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".
略失败的改编，乔丹皮尔无法驾驭黑人社区最经典的种族怪谈，也自然在政治神话与恐怖美学间取得平衡。前士绅化时期的区隔空间在种族虐杀重案的历代累计下诞生了作为怨念集合具象化的糖果人，但在BLM运动如火如荼的时期，镜面召唤恶灵的指定白人攻击倾向已经叛离了那个无差别行凶的存在，藏刀片的糖果以及骚动蜂群的隐喻在艺术推进中也被弱化。当然，在这杀戮美学的视觉体验上确实有所革新，每一幕杀人都如前卫画展那般泡在浓烈的颜料中，没有过度血浆地狱的张扬，却也压抑了最后一段的爆发。以暴制暴的咒术背后是如此链接：制造弗洛伊德=制造糖果人，那么续作是否有机会见证其同白警魔人肖万的对抗？在黑白相争的舆论中亚裔继续被困在失语之地，正如片中厕所召唤游戏中唯一幸存的亚裔女生，就差用风水学借口来掩饰两股邪恶力量间自觉溃败的动因。
两星半，非常的meh。中途还有点想睡觉。这么一对比我司的Them真的不要太好看。。。
故事讲述者过于迫切地想去让观众知道自己的观点，殊不知适得其反，故事俗套苍白，像是卡在喉咙里的枣核吐不出来也咽不下去，极其难受。最后的高潮稍有惊艳，却短而仓促。片尾“皮影戏”反而是全片最好看的内容：所有黑人皆如牢笼里的蜜蜂，看似狠毒，却影响微弱，即使团结一致也缺少蜂王，掀不起多少波澜。tips：受伤了最好早点儿去医院。
新版Candy Man在Jordan Peele的操刀下也成了critical race theory 影响下creative exploration.以种族议题为作品内核的现代艺术家一步步走向urban legends的深渊。虽然把诸如白人至上，police brutality等问题进一步简单化脸谱化，但只杀White people的candy men在电影最后竟然有种大快人心的正义感。与其说是恐怖片，更像是带有奇幻元素的剧情片，毕竟这片的血浆程度还不如malignant
乔丹·皮尔估计准备靠种族问题这一题材吃很久吧，如今将以往的恐怖片ip当作反英雄来拍似乎已经成为一股潮流，然而整体却拍得凌乱不堪，剧情聊胜于无，唯一赞叹的是影片的色彩应用和摄影构图，尤其是片头倒立的俯拍城市画景，很有意境。此外影片所反映的政治社会问题实在难以打动我，“蜂巢”的概念算是有点意思之处。
男主是第一部被女主救的男孩（被糖果人选中的继承人），最后被来到的警察杀了，女主唤出糖果人解决了警察们
扯太多艺术上的事了明明就是披个外衣，有点尬，结尾更是突然，神神鬼鬼怎么就又变人为了，融合得有点僵硬。
难看至极，近30年后再出续集，故事情节有断层，叙事风格大改变，一众黑人角色登场，政治正确到我分不清谁是谁，依靠皮影回顾过往太过敷衍，讲糖果人对事件关联者的影响，不仅是人生阴影，更奇妙的是生根发芽的本质，对，极端暗黑通常会有人继承衣钵，完全狗尾续貂，血浆虐杀片变内心挣扎专场，前后毫无铺垫，配角根本无需存在，整个莫名其妙的“新糖果人”登场，相对老版故事，规避很多血腥镜头的直面，全程苦大仇深，沉浸在做作境界里，电影已经不像正统续集，感觉为新故事发展而出现的过度篇，90分钟的篇幅数独让人觉得无趣慢热，最烦这种动不动就搞政治的装逼货。★
蜜蜂嗡鸣做群魔，镜中开膛找不同，高级公寓磨烂脸，寄生巢人生锯手……-为何总是折腾黑人政治正确的题材你们不累吗？-那为何历史和现实要强行塞给我们那么多素材呢？不存在艺术剥削消费现实，而是现实在剥削消费着一切；遗忘痛苦者只会让痛苦不断重演，糖果人化作每一个种族冤魂聚集起来的宏大叙事，对抗着白人体制对历史的“正确记忆”
“我是墙上的字迹；我是街上散发着的血腥味；我是回荡在巷子里的嗡嗡声。他们说，我让无辜者血流成河。但你一点也不无辜，但他们会说你是无辜的，这就是问题所在。”
#22#03中国人不骗中国人，Candyman不杀Blackman。有此大将，三十年了居然还没统一亚美利加，连芝加哥一个拆迁弄堂都整不明白。想象力还是保守了
平权述求太直白，蜂巢皮肤受不了，几个杀戮镜头的处理挺喜欢，从窗外拉远景的那个特别有感觉，小化妆镜反射那个也不错。。话说这年轻黑人女导演凭这部就被漫威选中导惊奇队长2啦？。。
隐喻太明显，然后整个感觉不是恐怖，而是科幻了。一点没有惊悚的效果。
开头就在泄气，恐怖的氛围没起来，我就看见一群人在喊口号似的，告诉我一切多么恐怖，黑人社团只要肤色不对，在哪里都不对。糖果人，不如说是给你裹了一层蜜糖的毒物，正如黑人的处境。咋说呢，我随便你写啥议题，问题是，这片子，它不行啊，它就是很无聊，作为一个打着恐怖片的旗号的片子，我看了啥啊。
candyman
幸亏candyman是黑人 要不这一身蜂窝看的太清楚就是密集恐惧
5。观众被骗了。一部简单明了的黑白种族电影，相当无趣乏味无聊。
彻头彻尾的反种族歧视电影 色调构图好喜欢 谁说惊悚片就不可以参与社会评论了？
扯太多艺术上的事了明明就是披个外衣，有点尬，结尾更是突然，神神鬼鬼怎么就又变人为了，融合得有点僵硬。
前半段的视觉效果惊艳。可惜收尾仓促，对社会种族问题的挖掘流于表面。
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