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".
前面真的真实到窒息 但是还是唉 感叹加一星
印度电影真的完全不留白 以至于看了一个世纪竟然才过了一个小时 喜剧效果爆炸 自己看都可以笑飞 drama和人物心态转变衔接很自然 关键是形婚代入感十足 活脱脱印度版形婚指南了 这么超前的内容怎能不给五星
真好看哟！不管什么题材都可以来一段绚丽歌舞，哈哈哈哈哈😄
节奏明快，笑料的铺垫都非常自然 男主的妈妈真是太蠢萌一只瞌睡虫了
男女主从一开始瞒着家人，到最后被动或主动出柜，家人一开始的不理解到最后慢慢接受，电影中都表现得很有感染力，最后支持同性的游行，表明同性在社会中的认可度也在提高，只是难以相信这是在印度，如果印度都能开明如此，我们为何不可。
虽然还是透出一些稚嫩，但几场关键戏份都于细微处体现出不落俗套的处理方式，以及音乐实在选得太好了，虽然不是潮汕人但也多处直戳内心和泪点。中国有太多地方特色的东西值得挖掘了。
虽然看着有点糙，缺那么点电影质感，但是感情一点也不糙，跟老妈互动的每一个瞬间那种质感，无论是不是电影这种载体，都是最真切、最厚实、也是最优的质感。
有欢乐有流泪😭，最后的结局可太美好了。基佬那一对可很有feel。如果有另个她，我不在乎是不是光明的存在。
6所有素人演员，都是小孩或亲戚，推荐他们来参演，半推半就被拉过来的，只有婵真婶是唯一自荐要来演戏的大妈，她也是打心里热爱演戏的。
从《真雄起》到《永结同心》真的是以可见的方式在前进，在这方面还是蛮羡慕的人家的。
跨越了性别，还是跨不过种姓。童话般的结尾，已经离理想化的印度很接近了
向上的三星半。语言听感上的相近导致有种看台语片的恍惚感。但这是绝不逊色于某些台语片的潮汕方言片。用回乡的契机回溯潮汕传统文化的美与弊，同时兼有时代大潮下海边小城汕头的思变。
电影感不强，但胜在真诚。
好久没看宝莱坞，好看，有笑。就是说全世界只有塔利班和他的盟友即东方某负责任大国在逆行了。
出柜场面感同身受得压抑 如同女主哭着对父亲说 这一切早已在心里预演过上万次 能想到最坏的结局 但依旧希望能被爱的人理解 /无论何时 都会为彩虹旗下自由的跳舞 亲吻所打动 love is love
喜欢年下但最后换人的男通讯录和喜欢高学历医生姐姐的女通讯录
永结同心原来是永结同心，中国文化真是博大精深哈哈哈哈
挺惊讶是印度的电影。西方国家开放的早，形婚可能已经成为过去式。关于Lgbt的欧美电影很少有叙述这类家庭压力的。但亚洲大部分仍然存在关于形婚和出柜，传宗接代的压力。
第一次作为投资人参与的电影~主创都是平时一起喝酒吹水的好基友，敢想敢做，坚定靠谱，第二部电影作品完成度如此之高远超预期。调色时有幸一睹真心立马决定用养老金入股，非常有信心！
Happy Ending，皆大欢喜。虽然明知后面他们肯定会面临很多挑战（影片有点理想化了），但是仍然很感动。别人印度可以Pride游+Police护航，羡慕了。印度能拍出这样的电影也让人羡慕。
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