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".
故事取材于韩国真实的加湿器杀菌剂杀人事件，剧情安排与人物刻画没有脱离韩国传统电影的风格和基准水平，当然也没有看到有更多的超越之处。不过，肩负社会使命感和正义感，通过揭示和同情底层普通百姓和小人物的遭遇去抨击社会政治问题并与强权抗争，是韩国电影人最值得敬重的地方，也是此类影片同样受到中国观众关注的重要原因所在吧！
虽然看了一下剧情，很多在呼唤官摄，但没看过剧的我，看完电影还是挺感动的，可惜的是，Coner生前和家人相处的细节，都是口述的，加上看的是无字幕生肉（我的错，求轻拍，上映会去还影票的😣），就会觉得不够丰满。但是，歌还是超级好听的。
原来那个徐宇直才是幕后大佬主角吗？哈哈，毕竟这经历，这忍辱负重的，也是家里人因为空气净化器消毒液死亡的人，只是我看到事情差不多平息的时候他问他老板剩下的那一大批是不是要销毁而他老板说换个主料继续投入销售，反正死不了几个人，死了也有人可以解决得了的时候我真是thankyou了，这真是太恶心人了。。
虽然也是反映医企、财阀等社会问题，但相较于《熔炉》之类直击人心的编剧，这部弱得不是两三步，故事牵强、情节老套，没有震撼人心的看点。
冲着题材看的，整体挺压抑的，但总感觉缺少了什么，3.5⭐
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
加湿器杀菌剂杀人事件
拍出了天朝不敢拍的题材，其实在天朝有过之而无不及，只是过不了审吧
加湿器、除湿器，空气过滤器，这些人类越来越依赖的东西，真的是可以杀人于无形！我们应该多点接触大自然，少用电器。本人喜欢韩国片，思维缜密，机构清新，永远会给人意想不到的惊喜
多么令人心碎的一个故事，多么令人感动的一个故事
虽然现实就是这么一个事，但却不是这么一回事。
在本国卖了几千w 澳洲却过不了实验
又是一部靠电影唤醒大众舆论的韩国电影，“我是英国人，才不在乎别的国家的人民的死活”以及结尾，极具讽刺
去掉了map和与Connor灵魂的对话，把let go放进了和妈妈的对话里，对主人公的塑造更立体了，但是整体的故事性弱了，没看音乐剧直接看电影的话，会不知道康纳存在的意义到底是什么。
前面觉得有韩影一贯的煽情拖沓，中段突然开始剧情反转大吃一惊。一次很好的题材选择和成熟的商业片制作
三观到五观棒子都骑在光电总菊的脖子上撒尿。
三星。从真实的悲剧故事取材，在惨淡的社会压抑诞生，叙事手法是空气喷雾气若游丝，故事背景像致命毒素痛彻骨髓。席间的照片是无声的鼓槌，升起的烟雾是有形的锁链，人民是政府的基石还是政治的脚踏，幸福是负重的灵魂还是空壳的支票，生命是同等的宣言还是分级的鸿沟，正义是把玩的规则还是笃定的信条。当戏剧的反转与温吞的庭审走向落幕，唯有大雨中两位父亲相视的目光才是制伏杀人者的最终武器。
如果没有制药公司的科长和医生的联手，还会失去更多无辜的生命吧
佩服韩国人敢于挑战政府的勇气，但是叙述起来不是感觉没有很详细，有些交代不清楚的感觉。
电影来讲很一般，最重要的是改编自真实事件那一行字。真正的英雄。
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