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".
工会发了张60块钱的电影卡，一直没时间用。本来想看《兰心大剧院》，但当我有时间买票时，已经下线了。不知道是不是我眼睛的问题，整部电影看起来感觉很暗。而且荧幕中央有一块巴掌大的污渍（实际面积应该比这大），荧幕稍亮时我就会忍不住盯着那块污渍。整个影院只有两个人，看完电影我和另外那个男生一起走进电梯时，我没忍住，问他有没有注意到那块污渍。他说没有。
3.5；一部大银幕观看会加分的电影，声效和美术都值得赞美，俯瞰镜头中飞速旋转的沙坑漩涡，仿佛是透过屏幕「窗口」窥见的平行未来，一种造梦的晕眩；沉默如迷的呼吸，不安推进的视角，悚然静立的巨物，巨大空间内的深沉回音像是人类内心恐惧的回声，维伦纽瓦独有的气氛营造配合一再出现的「恐惧」主题甚是相得益彰，流金的沙如水漾起，构图和光影风格依然携有2049的余味。
用慢速活活拖出一部三小时，居然还想要拍续集，用ip一波一波的收割观众，还好想看的人不多
This is only the beginning, 看到最后有深深的被坑感，合着和几十个不戴口罩的人坐一屋儿仨小时就看了个序章前言😂 废土美学满分，音乐特效满分，imax杜比厅效果满分，男主他爹演技也可以满分，但是天选之子救世主的故事真的有点过时了。整体感觉很星战，应该也会和星战一样拍成影院连续剧。设定是未来，但其实讲的是历史，原著归类为科幻，但拍出来的是奇幻，就很想吐槽，都一万年后了，男人们还是在用冷兵器厮杀，有枪但是枪射出来的是飞镖哈哈哈哈，飞行器还是叮叮哐哐一飞方圆几百里都能听到，这就是过男人至死是少年的瘾呗。男主不跟女主一起冒险而是全程跟妈一起冒险也是很有意思，张震莫名其妙背叛又莫名其妙死了，总之感觉看了个寂寞。
视听体验极致，节奏把控优秀，让人从始至终沉浸在强大的氛围之中，以至于可以忽视有些单薄的情节和人物。科幻片拍出来宗教包裹的感觉，夹杂着几分神秘与邪典色彩。若你看出了星球大战、异形、异星灾变、甚至阿凡达的味道，不要惊讶，因为它们原本就是《沙丘》的产物。佐杜洛夫斯基的遗憾，维伦纽瓦算是填补上了一些。
音乐太饱和了，大爷的音乐时刻在提醒你，这段花钱多，快看！
视听体验极致，节奏把控优秀，让人从始至终沉浸在强大的氛围之中，以至于可以忽视有些单薄的情节和人物。科幻片拍出来宗教包裹的感觉，夹杂着几分神秘与邪典色彩。若你看出了星球大战、异形、异星灾变、甚至阿凡达的味道，不要惊讶，因为它们原本就是《沙丘》的产物。佐杜洛夫斯基的遗憾，维伦纽瓦算是填补上了一些。
音乐过满，且无标识性，文戏过薄，无可解读性。对比一下《指环王》有各自完整、独立的结构，《沙丘》太像序章，缺少高潮，人物无甚亮点是因为对白写得不如指环王精、准、简，指环王的对白是指向人性的，沙丘大多限于奇观交代。再对比一下《阿拉伯的劳伦斯》则突出了人物的缺憾，劳伦斯是语言学家、考古学家、熟练的地图绘制专家、游击队员、男人眼里的娘娘腔，是个伟大的普通人，但《沙丘》保罗是普通的伟人，区别可大了，正是因此，牛蛙和里恩表现人物时，使用了迥异的视听技巧。这突出了牛蛙的“桎梏”，他的特质是先期被设计好，后期沿用下来不断重复，像使用同一个容器装不同的液体。作者型创作不是这样，首要保证的是在作者智识范围里，为题材找到最适合的技巧，至于这些技巧有何共通特质，应该交给影评人和专家们去概括。
不得不说影片设定非常old school，上次看到这种战争场面还是在《三国演义》里。
为了铸就这荒漠的磅礴诗意 维伦纽瓦基本放弃了所有叙事 就别硬往库布里克身上吹了 暂且还不至于
不要再蹭科幻了。
各种若有若无的政治正确有点恶心人，但是我想可能未来几十年都必须得学会接受了，电影里面夹杂政治正确可能会成为绝对的主流。
不得不说影片设定非常old school，上次看到这种战争场面还是在《三国演义》里。
万万没想到，扑翼机只要一出来我就忍不住想哭，因为觉得某老师一定会喜欢这种大蜻蜓一样的飞机，一定会抓着我的手摇晃说这个东西太好玩了！旁边的人要是看到我每次看到扑翼机都在抹眼泪估计会觉得这个人有什么问题。
科幻仿佛只是装点，内核的封建领主角力故事也很老套。
8000年后了，还是拳打脚踢，帝王将相，才子佳人。这逻辑谁能受得了。
他们生活在被沙漠覆盖的星球，他们想象不到什么是淹死，想象不到什么是下雨。
这部电影里没有炎魔，有沙虫；没有雪，有沙。相似且不说，情感厚度更是远远不及。
看到张震出来的时候太激动了，看到他说中文更激动，看到甜茶回答中文更更激动，以至于我完全没听清他们在说什么。。。(¬_¬)
震撼，应该是疫情以来最好的科幻电影，这里我要强调电影两个字，而不是科幻，尽管这是一部完全靠视觉语言推动的电影，然而科幻只能算是一具精美的躯壳。电影的每一帧都充满仪式感，这个仪式感不为剧情服务，只为阐述人类作为人类，本质上是由权力、财富，宗教和战争塑造出来的。电影的每一帧都写满政治隐喻。隐喻也不为剧情服务，只隐喻了人类作为政治动物，并揭示其毫不乐观的未来。电影的每一帧都浓缩了历史，浓缩了地球上你能知道的每个历史时期的帝国故事，如果这些帝国王子齐聚一堂观看本片，发出的叹息足以把影厅窒息。这个电影的确应该叫沙丘，因为最终埋葬人类的，就是DUNE。
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