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".
很完整的风格，很独特的故事，但是结局可能不算特别完美，人物剖析的还是不够透彻。
前面40分钟确实有点劝退，冗长无味；但电影的最后几分钟，又让前面的40分钟(主要是怪胎的故事线)有了意义，就还挺奇妙的。
黑色片的成功“彩色化”，视效没得说。黑色片真的是古龙的宝藏啊，几乎部部都可以当古龙看。Cooper越老越辣看得狠人不淡定。
好难看。情节转折生硬，动因也很奇怪。而且因为美恐我对马戏团这个背景设置ptsd
影片时长两个半小时，在嘉年华秀里的时间就用了一个小时，未免有点太长了。大面形式上也做得不错，但对几个主要角色的行为动机缺乏深层次的探索，流于表面，没有灵魂。
这辈子没见过比京阿尼更会端水的🤣最后遥的鬼上身着实把我玄乎了 期待后篇解开心结大家一起开心游泳🥺
唯一的缺点是前1/3节奏太慢了, 但这片真的是近期我看过最赞的片子了, 完全出乎意料! 不管是情节还是结局, Kate真的有把我给骗到, 后半部分她出场以后整个色调都明亮闪耀起来了, 真的不愧是演技的大魔王, outshine了所有人, 但Cooper也很赞, 感觉这一部真的是他演技巅峰了, 鲁尼玛拉也又美又贴合故事性，总之主角三人的演技我真的没得挑, Kate有一场戏真的完全被她蛊到, 真祸国殃民的魅力, 最后一个镜头里Cooper的眼神也吓到我了, 总之真的是个看完还在余音梁绕的好片, 播完在空调26度的房间里仍然阵阵心惊
アルベルト游泳的画面好像一艘潜艇从屏幕上驶过，帅到
还是挺喜欢这个故事的。贪念不满，终其一生都在寻找心中缺失的那一部分。只不过第一幕稍微冗长了一点，应该改一下结构，把第一幕的内容交叉剪辑到主线叙事之中可能会体验更好一点。
拆散大魔王和小白兔就算了，故事也这么老套无趣…
三分仅赐予魔兔美貌和最后十分钟的剧情。150分钟的时长分走了快一半的时间给马戏团的铺垫戏，剩下的则是不停重复男主的欺诈戏码和轻描淡写的主线剧情，冗长乏味，不知所云，且毫无神秘感可言，不过toro肯定玩得很开心。可惜了优秀的美术和配乐设计，但凡删减到100分钟左右都是一部精妙悦目的佳作。自诩天赋异禀的stan也难过美人关，试图愚弄他人的最终结局只是愚弄了自己，玩弄人心带来罪恶的反噬岂是凡人可以承受，如此看来他才是整个故事里最愚蠢的人。唯一的亮点是关于geek的铺垫，但即便这个精彩结尾努力挽回了陀螺的一丝颜面，还是没办法消除当大魔王那张心理治疗躺椅出来的时候我多么希望躺下去的是我的想法。
在眼睛屋里几乎完成了全片所有的表意，即目光路径迂的变向，从读心游戏中目光的发起者最终变为完全的承受者，只需将方向改变就完成了阶级的跌落，非常简单。（那个娃娃罐头真的好可爱。
剧情太水了，摁头给吃齁死的糖，刚吃完就捅你一刀，节奏跟踩了狗屎一样，看在原番的面上才勉强三星，醉了
我甚至觉得，最后片中男主说“mister, I was born for it (geek).” 有点作者自己的影子。
我全程都不是特别关心这些角色……倒是有点让我想到Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus，那部电影好看多了。三星给Bradley的美颜。
几个主演演技没说的，大魔王真的好适合这种角色啊
其实除了个别人物动机有点模糊之外，每场戏的质感和氛围都还挺好的，而150分钟的时长也不算什么严重的障碍。问题似乎在于，Guillermo del Toro过分沉溺于每个角色和每场戏的得失，反而让整部电影的重心和节奏出现了一点问题。砍掉一些拍得不错却并非必要的戏份虽然有些可惜，但毕竟还是值得的。
小丑×马戏之王的感觉，末世暗黑黏稠迷幻沉浸感和大牌演员气场角力令两个半小时的观影也不觉长，暴力血腥镜头不少，蒙昧的平民和政要心灵脆弱，被神棍套现，无法摆脱心魔的神棍则被有故事的女变态套现。想看看1947年的原版影片。
虽然麦麸端水配平还排列组合但还是😢😢每次看剧场版都能戳中我奇怪的泪点哭得有点相似了
cp乱炖雨露均沾 但这烂逼剧情让我心如止水 一星给我嗑过的cp
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