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".
这不就是资本主义工厂的“教父”吗？结尾又讽刺又真实。看哈维尔·巴登演“好”老板还蛮不习惯的，总感觉下一秒他就会拿气枪爆人脑袋...
我目前最喜欢的一部陀螺，一部彻头彻尾的Spooky show in a carnival。Cooper最后的嘶吼比小李子近年来的花式乱吼加起来都有感染力loll
7.0/10 美术还是很不错的。非常私人的作者电影，本质上充斥的是怀旧情绪，缅怀了一去不复返的往昔。最后主角的阶级跌落形成一个完整的闭环，但已经与noir没太大关系了，而与nostalgic有关，从A故事上看他是被动的选择回归，但从B故事上看他必然回到马戏团这个场所，只有这样才能找回归属感，因为那是他无法逃离的“家”，这可能也是德托罗为什么执意要把第一幕写的这么长，最终回到原点即是以最病态的方式怀念旧时光。 #补标#
故事因为是40年代的底子所以难免有种陈旧感，但亏得导演是陀螺才把它玩出来点新看头。演员阵容强是比较强，但你要说真要从中选出一个最佳(男主女主男配女配什么的)，还真是选不出来，大家似乎都差不多，都只是正常发挥。
前一个小时铺垫太长 导致逐渐失去耐心 不过结尾不错
看一看中国互联网上遍地生长的大胃王吃播，畸形且阴森，行尸走肉一样麻木地啃噬食物，不自知表演自我伤害的同时，对自己也感到冷漠，回过头来再看陀螺此次经典翻拍，确实不太行，对吧。
其实完成度还可以，几个老戏骨演技也在线，惊艳的是geek的命定前后衔接，唯一不太好的就是男主前半段没啥台词，显得有点傻
又一部大导演翻拍作品，制作和表演都精良，故事不吸引我，看不下去。
2.5不能再多了/马戏团就很适合陀螺美学，但我这滤镜再厚也经不住这种磨蹭法，胖陀螺你哪里来的自信cooper可以撑起两个半小时的？👊🏻
原版的Noir荡然无存，细枝末节只是点到为止，只是在道具上认出了陀螺。
陀螺的电影美学一如既往的无可挑剔完美至极，不知道是不是太沉溺其中马戏团部分拍得过美过长，即使已经是离谱的150分钟后面依然来不及好好讲了，故事剧情人物塑造全崩了。不忍给差评，拍得真的太美。
男人有钱就变坏，母猪上树变妖怪。除了欣赏我大魔王的美艳皮囊再无其他可看，很难不说是拿卡蜜儿双人组的名头骗观众流量。还有就是好莱坞的老男人能不能别在电影里扮嫰了，大哥你真的已经很老了……
不是很对胃口，除了让一众很有味道的演员们复刻一下质感，惊悚到套路甚至临近结尾的反转有些不知所云。不得不说，那样的“感觉”是有了，或许是部分翻拍的意义。没看过原版，但也没任何直观感觉到属于这个时代的升级冲击。的当然前半段嘉年华和各种把戏轮番登场还是很精彩！/Bradley Cooper爹化可期（bushi）
扯什么精神分析实无必要，用片中的台词来说，只是大家都“多少有点亲子问题”。从几位替代了父亲的角色，到弑父恋母的库珀，怨恨母亲的大魔王，再到被父亲送去参军的孩子，出生时害死母亲的胎儿制成的标本，被迫流产的富商情妇，片中无数组繁复的亲/子符号组成一张诡秘之网，仿佛这世上只有父母害死孩子或孩子害死父母两种命运。
已看一半。
是长了点（前半段注意力很分散我...）但后半段渐入佳境 陀螺的视听风格演绎心理周旋很抓人 （感到Mara似乎被定型在某种character里...
[명씨네] 这不挺好吗。即便引线埋得并不深，也隐隐猜到最后会出现那句台词(temporary job)，结局还是非常有冲击力。完全招架不住心理层面的惊悚，或许因为逐渐感受到堕落是一种本能，看到人的贪欲呈指数式膨胀，他可以那么轻易地臣服、溃退、作恶、失去人形，就憋闷得慌。陀螺的片讨厌和喜欢的好像各占一半，但不得不说整体性都很强，适合“大片”的无短板技术型。而且他的“暗黑”元素也并不是奇观式的堆砌，很多时候观看的不适是因为发现了欲望的灰色地带，不像有的导演只为展现自己的私人癖好（...）可惜的是篇幅已经做到这么长了，但对三位女演员的刻画都不够立体。
充满震慑力的主线也好，丛生而相互关联的支线也好，都非常适合陀螺按自己的风格发挥。
陀螺最大的优势在于能赋予影片出色的视觉设计与氛围，最大的缺点则是精致的画面下空洞的表达内容。其不知取舍过于冗长的铺陈段落如若在最后不能累积绽放，那对于观众就是煎熬。 2.5
卡罗尔后大魔王&鲁尼玛拉终于合作了可惜没有对手戏
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