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".
反而成了它的特色。忽然觉得，因为这样一个题材，就得这么拍，所有被设置的女性角色，不合理的过程，理想化的结局……看似夸张、虚假的剧情，却有最真实、残酷的底色，发出了印度女性最强烈的呐喊……这就是印度，一个贫穷、混乱、阶级划分严格、贫富差距极大、强奸案世界第一的国家。这就是印度电影，它一直没变，它一直在变，从小到大，我一直喜欢……而这一次，它没有一点点歌舞……
这种古老的又沉重的话题，什么时候可以消失。
剧情节奏很好，没有歌舞表演的印度电影越来越合我的胃口，影片立意很好，反映社会问题，印度电影在女性题材上真的做了很多。另外，说跟误杀像的，我真的黑人问号，这部片子误杀了谁了？
竟然能拍出这种电影，真的不要小看印度了，印度不只是阿三了，这个电影证明了印度在觉醒
立意很赞，但是除了结尾司机的反转，其他故事的部分是有些侮辱观众智商的，也太拖沓了，减去二十分钟，估计还能更紧凑点。
印度电影好像陷入了一种魔咒，就是先有一个价值观，然后去围绕它来编出一个故事，为了凸显价值观而忽略故事的逻辑性和合理性，哪怕是拍成金福南，我觉的都更好一些。
当你震惊于电影的最后一句话，这部电影的目的就达到了！女主演的不错，不是因为她漂亮！
强奸之国都直面自己的问题了，什么时候把给大家锁喉的铁链取下来。
很好的题材，硬生生被拍成了头轻脚重的印度版恐怖直播
印度电影总是可以像卸妆水去除粉饰，尤其最后一句话更促动观众内心（2022-14）
剧情较幼稚，拍摄手法很幼稚，结局较爽，不过我不相信印度“等”国会有什么改变。
无论印度电影怎么去宣导真正女权的价值观，这个国家并不会有任何改变，所以得接受这个现实分离的感觉。
浮夸的试听和糟糕的节奏让这部电影无法达到《恐袭波士顿》的写实效果。而对于现实题材的作品，写实效果是更加适配的，而非本片的完全类型化处理。不过，本片后半部分对于社会议题的渲染和诉求倒是非常震撼。
误杀搞得我对一类电影审美疲劳 拍得也就中规中矩 如果误杀3拍这个我真的就审美疲劳到直接两星
印度片越来越跳出人们刻板印象了。题材是好的，拍摄手法也比较商业化熟练，只是冗戏和冗镜头实在太多太多
一个装聋作哑的国家，就如同电影里的背景音乐，轻松淹没每一段撕心的哭喊。这就需要一个尖锐的声音，如火炬一般驱散虚假的平静。然后，谁也没有办法再假装看不见。
强奸无论情节严重，一律死刑！这还分轻罪重罪吗？
看完心口会很难受，特别是巴士上那个摁住女主的男人的眼神。印度是这辈子肯定不会去的国家，肯定。
印度电影常常有种压抑了太久太久后喷薄而出的愤怒。可能没有哪个国家会像印度这样追求平等而苦苦不得的国家吧。追求平等会是个漫长的过程，漫长到有时候你会觉得呐喊并无意义。
我们国家禁枪就是好，如果一个大美女拿枪指着我，我肯定特别兴奋，怎么可能像那个男的怂成那样，没法看了。
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