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".
2.5。恐怖元素和社会问题没有有机结合起来，最后既不恐怖，也没多深刻。镜子用的还不错吧。
candyman的身份從一個被迫害的黑奴到各個年代被白人迫害的黑人個體集合體，candyman不再是一個都市傳說的具體惡魔，而是一種抗爭精神一把懸在種族歧視頭上的利刃，只要種族歧視一日不消失白人一日不停止對黑人的迫害那麼candyman就永遠會延續下去，這樣的表達方式更貼近時事，但對我來說這麼多位candyman還是比不過原版第二部中的那一位，直接的殺戮鏡頭少了，蜜蜂更是成了點綴象征物，皮影戲講述手法和一些地方鏡子的運用還是不錯的，但其他部分一般，全片也並沒有將這種縈繞心頭的恐怖感很好的傳遞出來，更多的感受是一種自憐自哀自我安慰。
如果是个短片也许会不错，没有情绪发酵沉淀，剧情高潮全靠血浆，矛盾冲突全靠种族。
女主的妆和表情好像迪士尼动画里面的人！蓝色书柜很好看
6.5 现代艺术与蜂巢群居的部分没能得到很好的展现，又不愿局限于典型的种族斗争而将幕后黑手设置为同类，以至于整个议题显得太杂而缺少提炼，实际仅需一句颤抖中的“tell everyone”就足以站点一切的苦痛和迫害，将罪恶公之于世。
近30年后重拍，节奏和剪辑还是有点瑕疵，恐怖、惊悚感都大为降低...血浆度也不够，cult味则荡然无存...
新版剧情直接承接了老版《糖果人》，男主就是当年被抱走的婴儿，男主母亲和初代糖果人都是原班人马出演，果真black doesn’t crack，结尾延续了Jordan Peel《逃出绝命镇》对执法人员的讽刺。片子整体概念大于故事，在细节上有很多疑点，但对candyman进行了扩充，他不再是一个人，而是如同蜂群一样包含了一代又一代受到不公待遇的黑人们，到如今的殉道者。最后就是密恐慎入。
看完要去吐一吐解毒，导演挺自我陶醉的。硬生生植入吃药睡觉的纯情梗尴尬地让人想生气，敢不敢找个稍微帅点的配美女？范少勋发型再丑也不能掩盖强行成熟的尴尬，看在我为你看完这部电影的份上，多去演纯情热血体育生吧，在自己的舒适圈再逗留一下，拜托。两位女主角牺牲挺大，温贞菱演得出彩些。男主的白月光人设太过矫揉做作，一看就是男编剧yy的产物，演员还是很美的。
5.4高了。。。节奏拖沓，莫名其妙，唯一的亮点就是中间和最后剪纸那段，可能，那才是电影真的想说的内容吧。。。就，信息传递，懂了，可是拍的真的差。。。
悬念/惊悚/关爱的打造堪称失败...睡得很香
一种精英式语境下的标语呐喊，看似是痛彻心扉的，实际是缥缈虚无的。历史与当下呈现出明显的排异与分裂，优点是《我们》式的，匮乏是《天鹅绒圆锯》式的。
好家伙，糖果人是黑人民权斗士的化身？。。。
有的影片将隐喻融入故事，有的影片在隐喻中插入电影。前者让人在欣赏电影的同事产生思考，后者把自己的想法粗暴地塞给观众……影片工整对称的构图和精致的镜头带来一种高级的美感，同时又渗透着令人窒息的压抑。然而故事过于俗套和直白，导演把佛洛依德和黑人骨子里的愤怒糊在观众脸上。这次“无法呼吸”的不是黑人群体，而是无辜的观众。
不过这种通过艺术式极端情绪表达，在这部电影中情绪过于平淡而突出的过分油腻而怪诞，仇恨强度和逻辑远不及《天鹅绒圆锯》。其中把亚裔弄走也不能改变神经刀刀的无差别仇杀的评价，切割的非常差。
《糖果人》目前最后一部还算比较期待的电影终于看了，结果…整体看下来观感不是很好！预告骗啊！真的…这并不是我想看到的恐怖片的样子！影片的噱头还不错，对着镜子说五遍“糖果人”…糖果人就会来杀了你！感觉还是可以的…结果正片就真的让我挺失望的！影片除了一些糖果人杀人的镜头还算说的过去之外…其他的戏份实在是…唉！难道现在美国只要是黑人电影，就要和种族主义、政治正确联系到一起吗？好吧…糖果人果然不杀黑人啊！总之，整个剧情看下来挺迷的！虽然我没有看过老版…但是这种剧情看下来，真的不是我要的感觉，我只能说，这个片子不太适合我啊！就不推荐了！（这个片子是要告诉我…糖果人要找继承人吗？好吧）
这踏马是个啥作为恐怖片是彻头彻尾的失败。黑人似乎又找到一种发声的渠道了，在小成本恐怖片里发声，成本低传播广流传久，恭喜啊，可是急功急利拍的不好看，最后就感动自己。话说回来，黑人们自己会看吗，不一定。
你可以用电影骗我听你说你想说的，我也可以用评分喊我他妈的不想听。
开头就在泄气，恐怖的氛围没起来，我就看见一群人在喊口号似的，告诉我一切多么恐怖，黑人社团只要肤色不对，在哪里都不对。糖果人，不如说是给你裹了一层蜜糖的毒物，正如黑人的处境。咋说呢，我随便你写啥议题，问题是，这片子，它不行啊，它就是很无聊，作为一个打着恐怖片的旗号的片子，我看了啥啊。
没看过老版，无法对比。但这部candyman的视觉真是一次策展！构图，角度，色彩真棒👏🏻故事的节奏也都在点上，还有皮影戏加持，视觉大餐。内核种族歧视这个问题，真是糖果里塞刀片，太左太右都不好。至于分数挺低的，well，有色人种歧视有色人种挺流行。
开场十分惊艳，倒悬于天空中的大楼，如同蜂巢一般，下方稀薄的云雾更添几分神秘，而当真正的故事展开之后，神秘感逐渐被稀释，《糖果人》终于露出了他的真面目，他不是恐怖片，也不是故事片，他是一场对黑人内心长久以来压抑的愤怒所量身定做的奇幻秀，而这场秀的唯一目的，就是：tell everyone。那些甜美的蜂蜜正如同士绅化过程中美丽的谎言，而被一次一次被抛弃的蜜蜂，孕育了糖果中的刀片，人心中的恶魔。几个场景的配色与构图非常精致，纸片人传说的穿插也确实给足了惊悚的力道，但故事实在太过于简陋，对白人至上主义的控诉显然不是几场杀戮戏就能够说清楚的，我本期待着导演会有更深层面的解读与指向，结果大失所望，她真的就是想大声吼出来，想让所有的同胞都吼出来。可能在导演看来，既然忍无可忍，只能以暴制暴，也算是黑人的主旋律大电影了。
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