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".
女主可以得奖了 太有魅力了
话说洛佩慈都不老的吗？插曲倒是蛮好听的，剧情却一般，越到后面越难看了。
至少看着轻松惬意心不累。JLO真是不老神话。美利坚现代网络社交版诺丁山影子。但威尔逊显然没有休格兰特的儒雅劲头。移动媒体的短视频，配角们性向梗，大明星女主最后追爱男主找回幸福，二十年间这世界被互联网，女权主义，政治正确改变了很多。
只要仔细研究问题答案就会自然而然出现。 歌曲好听。
14-097美国《糖果人》2021
没想到2022了还在拍这样的故事，威尔逊演得很不走心，纯当JLo演唱会看了。
故事带有明显的种族议题，糖果人身上遗传着黑人对白人的恨意，但似乎需要有一定了解才能有所感触。
想到了天鹅绒圆锯。关于black community，影片采用了几个有意思的意向去表达，从大都市开往旧时贫民窟的晚班列车，集聚的蜂巢..从Jordan Peele开始，关于黑人群体的自我认知的影片这几年层出不穷，但其实没有几部表达出了那种认同感，反而在熟悉的近景大都市描绘里变得疏离
除了巧妙且與時俱進地加入了政治正確之外，真的是一部再老套不過的電影。全無新意。
看着电影想着bennifer，合适的一对复合确实好磕。
身份设定反传统，故事俗套，他们之间的相处还是比较自然感人的，女权主义，音乐部分有水准，歌很好听，大表姐台风好强爱了。
蜂巢的概念有点视觉冲击，杀人的方式有点匪夷所思。用艺术作为载体和叙述从中世纪到现在的黑人发展史，看得出想要表达的社会议题，只是都差点在台词上说出来了，这把社会议题影视化的举动实在有点受限。
大明星×普普通通的数学老师单亲爸爸。主线剧情没什么特别。舞台表演好看，歌也不错
没啥大意思，不吓人也不吸引人，下午看的快睡着了
故事有點….意料之中了 結局還好 不是什麼he
都已经不计较剧情了但槽点真是多：1、为毛那个教画画的鲍勃·鲁斯老师形象会被用在这部电影里当刻板印象的黑人Gay的男友…2、感觉整部电影对艺术概念的解读都相当肤浅，无非就是千篇一律的当代商业美术馆展览场景，然后听这些“艺术家”们尬吹他们的商业作品和生意经，是全片最无聊的地方，而且基本组成了这部电影的大部分内容...3、看这部电影的目的无非就是看糖果人杀人，结果这些场景要么有前景遮挡物，要么是远景...然后就又回到2、上面了4、糖果人含量很低
后半部的转折不太好。
本片还有许多关于米国种族问题的隐喻，稍微留意和动点脑子就能发现，也难怪本片在米国广受影评人好评。
并不认为这种笔触蹩脚的社会寓言真的会带有恐怖色彩或者有明显的教育意义……同样的题材放在二十年前也许是反种族歧视的经典，而放在当今重拍只能说贩卖廉价情怀。艺术造诣上的高度真的会影响一部作品的感染能力，而这种题材又恰巧设置了对人道主义关怀的呼吁，所需要艺术性当然也就不是简单地把主角设置成画家就能够满足的。
231st 冲着JLO在电影院看老妞电影。也是北京封禁40多天后在电影院的首场电影。JLO依然明艳动人，在大屏幕上看不出什么瑕疵。但对金发男主要求也太低了吧，整个肉都松垮快塌了连鼻子都是歪的，都能让JLO心动。放弃能唱会跳肌肉紧实欲壑难填还有拉美大雕的马鹿马简直暴殄天物。
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