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".
太感人了，印度真的跨出很大一步。希望每个人都可以不再戴上面具也能开心地在阳光下舞蹈。隐瞒和欺骗只会让事情更加糟糕。我太喜欢这种温馨的结局了。什么时候中国也能有pride游行呢？（支持领养，拒绝代孕）
两对有情人的遇见到触碰氛围烘托的不错。大圆满结局固然好，但太过于完美了。
跟中邪一类型的 竟然还是真实事件改编 一年也看不到几部华语恐怖佳作 虽然也是dv式的第一人称视角 不过拍的还是蛮刺激的 结局其实能猜到 有一瞬间貌似看到了罗夏 云南风评被害 tmd这片害我晚上做噩梦了
看完《祝贺》，形婚男女主之间的战友情谊，两人被发现居然是男主妈妈撞到女主和女友在床上……最后双方的出柜获得父母理解，共同领养孩子，和伴侣都参加了孩子的祝福仪式。女主和女友在试衣间的小暧昧、女友带着女主参加同志party的放松、日常生活的照顾，以及两人互动间的默契，真是越看越有感觉。
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🉑）
形婚、出柜、接纳。相似的国情，感同身受下却无法拍出一样的故事。印度电影总是不会让人失望。
三观超正，超勇敢，无论现实如何，起码阿三敢想敢拍，反观。。我没脸说
不吓人 但是被膈应到了 别的导演通过吓唬我们来娱乐我们 你竟然敢诅咒我们 导演女儿死了是吗？
原本最家族观念最后却接受了呀。世界还是要多点认同，不求正面支持至少不强烈反对啊。
就像一场梦，醒来还是很感动。要先被提及，才是被议论，才是被接受。
印度电影虽然敢拍，但要动辄两三个小时长的电影，实在没耐心看
2400。结尾有一些理想化，后面部分没有讲公开后在工作方面的压力。感觉好像没有受到一点影响，我觉得是不太可能的，其实可以表现一下。
比《真雄起》又进步了一点，通过形婚故事覆盖到向家人出柜、同志领养、公职人员性取向等各方面议题，还有盛大的彩虹骄傲游行，而且拍得很商业大众合家欢。这才短短几年，印度LGBT电影就进化得相当成熟了，看的时候就觉得如果中国能放开这类题材，我就期待这样的片子先给我来一打。
阿三都能正大光明的拍同啦，我们是越活越回去啦……
6.0(5⃣️)，社会意义大于影片本身，太过工整导致缺乏惊喜，太过工整也导致表达冗长，但把这样一个本该非常沉重的故事用诙谐的幽默形式勾勒那些痛苦和无奈，给予了一个和现实无缘的美好梦想。印度社会已经交出这样的作品了，哪里是人间哪里是地狱一目了然
喜宴后遗症啊，一直担心男女主一时兴起产生出来个baby，还好还好，女主和女朋友真的有点配哎。印度能拍出这种片子来，真的蛮厉害的。
时代在飞速发展，传统婚姻模式不断被打破，永结同心的充分必要条件，好像也不一定是爱情。
诙谐幽默的一部电影，皆大欢喜的结局，把同志会遇到的大部分问题都体现出来，很棒。
感觉印度拍同性恋情都比拍异性恋情更大胆，最后没有狗血与和稀泥真的不错，看的过程中我一直以为他们最后会去做人工授精呢。
情节走向没有出人意料的地方，故事发生的异域环境更吸引我，比如排灯节的装饰，家庭的布置。印象深刻的有：1.苏曼妈妈的沉默仪式，沙尔杜尔妈妈的社恐性格设定很有趣。2. 沙尔杜尔坦白自己做警察是子承父业，“我们国家的人连公交座位都不会放过，怎么会拒绝政府安排的工作。”3.“告诉他们，家族的火种无法点燃传宗接代的火矩，告诉他们你无法延续家里的火种！”4.游行的彩色篷布下，苏曼和女友在欢笑着奔跑， 沙尔杜尔在路边执勤，纠结着接过五彩羽毛面具最终勇敢地戴上了。
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