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".
是怎么做到既无聊又精彩的……真是奇了怪了。//Rebecca太美了！//3.5星
首先我觉得找Oscar和Rebecca来演父母太过份了 明明只大你茶十几岁 导演美学贯彻得很好 可惜少了点吓人（in a good way）的部分 但配乐太满了 没有什么特别大的槽点 但两个半小时不断提醒观众“咱后面还有哈”还挺好笑 基于这只是part one 其实真没什么好说的 那种夸得特别起劲的和骂得特别起劲的我都不理解 这不就是一个好莱坞大片吗
就不能拍成网飞的一个剧，一次性播完多好。配乐满分。
看了好多次表终于感叹“要结束了吗”，就听到主角一句：“故事才刚刚开始”，就……？？？万马奔腾好吗！！！
无尽沙丘中，有巨大似鲸游走四方追寻如答案般回响的沙漠之神，每双眼睛里都是蔚蓝大海。如此宏大，宇宙史诗画卷铺开，似看星球大战在当代启幕，「这还只是开始」；内容未免直白，尽管出入于梦境穿梭于星际探讨的语调深沉严肃，深度却似乎被浅化了，与那个我未曾接触但早知「不可改编」的沙丘印象有偏差；不论自然还是人工，都巨大而静默，小小的人可借助其力量却难以驾驭；视听效果震撼，尤其声音，大银幕看一定大大加分（是为电影院而生的电影）；美术氛围如2049降临，也如普罗米修斯在异星灾变；节奏信步向前，即便轰炸也满是韵味，像慢速才能穿透的护甲，像随风飘飞的战机。不确定会想重看全片，但某些片段已迫切期待重逢，并热盼这个宇宙画圆之日（好莱坞有钱就少拍点太空垃圾多撒在这种电影上吧）。一度未认出的兰普林，实在太棒了。7/10
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！
维伦纽瓦总是着迷那些在成为神话路上意识到一切都是假象的人物，因此在电影的开头，王子反救世主的角色核心被轻巧抛出，它警告我们一切都是“设计”，都是气氛；然而他却继续冷漠地执行着他法西斯主义巨物迷恋式的场面调度，并由汉斯·季默的“音言”强化其统治（是啊，贝斯，因此我们屈服了，我们忘了在《降临》里那些声音是带有启示性的），泛滥的“闪前”最终露出了骗局的笑容：信任的消逝与未完待续的呼唤，多么美好的一对。
这种片子我们不给高分，还有谁给高分，猫眼淘票票么？全程起范儿，逼格满满。这是一部很独特的科幻大片，即便这样的故事本可以做得特别商业、特别热闹。但维伦纽瓦还是将之纳入个人风格当中，使得影片呈现一种宏大、悲怆、宗教味以及仪式感。尤其是汉斯季默的宏大配乐一路轰鸣，史诗感也就出来了。未必适合所有人，但真的全是我的嗨点，很爽。
大气磅礴到让人失语的地步，开启了21世纪20年代伟大程度不亚于《指环王》的全新电影系列。这不是弗兰克·赫伯特的《沙丘》，不是佐杜洛夫斯基期待的《沙丘》，而是维伦纽瓦独一无二的《沙丘》，极少数真正配得上“史诗”二字的大片。个人看来，这已经完全超越了原著，一想到未来可以看到好多好多部《沙丘》系列的续集就感到无比的开心！
抱着看另一个银翼杀手的期待来看的，但感觉作为首部曲非常失败，试图通过无处不在的宏大配乐掩盖平淡的整体节奏。除了沙丘的设定以外没有别的出人意料的东西。感觉像是又一部英雄旅途的套路片，尽管甜茶一如水准的演技和抗得起大特写的颜值让观影体验不算太糟，看完后还是有“就这？”的感觉。
感谢豆瓣评分拉低我的期待值。本人非常喜欢，非常buy it.说不上来，就是觉得节奏感符合我的呼吸，观感上也是美学巅峰。但心里也清楚大概很多人是不喜欢的，这种电影在受众上有它的局限性，就是喜欢的很喜欢，不喜欢的就不喜欢的那种。甜茶可长得太好看了！以及非常喜欢配乐，这个电影的氛围就是只有配乐才能成立。
《少年和沙虫的奇幻漂流》 （part 1）
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。
想不到我牛蛙吹也有塌房的一天！因为疫情，一度遗憾无法在银幕上观看。一直以来在等一个恰当的时刻，但4k电视有种奇怪塑料感，就像当初去看60fps的《比利林恩》。像一个超长的预告片，但我只想沉迷铁线虫。
视觉上，善于使用对比去衬托巨大与渺小，宏大场面搭上汉斯季默配乐，带来极其震撼的视听冲击。同时，再次看出大导演们对微缩模型的坚持。
不知道为什么那么多人说故事推进慢，对我来说全程都很精彩hh而且配乐可是汉斯季默这怎么睡得着hhh
果然是和银翼猎手2049一个导演 用文艺片的手法拍科幻片 汉斯季默配乐咚得我心慌 甜茶在里面太好看了 眼睛垂下仿佛有万千心事 在callmebyyourname里完全没get到他 但这个里面他美爆了 比起意大利的艳阳下他更适合在黄沙里憔悴地吃土
[前情：看过5册半原著+了解维伦纽瓦]：杜拉斯说自己通过拍电影杀死写作，但维伦纽瓦的沙丘一定拯救了什么。站在回想原著且考虑市场的角度，觉得导演在每一个层面的选择都已经做到了最优，也对没看过原著的观众把门槛降到了最低。两个半小时不觉长，想跟着这个世界走很远很远。之前有一个纠结，在影响了后世这么多作品后，在21世纪20年代还要去影像化沙丘，我不太坚定它的意义，但看完却被一个最没有预设的情感击中：一种古典悲剧性的faith and determination。公爵表达厄崔迪家族：there are no calls that we won’t answer. 一句话在这个时代弥足珍贵。现在我相信：Long Live House Atreides!
太空歌剧似乎已错过了它们最光鲜的时代，真是可惜。
彼此生活的文化环境、政治经济、成长经验、集体记忆、历史传承迥然有异，怎么可能穿透那层「墙」？强行撞墙只有两个结果：自大的贬损——「只不过是一个xxx的烂俗故事，吹，继续吹」；忘我的假嗨——这里面的溢美之词，有多少是根植于主体本身，又有多少仅仅在学舌？
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