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".
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。
其实我大概可以感受到是四星的电影，但不吃这一套就真的会减分。其实电影真的挺好，尤其是在印度的土壤上开出的彩虹花，很惊艳。
把LGBT个人认同、社会认同的现实压力通过诙谐幽默表现出来，隔壁比我们玩得好
唠嗑，东北人不是和德国人像，和印度人比较像，喜欢唠嗑
一个gay一个les从『深柜，被催婚』到『形婚，各自找对象』再到『被迫出柜』最后『获得家人认同，领养小孩』这过程的呈现还是挺真实的，一个谎言需要无数谎言去圆，『不断说谎』这件事就太艰辛，太让人心累；可以想象印度的人口基数那么大，社会氛围那么保守封建，像电影里主角这样『深柜』『形婚』的同志肯定不少，而并不是所有人都能获得祝福。片中大多数歌曲还是动听的，伴随着歌曲，画面的呈现也很美，比如沙尔杜尔在度蜜月的时候与卡比尔在一起，苏曼与女友莉姆吉姆相识，沙尔杜尔与律师男友相识，这些场景弥漫着一种浪漫唯美又暧昧的气息。有两个场景很打动我，一个是沙尔杜尔在同志游行中，戴上面具在摩托车上双手起舞，这是踏出“做自己”的一步了；第二个是结尾的仪式上苏曼的父亲让莉姆吉姆坐到苏曼身边，这一幕是全片最感人、最催泪的。
在戏剧和现实之间，结局选择了“立意更高”的陈腔滥调，相互妥协，各不得罪，一应俱全，也就那样。
那才真是绝了
男主长得像亨利卡维尔这点就让我想疯狂截图。最后的地方我个人觉得还是挺出彩的，毕竟我是理解成一种带有“道仍长”的暗喻
这个题材印度来拍好新鲜，有动容~只要有真情，男同女同结婚也很美好～
结局皆大欢喜，过程也波澜不惊。愿都能正大光明的生活在彩虹之下
①镜头一般，拍摄手法普普通通，比起《真雄起》差。男主是一个大家庭，但是给的配角镜头和群体镜头都稍微有些多，让人记不太住要表达的人物，我觉得应适当剪掉多人同框画面或镜头多集中重要角色。即使你想呈现多人同框在某些场景的表现，可角色的演绎、神态没有表达到位，也没有细小的动态。②胜在表达的东西多，且说的明白。假结婚、催生、领养、对自身身份的认同、家人的反应等等。③男主的前任是个小年轻，应该是出轨了，表达的是年轻人都爱玩？我看男主现任和女主的另一半好像都是适龄的，没说他俩不好的意思。男主现任花言巧语，很活泼，能带动男主的生活气氛，也能讨婆婆欢心，很不错的。女主现任也般配，适合过日子哈哈哈。
印度respect🫡有婚礼还有游行🥹🥹有生之年能看到同种类型的中国版我头给你….（必不可少的载歌载舞hhhhh）
近期看的印度电影都是选材直戳社会痛点，但呈现失去控制与克制，走向闹剧风格，比起电影像电视剧，缺乏质感。
去年才看了《真雄起》今年又来一部，宝莱坞同影也蛮猛的！又是一部【意义＞＞叙事】的电影。这是一个同志警官和拉拉老师形婚然后牵扯出来的一系列家庭关系，然后又联系自己真实情感的故事。其中拉拉的部分比较经常，结尾是很理想化，但是电影有时候不是本来就在担任【能让人寄托理想】的角色吗。这是印度同影商业化的开始，也只有走这样通俗的剧情和喜剧元素结合的道路，才能更能被大众所接受吧。（反观一下大陆的环境，只能搞擦边，不禁哀叹...
一直觉得印度电影动不动就唱跳起来很有趣！😂😂已经看到印度拍了好几部同性题材电影了，我们什么都没有……
女主曾经想要一个孩子而选择结婚，却连男人碰一下都受不了，未婚夫婚前两周车祸死了…
男主的妈妈，女主的爸爸，可能生命中，会有那么一个人，我们只要她/他的支持就好。
伪纪录片创意技巧有余，剧本打磨不足，亲情戏又多又生硬，戏份砍一半更合适。村庄和地道的部分都非常用心，谐音咒语和视觉残留的创意很不错。成片对得起营销但预告片透露的惊吓桥段实在太多了，严重削弱了恐怖感。最后玩互动诅咒其实不新也还算有趣但这种处理方式注定是要承受一部分观众的反感的，就和片中的诅咒本身一样求仁得仁。
？说比灵媒蠢不过分吧？像是《特修斯之船》爱好者弄出来的
印度电影能拍LGBT题材电影了，姬和基形婚、领养、出柜，把中国电影的封建审查甩在后面，苦涩羡慕。沙杜出柜后，和母亲在天台拥抱哭得痛哭流涕，彩虹游行后沙杜经过一番挣扎带上彩虹假面，最喜欢这两段。东亚国家都面临着同样的父权制、把女人当生育机器问题，也许🇮🇳尤甚，在巨大压力下男女主走出谎言活在阳光下，在警司目光的审视下坦荡公开恋情，给我一种希望和力量。这种电影多来点吧！！
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