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".
老套的套路 刻意的煽情 和同类型的辩护人比差得很远 论电影来说真的是一般 但是也许这就是事实的记录
立意蛮好 故事节奏有点慢 但整体还是可看的 演员演技也都还可以
中规中矩韩式揭露黑暗现实的电影，节奏有点拉，就徐科长真实身份和目的揭露那里有点意思
钱权交易，人命为草芥，政府的职能是养蛀虫，既然权由人赋，为何还会官逼民反？
好久没看金相庆演戏了，感觉这个片子里他有点被限制发挥。整个电影其实拍得挺糟糕的，差不多是以一种最笨拙的方式在讲这个故事，浓浓的电视剧质感，只靠最后那20分钟意料之中的所谓“反转”把人吊一下（但是现实生活中真的会这么理想吗？比如男主角答应作证带着隐藏摄像机进入实验室不会被安检吗？“反派”有这么傻？）。当然结局还是能煽你一下，这也是韩式类型片惯用的套路了。看完只觉得，这样的故事在咱这基本上也是不陌生吧，但哪怕都拍成这样了，我们也只有远远看着的份，所以就也没啥好说的。
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
超越《歌舞青春》比肩《冰雪奇缘》 另外这是电影版，请不要和舞台剧比对，拉低分数。主角的演唱功底，和演技都无可替代，年龄大一点又有何妨？
题材创作来源于生活本身…多年来韩国电影人对该国财阀和政府的讽刺并不是空穴来风而是真正事出有因的…成百上千通过审查的电影作品就像一面面镜子摆放在该国有权有势的人面前…只能说这类人一直都不爱照镜子，或者压根都不爱看电影了…😂😂😂
韩国电影题材真的比内陆开放太多了。有点偏电视剧质感但不影响他的好看，资本家都是利益当先，所有事情还是得发生在自己身上才能觉悟的话那真的太晚了，电影刻画了普通受害民众和万恶资本集团的较量时的无力，社会的黑暗面，政治资本权利人心交织。结尾的燃情是着实有些意外和惊喜，讽刺的点很多，还是得死了个外国人才有机会开庭审理。黑暗面的张力，也很好哭！不管在哪也好，百姓随便伤害，都是鱼肉随便鱼肉罢了
再说一下加湿器的问题，一般加湿器工作原理有两种，一种超声波加湿器，一种冷蒸发加湿器。超声波加湿器只能用纯净水，其他任何带有一点杂质的水都不行，水中的杂质，矿物质都会被超声波变成细小的颗粒然后吹到空气中，吸入身体中，会对人有危害。如果家里没有净水机的话还是建议用冷蒸发加湿器。
拍的一般，浪费了题材，话说同样的情节，中国也可以拍个三聚氰胺版本
集体诉讼要靠美帝，出口报告测出有毒要靠澳洲，境外势力才是监督韩国无能部门的最大压力。/镜头语言很真实很残忍，片尾卧底反转略微理想化了。
最后的反转有点意思，其余就是韩式自洽电影的套路…
看的是主播解说。感觉韩国的题材还是牛批的，居然还是真实事件改编，就更牛批了~
之前看过英大吉解说真实事件过程，没想到这就有电影了。只顾着自己幸福，漠视他人的生命，看的时候一直在思考，正义的手真的能在那些自私的人头上挥下制裁的拳头吗？受害者能做的，只有坚持不懈的呼喊，微小的力量积累起来，变得振聋发聩。
事件被快速地按固定模式推进着，像是再不说出来就说不出来了
七分应该有的，真实事件改编题材好，剧本和演员差点。结局挺震撼的，揭露黑心企业的同时也讽刺了政府人员的黑心交易。直面现实的勇气是韩国电影的可贵之处。
歌还是好听的。但热点元素得堆砌感有些浓重了。
80/100 我从20分钟开始哭 中间笑了几次 然后一直哭到结尾 哭的我脸疼
踢皮球这种超现实的场景有的国家一辈子也不敢真的拍出来吧🫣
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