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".
那一瞬间有被震惊到起鸡皮
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。
最后结尾二十几分钟燃，这么点故事拍两个小时从电影角度真的不行，从立意角度印度is rising up
ps,这部电影中出现的印度女总理，强奸犯死刑，IC814事件均是真实发生过的，印度电影在纪念和反思历史，这真的值得学习，很有意义。
看到最后心里忿忿不平，凭什么女性要承受这么多，真难啊。
至少敢说，敢拍，敢面对。希望现实可以越来越好。
印度与韩国的现实题材在近年来不断受到观众的称赞与喜爱，无一例外都是由于其内容的沉重性。但在我看来，在其中夹杂了大多的虚假虚构，现实主义足够守观众关注在于其真实性，意大利的新现实主义震撼影坛之一在原因在于他们真的把摄影机扛到街头拍摄，就算是从报纸取材依旧立足小点而望向社会。但印度和韩国的则一开始就想着从国家制度进行剖析却无入木三分的功力，空有一腔极端个人感情色彩的故事对于现实的映射只会大大减少真实性与思辨性。印度社会中的女性被强奸案简直罄竹难书，但在电影里却没有一点证据来证明这是故事里最大的弱点，活脱脱的成为了“男性该死”的注脚。总之，它并不是一部好电影，或者说，它真的可以做到更好。
印度在用影视的力量感染大众优化法律，这一点和韩国类似
“譬如你说，这屋子太暗，说在这里开一个天窗，大家一定是不允许的。但如果你主张拆掉屋顶，他们就会来调和，愿意开天窗了。”——鲁迅
在印度社会而言，还是很具有社会意义。前半部分略显拖沓，冲突升级地很慢，后半部分渐入佳境，至少悬念氛围都比误杀2做得好。女性生命之痛，在结尾与司机的对峙中强烈表现出来。合格的商业片。
影片中的女主用她的方式向印度呐喊
政治正确的印度电影越来越多，不过整体的水平还是停留在1.0时代，都是别人玩过的相对老套的东西，同类型的《恐怖直播 》早在十年前就完成了远高于本片的政治表达和自我嘲讽，去过印度，没去过韩国，不过大体上还是觉得印度的社会问题和矛盾要远多于韩国，毕竟数十倍的人口摆在那儿。《星期四》虽不完美，甚至在剧作上是由硬伤的，不过在节奏和氛围营造上确实不错，推脸镜头真是老香港了，煞有介事的配乐有点洗脑。不较真地看。
7分。绑架只为获得发声的话语权，将强奸搬上台面，唤醒装聋作哑的群众，推动立法。揭露政府腐败堕落，媒体妖言惑众，套路化和节奏掌握的不错。镜头不算突出，偶尔还有突兀的特写推镜头就很尬。
一贯地有些节奏过缓，但是能拍这样的题材还是特别值得尊敬。
滥竽充数的慢动作和无时不刻的失败配乐毁掉了这部电影——可这似乎也是宝莱坞电影的标配，可以看作是我们所熟知的MV电影。但问题就在于每次随着配乐的推镜头实在是突兀而可笑，和导演却无比热衷将其和稀烂的配乐结合，甚至连女主角在开着的手机视频都能突然用手机相机进行推镜头，这一再制造出十分鬼畜的画面，简直是用用最出戏的调度破坏了凝重的气氛。我和朋友都开始预测bgm和推镜头了，这成为了观影过程的最有趣之处。整体来说，剧本还是太老套了，所有的手法几乎都有前人的痕迹，但它的现实意义绝对是不容忽视的。
主题很好，反转设定也很好，但填充的细节不足够丰满，总觉得哪里差了一口气，所有出场人物好像都是必须的，但没有人得到了设定之外的骨肉支撑
意义挺好，但是电影拍得不怎么样，全凭编剧瞎编了ps电影讨论区有献人值得一个拉黑
一部处处显而易见故意为之的电影。bug
影片的立意很好，就是拍摄手法和《迫在眉梢》太相似了。。。
寓言式的故事，剧情基本可以预测，主要是支持发声，印度已经有好几部类似提出诉求的片子了
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