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Aug 11, 2023 · The Last Voyage of the Demeter. Horror. 118 minutes ‧ R ‧ 2023. Peter Sobczynski. August 11, 2023. 5 min read. As those of you with a decent grasp of horror trivia already know, the Demeter was the ship whose ultimately doomed journey to deliver some especially dangerous cargo from Transylvania to London was chronicled in the seventh ...
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The Last Voyage of the Demeter finds a fresh angle on Dracula's oft-told tale, although lackluster execution often undercuts the story's claustrophobic tension. Read Critics Reviews. A solidly...
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With a gorgeous gothic setting, fantastic performances and an eerie villain, 'The Last Voyage of the Demeter' is often an entertaining watch. However, the lack of meat on its bones as a...
Aug 10, 2023 · ‘The Last Voyage of the Demeter’ Review: Blood on the Water This horror movie, based on a chapter from Bram Stoker’s “Dracula,” is set on a cargo ship unwittingly transporting an evil...
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By Matt Donato
Updated: Aug 10, 2023 4:29 pm
Posted: Aug 10, 2023 4:00 pm
From a handful of pages by Bram Stoker comes The Last Voyage of the Demeter, a moody hunt-and-kill chronicle of Count Dracula’s passage from Transylvania to England. Director André Øvredal expands upon a single chapter in Stoker’s pioneering novel to imagine how its titular vampire fed his hunger at sea. Journal entries about missing crewmen are translated into a rain-soaked nightmare of bad sailor’s luck, torn open necks, and waterlogged isolation that plays to Øvredal’s storytelling strengths. It’s a throwback to broody, Hammer-esque horrors with dread as thick as a fog over the moors, and while the journey isn’t quite fit for a nearly two-hour runtime, there’s still a bloody-good addition to Dracula lore found in the dimly lit decks and cargo hold of the Demeter.
Writers Bragi F. Schut, Stefan Ruzowitzky, and Zak Olkewicz introduce protagonists like Corey Hawkins’ Cambridge graduate Clemens or David Dastmalchian’s gruff and hard-nosed second mate Wojchek, helping us sympathize with characters who are otherwise faceless cannon fodder in the source material. From Liam Cunningham as Captain Eliot – a sympathetic leader making one last haul before retirement – to Aisling Franciosi as the mysterious stowaway Anna, Øvredal’s ensemble feels at home quivering under a doomy, gloomy moonlight, petrified by a gangly figure lurking in the shadows.
Famed creature actor Javier Botet (It, Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, Mama) brings “The Evil” (as Drac is referred to by his unwitting shipmates) to life in a form that recalls F. W. Murnau’s Nosferatu and Tobe Hooper’s Salem’s Lot miniseries. Demeter’s Dracula is a vile bloodsucker who begs audiences to cower in his presence. Bat-like features distance this vampire from the dreamy Brad Pitt and Robert Pattinson types, driving home the animalistic nature of Botet’s performance.
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The Last Voyage of the Demeter should delight horror fans raised on Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi, and offers an R-rated bite of vampiric brutality for genre fans with a stronger bloodlust. Øvredal does well to transport his cast to a time when scary stories were told around lanterns in the dead of night, and even if the moodiness evaporates due to...
- Matt Donato
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The Last Voyage of the Demeter: Directed by André Øvredal. With Corey Hawkins, Aisling Franciosi, Liam Cunningham, David Dastmalchian. A crew sailing from Varna (Bulgaria) by the Black Sea to England find that they are carrying very dangerous cargo.
Aug 10, 2023 · Expanding on the captain’s log segment of Bram Stoker’s Dracula, The Last Voyage of the Demeter explores how Dracula moved from Transylvania to England.
