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".
陀螺保持着他的暗黑风，但由于题材并不是他最擅长的异族宗教，其实发挥也不是很好。
一生都在制造魔法的陀螺，拍了一部关于骗局无限膨胀的电影来揭露魔法的虚假。
感觉配乐换了个风格啊，真的赞，之前的配乐没有Rap还有女声，感觉女声让整个乐曲更加epic了甚至（不针对性别）
看怪人的旁观者最终成了怪人的参与者。两个半小时的暗黑氛围+暖橘色调，凯特美艳到真的很治疗失眠啊！奥斯卡妥妥陪跑电影。
纯粹在为情怀买单。观众的男女比例大概1:20，散场以后樱花妹笑着讲不是很懂大家的心情，默默在心里笑开了花儿……一句日语不懂的高中时代第一次看第二季，如今七年过去，成了在这个国家上班的普通社会人，早他妈跟平庸的自己和解了，但大家怎么还在游泳，还在追梦，还没过二十这个坎儿啊……要怎样，是柯南厚……（Alberto这个角色的配音太让人出戏了omg
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
可能海报 片名 和 电影讲述都有点放错重点…
范儿这么正的noir，这么逆天的卡司，就这点分数？泥瓣用户品味如此高端的么？库柏在戏里上了卡罗尔双姝，简直了。
非常平庸的翻拍，即使制作水平都是一流的。大魔王依旧这么魅惑！
救命，原版我就觉得是个很一般的故事，陀螺这个为什么要拍这么冗长且没什么新意，走上骗人道路就用了整整一个小时。
库珀一身noir劲装，但在你魔面前还是像个小受。
内心已毫无波动，安定地看京阿尼如何各家cp轮流发糖就完事了。
影片本身气氛虽然够，但是故事讲得不够好，很多人物根本立不住，完全工具人和浮于表面…
中文译名不好，乍的一看以为是九十年代的香港风月片，直译为噩梦巷也行啊……实际上故事还算精彩，讲了一个恶性的死循环，小聪明覆盖下大贪婪是把人引入死循环的魔鬼。
故事说，你不能愚弄人，因为人们会愚弄自己。对这部以及更多部好莱坞电影来说，他们不能老是控制观众，因为观众会控制自己。对于陀螺来说，他不能在电影里解释一切，因为他的观众需要自己的解释（情节太实，不干脆，人物没立起来）。
我一个麻辣本质粉却被大魔王迷死了。拖沓，时长改成2h以内会更好。
6.8/10 关于狂欢节，关于马戏团，关于那些惊奇诡异的体验，也正是关于电影曾最本质的视觉吸引力：无数奇观的反复交叠。但无论是叙事节奏，还是与大时代背景的结合（二战宛如不存在的底噪，毫无与剧情的实质互动），还是转场（黑屏的淡入淡出时常显得突兀），或是男主的创伤背景（拖沓到结尾的潦草插叙），都有着或多或少的硬伤，以至于无数Film Noir的技艺和奇观的堆积都未能够转化成统一的氛围，也就在情感上泄了几分气力。前半段在过量向观众展示那些古早的“科学的”戏法之后，突如其来的“两年后”的转换让后部分在视听上都稍显疲软，一时无法适应。许多可被进一步刻画的恋物般的物件都沦为简单地服务于结构的工具，并未能蕴含属于自己的符号意义，最后也只能是走马观花。
看怪人的旁观者最终成了怪人的参与者。两个半小时的暗黑氛围+暖橘色调，凯特美艳到真的很治疗失眠啊！奥斯卡妥妥陪跑电影。
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."
Bradley Cooper演不出young buck了，大家都好苍老
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