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".
如果这是个欧美片，那我觉得有点落俗套了，这可是印度片诶！印度都与时俱进了，再看看我们！
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
这大概就是我心里《中邪》拿到足够多预算后能呈现出来的样子。
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。
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。
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。
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。
在印度能拍出这种电影 真不错 还是挺自由的 结局应该是算现行制度下的happy ending了
刻画的很细腻，也很幽默，结尾还蛮感动的。家庭式的异域文化氛围也很有趣。
印度的lgbtq运动!
印度都开始拍同志自我身份认同的出柜片了 情感上可以对标LUCA 虽然男主最后出柜前的情感转变不够明确 铺垫得不太够 但最后桥上彩虹旗扬起来时还是看得有点泪奔（男主造型特别像Ted Lasso 导致喜爱度一开场就拉满了
印度对形婚、社会环境、性取向、两性平等、生育的探讨，深受英国古早法律影响的印度在几度废立恐同法的背景下走出了这一意义重大的一步。
虽然带着一贯的印度歌舞
论亚洲的言论自由，印度、韩国、日本已经是工业水平了
两个同性恋为了不再被催婚而形婚，后来还是被家人发现，两人都和家人坦白了，最后因为领养孩子还是保持婚姻关系，不过他们的对象都被家人接受了~respect
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。
结局挺美好的，但就是不知道两对同性恋，抚养一个娃，将来性取向会变得如何很难办了
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
7.5/10 我同意友邻关于porn的说法 哈哈哈哈哈
出柜那场戏还是很感人的，男主演的不错，他不会是真的同吧？
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