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".
Childish horror movie
故事非常割裂以至于，我都不知道导演想表达什么
作为一部商业恐怖片来说，确实有些沉闷，但是政治隐喻（抑或是明喻？）的介入，让糖果人这一形象具备了更加广泛而深刻的现实基础，蜂巢所类比的是横跨数个世纪的种族歧视与野蛮杀戮，愤怒与怨念都相对完整地包裹在了工整的形式美学之下。
快召唤Bloody Mary😈 打一架！打一架！！
这两年的黑人平权恐怖片，从《逃出夺命镇》、《我们》、《异国阴宅》到这部，都是主题犀利且艺术造诣很高，烂大街的镜面影像依然用得惊艳，恰到好处地表达了身份认知和觉醒，几段皮影戏堪比《巴巴杜》，极大地渲染了悲怆与诡异氛围。这种完成度老司机们都不满意，原版到底是有多优秀。
情节气氛几乎为零，废话又多，简直是浪费时间。
蜜蜂&糖果&蜂巢&人体改造；想表达的东西还差口气，女主美
女主喊糖果人那五声演技爆棚啊！芝加哥真漂亮！and因为对黑人脸盲结果最后没看懂，去看了谷阿莫才看懂 #racist
镜头运用的有点个性，但是似乎和电影没有太大的关系，故事逻辑上漏洞太多，每一段的故事都是一段一段的感觉，相互之间没有太大的联系，例如，几位白人女孩在学校厕所被杀害的这一段，就在整个故事上显得突兀，前后没有联系，整个故事在设定上也讲述不清。论述种族问题没关系，但觉得电影还是回归电影本身，镜头语言的运用表达，美感，故事的逻辑和设定，美感等等，为了论述种族问题而电影有点本末倒置了
5。观众被骗了。一部简单明了的黑白种族电影，相当无趣乏味无聊。
你这么一搞，老版里维吉妮娅拼死拼活救下安东尼这个事儿，不就一点儿意义都没有了吗？而且，我有一个问题啊，如果Candyman是因为白人的虐待而死，然后靠镜子召唤回来复仇的话，为什么会无差别攻击呢？他不应该只杀白人吗？Black lives matter这口号儿没听过吗（手动狗头）？
这片的逻辑就类似国内的小粉红叫嚣因为抗日战争的南京大屠杀，所以现在我们要冲到日本去干掉所有日本右翼势力。。。
环球+米高梅两大公司联合出品，电影史上少有！如此看中的题材，还是种族歧视。糖果人是受压迫的黑人的缩影。
想法是有力的，可是拍出来感觉粗糙和粗暴。Jordan Peele和Asian应该是得有那么点欲说还休的beef 。
不是我瞧不起GC电影，到底是“不想一個人”，还是“leave me alone” ？小学毕业的我看的云里雾里，就连电影名都搞不清还想拍电影？什么阿猫阿狗都能拍？
这两年的黑人平权恐怖片，从《逃出夺命镇》、《我们》、《异国阴宅》到这部，都是主题犀利且艺术造诣很高，烂大街的镜面影像依然用得惊艳，恰到好处地表达了身份认知和觉醒，几段皮影戏堪比《巴巴杜》，极大地渲染了悲怆与诡异氛围。这种完成度老司机们都不满意，原版到底是有多优秀。
3.5，对于黑人剥削电影范式的一次元叙事运用
导演功底不错，虽然剧本中段有点泄，但是结尾部分救回来了，要不是因为疫情延期了许久，这片子应该能赶上blm运动的余波。我不明白短评里面看到黑人平权就打低分的人是什么心态，一部摆明了全黑人班底制作的影片在加上本身就是黑人题材的原系列，你指望人家拍什么？血泪控诉的是黑人遭受的苦难，难道其他有色种族就没有这般遭遇吗？不指望共情但是至少可以客观评价影片质量吧？声画的运用和剪辑方式都算是近期恐怖片中很出彩的，期待导演将会怎样呈现惊队2。
1977年芝加哥卡布里尼-格林区贫民窟，男孩威廉·伯克去洗衣房洗衣，遇到破墙洞里走出一带铁钩手臂的好心糖果人谢尔曼·菲尔兹，谢尔曼时常卖糖果，直到有小孩发现糖果里有刀片而被警方通缉。抽象画家安东尼与女友布丽安娜搬进新公寓，女友的弟弟特洛伊来家拜访并讲了该地贫民窟流传的海伦的恐怖故事。安东尼进入贫民窟查看，遇到成年的威廉，他说海伦是寻找糖果人谢尔曼·菲尔兹的女人，并说出当年无辜的谢尔曼被警方害死的事，谢尔曼死后，更多的刀片出现在糖果里；又流传传说对着镜子说5次糖果人他就会出现并杀死你。艺术经销商克莱夫办完安东尼的画展后在镜子前与女友杰里卡做爱并说了5次糖果人，随即被铁钩杀死。
宣战的话发个公告就行，没必要拍个电影，还很难看
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