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".
根据上世纪60年代的科幻小说改编，由于我对此题材并不熟悉也无兴趣，看得较艰难，分三次才看完。视听制作的精致与大气让人佩服，估计会开创未来一个科幻系列电影的畅销潮流。三星都是给导演对制作把控的赞赏。
2021了 竟然还有这么老套的剧情 谁都救不了 不要再跪舔了真的 实话而已
I don’t like sand. It’s coarse, rough, irritating, and it gets everywhere. 完了朋友们，我竟然很喜欢。我竟然很喜欢这种神神叨叨恶魔低语的感觉。两个半小时拍了这么点简单剧情，太奢侈了，导演不愧是当红炸子鸡，挥金如土。再感叹一遍，因为非常简单所以非常奢侈，每一帧都情感饱满，给你充足的时间去沉浸和休息（。我完全理解有人不喜欢，并双手同意你们不喜欢的理由，但我的体验竟然还不错。丹尼斯应该去拍星战前传，一定能把阿纳金黑化拍好（。
沙漠犹如星辰大海，沙虫遨游在沙海之中，每一粒沙子象征着一颗星球，人类征途的脚印远不止于此。★★★★/8.7/*2
用科幻背景拍个莎翁剧，唯一的问题是核心人物支撑不起来，带劲儿！
许久没有这种感叹“电影被发明出来真是太美好”的感觉了，维神封神指日可待！！！
终于得以开启新世界，不知道佐杜洛夫斯基是否能得到慰藉。幽远的战歌一响起，属于异域的沙尘就扑面而来。节奏是缓慢的，信息量却很大，随着主角梦境的不断闪现，如同盗梦空间一般得以在现实/梦境、戏内/戏外不断游走。懂得节制的导演是多么可贵，用古典的气质去创造宏大历史，不能更迷人了。
也许是刚看了《基地》的关系，对比过于强烈……《沙丘》同样也是经典IP的影视化，但无论在叙事、剪辑、表演和配乐上，都非常令人满意。印象里《沙丘》的书比《基地》读起来要困难得多，虽然电影势必需要删减，但二者结合呈现出了很容易理解并引人入胜的效果，刚看完就想要看第二遍。明显《沙丘》再CG制作上更花功夫，好的CG就是不会让人停下来想“哦这是CG做的啊”， 因此同样是具有星际旅行能力的文明，《沙丘》的总体设计更加契合观影者对未来的想象。非常期待后续！
声音一惊一乍，吵得要死，节奏也同样缓慢，各种闪回记忆，看得我稀里糊涂
实话说设定宏大角色众多，完全不了解的观众，上来可能会懵。但看了一会儿我好像明白了，这是一部“帝国与中东”架构的影片，资源的丰饶与环境的险恶，虎视眈眈的帝国与充满神秘力量的local，机械设定也充满苏式重工气息。沙丘场景值回票价。其他部分怎么说呢，就是导演能拉来这些投资，在这个漫威时代干这个，是特别大的本领。作为视觉大制作，卡头怼脸景别、仪式感走位、POV镜头多到有点离奇，占据全片三分之二以上，可能这是一种风格？
文本也仍是弱项，古典式悲剧发生在遥远的太空时代，如同超科幻设定下依然冷兵器相搏的矛盾，考虑到大众层面的认知，反复强调“the one”+故事线被提取得通俗直白而失之余味；忠诚与背叛，牺牲与屠戮，在血的残酷里迎来新生的洗礼，这一切都在梦境中预言了；「沙丘」宇宙的序幕，期待续曲。
连牛蛙都搞不定这片子只能说明一点，这故事谁影像化谁死。海已经够难拍了，沙漠要比海难拍10倍。你无论怎么调色都让视觉很疲劳，然后大脑也跟着疲劳。画面上没有抓人的东西，故事上又没什么内容，节奏也慢到熬人。电影放到一半的时候，影院里一大批的人在就不断的调整坐姿，另一批人不停的看手表，搞得我也没法集中精神，一会觉得背痛，一会觉得屁股痛，一会又觉得腿麻。很多时候，人会因为一部电影好看而记住它。而因为痛苦去记住一部电影也只有沙丘做到了。
有一说一确实是近几年来不错的科幻片了，视觉效果的史诗感本身算是成功，但说有多伟大委实过誉，毕竟要说沙漠特效还有个疯麦4在前面杵着呢。首部曲没法做什么剧情批判，可是怎么讲……影片几乎过了二分之一才找到节奏，关键的最后一场打戏拉垮得不忍直视，以及甜茶整部电影里惨不忍睹的油腻演技根本没拍出预期设定里的魅力。就只能，这样呗。
用最多的钱展现了最庸俗的想象力，这不仅是花钱受罪的事了，助长了这种病态的行业现状我有罪。说说接下来的学习计划:1.用整体的思路评价一部烂片 2.中途退场
导致周围的人群发出一片叹息。
内核还是救世主、暴君和殖民的那套体系，可以想见第二部就是觉醒者和反抗的民族的故事了。通过科幻的外衣，把国家或者民族的争端移植到宇宙里，是广义上的科幻，但是写于1965年的原作，在社会近20年高速发展下，已经由未来的科幻，变成了过去的科幻。故事里让人类的追求变成了去文明，去精神的原始争端，真的是用最高端的科技外衣，打造了最乏味的灵魂。
1，好看，是真的好看。这个好看包括并不局限于，美术，表演，动作场面等，尤其是美术，我觉得最体现想象力。但我真正想要看到的想象力部分，则几乎缺失。——换而言之，这是部好看的电影，但不是我期盼的科幻电影，这也是没办法的事，故事的原著杵在那。2，最近十年，最符合我期盼的科幻电影/剧是《降临》（好巧，也是本片导演导的，可见剧本内容之重要），和《湮灭》，剧有《无垠的太空》第二季第三季，还有半部《星际穿越》。3，在我看来，科幻一定要给我带来超出我地球人思维的认知体验，才叫科学幻想。在地球人思维框架里打转转的，都不能让我达到幻想之嗨。4，个人尤其对披着“科幻”外衣的莎士比亚故事有些麻木了，甚至有些下意识反弹，因为同样的心理和道理，对短评里起此彼伏的维伦纽瓦封神说，也无感。换而言之，都太套路了，没新东西。
全程慢条斯理、娓娓道来还没有任何笑点的史诗大片，在如今日益快节奏的市场下可能真的不再受宠了……但我们真的需要这样的片子。
3.结尾主角弱鸡苍白的身体是如何贴身肉搏战胜另外一个强壮战士的？女主不相信关于他的预言，为什么还把祖传的匕首借给他？
不行，太烂了。我真是被忽悠瘸了，这2个多小时太难熬了，剧本烂得一塌糊涂。你不能因为要拍N部让第一部这么不管不顾没有什么情节吧？这简直和张艺谋的某些没有情节只讲究镜头的电影有啥区别，哦，那还是有，毕竟设定还是尼玛全宇宙，而且这OUT的宇宙政治观妈呀还皇帝，就如同我看《K星异客》外星人羡慕地球人有家庭一样可笑和自以为是。一切都是乏善可陈，真是boring到极点，当然很可能原著就是这种披着科幻的皮的专制主义陈旧想法，毕竟这部电影的IP让卢卡斯拍出了《星球大战》，其实如果80年代那会，能让林奇有剪辑权，那一版可能会成为经典，毕竟这种片应该往神秘主义去靠，而不是走什么高大炫酷一味展现视觉冲击力的科幻大片去拍，在家里看也感受不到经费燃烧的炫酷。只有3倍速刚刚好。甜茶为毛这么多人喜欢啊？还不如易烊千玺演技好呢。
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