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".
冗长乏味，毫无重点，唯有六个箱子触动了七个波特的回忆。
我希望格林德沃的一忘皆空咒能用在我身上，以忘却关于这部电影的痛苦记忆。
这部电影总体来说还行吧，故事不错，开始还看得下去就是这后面不知道演的啥。
刚看完，额，本来预期就不高，看完更失望，系列三部最差。烂番茄和MTC还会跌，豆瓣开分也不会高，这个系列一部不如一部，华纳总不是分不清粉丝热度和普通观众层面的热度，好好的神奇动物不拍，自己也陷入到磕CP卖腐的怪圈里了，画面贼暗，节奏还贼差，普通观众谁看这个啊！
阿三电影简直超前，代孕都来了。就是为啥印度电影基本2个小时以上？😂
甚至覺得有點爛
国内也拍过这个题材，可以说和印度差远了，虽然结局也是过于理想了，但好歹也探讨了一些问题
有两个人花了一整集时间结婚。
这个故事告诉我们，母亲真的经历十月怀胎，生育之苦才能体会和孩子的那种情感，但是有的抛弃孩子的不算人不配当母亲。
印度口音和音乐总是带给我一些亲切和轻松，就时不时要找一部印度片子看看~~不过确实中规中矩，没有太多的出彩的地方。
风险全部由女性承担，男人永远无法知道生孩子有多痛。女性彻底沦为商品，卖淫合法，金钱买到性；代孕合法，金钱买到子宫。甚至不想要就退货！
印度果然善于敢于拍摄现实题材，把本来属于悲剧的代孕题材电影以喜剧形式展现出来。相对于富裕、表面有教养实质无担当的美国爽子夫妇，主角虽有小狡猾的缺点，但在大节上，更显得有担当，不惧生活的麻烦，幽默乐观和善良。限于喜剧题材（或者主创人员无法两全其美），影片强行以美国爽子收养印度孤女结尾，但观众心里面白，这在现实中几乎不可能发生，也冲淡了影片警示现实的意义。
爱他，就放过他。印度，一个在贫穷和混乱中挣扎前行的巨人，电影也很好地展示了这一点，宗教之间的矛盾，社会对于女性的压迫都可见一斑，但主题还是回归为不够现实的Happy Ending。说是喜剧电影，但是本片中并没有让我映像深刻的笑点或者泪点，特别是小男孩Raj和Mimi的互动并不足够好，让我无法带入到Mimi的情绪中。最后的两场Mimi对白人夫妻的戏份完全可以合二为一，并且爆发的冲力不太够，只能感受到演员的愤怒而无法感受其他情绪（女主演技真的拉… 感觉只会瞪眼和愤怒）。虽然电影足够长，但节奏控制的不好，有大量不太重要的内容堆积，让人疲惫，相比“三傻大闹宝莱坞”这些有优秀节奏的印度电影来说，差距还是很大的。有时候明明加一个“4年后”或者XXX天后就能解决的问题，导演硬着头皮也要拍四五分钟。
多线叙事严重影响了节奏，缺少一幕分量足够的高潮戏
这甚至不像是一个人能说出来的话。
不得不承认，一时春风得意后又被老相好气得上不来气的麦子，是最令人辗转反侧的一版格林德沃。忽略稀烂的文戏，坐电影院里当欣赏原声和服化道场景美术傻乐了俩小时，临结束忽然我cp稀里糊涂就离了，难受得后半夜都睡不着，我好像个狗走在路上被人拉过去揍了两拳。但是剧情奇怪死也阻止不了我夸美术，从伦敦到柏林再到不丹，宴会厅里的暴雨和书页桥，喜马拉雅山脉清新冷冽的空气，烘焙坊一场婚礼门外的雪，无比绚丽又真实可感。商业片，但是精美而古典。
受害者不一定完美 施暴者必定有罪
女主代孕，快生的时候说唐氏综合征，美国夫妇跑了。女主扛着未婚、生育、宗教的压力生了下来。孩子没事，养到4岁，美国夫妇又回来要带走孩子……
代孕问题太多了 开心不起来 但是恶意满满中又有一丝善
女主代孕，快生的时候说唐氏综合征，美国夫妇跑了。女主扛着未婚、生育、宗教的压力生了下来。孩子没事，养到4岁，美国夫妇又回来要带走孩子……
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