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".
整部片子拍得就很直给，哪怕设置了反转，看了之后也一点不惊讶。前期该有的感情建立草草带过，以至于受害人集体痛哭或呼喊，我也完全无法代入。唯一值得肯定的，它是基于真实事件改编。
前面的叙事中规中矩，最后问责部分可以，讽刺又真实。（另外我因为鼻炎一直使用加湿器，但是有听闻这件事，从来不敢加其他东西。。
金钱买不下电影的良心，却可以吞下现实的良心
前三分之二看得太气了，以为要黑心企业再度销售害死更多人才能再翻案，没想到胖代表居然是个卧底，一个失去女儿的可怜父亲对着新闻昭示真相的哭泣这个反转，有些突兀但也着实感动。真的太可怕了，韩国敢拍就是比我们有勇气！金相庆怎么可以发福成这样扣星。
【3月25日，22】7分，冲着音乐剧去看的。除了主题曲好听、比较经典之外，没什么好说的，一般。
电影本身潦草一般，女演员也撑不起来女律师的角色，可其中的意义值得多加一星。不知道良知缺失的人是因为没良心才坐上高位，还是因为坐上高位后没良心呢
无力 前官优待公司可以聘用大律师贿赂实验室和受害者家属和解 讽刺学术的良心死了美国人案件立刻得到重视澳洲已经检验出不合格老板已经移民 政府部门推诿其实是共谋 本剧虽然节奏很快没有仔细打磨 但依然值得尊敬 美女检察官yyds
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
同样的现实主义题材，对比《辩护人》的确不在一个水平线上。但依然为“民生现实题材+最后的20分钟反转+最后冰冷的推诿式结局处理”加星。不管别人拍的怎么样，起码可以拍出来，这是电影的现实意义，而我们只有远远看着的份，这是电影的悲哀。
人间最是伤心处，只余新人哭旧坟，所以，请不要忘记那些曾经的悲剧，请记住那些危害过民众的企业，他们不值得被原谅，
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？
刚开始看预告片主演没变的时候很激动，然而看完正片完全无感。跟《身在高地》一样说不上失败，但是原作的形在魂不在的改编。
整部片子拍得就很直给，哪怕设置了反转，看了之后也一点不惊讶。前期该有的感情建立草草带过，以至于受害人集体痛哭或呼喊，我也完全无法代入。唯一值得肯定的，它是基于真实事件改编。
电视剧质感，强模板属性的人设和剧情，寡淡的观影体验，除了真实事件本身的份量，再无能打动人的力量
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...
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
之前看到这个新闻就不敢用加湿器了，看完电影知道到底怎么回事，现在无良奸商太多化学制品还是尽量少用，因为毕竟是化学制品
消费者权益保护主题，没想到还有这么骇人的事。影片本身而言是典型的韩国套路，每一处情节演进都在意料之中。还是希望泡菜少一些此类的僵化拍法。
不过整体来说还好，所有的包袱都能猜到，只是看他们走这个流程，比熔炉，素媛，辩护人啥的差的多，但对普通观众来说很友好
7分，就电影本身而言，人物情感稍微单薄，其实并不算出彩。
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