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".
跟影片中的故事一样，影片本身也似乎来自上个世纪，复古的基调，精良的制作，精准的表演，精彩的反转。前半段进展缓慢，需要点耐心仔细留意，男主为自己的未来留下的铺垫，悲剧总是因其不可避免而更让人唏嘘。几位女主和男主都贡献出了一流的演技…
男主前半段看着比后半段聪明太多，有种铺陈了很多就这的感觉
这不就是资本主义工厂的“教父”吗？结尾又讽刺又真实。看哈维尔·巴登演“好”老板还蛮不习惯的，总感觉下一秒他就会拿气枪爆人脑袋...
这也太长了，节奏慢，实在看不下去了。58分钟弃剧。
2022年第34部：其实还不错啦，很吸引人的故事，没有倍速看完，原版太久远应该不会看。
cooper依旧帅气迷人，电影进行到一个小时了才切入正题，全程无聊，最后一个反转还挺有意思的，本来自己是风靡一时的“心理师”最后还是上当被变成“怪人”喝酒的梗埋的好高级
我觉得斯坦就是失败版的哪吒，物理上的弑父（神婆的酒鬼老公某种意义上也是他的父亲）并没有斩断其精神上与父权的联系，社会反而加重了他的“恋父情结”，磨毁了他内心的纯真，从他歧视并谋杀没有男子气概的亲生父亲、送毒酒毒死灵魂父亲且没有听他的劝告开始，他注定是重蹈覆辙的下场，结尾形成一种精妙绝伦的轮回。无法不想到《巴里·林登》，男人真的是被男权毒害了还不自知，被人拐了还帮人数钱。库珀虽然红脖化严重然而我依然可以（为了他的裸体吧），布兰切特表演最佳，什么叫气质美人啊.jpg
越发想看原版 库珀我不想提 他不红是有道理的 你们凯特大魔王那段戏我看了两遍 惊叹于她与黑色电影里蛇蝎美人的完美融合 太迷人热烈了
还不错。走出影院仍余留高压。吐槽一句女王从13年蓝茉莉之后在失真高压贵妇的路上越走越远，再无别的形象出现。一路“我高贵我强大我经历很多承受非人高压却仍能随时掌控操纵你却又不屑为之却仍然时不时为一为”情境。15年卡罗尔她也是完全在演戏而完全没入戏的，所以大家看到这个卡司无须歪歪。性张力，我觉得也就那样。职业素养和经验惯力为之而已。目中无光。译名真是匪夷所思。
没有传说中那么糟糕，故事是圆乎的，就是布兰切特的角色从头到尾不知道动机是啥，就是个来推男主走剧情的——但谁又不是呢。陀螺的美术设计是永远值得欣赏的，不过这一部和科恩当年那个歌谣有一样的缺点：过于精致而玩具化又毫无个人风格可言。至于表演方面，除了布拉德利大男主能公关一下，剩下的大牌其实都没啥发挥空间。
前半段马戏团部分有让我想起小时候游乐园里看到过的畸形秀，长大后再也没有了。
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比我预期要好，但是前半段发家史实在太、太长了至少可以缩短三分之一。首尾呼应有宿命轮回之感，高潮部分有些强行让我一度觉得是男主业务能力不行导致的。怀念潘神时期的陀螺btw再次感叹凯布太适合这种很攻的角色
已经被大魔王的红唇迷死了！（电影画面赏心悦目，故事剧情一般也能沉浸看完）
比我预期要好，但是前半段发家史实在太、太长了至少可以缩短三分之一。首尾呼应有宿命轮回之感，高潮部分有些强行让我一度觉得是男主业务能力不行导致的。怀念潘神时期的陀螺btw再次感叹凯布太适合这种很攻的角色
Guillermo del Toro的风格我不太能接受，《水形物语》就让我不叫拒绝，这部片我觉得倒是引人入胜，只不过就是不咋地的观感充满所有桥段。Bradley Cooper真是有魅力，希望他能再遇到几部好作品拿一次影帝。Cate Blanchett越长越有一种喜感这是为啥……
陀螺的影像质感还是好得没话说，尽管拍的是一个略微有些「过时」的、长达150分钟的故事，依然有着令人目不转睛的魔法张力。也充分地感受到了好莱坞老电影的剧本有多么过硬，情节发展犹如以规律的步伐跨越丘壑，起伏不断却也不着痕迹。全明星阵容压底的大前提下，库珀的演出还是给我带来了惊喜，阴沉中搅杂着癫狂，再配上一张得天独厚帅脸，的确很令人着迷。
为导演对氛围的把握加一星，服化道、音乐、年代感一流，演员选角加分、表演不功不过，情节只改了细枝末节。原作是一个可能因酗酒导致精神错乱的作者写的纯意识流小说，是比较通俗的黑色故事，类似骗子害人害己、苦果自尝云云，但里面没有赢家。电影不足之处在于对斯坦的过去省略太多，以至他的人物性格未能建立起来。他不是那种无所畏惧的恶棍，却在某种因素的驱使下恶贯满盈，但他又有着某一类聪明人那种天真——这是他爱上心理医生并最终被她欺骗的原因，不过毁掉他的还是他自己。这种程度的黑暗多一分像戏剧、少一分又不到位，不偏不倚到让人怀疑这是否就是命运真正的模样。话说回来，抛开二位我钟爱的主角不谈，精致的服化道、克制的对白、老派的转场、舞台剧般贴近和膨胀的氛围...这就是我最爱的黑色电影标配，其余通通可以不计较。
前面铺垫有点长，只是为了结局的geek。在后期的blanchett的目的和动力，实在是藏的有点深，塑造的太少了。后面实在是为主角揪心为什么这么甘愿当geek，后来想了想这就是命吧，藏在自己心底的噩梦，一直都或多或少影响着你的一生，决定你的命运。
无效翻拍。唯一大概就是把1947年版最后因为电检问题改掉的结局完成了，Bradley Cooper演得却狠不好。虽然我没指望他能胜过Tyrone Power，但实在是……还有你们老美现在电影长度为啥纷纷有赶超行定勋的趋势？！毫无必要。
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