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".
candyman不是一个人，而是一个社群，有着蜂巢的连结与传承。历史遗留问题根深蒂固，一个系统的病症，肤色和阶级问题带来的黑人群体生命价值被忽视（如最后白人警察不由分说枪杀男主），这时镜子的寓意就更意味深长。男主设置艺术家的身份也很有玩味，包括洗衣房老板打造candyman，其中透露出强烈的作品性，一种抽离出来高高在上的不真实性，这也是对部分黑人群体（混入白人社群的中产和怨天尤人的极左）的一种讽刺吧。缺点就是结尾节奏有点崩了，整体体量太小，过于平淡。
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。
Candy man的不应该杀黑人，改变这个设定至少能给本片稀碎的逻辑找补回一半，Candy man牛逼的地方是可以像绿灯侠一样代代相传，可惜在本片中根本分不清哪一个是哪一个，祝愿Candy man有朝一日成为和迈尔斯和弗莱迪比肩的梦魇，至少是白人的梦魇，这是一部不会有后遗症的电影，我没歧视过黑人，所以我不担心糖果人出现在我身后。
密恐慎入。原来就是老的candyman的续篇。才发现那个街区就在我家附近还经常从边上经过。拍的挺一般的，氛围很有乔丹皮尔一罐的风格，但是还是有点弱。最大收货就是知道了一个芝加哥有故事的社区，而且那么近，下次可以去走走。
又是对着镜子召唤 啥啥都是镜子的锅 对着镜子骂街能出来啥？
7.2分。高潮全在结尾的10分钟。恰逢恐怖片的新一代革命，插入的种族问题也给电影本身带来了更多思考。或许我应该重新看看《逃出绝命镇》，它好像没有我一开始想象的那么简单。
作为恐怖片我真的很喜欢，无论是片头的镜像还是片尾的剪影动画，光影技巧和有层次的配乐。然而所有精心雕琢的恐怖元素/惊悚氛围/美术特效都只为了一场种族斗争服务，看完只想大呼可惜。一是作为观众我无法对长久以来的黑人压迫和歧视问题共情，二是我理解导演想要表达的精神内核和她的愤怒，但片中描绘的剧情大部分现如今依然在现实世界上演，这部电影的作用也仅仅是呐喊而已。
美学满分的恐怖片，有好几个画面都感觉在看MV，请把它当剧情片来看。plus男主也很帅。但整个剧情我看的有点懵，我这听力无法完全理解全部剧情。
如果是个短片也许会不错，没有情绪发酵沉淀，剧情高潮全靠血浆，矛盾冲突全靠种族。
3.5；节奏感足，构图和光影一流，各种角度的切换也较为流畅。然其整体套路依然十分陈旧，还是跳脱不了大部分恐怖片都有的那种傻傻的感觉。多处场景让我联想到《闪灵》，又让《闪灵》在我心目中的地位提高了。
一部包裹着黑人平权意识形态的惊悚片，讲述方式还很直白。
密集的孔洞 层叠的创伤 画笔与手的折损 探寻真相的女记者和当下评判艺术品价值的批评家 黄衣王在等待一个信奉历史正义的代言人 但白人的法理后置随行 语义的镜像对应灵活运用 意旨在告诉所有人 但是否是“说教式的 下意识的陈词滥调” 厕所蜜蜂照小镜子那个有意思
连糖果人的诞生背景都不知道（甚至电影都表现得这么明白了），还在这因为所谓的政治正确打低分的人就活该被歧视
本片改編於克裏夫巴克的短篇小說，在原版基礎上強化了不少細節，並用皮影戲簡潔有力地延續了這個可怖的都市傳說。編導有意強調如今的黑人雖然已經身居上流社會，但在光鮮的外表依舊是被歧視的階級，用大量風格化的攝影手法（如霓虹燈光，特殊攝影角度）去表達暴力血腥場面，有一種獨特的幽默感，展示了編導的深厚功力。只是此片似乎過於注重政治話題的表達，而缺乏戲劇上的轉折，令几場高潮的屠殺戲過於直白，這種直奔主題的處理方式有考慮不周的缺陷，似乎也是當下黑人控訴題材需要注意的一點。
omg下错电影round3😂🤣虽然手法不高明但政治正确绝不是问题，短评里抱怨的值得一刀
2.5；恐怖是壳，政治隐喻才是核，“蜂巢”的概念才是最惊悚之处，整体拍得凌乱又寡味；霓虹美学与镜子的运用还不错。
糖果人作为自身之倒影与镜像，一方面他是仇恨和暴力之化身与象征，但另一方面，这一暴力又是需要在另一种暴力之下被呼唤而出介以保护自身的象征。一种双向之暴力，一种悖论之矛盾关系。
又是借恐怖片来表达黑人议题，某些构图比较别致，但惊吓度非常一般，对着镜子喊五次candyman的作死套路过于老旧，种族问题造成的不公遗传在黑人的命运中，其内涵的尖锐隐喻变成故作高深的贩卖血浆，又一次借尸还魂～
我想怎么满大街都是九几年的糖果人的资源，原来是新作。不算翻拍，其实是延续之前的故事，用黑人嘴里的传说+剪影带出之前女主、黑人母子和糖果人的故事，这部的男主原来就是之前的小婴儿。糖果人几次出来杀人其实都是捕风捉影式的，本身并没有怎么现身，而男主后来变成了糖果人，其实整个逻辑也不太清晰。整部片子也是说明黑人境地，但有点太刻意。
我什么时候才能看到一部跟政治无关的黑人主演的恐怖电影呢
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