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".
看完我才发觉这是陀螺的片。让人em失望。
有一说一虽然我很喜欢free，但是这部是真不行，节奏很奇怪，haru最后都ooc了吧，好无语
布萊德利·庫伯演的陰陽怪氣，身份莫名其妙交代不清；而凱特與魯妮演技沒有發揮，襯托不了布萊德利(應該怪布萊德利的扶不起)，嚴重浪費了兩位珍貴的影后。編劇、導演、演員算是全盤皆墨，三輸。
至少看的时候我是完全沉浸在陀螺所编织的这场Nightmare之中了。可能中间部分是有些拖沓，但整体依旧为陀螺的美学所折服，以及第一场马戏团的戏可太喜欢了。
可能库珀破碎感太强了，看到最后居然对这个角色产生了一种同情。战时底层的悲哀，也就只有陀螺这些老导演还愿意拍这些东西。
20岁就开始焦虑的日本人…ip越来越无聊也越来越糊
神马玩意啊! 1个半小时能说清楚的故事,非抻了2个半小时。
布兰切特和库珀的心智斗法看得我如痴如醉，尤其最后摊牌那里两腿一软差点给大魔王下跪。其他没啥可说的，陀螺的暗黑风格很适合拍人心鬼蜮的故事，就是有时候氛围过于诡谲拉高了期待，直接导致假高潮...
还是好看的！别的不说，画风是真的漂亮，伙伴们之间的感情也细腻动人。不过最后哈鲁突然黑化也是我没想到的，什么时候才能看到后篇呀嗷嗷。
比老版冗长太多，加入过多心理分析元素（特别是父亲这条线），男主贪婪本性大大削弱，可惜陀螺除了画面感外并没有带来什么实质性的东西。
女性角色很有魅力，尤其是布兰切特最后的反击太酷。然而太冗长了，疲惫的心不想看漫长的恶有恶报的故事，想看善有善报和小动物跳舞。【老年
布兰切特和库珀的心智斗法看得我如痴如醉，尤其最后摊牌那里两腿一软差点给大魔王下跪。其他没啥可说的，陀螺的暗黑风格很适合拍人心鬼蜮的故事，就是有时候氛围过于诡谲拉高了期待，直接导致假高潮...
烂到我人生哭泣，确定吉尔莫是导演么？这片子和导演自带的鬼才风格没半毛钱关系，无聊、沉闷、拖拉。还是翻新作品，为何投资和选择此片翻拍??这些影视公司为了洗钱么？？？
过于冗长，以至于前后失衡，使得后半部分人物的小丑式表演匆匆上演，但精准的镜头依然彰显了制作水准之高
2.12 陀螺特色部分馬戲團好看。但是BC傻憨憨的很出戏
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。
拍得那么的平淡苍白，前面马戏团演了那么多，到后面才正式进入正题，像两个不同味道的瓜各切开一半，然后各自安好，毫无交代。凯特布兰切特在该片又充分展现了她做作矫情的30年代百老汇演技风格。小白兔演技依然在线，但这部剧里几乎所有有实力的演员都跟着无聊的剧情黯然失色，打算重温1947版的了
陀螺好撕裂啊，电影语言永远绝美充满想象力，故事本身一直干瘪无聊，有种胡叶新努力唱怒音的感觉，用尽吃奶的劲儿，却丝毫不动人。
还是好看的！别的不说，画风是真的漂亮，伙伴们之间的感情也细腻动人。不过最后哈鲁突然黑化也是我没想到的，什么时候才能看到后篇呀嗷嗷。
我不理解，现在奥斯卡最佳影片提名就这水平了吗？白瞎了这演员阵容，以及Bradley Cooper和大魔王的演技，两个人心理变化以及造成其原因的描写太浅太表面，前面铺垫两个小时，无比期待最后半个小时，结果却讲了个寂寞，还有最后报纸上Zeena怎么了？
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