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".
完全是被中文名《玉面情魔》吸引进来，画面极美，剧情叙事极慢，前半段太过拖沓，属于慢热型剧情。“骗子终被骗”的故事太简单，但电影整体完成度高，人物有血有肉，结局男主变成自己当年鞭子下的 geek 这一点则太过宿命。但三位主角都是玉面，观感极强
不是的遥不是这样想的 他已经被想赢过那个外国人迷了眼 希望后篇别这样了 明明已经和好了啊
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。
这部剧场版也的确会因为是Cp大乱炖而让人想发疯，营养略过剩，齁得慌。
不舍得打低分，卡司和剧情里设计的很多细节以及场景还都蛮喜欢的•᷄ࡇ•᷅
这届CP粉素质太高了吧，哈哈哈
太老套了！都什么年代了，这种故事不带点新解读又何必翻拍呢……这片子甚至过不了Bechdel测试。鲁妮玛拉和大魔王竟然没有互动真是太让人失望了，这简直是卡司诈骗好么◡ ヽ(`Д´)ﾉ ┻━┻
魔兔都没什么对手戏，路透照骗得我好惨（是被剪掉了吗？
陀螺赔大钱 我为陀螺打call 不是因为陀螺是自己银 是因为我看盗版没花钱 不过跟原作比这片儿确实差点意思 只是表面的东西翻新了 inside的东西反而缺失了 几场关键戏Cooper的演技都是整段垮掉和鲍华根本没法比 这哥们太暖了真演不了坏人
前半部份太长，但后半部两位老演员的演技简直就是互飙，导致鲁尼玛拉没有发挥的地方，老版应该更好看，结局封神
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。
墨西哥三杰:
3.5，对于德尔托罗而言，吸引他的是五光十色的马戏团，充满了即便实为骗术的读心术，塔罗牌，因此他延长了原作中本为铺陈氛围的第一幕，令其充满古怪的视觉效果，又在影片的最后一幕形成了一个环形，在半暖半暗的灯光设计以及布莱德利·库珀饰演的Stan的大笑之中，这种环形结构——成为怪人———更像是一种求之不得的解放，不再遵守影片后半部分充满悲伤，以及金碧辉煌的Art Deco建筑之下的秩序规则。但是德尔托罗在影片的开场。他为Stan这个人物安排了一个俄狄浦斯式的前史，并不断以闪回的形式接近创伤，这意味着在这个世界中，即便是怪人，也不得不接受弗洛伊德的原则的规训，正如他口中所说，“男孩最大的症结即是父亲。”为宿命唯物地设立了一个源头，这种当代主流好莱坞的处理方式与原作，以及作为隐喻的塔罗牌背道而驰。
看陀螺的作品美术和视觉永远是享受，前半段马戏团拍得那么细我觉得纯粹个人趣味，本以为他瘾就过到此而已了还好高潮没让我失望，但是剥离个人风格这一亮点整个故事真的是又臭又长……
22年这版You don't fool people, Stan.They fool themselves.
C+ / 拥有极长的前戏，但伴随着后续发展又开始想念前戏的那种奇幻色彩和神秘气氛，至少是出格的，并非封闭式的怀旧。
我是吃人的魔鬼，那是命中注定； 我是游戏的浪子，那是天生我才 我以为我能改变命运，可是每个赌徒都是在最后一把里输掉了全部的运气 我以为我是战胜邪恶的屠龙勇士，可是当我打败了SIN也就成了SIN 兜兜转转，其实I am born to Geek，那个笼中的怪兽就是以后的自己 陀螺一以贯之的黑色审美，摄影太美，就是故事本身又长又单薄
我还是不太懂为什么中文译名是这个样子。。。
连陀螺都不知道怎么好好讲故事了，这个产业是不是彻底完蛋了
对比前几季，剧情和制作都只能说是平平无奇。但谁让free帅哥多呢。
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