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:男主的手刚溃烂时我猜测他可能最后会变成糖果人，结果还真是。
镜子梦魇和种族问题相媾和突然失去意趣，乔丹皮儿的政治论文写到这一篇突然让人有些阅读乏味。导演的声画意识、场面调度都很精彩。
一星加给片尾的皮影戏和全片出色的色彩运用与镜头语言，故事真的太平淡乏味了，恐怖气氛也很糟糕，明明拥有比老版更为出色的设定和对“糖果人”这一概念更为深入的解析，却还是挽救不了如同白开水一样的叙事，女主的反向召唤和老版男主Tony Todd的回归使最后几分钟不那么乏味，可惜恐怖气息仍然严重不足
只要这种不公一天不消失，糖果人就一直存在。
除了具有色彩张力以外，政治话题老生常谈，恐怖段子毫无道理。迪士尼在无休止的输出美式价值观的同时，黑人也在反复的絮叨那点呼吸事儿，已然成为当下美国电影的两大特色。5
原来是一个政治话题的恐怖片，恐怖倒是不恐怖，演技也略浮夸
糖果人不是一个人，是很多个受压迫歧视的黑人组成。不太恐怖，比较一般的都市传说。
本来看预告片的时候寻思这片会扑的很惨 结果没想到竟然这么用心 诚然恐怖成分削减不少 种族歧视这个点在这部里有些喧宾夺主 但不减他对视听的精雕细琢 和原版比各有千秋
确实矫情，如病态的呻吟，除了几段情色片段有刺激感，全篇要表达的那种呐喊，层级差很多的无奈，和底层的孤单与挣扎都没有表现到位，观众无法产生共鸣
结局我着实没看懂，但摄影配乐表演美工都是今年我进电影院看的恐怖片里最好的了
越到后面越糟糕，呼之欲出的政治深意已经失去了思考的魅力，刻意而为的恐怖桥段也就变得千篇一律。几处镜面反射还算有点设计，可放之全片能看到的也就剩下乔丹·皮尔的影响力。
有点too in your face? 不过很喜欢用剪影的方式callback老版故事 【彩蛋：virgil abloh的展览；老版candyman的演员最后出现
确实不怎么样……女主长得很像那个近年很火的好莱坞女星anya
2022 #20。之前错误的以为这是《招魂》宇宙中的其中一个人物，结果看下来发现完全不是… 希望以后的导演想拍恐怖片就好好拍恐怖片，不要当文艺片拍，还“夹带私货”把政治隐喻变成台词全部说出来… 电影最大的问题是，开始手被蜜蜂蛰了后伤口红肿发炎为什么不立刻去医院救治？这让我从一开头就无法相信这个片子的逻辑。上了警车后我就知道后视镜一定会派上用场。太好猜了。总之在恐怖片里算比较差的，完全可以不看的那种。
挺有意思 为了看新版特异看了老版 很喜欢两部片子里画龙点睛的那句话 第一集是 it was alway you, helen 第二集是 say my name 都是一语多关 你是helen，是谁，是白人，是施暴者，还是受害者 / 我的名字是什么，是candyman，是shaman，是anthony还是黑人，是施暴者，还是受害者
糖果人是一个蜂巢，住着无数死去的冤魂。
最大的问题在于表达的割裂 于此之外的惊悚氛围倒是营造得不错//人真的很容易被吓到 过于有序和过于混乱都会让人心生恐惧
政治隐喻＋恐怖片，得到的，本该是像梦境一般幸福的时间……但是，为什么，会变成这样呢……
好好讲一个带有悲剧色彩的都市传说不好么？试图加太多元素进入，反而搞得奇奇怪怪…
恕我段位不够，欣赏不来…有几个吓人的点和笑点还凑合。劝大家在看这部之前先去补习一下1992年版本，这部更像是个续集。
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