Isn’t it always the way? You wait years for a good Dracula movie and then no sooner is Nicholas Cage hamming it up to wonderful effect in Renfield, than a new, terrifying take on the vampire mythology appears on the horizon.
We’ve been hearing for a long time that a Demeter movie was in development – in Bram Stoker’s Dracula, the Demeter is the ship that carries Dracula from his home in Transylvania to England and the ship appears and it’s a ghost ship, with no sign of the crew on board. Francis Ford Coppola’s 1992 movie, Bram Stoker’sDracula, briefly showed the events on the Demeter but this new movie really gets its teeth into it.
And honestly, this looks like the Dracula movie we’ve waited for since 1992 – gone is the humour, the pseudo-superhero take, and all the glossy nonsense, and instead, we have a Dracula that once again takes us to the pit of our stomachs, where all great uneasy and horror begin.
Based on a single chilling chapter from Bram Stoker’s classic novel Dracula, The Last Voyage of the Demeter tells the terrifying story of the merchant ship Demeter, which was chartered to carry private cargo—fifty unmarked wooden crates—from Carpathia to London.
Strange events befall the doomed crew as they attempt to survive the ocean voyage, stalked each night by a merciless presence onboard the ship. When the Demeter finally arrives off the shores of England, it is a charred, derelict wreck. There is no trace of the crew.
The film stars Corey Hawkins (In the Heights, Straight Outta Compton) as Clemens, a doctor who joins the Demeter crew, Aisling Franciosi (Game of Thrones, The Nightingale) as an unwitting stowaway, Liam Cunningham (Game of Thrones, Clash of the Titans) as the ship’s captain and David Dastmalchian (Dune, the Ant-Man franchise) as the Demeter’s first mate.
The film also features Jon Jon Briones (Ratched, American Horror Story), Stefan Kapicic (Deadpool films, Better Call Saul), Nikolai Nikolaeff (Stranger Things, Bruised) and Javier Botet (It films, Mama).
From DreamWorks Pictures and the producers of Zodiac and Black Swan, The Last Voyage of the Demeter is directed by Norwegian horror virtuoso André Øvredal (Scary Stories To Tell in the Dark, Trollhunter), from a script by Bragi F. Schut (Escape Room), Stefan Ruzowitzky (The Counterfeiters) and Zak Olkewicz (the upcoming Bullet Train), based on the chapter “The Captain’s Log” of Bram Stoker’s Dracula.
The film is produced by Brad Fischer and by Oscar®-nominated producer Mike Medavoy and Arnold Messer for Phoenix Pictures and is executive produced by Matthew Hirsch.
Genre: Horror
Cast: Corey Hawkins, Aisling Franciosi, Liam Cunningham, David Dastmalchian
Director: André Øvredal
Screenplay By: Bragi F. Schut, Stefan Ruzowitzky and Zak Olkewicz, based on “The Captain’s Log” from Bram Stoker’s Dracula
Producers: Brad Fischer, Mike Medavoy, Arnold Messer
Executive Producer: Matthew Hirsch
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