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".
李先彬。死了美国人才开审。脱离管束邪恶的资本。这个郑泰浩人设真特么毁三观。后面剧情急转直下，突兀。
李先彬。死了美国人才开审。脱离管束邪恶的资本。这个郑泰浩人设真特么毁三观。后面剧情急转直下，突兀。
真实事件改编，有理有据，节奏控制有度，翻转到位，稍微遗憾是故事太套路，基本还是传统的韩国套路。
不是每个人都懂得走自己的世界，也不是每个人都能够走进别人的世界。大家都要勇敢一点，多爱一点。
末尾的各方相继踢皮球真的很真实。每次看西八国电影的时候都在想，他们真的很敢把现实拍成电影，但是却很难改变现实......西八国电影的尽头是悲剧吧...
有点沉闷 看不进去……然后反转的有点突然
剧情发展都可以猜得到，不过对于受害者具体的家庭、具体的人刻画得很写实，鉴于这是真实发生过的惨案，真正的受害者家庭看了会更难过吧，最后那个男主诘问和群众的呼喊很震撼
片子的节奏还可以，先着眼于一位普通的医生，接着立刻让他失去幼子妻子，观众会被带入这种难过无力的情绪。接着一个不放弃追查亲人死亡真相的人开始调查。
这种其他国家拍不出的题材，怎么好意思打低分。节奏很快，几乎20分钟就找到了真相，30分钟就要杠无良财阀了，中间几次背叛都很真实，倒是反转得太偶然，该骂的都骂到位了。另外得说一下加湿器，韩国2011年就揭发了后果这么严重的集体诉讼，然而我2019年还不知道使用加湿器的风险，当时出于喜欢烟雾感买了个加湿器，几乎用了半天就开始咳了，幸好及时去网上查了了解到会有急性肺炎，再也没用过了。可是这么重要的信息，为什么没有普及，满大街都有卖加湿器呢？
多一星给真实背景把。整体故事叙述还算ok，但就很普通，没什么出彩的地方。韩国拍这样的电影还真是满熟练的。
钱权勾结你没有背景真的很难扳倒，但是大公司的问题就一定要让他们付出代价。
片子的节奏还可以，先着眼于一位普通的医生，接着立刻让他失去幼子妻子，观众会被带入这种难过无力的情绪。接着一个不放弃追查亲人死亡真相的人开始调查。
永远最可怕的都是真实事件改编！整体剧情设置，反转推动，演技都是韩国的标准产物！另外总有人说韩国拍了电影又不能改变什么，我只想说，电影存在的意义是什么你们真的知道吗？！可以自由发声本身就是件值得骄傲的事情啊！！
没什么特别突出的，不知道真实故事是怎么样的，但是要是电影最后没能力对抗财阀的话可能会给我留下更深刻印象
警世制作：看了会悲，会愤！更会致敬对良知的坚守！
有几点槽要吐。1医生的孩子生病了竟然不急忙送医院检查吗。2美国人果然高贵3宇植自己家也用吗自己应该知道有毒吧。4医生怎么不立马给自己做个检查。5资本真可怕啊明知道害人也要去做。6有很多国际禁止的添加剂在我国食品饮料里还在继续使用。
最后一幕是挺震撼的，其他的起承转合感觉已经是韩国电影的常规操作了。
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…😂😂😂
若不是利益集团内部由于种种巧合生出嫌隙结果可想而知。
就凭敢于将真实事件改编成电影，揭露种种丑恶现象这一点，韩国电影便能称得上伟大二字。
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