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".
细思极恐，那些看不见的黑手最为恐怖，利益熏心。反观一下现在的疫情还有检测机构，能正义履职尽责的又有多少？上层决策底层执行，需要的不仅仅是执行，论证和怀疑过吗？
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
Zoe的requiem那里改编真的蛮有新意，新歌提出的观念也很好哇🥺🥺
有点老套 甚至有点无聊 但是这个事件我记得影响真的很大 我妈立马把家里的加湿器扔了😂
三星半。看得好累，哭累的…很奇怪，其实我不是很能感同身受，但是哭得很惨。Ben怼着镜头看他不知为何越看越觉得奇怪呢。还是得看看音乐剧。
先说一下电影部分，这个题材应该是韩国最拿手的题材了，但是这一部并不出彩，韩国电影最近表现的太一般了。怎么说呢，就好像所有的关键转折点都是一笔带过，没有真正的去挖掘故事的矛盾，就好像一本只有目录没有内容的书一样，而且演员状态也不太好，坏人情感薄弱没什么，你可以说他们就是没有感情的动物，但是受害者的情感表达也非常肤浅，一点共鸣都没有。唯一的惊喜就是有点小反转，还有结尾处的嘲讽。
之前因为看过相关真实报道，一直给身边人普及尽量少用加湿器，尽量不要用自来水，尽量不要在里面倒任何含化学的液体，虽然身边没有多少人倒除菌剂，但加湿器里放精油的真的很多，这种东西雾化了对肺部怎么可能没影响。真想把这部电影推荐给那些不听劝的人看看。电影里还有打入权贵内部的复仇者，现实里却多是沉默者，每天都有这种不公在发生。韩国至少还能拍电影，咱们的三鹿奶粉谁敢提，喝这些长大的00后10后都已经不知道这个事了。
很韩国的灾难片了，不过灾难也就是空气净化器产品有毒只是个引子，引出来的是政府企业的官官相护和官商勾结，他们在酒绿灯红的时候，牺牲的都是老百姓。几段高潮的戏份感觉不是很到位，没体现出剧情和人物的反转，结局时候法庭上几个部门之间相互踢皮球最后来个总结陈词一起去吃个饭还挺精彩，与其说精彩倒不如说写实
电影拍的血泪真实，看的人声泪俱下
又是那种不可企及的韩国出品。
单从食品这方面，我们有三鹿奶粉事件，地沟油，瘦肉精，毒生姜，工业明胶等等，似乎大家都麻木了，过了就忘了，大家都相安无事。
正常叙事真实事件的片子，没那么深刻也没那么精彩，“财阀控制整个韩国”依旧深入人心
其实就是讲2011年发生的加湿器杀菌剂事件，还不如抗疫好看
根据真实事件改编，中规中矩，可以理解。毕竟某家大公司还活的好好的，说不定也在看
三观到五观棒子都骑在光电总菊的脖子上撒尿。
选题很好，但是哪哪都没拍好，韩式演技也要不得。
就算是反转性的结局也同样难言精彩，节奏和角色设计太过公式化，同类型影片论细节和人物塑造比不上《黑水》，论影片张力又比《辩护人》差了好几个档次。
最后几分钟是精髓…踢皮球和议员吃饭合影真是绝了
6.0/10，故事发展太平了，平庸到浪费了一个好题材。
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
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