电影《沙丘》为观众呈现了一段神秘而感人至深的英雄之旅。天赋异禀的少年保罗·厄崔迪被命运指引，为了保卫自己的家族和人民，决心前往浩瀚宇宙间最危险的星球，开启一场惊心动魄的冒险。与此同时，各路势力为了抢夺这颗星球上一种能够释放人类最大潜力的珍贵资源而纷纷加入战场。最终，唯有那些能够战胜内心恐惧的人才能生存下去。
迈克·科瓦克（科林·奥多霍诺 Colin O'Donoghue 饰）是一个出身葬仪家庭的神学院学生，但是他的心中始终找不到任何信仰的依附。偶然机缘，迈克被派往梵蒂冈参加一个驱魔师的培训课程。对上帝尚且心怀疑惑，何况玄之又玄的驱魔仪式，迈克以科学的角度和授课老师展开辩论。在老师的推荐下，他前去拜访了因驱魔而名声显赫的卢卡斯·特雷万神父（安东尼奥·霍普金斯 Anthony Hopkins 饰）。虽然亲身经历了卢卡斯神父的驱魔仪式，但是他依然不相信魔鬼的存在，直到一系列匪夷所思的事情在其身上发生，迈克灵魂的深处才真正发生了动摇…… 根据Matt Baglio的小说《仪式：现代驱魔人的制造》改编，故事灵感来自真实事件。
Like Fritz Lang, David Fincher or Bong Joon Ho before him, talented debut filmmaker Lado Kvataniya uses the concept of police detective vs serial killer for an excitingly stylised, macabre and haunting narrative, that ultimately revolves around the identity of an era: in this case, the late 1980s Soviet Union. With Glasnost and the end of communist rule, the West also learned of the (unsurprising) fact that there were serial killers in Russia too – the most notorious case probably that of Andrei Chikatilo, nicknamed the Rostov Ripper, or the Russian Hannibal Lecter. Based on these and many other sources, Kvataniya and screenwriter Olga Gorodetskaya constructed an immersive psychological puzzle, jumping back and forth in time, to reveal ever new-possible motives for the actions of all the protagonists. It all starts in 1990, when Detective Issa Davydov is celebrating his promotion and receives a call, reporting a crime that looks precisely like the ones of the serial killer that he famously captured some years before ...
