情就更加动人了。这是一种广义的爱，超越了性别，友谊和情义。
这年头几乎是只有在东亚影视中才能看到出柜的挣扎了。虽然影片超烂俗地用慢镜头来展现一见钟情，但走向真的很好，有好一阵子没在影视剧里见到这样自我认同的勇气了，是有价值的一部片。
很好呀 除了中段因为包袱设置得不高级显得有些拖沓，剧本结构和药神差不多的，完成度也很不错了
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