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".
本可以拍成一个女性复仇的爽片，却硬要拍成“乡下人的悲歌”，不得不感叹：大导演就是有特权。
看完《浅草小子》再看这部有点唏嘘，同是师徒。这部我在家倍速看的，所以大家诟病的主要缺点规避掉了，剩下到位的氛围和进入无聊期前的惊悚。其实故事中规中矩，甚至早到geek一职出现就能预料结局，但有些电影就是可以精致到形式掩盖内容。Not bad——一些人理解成Good，一些人理解成不差，这就是我对这部电影的评价。
【C+】第一幕的时长就足以说明陀螺的马戏团情结，过分狂热，也过分庞杂，几乎没有给影像任何喘息的空间，视觉元素眼花缭乱的同时却又无法把握真正的视觉重心。而到了影片的后半段，却又显得过于简略，正如通灵仪式一样的空洞实质。镜头运动从未停歇，哪怕其内部蒙太奇已经完全，也执意要继续无用的运动。只有结局是恰到好处的收敛，宿命论的工整剧作下终于平静地凝视那张入魔的面孔。
胜负心很强，但又偏偏容易哭鼻子的Rin，怀抱着炽热的心的Rin，一旦下定决心便立即为之奋斗的Rin。身边的Ruaw也是这样呢（笑），和这样的人在一起永远都很充实，这也许是我一直都喜欢Rin的原因吧！
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
靠火太近会被焚。
观赏性很强的院线片。画面、音乐和服装都很美，有着浓重的宿命感和悲剧感。骗中骗的结构，以弱胜强又和《犬之力》不谋而合。男人们自以为掌握了一切，结果还是被女人abandoned, haunted and executed。男主原本是可以成为福尔摩斯那样的人哪！
陀螺保持着他的暗黑风，但由于题材并不是他最擅长的异族宗教，其实发挥也不是很好。
中间的悉尼大赛真的看的人热血沸腾。日常也好细腻，打动人心。就是最后一下给我整蒙了，遥这是人格分裂？
3、世界就像一个马戏团，而人生如戏。
非常喜欢！当陀螺构建的暗黑世界足够成熟时，他只需要不断复刻这一寓言体系的要素来唤醒他的影迷（马戏团迷宫一秒唤起潘神，暗绿色的夜雨是水形物语），并不断用自己的“格林童话”补完和延续自己的暗黑寓言故事集。新世纪已经不再崭新，科学尚不足解释一切，心理学才露端倪，神学依旧能控制人心。陀螺用自己寓言中的人物一再投射现实世界，在他眼里，入侵波兰的元首是卓别林。数字和词语构成的镜像世界，暗号如摩丝码繁复，模仿成为利器，眼神、手势、反复擦拭的皮鞋、突然的晕厥虽能一招制胜，但镜像的现实世界依旧无法轻易摆脱糟糕的童年的和原生家庭。童年的乌云在言语间就能暴露弱点，奢华和权利不断铺设的陷阱，被私欲反噬，最终引人走入万劫不复的结局。Geek犹如包法利夫人中的瞎子，陀螺自己做了一次电影黄金时代遗产中的福楼拜。
严重怀疑是想借两位女演员东风，可惜两位女性完全是摆设，那么，在我这儿，他就是洗q片儿了。完成度相当低，自圆其说的相当低能，最后变身geek简直是为了反转而强行设定。molly和doc的人物完全是为了衬托男主的花瓶存在，毫无性格特点，跟男主也毫无化学反应。这样的故事这样的完成度，还不如再去看一遍Carol。
好像也没什么差别嘛
继《SOHO夜惊魂》之后，2021令人崩溃的名导新片和观影体验。。。。原版《玉面情魔》1947 真香，新版让我想无限吐槽。
一个衣冠情兽、玉面情魔的人物，和猩红山峰的设置像的。但这部叙事更好，有两个前后呼应，与“以前”的揭秘；缺点是两部同样是人物细节差点，只有叙事来支持，人设有但不丰满，库珀你也就觉得他好看，其他自私、不择手段都是叙事支撑。暗藏的大boss是大魔王，但以为的boss是鲫鱼啊，这选角和形象完全不行，感觉最多就是个管家。怪物最好的去除就是啃鸡脖子，前后呼应，但也是剧情的，没有那种形式化的描述就觉得不够啊；受过“恐怖表演”治疗的顾客都基本以死亡告终，所以最后的结局并不冤；2077拍电影，鲫鱼保镖适合演主角那个大个头拍档。
这几天把free系列补完了，真的好好看，可是最终章卡在这个地方真的很难受啊，后篇还要再等啊啊啊啊啊啊
顺便把之前的剧情又重看了一遍，还是真琴好，虽然非常照顾遥，但自己的决定都是自己做的，可以说受遥的影响最小，这种坚定也是真琴拥有强大包容力的原因。相对来说遥反而是用对外的冷淡来掩盖内心的敏感，缺乏根性，每一步都需要别人推一把，软弱但可爱的人类啊。
陀螺可以拍一整部马戏团怪谭的，前半部分行云流水特别得纯熟，后半部分拖泥带水表现太磕碜。btw，谁不是冲着魔兔cp去的呢？其实陀螺可以大胆一点，性转一下Cooper和Cate的角色，嘻！
视听一流，故事并不新鲜但是拍得好，所以我很喜欢
中间的悉尼大赛真的看的人热血沸腾。日常也好细腻，打动人心。就是最后一下给我整蒙了，遥这是人格分裂？
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