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".
故事到最后，甚至美好得有点好笑。我不相信印度的现实是这样，但那不重要。
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。
男主时不时宠溺到惊恐的反转真的太真实了。有些许俗套但温馨有趣，四个人的婚姻居然一点都不拥挤，一大家子人都能这么快就适应这两对儿情侣，最后全员HE真的太可了。（PS：在米国骄傲月前一天看完的，感觉今年也要进到游行队伍里才好啊）
Netflix风格还是很明显。苏曼和女朋友在彩虹旗下奔跑那里，眼眶湿润了。
很难想象连我们邻国印度，都能以宝莱坞式的幽默，拍出一部包含LES、TXL、形婚、以领养代替生殖癌的同影。🌈
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
自私中孕生的母爱，综艺化拼接碎片里掺杂的真实。孤掌难鸣，双口成咒。
为啥我就觉得所谓“晦气”的点 其实是影片的一大亮点 多好的设计
四，男一身材真好~
日常酸国外电影题材广泛。印度风格的商业片，观感还不错，当作一般喜剧去看就好。但比起摔爹等还是差不少。深度不够，有点隔靴搔痒，用喜剧去消解严肃话题就很容易这样吧。
说实话不如之前看过的那些印度电影更出色，讲故事的水平一般般，但是重要的大概是它的取材吧。在印度这样一个社会，两对同性恋最终得到了家里人的接受，并领养了孩子，这一切因为最后的包容和爱而让人内心感动
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。
印度都能拍出这么成熟高度工业化的LGBT电影，真的进步太多了。
难得看到个happy ending ❤️ 偶尔需要它来避世
印度电影也一直给人惊喜 慢慢进步 ps 男主的胸真不错
又名《掰开揉碎讲婚姻》、《一山不容二虎，除非两公两母》
意义大于内容 形婚面对的一系列啼笑皆非的现实和无奈 最后勇于出柜的男主和被抓包被迫出柜的女主都得到了家人的谅解 印度能拍出这样的片子真心佩服 呼吁同性领养合法化也是非常有现实意义 我们是无法做到了
愉快的观影过程，市场经济下的印度电影都敢这么拍。但还是想提醒大家这毕竟是电影，现实是大部分人还没走到最后结局中途就已经深陷各种麻烦事里了。做你自己，做你真正想做的事情。
印度是一个教育超前经济的国家，感觉未来可期，很不错，接触到了lgbt题材而且还是喜剧结尾！
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。
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