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".
氛围电影，“令人沉默的巨大物体”秀，巨大的银幕是最佳秀场，失之则魅力骤减。古典的故事放弃出新，仅想渲染出一个与宏大世界足够匹配的讲述氛围。
今年最佳,三部曲要是拍出来是冲着经典科幻去的，美术服化和音乐无可挑剔，唯一缺憾是第一部故事只能算是序章，独立性稍弱，希望欧美市场票房大卖，导演有足够的资金拍二三部。
喜欢飞行器、哥尼、军装，和某些宏大画面，不喜欢一直闪回出现的赞达亚，音乐无感，故事也无感，不过多年以后，如果依然是冷兵器的时代的战斗场面，其实让人觉得，所谓高科技和远古时代，说不定就是交叠在一起的，明天重复昨天的事，倒也没啥。
三星都给导演。受原著束缚的行货，声光电用力过猛，表演一惊一乍，剧情基本可猜（比林奇版也好不到哪里），不如更放松的2049和降临，科幻粉不要动不动星辰大海搞得像没见过星辰大海一样，不就是点儿君王臣子梦吗，还不如星战草根世界咂劲。圣经是严肃文学讨论问题的起点之一，科幻就我抄我借我最牛逼我史上最伟大。咦惹！
居然会有人觉得闷吗，我觉得实在太好看了，视效无敌。然后故事其实是一个王子复仇记式的史诗，包括政治斗争和宗教预言等要素。选角也很好，奥斯卡甜茶海王拼盘我直接开始乱磕。甜茶头发纠在一起的样子真的很可爱，奥斯卡裸体也是绝了
维伦纽瓦在电影的艺术造诣上越来越稳，影片包含了太多的文学、艺术及哲学元素，2个半小时过得确实快，刚刚好搭建了一个新奇的世界观，非书迷也可以顺利代入，结尾对人物关系也做了蛮有意味的伏笔。而且影片的镜头设计、灯光、剪辑也非常出彩，说史诗级并不过分。最后，甜茶简直帅出了天际！
人类每次正视自己的渺小，都是自身的一次巨大进步。原来是《降临》和《银翼杀手2049》的同款导演，怪不得科幻感和荒漠感表达得如此精准。故事背景放在遥远的10191年，比起20年前纷纷用人工智能的高科技来畅想未来，近年关于资源匮乏的荒漠化剧情设定 似乎更适合「未来」的定位。各个族类在沙丘中生存，因为一种叫做香料的昂贵物品发生了斗争。香料能延长寿命，增强人的感知能力，拓展人的意识，还能赋予使用者预知未来的能力。沙丘本地人弗雷曼人沦为开采工、被奴役、被定义为基层人，开采香料的哈克南人和执掌沙丘的厄崔迪人却洋洋得意。电影中甜茶饰演的保罗，就是厄崔迪家族的继承者。保罗有预知未来的能力，而且未来他的能力会变得更强，从而成为先知。天赋异禀的人最初总是伴随内心的恐惧，最终，唯有那些能够战胜内心恐惧的人才能生存下去。
不错哈，各种技术奇观，顶配阵容（张震演了个沙口），截至目前年度最佳，富力广场的luxe厅效果很棒，情节也很紧凑，虽然两个半小时但感觉还可以再长一些。原著这么多本这可啥时候能拍完啊……
初观感几乎是《银翼》的复刻，脱离IMAX剧场加持便已丧失了任何重温的欲望，作品生命力俨然已被媒介载体严重牵制，而对维导再攀《焦土》巅峰的期待已如同奢望诺兰回归《追随》，像这一片茫茫沙海一眼望不到头 w/ cm luo
没有殖民过只有被殖民的人，看得我昏昏欲睡。
竟然是好看的 而且很有看续集的欲望 只不过结尾那段实在是太像给茶和赞达亚外拍沙漠时尚大片 搞得我十分出戏
I wish someday i could see a movie where love isn’t the ultimate save😅
殖民主义下起点宫斗小说的剧本水平，但这部电影属于电影院。
维导拍得挺商业化了，为他的成绩高兴。豆瓣评分有点低，网友对节奏故事乃至世界架构都颇有微词，不过不奇怪，《星球大战》的评分与影响力在国内也不咋地。中国网友审美独立，不装外宾，这是好事。2021年，除了漫威连续剧，灯塔国又有像样的科幻了，替世界科幻迷高兴。
维导的作品，果真只有在银幕上才能感受出完全的魅力。视听效果是满意的，只可惜本片终究只是半部电影，看完有些不够尽兴，预见部分的各种插入也确乎拖慢了影片节奏，甚至比bvs做梦还要频繁得多。
这样的电影应该给我大脑里安装个世界观植入功能芯片，如此这般才能让我安心镇定地欣赏它
给近些年的科幻片开辟了另一种新路径，对白少得可怜但氛围拉满，摄影绝佳，升格镜头华美而浪漫，沙丘怪物的惊鸿一瞥更增添神秘感，废土风与冷兵器VS异星球与超能力——这是要建立全新的宇宙观啊！作为第一部，出场人物众多，各个角色交代也很清楚，草蛇灰线已埋下，期待续作（或者大概率又是三部曲吧）。
如果导演把太空飞船前面短刀互砍的打戏砍掉，只保留饱和轰炸的画面，再把结尾甜茶和土著决斗的戏砍掉，拿省出来的时间去交代岳医生为啥会叛变，这片子能轻松上8分吧。。。。美则美矣，完美则谈不上，作为太空歌剧已经满分，但作为《沙丘》还是差了点东西。ps,一万年过去了，包还是这种款式？
【A】IMAX2D,并不失望。原作本质上就是太空修仙题材的歌剧（不是），又回忆起了晚自习每天看沙丘的的那两周，曾经脑海中构想的扑翼机轮廓重现在荧幕上也是惊喜万分。我个人认为维伦纽瓦这次的表现还是令人满意的。虽然相比《降临》，在巨物奇观的视听营造上这次显得过于主动，稍微有点喧宾夺主的配乐把观众的情绪钉得太过死板，但依然弥足珍贵。至于节奏的问题，我认为弗兰克本身在处理进入沙漠的章节就是放缓拉开场域的，牛蛙倒是很还原地重现了这个部分，作为篇章的开幕，大量的奇观营造确实把我带入了原作的世界，但是这种从人偏移到景观的视点，会不会在下一部作品中产生更大的摩擦还得看牛蛙的发挥，牛蛙作了一部精美的预告，优秀的场域和图纸已经展开，之后画笔要如何在流动的沙丘上起舞更是令人期待。
人物都是机械的，雷托的死亡，杰西卡夫人的野心，保罗的成长，都是程式化的。如果不被提前告知，你绝不会猜到这是维伦纽瓦的作品，但看过之后，你又很确定这应该就是他的作品。
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