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".
前面还在想，不至于杀人吧，后来道出实情才解释的通，她才5岁啊。最后没有言语的相拥，一切都释然了，情同母女的姐妹情。
人的主观概念太严重往往就会对事情有了主观臆断丧失对真相思考能力，所以有时不必去理会别人的看法和思想，结局不错终究血浓于水。桑德拉布洛克和肖恩复仇者谁的鼻子更大？
电影不算好看，但是话题却很严肃，阿三真的不可小觑。他们一直在反省，迟早会慢慢改变，然后慢慢进步。
大多数时候，你只有在他们的耳边大声叫喊，他们才有可能听到你的声音。
看了剪辑，这个电影很感拍。只是在zg没有这种题材，但是即便如此，那些人依旧对女性的困境不闻不问。做法有些偏激，但不极端又如何被看到呢？里面的路人也一样冷漠无情，为了娱乐流量，整个世界都如此没有人情味…
一个有法律知识的女性受害者，孤勇的用自己的方式去抗衡国家的不健全法律，给她给所有受害的女人，一些能依靠的肩膀❗️
前面铺垫得女主太让人讨厌了，尤其对着妹妹养父母发脾气那一段。虽然最后还是泪崩了。
但是说不定看故事的我们中的某一个
要不是靠最后反转的引用几年前的印度公交车强奸案的案例，这片就是烂片一部，也就国内瞎编乱造电视剧的编剧水平，加无法让人直视的表演。前面女主直接走到室外枪击打算攻入的特警时竟然没有狙击手狙她，按剧情在她“杀死”第一个儿童时，尽然没有用红外探测仪监控她离开儿童聚集房间时实施特警强攻（这绝对违背这类事件的处理原则）。中间挣开捆绑的两人竟然无法治服这名女性，特别是一人在和她缠斗时另一人消失了，再回来就是俩人又被重绑，真是拿观众当傻子呀！后面的总理的处理同样不可信，警察的全程处理很电视剧完全没有一点的专业办案常识。总之前面的胡编乱造就是为了让这女的能独身撑到最后好完成那一翻。不过，这一切真的很印度片，谁认真谁就输了。除了哈哈哈，不想再说别的。
立意还行但是女主演技太差，剧情也不丝滑，浪费我时间
尽管有些地方挺假的，但起码有为不公平发声，起码可以拍这种题材。站出来，不要沉默。
有戏剧冲突，有悬念，有反转，有演技，最重要有内核
除了警长家属的支线有点刻意，其他都很好。Sandra Bullock这么好的表演竟然提名都没提，离谱。
5分。不管演技咋样，剧情推不动啊。为妹顶罪的姐姐坐牢出狱后找妹妹的故事。在我看来，妹妹误杀别人，姐姐完全可以不去顶罪，五岁的小姑娘还能去坐牢不成？美国不知道，国内不就是教育一下家长就领回家了。美国也不可能给五岁娃判刑吧？既然和妹妹感情好，想要照顾妹妹，不离开她才是最好的方式吧？况且，美国法官判案不看证据？扳机上谁的指纹很清楚吧。这块逻辑过不去，我觉得电影不行。
有意义但是的确逻辑漏洞频出的片子，亮点就是还不错的影像语言。
虽然槽点满点：镜头会突然推进，接电话只用蓝牙耳机，美式电影的fxxk。。。
整体节奏还行，政治正确，但剧情略BUG，一整个印度拿一位妇女没办法
而谁让我如此痛苦，我必然会让他付出代价，对待野兽，我们要更野蛮！
片尾的数据令人心惊，却又在意料之中，这就是女性生存的世界，这就是男权社会。
这个话题值得一看 内容略显不够紧凑扎实，警察都不知道里面几个人几把枪犯罪动机就敢冲 也是够虎
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