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".
没想到30年前的CANDYMAN到今天还能用流行快餐的拍法重新吸引年轻人。
不止于标签化的银幕恐怖形象，糖果人传说背景下承载的社会病结使其具有更深一层的解读意涵，也与现实挂钩。视听耳目一新，配乐很能带动节奏与气氛，文本过度纠结于致敬及控诉，终究不甚大气。
60/100，整个体系非常乔丹·皮尔，用恐怖类型架构承载议题，在该作中主要目的除了直接且当下的种族问题控诉，另外也简要梳理了一段美国士绅化历史（尽管引述这一切的根源仍然是精英化的）。但不足在于趣味和表意的平衡都逊色于他自己导演的作品，后半开始乱套，结局该说是过于天真吗？所幸这位新人女导演的调度还算精彩。短时间内《逃出绝命镇》是难以被超越了。
整体是原作的故事续集，却丝毫没有延续到任何原作的精神价值，虽然想继承同样的“痛苦美学”，探讨其中的社会结构和黑人的处境，但故事流水线，情感迸发太突兀，什么东西都似乎是口头上的言说，男主并没有放在一个特殊的位置，相较于原版精彩的故事框架和女主难言至深的处境，这里实在显得太单薄了，恐怖程度也很弱，即使前有珠玉，也是后呈匮乏，实属遗憾
3.5星 镜头和美术都没没得说，很不错，尤其是开片的颠倒镜头整个把我迷住，但是问题还是出在剧情过于直白地揭示黑人的内核，导致觉得整个发展都很刻意，最后的剧情有些用力过猛了。但是片中的body horror也确实很给力，尤其是最后的那一幕的身体密集的画面，爽歪了。
当下有太多把种族主义放于电影中的作品，但大多都显得刻意而多余。然而在本人看来，这次翻拍的糖果人却把两者融合得很好。
好家伙，又是恐怖塞进去政治议题。这还看不出政治议题，那我就只能……
看之前先看了老版的介绍。值得一提的，是这一版可以当作老版的延续，镜头构图有刻意工整的压迫感。镜像应用非常切合故事内涵，但除了视觉和恐怖设计，文本也从来没有融在其中。种族议题果然敏感，但凡处碰的电影，味道从不会照顾双方，这一部将糖果人变成杀害白色人种的工具象征，观者的感受真是受尽压迫啊。
7/10 Successful for a horror movie, but then the lack of finesse really shows when you have too much to say through a horror movie but don’t know how to deliver the messages artfully.
皮条客和“小三”通过性联系在一起的故事，如果两个人有什么感情，也是对比自己高一层的那个阶级的向往，绚烂的手法拍了一个最俗套的故事。
唯一亚裔角色最后一秒跑了没死。编剧在提醒亚裔不要站错队咯。
对第一部Candyman的继承和诠释很棒，乃至有点儿刻板……那些吐槽本片嫌弃黑人影人反复讲述种族问题的评论，恰为电影的核心主题“黑人苦痛被消声只能化为candyman的符号”做了绝佳注脚：冲着恐怖电影来的观众是最糟的观众，他们只想被装神弄鬼吓到，却对真实的人间苦痛嗤之以鼻。
镜头色彩真不错，很带感，不过电影整体就一言难尽了emmm
《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）
密集的孔洞 层叠的创伤 画笔与手的折损 探寻真相的女记者和当下评判艺术品价值的批评家 黄衣王在等待一个信奉历史正义的代言人 但白人的法理后置随行 语义的镜像对应灵活运用 意旨在告诉所有人 但是否是“说教式的 下意识的陈词滥调” 厕所蜜蜂照小镜子那个有意思
故事非常割裂以至于，我都不知道导演想表达什么
嗯……畫面挺好看的，驚悚的緣起也挺吸引人的，可是故事沒能說圓的感覺，一些設定也覺得沒來由。原來也是老片新拍，有機會看看那幾個老片子。
片头的镜像和片中穿插的各种皮影都很有新意。没想到新版居然是个讲传承的故事😳哪里有受白人压迫的黑人 哪里就有崛起的正义糖果人～男主真的惨 从老版就被盯上了 难逃宿命 有一说一那个全身蜂巢的妆真的可以😖
讲真不吓人，黑人平权这种zz正确也太明显了，哈哈。
婴童从未在仇恨的火海余生，双手难以从狭隘的画布自由。贫民窟是以神之名打造的刑场，摩天大楼只是在此升高的墓碑；糖果人是以吾之血延续的圣经，后辈子孙难逃一脉相承的圈套。噬人的蜂巢是弱者的名目，折射的镜像是历史的冤录，色彩如浓墨泼洒，光影似利器切割，艺术的殿堂任由虚荣作祟，法律的后座永远等级分明。
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