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".
作为一部商业大片叙事密度还蛮低的，但在如此松散的氛围中难能可贵地保持住了庄严的气场
最佳视觉效果艺术指导 雷托的死 好一幅油画作品 为我自己没快进看完还看明白了鼓掌
原本以为至少能拍到第一本的2/3，没想到2/3都没到。节奏掌控真的很失败。原著第一本看得我热血沸腾，电影把整个基调都变了。缺失很多细节，没有哈瓦特怀疑西卡的部分，灭族部分精彩程度大打折扣。我怀疑门泰特整个设定都被削了。配乐大失败，我都想说，可不可以不要那么吵。优点：雷托和西卡非常符合想象，丽贝卡和奥斯卡太棒了。茶也还可以，至少前期保罗的形象尚能hold住。/可能要写长评吐槽了T_T
八千年以后，人类就还是这点事儿。资源，战争，女巫，先知……行吧。
我觉得这个名字我一辈子记不住的导演什么都好，就是太爱装逼了。明明是个男频爽文级别的原著非要当成什么浩瀚史诗来拍，结果就是一群演员苦大仇深地念一些二逼名字和设定。
虽然音效、画面、剪辑使得电影看起来尽量不那么枯燥，但是这个情节其实很平庸的，整个一唠叨片，如果是表现保罗公爵和哈柯南男爵怎么斗智斗勇，最后功亏一篑，谜底解开，又埋下尽量多的伏笔，可能效果会好一些。先三星观望吧，毕竟属于系列第一部，看看后面怎么拍，据说表面是白人拯救，后面则是一个反救世主的主题，是一个超级领袖的乌托邦带来毁灭的故事，香料对应现实里的石油，隐喻的是权力。其实以现在的美剧制作水平，《沙丘》可能更适合美剧。
太多的慢镜头都给了男女主，其实没必要的，少了这些慢镜头也不影响全片氛围。但因此导致的节奏严重脱节就很不讨好，能不能拍出史诗效果不一定要看片长有没有达到两个半小时。
失望大于期待系列，叙事真就流水账，按小说前半段几乎原封不动地改编，可是人物塑造太草率了，丝毫感觉不到和主角的联系，视觉在叙事上甚至起到反作用，整个卡拉丹和厄拉克丝星球感觉长的都差不多，甚至看着看着有点串戏到银翼杀手2049和降临。这部片子如果作为圣战的背景介绍片，没有高潮我能理解，但是整体没有亮点地平淡。听着全程紧绷的音乐，脑袋嗡嗡地疼……
终于理解Dune为啥难改编了，不了解背景的只会感觉神神叨叨的 最惨的是还没字幕 我唯一听懂连续五个回合的是张震的普通话
如何把對於電影的劇情引導向轉為一種情景引導向其實很難，各種聲音色彩和畫面的表達都是無可挑剔的，而電影的發展其實就是从各個維度的不斷超越和進化。儘管看完會發現好像沒有得到很多劇情信息，但是卻絲毫不覺得枯燥，已經鋪墊了足夠宏達的背景，有理由相信part two會有更加精彩的後續表現。
我的年度最佳。完美的，苍凉的，神话的，缓慢的，巨型的，沉默的，沉浸的，原始的，古典的，严肃的，浪漫的，极具冲击的，史诗级的顶级美学。
你将浪费生命的2.5小时（+不菲票钱）。冲硬科幻而来，却整个一神棍电影。就靠虚张声势的音效和神神叨叨苦大仇深磨时间。两个半小时完全言之无物就是拍了一个引子？怎么会有这么混蛋的电影
没看过原著表示情节真。。。几乎可以算没有，这就当MV看
在白忙之中抽出两个半小时来看他，为2021年的观影史收了个绝美的尾，值了。
达到预期，但并未特别惊喜。美工、特效、镜头、配乐全都顶级，尤其是凸显巨物感的画面，让其成为了一部为电影院量身定做的电影。文戏稍显冗长，但也可以接受。战斗场面尤其是近身动作格斗想象力不足。看完以后会激发想看原著小说的冲动。ps：能不能到时候来拍个三体
“This is only the beginning”，最后一句台词也点出了影片的定位。丹尼斯维伦纽瓦与汉斯季默，当下最顶级的视听盛宴让我一头沉浸在《沙丘》里。诚然“天选之子”的剧本缺乏硬科幻内核表达，维伦纽瓦的个人风格也抢救不了的，但这种被细节包裹的沉浸感是不必在意剧情的。
感觉是看完了一部像沙虫一样巨大的科幻剧的第一集。it's just the beginning... 很爽，氛围，色调，音乐，架构，极具宗教仪式感的一部电影，保持了那种宏大、广袤、空寂、哑然的巨大张力。罗马帝国式的框架，原住民驱离故土，勾结绞杀，望族陷落，弥赛亚降生...... 故事不精彩？重要吗😂。只是看到张震演这么个角色，挺憋屈。铁蜻蜓好评，沙虫够粗长大。
快到12点的时候我终于睡着了 真的不能累得要死还去看晚场。补充下，谢谢汉斯寂寞的bgm把我叫醒，以及赞达亚结尾讲话的那一瞬间我意识到这是她第一句台词。再补充下，我没有觉得不好看，说好看和难看的我也都能get，但确实不知道怎么评价了。
美！我好了！目前流行的一种说法很对，沙丘如果不是维维拍的话可能就真没法看了。现在这又BDO又阴郁，赞达娅还时不时来放下光，审美契合度过高，这0点场2D IMax看得我太可以了。但希望维维拍完part 2就放手这个系列，毕竟沙丘抛开在几十年前算得上雄奇的想象力和所谓的哲思，故事本质就是元祖太空龙傲天🤪，再有视觉表达力的导演也很难撑三部不重复吧
审美确实高级，但这个宛若1000年前的故事非要跟我说在公元一万年，救命呀都那么多年了怎么还是血统论天选之子殖民剥削呢，「古典」得过分了，原封不动移植到权游里都不带有违和感的。然后强行塞进去很多异国文化符号，什么中国日本埃及反正就很猎奇感的凝视有被冒犯到。然后第一次觉得汉默的配乐像跳大神，和电影的气质倒是契合了……整体感觉就是废大力出小活，整一个溜够就说个这事儿。甜茶倒还是好看的，看两个半小时也好看。
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