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".
真实事件改编也是不了了之……
韩国真实的可以杀人的加湿器的故事 加湿器里添加的消毒剂操作有误的话对人身体会产生很大伤害 加湿器公司勾结议员、律师等颠倒黑白 险些逃出法网 后公司二把手因自己孩子被加湿器毒害身亡与男子合作上演反间计 提供证据供出公司黑幕
前奏有点无趣 直到敏智爸爸反转 后面挺符合韩剧一贯水准 普通百姓压根无法和资本权贵斗争
整体上很像《小委托人》，韩国在拍这类题材电影上确实是行的，侧面反映了这个国家的财团控国的本质
但是拍的好差劲啊
取材于真实事件的韩国加湿器杀菌剂致人死亡案件，令人震惊！“根据2020年韩国环境保健学会发表的论文，因加湿器杀菌剂而受害的人有95万名，其中约有2万人死亡。加湿器杀菌剂自1994年至2011年间销售了1000多万桶，这是韩国公民超过半数人可能使用过的用量。”调查过程的各种黑暗，到最后各部门没有一家肯道声歉的，全在踢皮球，这也是各国都有的常态吧。
就挺一般的，真实事件倒是很震撼，但这部的导演水平剧作水平都没什么亮点，满满电视剧感。。
根据大韩民国真人真事改编，题材还是蛮震撼的。
题材是好的，但是臭长的节奏拍的一点也不精彩。不过自黑是真的，韩国不愧是美国的好狗
一直对真实事件改编的电影很感兴趣。这部片子的演员阵容就够吸引，前半部分平铺直叙，了解案件的缘故并看不到惊喜也没有很强的起承转合。但后面突然反转的身份的确增加了可看性。我们也有很多故事，但搬到荧幕的少之又少，能看到的更是凤毛麟角。遗憾 & 羡慕
这一切拍摄都是套路化，模式化，几乎就是让人找不到任何感动的点
拍的这么好的片我不许它分数这么低，韩国电影的崛起就在于什么题材都能涉及，普通民众对抗大财阀，法院的无能，专家证人的作假，官官相护的小团体，依靠良知对抗的艰辛，本片都有表现，而且因为是真实事件改编，更加触动人心
真实事件改编也是不了了之……
加湿器杀菌剂引发的血案，电影本身很真实，但事件真相足够震惊全社会，确实佩服南边对其政府腐败的彻底揭露，电影确实不是给韩国人看的，是给边上邻居们看的。
我直接看哭 no one deserves to be forgotten
過程是滿平淡的，但為了結局震撼到起了雞皮疙瘩給5⭐~
故事本身的立意很好，但是电影版拍摄手法实在是让人看得尴尬……突然唱歌（甚至有些地方并不好听）真的不适合放在电影里，结尾也挺突兀的。或许音乐剧原版的会更好吧
男主通过幻想，看到了空气加湿器释放杀气，才认为是杀菌剂有问题，还有这样的操作？被自己公司的杀菌剂害死的家人，明知真相还要律师谈判，直接加入男主团，一起研究告知天下就行了。
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。
回旋楼梯螺旋下坠到殡仪馆。听到美国人死了缓慢站起来。教授领导社会运动。不能杀我们两次啊。政产学研各界红酒碰杯。不知道为什么反转也显得有气无力。社会悲剧事件可能需要创新话语表达，而不仅是以既有叙事方式来支持思考。
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