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".
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。
哈哈哈
新版导演表示并非复刻47版，而是小说的翻拍，所以新版比47版冗长饱满，每个骗术都揭示原理（反而有弄巧成拙之嫌），但男主害死Pete的动机没有47版交待的明确，另外心理医生这条线，47版比新版干脆利落，没有节外生枝出现另一条动机，大魔王的演技没有发挥好。47版演Zeena的布朗德尔没有柯莱特的“女巫”气质，但新版Zeena和男主缺乏互动，反倒没有47版纯粹利用更直截了当。还有新版倒车撞死Ezra贴身保镖这段处理的太夸张。总体上新版没有47版富于灵异色彩和神秘感。新版试图全面“破除迷信”，宗教味道基本归零，塔罗牌情节精简到几近没有，理性的表达了通灵都是鬼扯，包括用男主的俄狄浦斯情结和弑父心理解释他的行为动机，並且修正了47版牵强HE的做法，逻辑上很“圆满”。
我终于来看狗男人们了！！
一会儿睡着了一会儿出门去充电总之没怎么看明白，但很喜欢开头优雅的氛围感www跟我想象的不是一个类型片orz还以为是那种黑色幽默的爽片，结果意外地复古优雅、又沉重阴郁。ps这也太几把长了
我愣住了，为了制造剧情冲突，愣是把真琴搞ooc了，真琴怎么会放着明显不对劲的遥跑回去和弟弟妹妹打游戏，我不理解
终于看到了，感觉我已经免疫了，在凛遥分手的时候我甚至因为双方都相当心疼而露出微笑
德尔托罗的这部新黑色电影风格虚无、略显压抑，第一幕用色调和各类视觉元素（如多次使用虹膜镜头）致敬早期默片，之后则回到他最爱的二战前后年代。本片的摄影、美术、服化道都水准颇高，片中的嘉年华场景让人印象深刻，但人物塑造颇为薄弱，比如鲁妮玛拉的角色非常苍白，布兰切特的角色更是没能有机融入叙事。影片中心围绕在男主角的心理活动上，确切地说是围绕在他如何面对自己装神弄鬼的骗术上，不过影片并非纯粹基于逻辑和事实，也有意滑向神秘主义。影片最大问题在于，在男主角做出结尾的重要决定前，影片既没有进行充分的戏剧铺垫也没有完善的心理描写，导致影片的结局显得生硬、刻意，难以与迷人的第一幕媲美。
2.12 陀螺特色部分馬戲團好看。但是BC傻憨憨的很出戏
翻拍美国四十年代的片子，阵容豪华，大牌云集。影片长达两个半小时，以男主角的经历，可以分成两个部分。第一部分是男主角在乡村流动马戏团的崛起，凭其过人的天赋及年轻外表，他在马戏团顺风顺水技艺大长，并娶得美人归。第二部分则是他在都市的铩羽而归，他的欲望飙升，自信心爆棚，两个恶人相遇搞出血雨腥风，又被城市恶人玩弄于股掌，露出乡巴佬的本来面目。最后他的人生走出一个循环，坠入悲惨地狱。有可观赏性，只是叙事太啰嗦了，让观众紧张不起来。
总之剧情有些狗血有蛮搞笑期待明年4月的后篇！
有点太四平八稳了，陀螺的特长在这个并没有太天马行空的设定中，有些施展不开。渐渐地我发现，演员的表演似乎并不是陀螺的强项，如果没有奇情的支撑，现实语境 中即使是这些好演员，也没有建立起良好的化学反应
故事并不精彩，努力求财的人被更高段数的女魔头耍了的故事。女魔头套路简单最主要是最后也没赚多少。马戏团也太阴暗了处处像个吃人魔窟，毁了童年想象。不好看
感觉配乐换了个风格啊，真的赞，之前的配乐没有Rap还有女声，感觉女声让整个乐曲更加epic了甚至（不针对性别）
就这？就这？！！！ 1080P 22/02/04
前半部分对于民间马戏团的认真还原和细致布景给观众带来了非常好的视觉体验。让我想到《象人》、《畸形人》和《大路》。这三部电影中也出现了类似的马戏团场景，但更加粗粝和真实，本片稍显精致的布景一定程度上削弱了这种民间生活气息。后半部分的叙事过于平淡，情节平平无奇，浪费了漫天大雪和华丽布景。那么多有特点的人物都只是轻描淡写，非常可惜。据说改编于1947年的同名电影，有时间补一下。
没看过老版的情况下，观感很好，库伯演习越来越厉害了。
沒想到這部竟然是我在戲院重開後的第一部電影。年少時追的番，約了中學同學去追憶青春。太久沒看，大學篇很多人物都沒什麼印象。凜遙的部分好多啊，真的是“游過十八萬尺後 也不會足夠 永遠要你做對手”。真遙黨要哭了，真琴大天使不但做不了對手，連陪練的資格都沒有😢。不過真琴還是在自己的道路穩步向前，病母倍感安慰。但末段兩人在神社，真琴為何走得那麼狼狽？那個預感有那麼難以啟齒嗎？片末好虐，我站了一秒凜遙。😢不再自由的七瀨遙能把自由式游得好嗎？下集什麼時候會上映？
3、世界就像一个马戏团，而人生如戏。
前面太长，后面真正的剧情感觉又在快进。库柏演的也很差，对手戏被碾压
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