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".
3.5＋ 对于做一部传统黑色电影翻拍，就别想着去说创作者在人物上没有深度什么屁话，正统黑色电影早已永远留在了40年到50年代末了。陀螺将自己特有的味道留下了一部怀旧片，对于黑色电影影迷来说或许不够好，那个年代的味道不是服化道美术能够替代的，后期调光更不用说了，演员表演的方式也在改变，纯粹的已经不在。如今当代黑色电影风格是一种活络的技法，它不在单一成为风格化形式表现，虽然可以在类型片做到各种融合，但人成为了最重要也是最难的一个融合。
靠一些Carol情结（又是rabbit又是Christmas然而魔兔全程无互动 很好奇如此无聊的剧情怎么拍到两个半小时的不如去看freak show 以及第一次发现Cooper侧脸好像Ralph😑
大魔王演精明女就像汤姆汉克斯一样已经没有波澜了……
观感还不错，演员们的演技都在线，剧情也颇有亮点，特别是第一幕在马戏团的戏成功拍出了西方老式的神话般的诡秘感。但虽说是翻拍，这种故事放到现在显得比较过时，我更倾向于大改会比较好。马戏团和城市之间的转换稍微有些割裂，全片的节奏也很拖沓，铺垫得太详细太冗长了，完全没有必要凑两个半小时，导致直到最后半个小时节奏开始滚动起来以后才能完全入戏。
4.5，没看过原作，2.30小时不觉得长，意犹未尽。
终究是变成了怪人。
资本主义国家的资本家真难当。裁员双倍补偿都不行，员工站在工厂门口示威，毫无办法；关心员工家庭生活，不仅要给员工游手好闲的儿子解决工作，还要带着员工一起抓奸；严厉批评完门卫之后还得屁颠屁颠跑去道歉；好不容易潜规则了个实习生，发现还是世交的女儿。这些在社会主义的资本家面前，根本不是个事。。
但当叙事运转起来之后
关于怪物的养成和轮换，一切有为法，如梦幻泡影，如露亦如电，应作如是观。
苦力成长为小骗子，小骗子变成大骗子，结局是大骗子让骗子给骗了。人心不足蛇吞象，本来在任何一个阶段止步都可以得善终……
精神分析大战读心术，结论：还是得看塔罗牌的。毛骨悚然的浪漫。
质感一流。“怪人”的伏笔所有人都能猜到，但宿命式结局依然有震撼力。
所以电影的主题是想表达酒精害人吗？好的那我知道了，喝完这杯我就收手。
原作看得我迷迷糊糊的，陀螺改编版人物造型更加多元，太适合我们脸盲患者了。geek形成了闭环，场景安排和光线色彩很有陀螺特色，但表演其实不及原作。
我还挺喜欢片子的30-40s的调调，虽然剧情也跟当年的电影一样简单直接，但过渡和起承转合都足够吸引我继续看下去。服化道太赞了，各种马戏团怪物怪咖也看得出陀螺玩得很开心
就是太冗长了。故事的话确实是那种上世界老经典电影的那种感觉。但是真的可以拍的在简短一点，而且更加富有传奇性一点。
在哈登安排不良少年出场前，实在看不出这个老板有什么不妥之处。
感觉片子的节奏还是挺稳的，只是有些场景我是觉得真的惊悚。
第3593-马戏团部分有点长，凯特布兰切出场以后故事才有点意思，男主诠释得不像八面玲珑的骗子，倒确实是个不听人劝的冒险者。
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）
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