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".
free9年了 后篇也上映了真的要结束了😢天下没有不散的宴席难过了呜呜😭 一想到看完了后篇就是真的说再见了 我真的会很难过😣
太拖沓了
陀螺标志性的影像风格，前半段马戏团的表现力极强，服化道也精致的无可挑剔。但是这个故事。。。冗长乏味，Kate大魔王根本没啥发挥空间啊，感觉就是在努力向femme fatale上靠。
哦还有一点，欲望啊，真是个麻烦精…
反复埋料call back。。。
喜欢这一部超过《水型物语》，和原版不同的是，德尔·托罗更想抓住的是某种时代的精神，故事背景也从大萧条刚过不久转移到了二战，影片在某种程度上也是对“光荣一代”的解构，鲁尼·玛拉的角色比起原版有着非常明显的弱化。
期待了一年多的片子结果就拍成这样 你想看的他全不拍 那何必掏出这种卡司 真浪费。
free怎么也开始用瞳色改变搭上人格改变这个路子了哦……虽然明白这部只是为后篇做个引子，但真的太无趣了。Albert的配音完全棒读，简直怀疑是素人配音。不过日和送给郁弥的北极熊太太太太可爱了，一颗星给我们日郁酱。
步步都能猜到的剧情，演员演的真好，拍的也不错。就是剧情太容易猜到了。很套路很套路的写了一个家伙的野心之路，而最大的问题是他为啥？就好像作者要把美国野心浓缩到一个人身上，却忽视了他做人本身的内在问题。他为啥？为啥？停不下来的骗人，完全没有教了交代，就好像作者为了批判野心这个抽象的现象刻意捏造的人物，不可信。但是景观美术做的真好。就这样。想用个简单故事承载复杂人性的想法本身就是野心，华而不实的野心。可是这些演员简直是表演艺术家，剧情虽然这样还是演的可圈可点。缺点和优点都很明显的片儿。
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优缺点都很明显，优点是布景气氛营造都很到位，美学功力高深，打光和摄影都是高级感满满，几位主演也没有演砸都演技在线。缺点是前半段太拖沓进入主线剧情太慢导致久久等不到的高潮让人失望，老片新拍却四平八稳没有任何一点现实意义纯粹只讲了一个离奇的故事，相比当年《潘神的迷宫》缺少深度和反思，感觉就是纯粹做了一次2021版技术的翻新，遗憾。
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继歌舞片、乡愁体之后，马戏团也成了每个准大师的还愿刚需？前2/3冗长无趣的心理铺垫，甚至不如格雷《移民》般的流水情节剧有诗意，结局水准在线的收束处理，也突兀得如女心理师反水般莫名其妙。
结局早已注定，底层的欲望就是不断向上(坠落）向上(坠落）直到摸到自己脚底的过程。电影的问题要不就是马戏团的戏份太长，要不就是城市里的戏份太短，有点失衡。陀螺总是营造一种远离我们的前世界感，但剧情不太顺滑。
3.7分。 并没有多差，甚至可以说还不错，在如今好莱坞动辄搞超英电影和俗套喜剧的大背景下，以及各种政治正确为导向的价值观输出型电影，这部略显老旧的黑色犯罪片，透露出些许的悲凉和讽刺意味。一个人怎么一步步沦落到成为靠伤害自己来取悦别人的怪人？这个过程看似难以说清道明，实际上只不过是对欲望的不断攀升，以及最终陡然失去后的自嘲而已。 老版本囿于当时的电检，没办法按照黑色的结尾完成，陀螺的新版本算是弥补这个遗憾。没有任何救赎，也没有任何神秘，只有自欺欺人而已。这个版本最好的一点，也就是对男主角的重塑和补充，让他更加丰满，且行为具有合理性了。看这片子时，想起了诺兰的《致命魔术》，虽然区别很大，但都是在讲过往年代的“神迹”，这里面折射的其实是人心在宗教和科学面前的不知所措。
如果非要扯马戏团，没有看过布朗宁freaks的人可以去补一下。这个片子烂成这个样子真是没想到。剧本漏洞极大，人物空洞，行为动机缺乏说服力，镜头语言无任何增彩。一个星送给演员吧。剧本差，真的谁也救不了。可怜的我们，被卡司（特别是卡罗尔两位女主）骗进影院的观众。旁边一个微胖的女子中途睡到头微微扬起，我几度打开手机，抑制自己跑走的情绪。我最讨厌的三处。一是处理马戏团的视角和拍摄手法，杂糅而奇怪。二是两个女性角色的处理，femme fatale和小白兔的老梗，改编可否稍微考虑时代，可否多加一些笔触？类似的鬼东西好莱坞拍了多少年了？三是，男主的角色没有立住，心理描写用闪回的着火房间无意义，从表演看，各种行为动机都缺乏力量。男主一出场之后就是一副一定会杀人越货的眼神，太无趣了。
影片表现的是贪婪自负虚荣所带来的恶果，男主角最后的结局，他所得到的报应完全是他自找的，他被蛇蝎美人算计了也是题中之意，整部电影就像是一部警世小说。
结局斯坦来到新的马戏团推销自己，说我会读心术我对此很在行。老板说：算了吧，读心术现在已经过时了。这也是我对这部电影的评价。
本片改編於同名小說，亦是對四十年代的舊版的翻拍。導演吉爾莫德爾託羅在改編上成功地把握了原著的絕望色彩以及頹喪的人性面貌，將之放到如今懷疑道德的時代，可謂天衣無縫。而且編導在拍攝亦不同於舊版乃至一般好萊塢作品（藉由主角代入整個故事），通篇皆是一種質疑和不安感，不斷地以詭譎的剪輯技巧突顯困擾主人公的過去，用角色的內心活動串聯起整個戲劇核心，實在是《禁閉島》後，久違的心理懸疑劇。
如果你看过低学历大师把一帮明星企业家精英大佬骗得团团转的新闻，那么这部电影是有其现实依据的。每个人的心里都有缺口，骗子就是发现了这个缺口并加以利用，仅此而已。男主太帅了，但是气场完全被大魔王压过去了，最遗憾的就是男主还是太嫩，影片整体还是非常好看的
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