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".
除开理想般的结局外，整个情节跟中国社会真的大差不差啊，极有代入感。看过好几部印度的lgbt电影，温暖。整个亚洲的lgbt影片近况：韩国走BE美学、印度走温情，国产啥也不是☄️☄️☄️
他们的幸运在于家人都友爱，有强大的心理支撑，揭开真相后又包容。感觉是同性宣传片
应该说，这片子拍的还算不错，尤其是比较接地气——接印度🇮🇳的地气！LGBT的片片，一般最容易拍成类型化，相反宝莱坞的这部片片拍的很有印度特色，并且结局很圆满——圆满的大结局，本身也是印度电影的特色。这部片片的贡献在于：在一个发展中国家，在今天能拍出来就是贡献，不但拍出来了，而且还放出来了——也是对普通人的一种教育，尤其是这片片的故事编的很世俗，很平常——庸俗大众更容易接受。很好的片片。
而且在同性婚姻这个层面进步意义巨大
形婚夫妻终被发现而出柜的故事，电影时间虽长，但却非常细腻地把人物、剧情一一交代，题材现实，相处的细节在真实中又结合了喜剧特点，尴尬嬉笑中把社会家庭冲突完美展现，拍得好，三观正，大团圆的结局，温馨大胆。
电影真的很一般，但是我嫉妒啊，嫉妒到发狂嫉妒到眼红。(彩虹游行那段真的很好🌈，自然的美是因为自然是彩色的)
同一个世界同一种催婚， 7.5分。 尽管你已经看过无数版类似的剧本， 你不得不承认这个版本的编剧不差， 叙事流畅， 镜头感和演技也不弱。 至于道德和文化， 100个人100种看法， 立场不同罢了， 从电影技术来看私以为值得观赏。
7.5/ 电影自反性，影像就是邪教，就是说服他人相信。
电影本身可能只有两分吧，Pride添上1分。不知道什么时候国内才能再有LGBT题材的电影。这些作品除了娱乐，也有可能会给一些人精神上的支持和鼓励。
在国内刚刚知道什么是同妻形婚的时候，印度这个曾明确同性恋违法的国家拍出来这样一部电影。
这个题材印度来拍好新鲜，有动容~只要有真情，男同女同结婚也很美好～
男主出柜和彩虹游行时好感动！不必拍出个喜宴来 这样便是个好剧本！
虽然表达方式的喧闹和合家欢形式的 但内核却是现实而悲伤的 甚至越喧闹就越悲伤。抛去印度现在也能直面这个话题之外 男主的直男思想设置以及家族形形色色的反应都没有落入俗套 反而显得真实。
只能说意义大于影片本身。对影片本身而言，其实还是套路了。但印度，可以可以
好甜！好甜！最后画面停留在五口之家的时候本人流下了最真诚的彩虹色泪水啊！
《布莱尔女巫》的魂魄依然附着在这些外表奇怪的影片里，它居然更大胆的向观众招魂，但同样的互动式体验与惊喜在乔丹特那部更为纯粹的《午后的演出》一览无遗 ，残留下来的温情不冷不热，如果当前伪纪录片的路线就是不断重复《布莱尔女巫》、甚至是那部稍微有些改变的《鬼影实录》，那我不知道除了猎奇与自我感动，它还有什么内容可言。
印度最近用心思动脑子的电影越来越多了，而我们在30年前也是可以拍《喜宴》的。
不俗套不过于正能量
蛮有信心在三十岁之前out
7.5/10 我同意友邻关于porn的说法 哈哈哈哈哈
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