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".
花了那么长的篇幅讲男主在马戏团的故事，却对塑造男主性格没啥帮助
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."
斯坦背负着冻死父亲并焚尸的噩梦到了底层马戏团，首先见识的是假扮的怪物，他越是排斥这一角色，越是意图通过读心灵媒逃离这个角色，距离成为这个角色就越近，欺骗越高级，其铤而走险自掘坟墓的本质就越显现，男主欠佳，女主发挥空间太小。
第一部分的马戏团太拖沓了，都快丢了。从后半部分心理医生登场开始渐入佳境。听说原版更好，有机会再看。
我睡了醒，醒了又睡，简直了，而且真的好长……和以往一样对陀螺的片喜欢不起来，服化道好精致，复古格调一流，Bradley Cooper大概又能奥提了！
故事娓娓道来，但精彩程度有限，还是让我觉得冗长了点。男主在马戏团的细分过长，进入城市后，与两个女性角色的维系又过于单薄，以至于结尾略显突兀，本末倒置的做法。
3星半。陀螺这个导演一向非我所喜，鼓捣浮光掠影光怪陆离的幻彩光影他最擅长，讲故事一节始终难称上等。实在没想到这次的翻拍居然我会很喜欢，原来陀螺是会踏下心来稳住了讲故事的，而且还颇具质感。当然，如果和47年的老版比，这个新版显的不够凝练，角色的情感转折也比较生硬，节奏也稍有些拖，选角更是比较失败，但完成度流畅度都是没有问题的，结尾还更显的有力度一些。两部影片的整体品质相去并不远，还是维持在一个档次内的。如果这不是一部翻拍片，评分恐怕会更高一些，7.5分不难。
为情怀买单，看完了才知道还有下部。时长很短，片尾出来我以为看错了。。
大概就是个还愿的活儿，陀螺拉着一大票明星用精致的电影语言圆了儿时的一个梦，但对影迷来说这个梦未免太过时了。
服化道还挺讲究，前面的马戏团戏份是陀螺味道的怪诞诡异。后面都是垃圾，人物动机没一个能合理解释的,我也是服气。
几天时间全系列刷完了 画风和画面的流畅度都称得上一绝 半身和特写镜头几乎完美 不过全身镜头就很容易出现崩掉的比例 整体看下来 因为剧情走向没有什么太意外的地方 也没有觉得很热血… 但有时候不太想看运动番是因为最后一定会因为升学、毕业而逐渐变成失去高光的大人，在回去看第一季就感觉真的内心复杂。
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。
至少看的时候我是完全沉浸在陀螺所编织的这场Nightmare之中了。可能中间部分是有些拖沓，但整体依旧为陀螺的美学所折服，以及第一场马戏团的戏可太喜欢了。
陀螺的每一部电影都很讲究美术视觉感，在影片外设定的时间恐怕比拍摄的时间还长。此部极力还原几十年前在好莱坞盛行一时的黑色电影，光影结构也向那方面靠齐。前半场的马戏团戏也让陀螺过足了猎奇的瘾，而后半场则由凯特·布兰切特饰演的蛇蝎女人主宰，让男主的表现黯然失色。通篇看下来，最后“you don't fool people Stan, they fool themselves”倒是点睛之笔，现在盛行的塔罗牌算命何尝不是这样呢，人们只是擅长自己欺骗自己而已。
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。
小丑×马戏之王的感觉，末世暗黑黏稠迷幻沉浸感和大牌演员气场角力令两个半小时的观影也不觉长，暴力血腥镜头不少，蒙昧的平民和政要心灵脆弱，被神棍套现，无法摆脱心魔的神棍则被有故事的女变态套现。想看看1947年的原版影片。
在眼睛屋里几乎完成了全片所有的表意，即目光路径迂的变向，从读心游戏中目光的发起者最终变为完全的承受者，只需将方向改变就完成了阶级的跌落，非常简单。（那个娃娃罐头真的好可爱。
是个男人被自己的薄情和野心拖进Nightmare Alley的故事，情魔就算了吧
但是这次配乐没有整合前面三季的曲子哎
最后突然被心魔附身是什么鬼 再一次虐凛遥🫠
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