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".
People are desperate to be seen.
火对火 酒对酒 鸡对鸡 geek 对 geek 你的 psychic 成长经历对应 Clairvoyance 等等 。。。我也想说一句：I've had enough 这种一直拍烂片还能得奖 总有人捧着 只能归结为运气好 人好了 materialize people as a seance 也是无能的懦弱的体现了 马丁为什么发文 废话 烂的程度和他拍的那些量产垃圾品一摸一样 只不过稍稍差一点儿 他当然诚心诚意的推荐喽
大家都长大了55555一对一对地电车挥别那里狠狠emo了
影片时长两个半小时，在嘉年华秀里的时间就用了一个小时，未免有点太长了。大面形式上也做得不错，但对几个主要角色的行为动机缺乏深层次的探索，流于表面，没有灵魂。
前半部分对于民间马戏团的认真还原和细致布景给观众带来了非常好的视觉体验。让我想到《象人》、《畸形人》和《大路》。这三部电影中也出现了类似的马戏团场景，但更加粗粝和真实，本片稍显精致的布景一定程度上削弱了这种民间生活气息。后半部分的叙事过于平淡，情节平平无奇，浪费了漫天大雪和华丽布景。那么多有特点的人物都只是轻描淡写，非常可惜。据说改编于1947年的同名电影，有时间补一下。
不错。前半部拖沓了一点，但最后那个镜头足够呼应到了，才有了惊心之感。道高一尺，魔高一丈。都怪人性中的贪婪。
被低分的作品，德尔托罗的风格依旧犀利，有一点类似于邪恶版的远大前程，乡村小子学了一堆技巧，贪婪的他想要的更多，结果惹了不该惹的人，做了不该做的事情。
吉尔莫·德尔·托罗的个人趣味很符合他近些年来选择的电影题材。而他也正是擅长制造黑色怪谈的高手。《玉面情魔》正是这样一部电影，在场景搭设、人物造型、氛围渲染方面毫无争议是出类拔萃的，但与此同时相对于原作的反派，这次德尔·托罗似乎并没有原创出崭新的视角和崭新的解读。也许正因此让一个如此豪华的演员阵容也显得暗淡无光，除了几处为数不多的闪光之外，平铺直叙的故事发展也无法令人体会到多少的新意。
摄影美术优秀，美术奖摄影奖都能和沙丘一战，低角度广角摄影的变形成为了一种叙事元素，而美感丰富，光线品质也极高。可惜在于叙事节奏失控，第一幕撑了近一个小时，连布兰切特都没出现……难以称之为优秀作品。所以全片的噩梦指的就是马戏团骗术这个供人消遣的行当，当它想染指现实时定会被打回原形……背后的主线仍然是主角的阶级跃升之路，可剧作未恰当地强化，否则可以更符合当代审美，更好。总之，文本被悬置，装修很拉风。
陀螺老师拍这个片的目的会不会是科普下黑色电影不一定是黑白片的道理。
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。
没有看过原版，觉得还挺好看，比较传统的剧情片。马戏团各种奇技也是一门失传的艺术了。吃鸡男的造型明显是来自Goya名画Saturn Devouring His Son😄
Gresham在53岁的时候来到他当年写「玉面情魔」小说的Dixie Hotel。在酒店房间里死于安眠药过量。最后他的死没有引起任何波澜，无人注意。人们在他的遗体口袋里发现一张名片，上书"No Address. No Phone. No Business. No Money. Retired."
Cooper is forever a small small man, yes, we know! 最后的born for this收得不错
确实没必要这么长。You don’t fool people, They fool themselves. 人们都是自欺欺人。骗子渣男活该去当geek。人性还是喜欢残酷的东西。geek真可怜。卡司骗人，让人期待过高而失望。连着看了三部大魔王的片。
就这？就这？！！！ 1080P 22/02/04
终于看到了，感觉我已经免疫了，在凛遥分手的时候我甚至因为双方都相当心疼而露出微笑
cooper的演技、麻辣兔的人设，和这一整部电影，都只能用平庸一词来概括。大魔王满脸就写着三个字：带不动。
除了最开始的两个学校，后面出来的人没一个记得的。灵魂出窍什么鬼。。。这些人儿时稍微玩两天就是刻骨铭心了= =
陀螺赔大钱 我为陀螺打call 不是因为陀螺是自己银 是因为我看盗版没花钱 不过跟原作比这片儿确实差点意思 只是表面的东西翻新了 inside的东西反而缺失了 几场关键戏Cooper的演技都是整段垮掉和鲍华根本没法比 这哥们太暖了真演不了坏人
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