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".
一个家庭一个娃，四个父母，最后的仪式场面分外壮观又充满爱意。男女主都好幸福，都有着传统却不专制的家人。
虽然一直说印度电影的坏话 但是总是有勇气一直拍具有争议话题的电影呀
印度在某些方面都在慢慢努力变好，至少还看得到些许希望。
这可是印度啊，18年才同性去罪，20年主流宝莱坞就出了这一部。对比之下，某国。。。。。。
但as一部電影，happy ending總是好的。男主出櫃那刻我也看得很感動。
电影质量不高，胜在印度也能拍。结局轻易就接受了，过于理想化
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
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
逻辑自洽，想表达的东西讲清楚了，有血有泪，也有小幽默，难得
虽然有点冗长，但在印度环境下能拍出来真的很不容易，某地应该感到羞愧。
描写的还是蛮真实的，男主的男朋友和女主的女朋友都好会撩哦🥰男主的妈妈好可爱啊，拿着纸条磕磕巴巴的给女主念指南，最后还把纸条给女主了😂男主好幸运啊，虽然妈妈刚知道消息还不太理解不能接受，但是还是因着对他的爱给了他一个拥抱，看女主给爸爸出柜那段感觉女主的演技有点不太能让人特别沉入，反而男主让人感受到了那种压抑，最后的结局也还不错没有特别理想化也不会让人很难过唏嘘
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。
对印度的les和gay两个群体都给予了关注。细节很感人，歌很好听。希望相爱的人都有相爱的机会。
哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈手机从火车上掉下去那一刻我真的笑死了！
繁华喜宴易成，漫长岁月难度。宗教信仰悬在远方，行规法律缚住四肢，流言习俗刺在脸颊，玫瑰花蕊藏在制服内，却被眼波流转出卖，喑哑的喉咙只能在夜晚互舐低鸣。炽热的目光逐渐暗淡，灼烧的期待终将寒凉，打一场旷日持久的仗，等荆棘满途全枯死。这愿望很悠长，亦决心走到底，待沧海桑田，听涛生潮起。
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、、
3.5分。两个同性青年假结婚来骗亲人并最终获得谅解的故事，这个故事情节可能算不上新鲜但是印度拍出来的话确实还挺新鲜的，不是印象中的封闭落后国家思想也开始前卫起来了。但是电影是电影，生活是生活，现实中如果有这种事的话，我也挺难理解的。
挺惊喜的一部平权电影，前面是搞笑幽默各种喜剧元素，后面是误会解开，开始升华。
从《喜宴》到《祝贺》，有些地方在倒退，有些地方在前进。生而不同，我们都没有罪。影片的议题对于东亚南亚地区来说极具意义，这世界有人在不断奋战，为了伟大的自由，为了伟大的我们。
基调是逗比喜剧，主题是形婚领养，只有一首歌舞已经很收敛了，为了现实意义多打一星。PS:男主身材不错
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