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".
用恐怖故事讲黑人种族议题，Jordan peele没有亲自执导，不过都是同一路数，作怪的并不是鬼，而是整个种族群体的怨念，隐含了向白人至上的宣战，不要试图改变其他种族，当被迫上绝路的时候，仇恨只会延续。不知白人看了如何感想。
比较讨厌政治正确这种玩法。说到底还不是在搞两极对立？
没看过之前的版本，单就这个新版来看，画面和惊悚感做的还是可以的，只是有些场景莫名其妙，例如5个女孩洗手间对着镜子没来由的念5遍糖果人狗带的情节就挺割裂的，虽然其中一个女生是看过画展的。本片主要还是因为种族隔离和歧视的内外原因导致的怨念难消，一代代的持续至今，美国依然存在种族问题，也是这个系列可以持续拍下去的原因吧。
近期恐怖片还剩《南巫》没看，看完温导作品后意外觉得本作整体还完整些。可惜表达主题上主次乱斗，作为增味剂的平权喧宾夺主，恐怖的部分细品也少些味道。食之无味，弃之可惜，确是道无特色的普通小菜。
最惊喜的就是用到美恐女巫专属bgm，改编的还不错…… 皮影元素也比较新颖，血腥部分也算隐晦。 但总的来说召唤糖果人无论好人坏人都biss显然立不住，如果只是单纯像结尾惩恶扬善那还说得过去，总会带着种族主义的色彩。 再一个，蜜蜂咬了赶紧去医院，别耽误。
乔丹皮尔带领大家写就了一篇又一篇《讨白贼檄文》。
感觉好像在演jlo的真实人生一样 她怎么做到的五十多岁这个状态太牛了 这种不需要动脑子的片子看着也挺开心
影片的第一个场景用剪影的方式，不仅重现了2020年5月25日，美国黑人乔治·弗洛伊德在白人警察暴力执法后死亡的事件，也奠定下了影片的整体基调——黑人种族议题。
前半不难看，甚至还有点哲学。后半太杰克苏了，游乐场真是土到我翻白眼哈哈哈。以及你们美国人什么东西都要ig live一下是吗(^_^;)
对于candyman这个题材可能是不太熟悉，感觉故事设定真的很无聊，谁能真正无聊到自己把自己作死吗？
婚姻是爱情还是交易？社交网络是工具还是束缚？
开头被镜面和颠倒的世界惊艳到，越到后面越喜欢！蜂巢太赞。这么暗黑的candyman怎么能去漫威呢，必须DC🌚
哼！！！
警察说“举起手来”，话音刚落，马上就开枪！
飞机上看个乐，但也乐不出来啊，这剧情从开头到结尾都牵强地让人难受
俗套到甚至没有跌宕起伏，但也许现在的生活就需要一点俗套。（结尾的爱情群像更为感人）
为Jlo而看。如果她还是正能量美少女，再换掉欧文，这电影够卖。欧文的头发比Jlo的妆还像惠特尼休斯顿，伍迪艾伦式的说话腔调黏糊糊地像卡了一喉咙老痰，特想给他捶背，这哪是邻家大叔，是邻家阿婆。Jlo几十年如一日的正能量美少女，实在让人爱得又心酸又尴尬
片子本身已经很不行，没想到威尔逊的扮相在正片比预告更让人失望，浑身散发的疲惫气息虽然符合人设但怎么说服观众JLo会倾心于他啊？
漂亮国种族歧视一天不除，糖果人的阴影也会一直流传下去的。
的确还比不上诺丁山。
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