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".
棒子真的敢拍，这个世界还有很多东西都是资本在操控运作，只是没人敢提或者提了石沉大海罢了。题材很好，内容很闷，包括中间的反转，本是反派的李突然化身奇异博士，只有一种办法能赢，显得有点仓促，最后十分钟的政客之间互相推诿也是点睛之笔，凸显了本片平民与资本的战争。但很多东西过于的理想化，以及中间调查取证的博弈，并没有太多去烘托那种绝望的气氛，让这片不及另外几部真实事件改编的韩国片。
就算有一天真相大白，失去亲人的悲痛也无法弥补。
拖沓，节奏也不好，但还是有些许温情打动人心。
看了这种平庸的作品才知道从前那些优秀作品有多优秀
煽情，但也直击心脏。直面错误，审视体系，这样的题材哪怕拍摄手法欠佳，至少不会白费。
本来想打四分，但是转念一想，怎么也比猫电影版好
故事比较单薄，情节也很平，但是歌真的都很好听！！
所以，腐败的，到底是体制、还是人本身呢？ps：配乐和节奏真的是不错！单纯就看完当下的观感体验来说，7分以下是不是给的太低了？
金相庆饰演因不明的肺部疾病而失去了妻子，儿子的生命也受到威胁的外科医生“郑泰浩”，徐英姬饰演他的妻子“韩吉珠”，李先彬饰演曾经在地方检察院担任检察官，但因为姐姐吉珠的死亡成为律师的“韩英珠”，尹京浩饰演加湿器杀菌剂制药公司的科长“徐宇植”。
各种所谓的反转满满的都是套路，没有新意，作为棒子的戏这个也就在及格线上下！
敘事完整 演員也很到位 尤其是徐宇植 隱忍到爆發
现实题材改编的电影，讲述了有毒的加湿器杀菌剂伤害韩国几十万人，致死两万多。受害者联合起来，最终告倒了跨国企业。
前面2/3的部分，都过于平淡。男主儿子病发第一时间居然是手术，连病因都不知道，手术做什么？感觉有点不合理，然后男主老婆病发也是，为什么要跑那么长的楼梯，难道就是要渲染情绪和氛围？第一次反转的时候有猜到，因为那个律师一看就不是好人。最后一次的反转倒是升华了影片，让影片达到了高潮，可惜就是感觉晚了点，后面一下就结束了，都还没感受到多精彩，就已经没有了。
分数比较客观，矛盾冲突制造得太刻意，包括反转，女主演技实在够呛，只会瞪眼睛，男主一副衰样也是头大，演员都比较脸谱化、表演很平面化，庭审简直是鸡肋，角色性格太简单，完全没有以往韩国电影人物性格和心理的细腻刻画，可惜了非常好的题材，但好的是能拍出来也是对社会的一种警示和反省
拍成电视剧感觉会更好！韩国在拍这类题材上一直没输过！
单从食品这方面，我们有三鹿奶粉事件，地沟油，瘦肉精，毒生姜，工业明胶等等，似乎大家都麻木了，过了就忘了，大家都相安无事。
拖沓，节奏也不好，但还是有些许温情打动人心。
太无聊了，还是那个老套路，这种剧本你把加湿器换成别的又能拍一部。
DEH还是这样温暖治郁。期待了很久，能看到Ben platt 再演Evan，听到一首首原曲，还是很激动，尤其是you will be found 不论听过多少遍，在那一幕还是很好哭，还有最后Words fail和so big so small真正救赎太棒了。不过节奏不太电影，不如音乐剧抓人。整体挺好的其实。Just keep going
这几年出了好多部，大企业“杀人案”，前有《黑水》后有《水俣病》，本片少了些还原的真实，更趋向于商业片似的反转。
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