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".
是长了点（前半段注意力很分散我...）但后半段渐入佳境 陀螺的视听风格演绎心理周旋很抓人 （感到Mara似乎被定型在某种character里...
没差那么多，就差一点点——骗老头失败、医生处翻脸本该是最高潮处却差一把火，否则起承转合会顺畅许多。另外就是简中译名非常不行还带误导性。
新版撇开卡司、置景美术，剧本改的太失败了，把原版优秀的地方改的很粗暴，可惜了
3.5吧，有点失望，天道好轮回的故事，嘉年华部分没有美恐好看
苦力成长为小骗子，小骗子变成大骗子，结局是大骗子让骗子给骗了。人心不足蛇吞象，本来在任何一个阶段止步都可以得善终……
好奇47版是什么样的，为什么会想到拿来翻拍？整个片子大概只有光影效果最陀螺，其他部分看得我睡睡醒醒，只想问结束了我能去哪重看《猩红山峰》《地狱男爵》
结局真是讽刺啊。。兜兜转转回到原点了
8，陀螺电影里的夜晚和黑暗真是太迷人了，奇幻精致，牛掰的摄影和演技派们拯救了平淡的故事，大爱托尼科莱特和魔王女士，其实马戏团内的暗流涌动更吸引我，后面却俗套弱了，而且反杀挺突然的，大魔王这条线也可以更丰富的，工整意料之中好看的那类电影，惊喜少了些。
关于怪物的养成和轮换，一切有为法，如梦幻泡影，如露亦如电，应作如是观。
字幕是机翻看得囫囵吞枣 整体观感又懒得再去找（或等）正确字幕重看了 几处有疑问的地方就这样吧 卡司强大有惊喜
当酒精作为致命的药引勾连起geek和年迈的读心术表演者，你就知道库珀一定会继承他的命运并最终踏进混杂着鸡屎和猎奇目光的牢笼。绕是如此，看着他笑着喝下那杯配方自己也心知肚明的酒，依然感到被一种强烈的宿命的力量击中。
在哈登安排不良少年出场前，实在看不出这个老板有什么不妥之处。
神作！当斯坦接受测谎仪的时候，他会想起老皮特教他读心术的那个夜晚，人会把谎言当做真实的，所以即使是最精密的测谎仪器也无懈可击，斯坦在灯红酒绿的城市里招摇撞骗，不是人们相信了他的谎言，而是人们相信了自己的谎言，用谎言填补自己内心的虚无，用谎言来逃避现实，回避死亡、悔恨、绝望。也许是时候重新审视托罗了，另找时间看老版。
carnival总会自带一种独特的气质，而30s的更是如此，那是属于它的时代——嘈杂纷乱却又如漩涡般让人难以挪开视线。而整部影片从各种心理博弈到old days的“淡入淡出”方式都极其贴合那种气氛。
多出来的40分钟得到了精致的埋线和铺垫，也带来了刻意和冗长。
也不能说特别难看，就是看起来特华丽一道菜，吃起来味同嚼蜡，怎么能有这么虚无又平庸的故事
不太喜欢这个片子，不精彩，一个平平淡淡的翻拍片。
环境布置还不错，很有时代气息，展现出来的内容很不入肉，应该着重突出心理学方面的内容，把主角的成魔之路再刻画得深刻些。
引用陀螺自己的话：“I think the tragedy is when you finally have all the people that you need surrounding you, and you have nothing left to say.” 功成名就之时却不能言之有物，是挺可悲的。
置景看上去真有钱啊，女演员们都还可以，单Cooper不太行。陀螺确实有为怀旧而怀旧的嫌疑，还是搞点原创剧本吧。
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