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".
政治被我们谈得津津有味 不厌其烦也不厌其旧 常谈常乐 一直谈得手舞足蹈 面生红光 振振有辞 阴谋诡计像是前菜 有了它 谈资愈发勃勃生机 口水肆意
民众如愤怒的公牛，只会冲向挥舞的红旗，而谁是旗手他们根本不在乎。影子不过是道出了选举的真相，所谓的民煮也只是一场选举游戏而已。为了正义的目的不得不用卑鄙的手段，不愿弄脏双手者就难以实现目的。一部道出选举本质的影片，打破了关于现代民煮的幻像。
精彩的观影体验，真的佩服！！！！！！！~~~~~
没有看到什么惊世骇俗的政治手腕，反倒更凸显角色们的情感纠葛
3.5 卞成贤自不汗党以来的野心越发明显，操刀正剧历史（虚构）事件里的说客与政治家的形象，受欲望吞噬、无所不用其极的影子&自有底线、理想主义、自下而上的梦想家，工具的价值是社会环境附加的还是载体特有的？这个问题仍然没有得到答案，电影在金成为候选人后丧失了焦距，卞缺乏了终结故事的能力。另：薛景求的表演隐忍克制，李的表演匍匐激烈，但我果然更喜欢卞镜头里的韩宰虎很多。
《王者制造》止步于上述——笼统且老生常谈的政治理解，但其前中期却做出了立场选择的假动作。挑出这对特别的政客和影子，实行对立感强烈的叙事策略，而关于那些口号的实质所指却没有任何具体且坚定的憧憬或判断。如何从中看出实切的“理想主义”？
到底谁引爆了炸弹？为了正义的目地是否可以不择手段？你所谓的正义是否只是胜利？因为历史由胜利者书写。政治就是一场戏，可俺们只有看戏的资格，因为人民不是公民。
政治面前确实没有什么大义，也没什么人情味，这也是我不怎么喜欢看政治电影的原因。当然，这片里李善均的演绎还是盖过了薛景求。
开展五分之四的剧情后，整部电影急转直下，估计不知道怎么编了。光是前面的五分之四也已够了。
剧本和导演技巧看出好莱坞的水准，韩国电影工业水平堪称亚洲第一? 或许宝莱坞电影可以与之匹敌。
没有看到什么惊世骇俗的政治手腕，反倒更凸显角色们的情感纠葛
这不就是以金大中为原型的故事。老百姓是政治斗争的炮灰，不论在所谓的民主还是独裁国家。
没有传统韩国政治电影的暗流汹涌，而是平稳缓慢的叙事去讲述历史，整体倒没有枯燥，一直在个体中进行辩驳，感觉从去年开始韩国电影一改猛拳套路开始做起了人文思辨，走更加内敛的创作方向。
亚里士多德：“正义形成社会秩序”。
对手戏非常精彩，台词很蜿蜒，散发着一股子韭菜炒大肠般的杂味，很有玩味；世上最脏的是什么，除了政治，我想没有替代品…
引用台词也要删，那你们还是把这部电影干脆删掉吧
剧本和导演技巧看出好莱坞的水准，韩国电影工业水平堪称亚洲第一? 或许宝莱坞电影可以与之匹敌。
韩国什么都能拍啊。政治就是一种玩弄宣传的游戏。有正义感的总统VS不顾一切的幕僚。影子为什么总想走到前面呢？
曾经野心勃勃以为可以玩弄大局，实际上不过是颗棋子，随时可能会成为政治牺牲品，然后被无情丢弃，影子怎么走到阳光下呢？
军师，不亏是智慧担当，那一房间的书，那种东西
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