Earlier this year, Count Dracula got a movie appearance with the comedy "Renfield", depicting his servant trying to break away from their co-dependent relationship. The count now gets his second appearance this year with "The Last Voyage of the Demeter", based on a single chapter in Bram Stoker's novel. André Øvredal's movie takes place aboard the ship that carried Dracula's coffin from Bulgaria to England. Once they set sail, the count starts doing his stuff.
This isn't like most Dracula movies. Dracula isn't the main or even a secondary character. The primary focus is on the people aboard the ship, including a Romanian woman who knows Dracula's horrible secret. The count himself isn't depicted as what we're used to. Far from the impeccably dressed, well-spoken aristocrat commonly portrayed onscreen, here he's a hideous monster with no aim except tearing you apart and drinking your blood. The claustrophobic, uneasy setting aboard the ship only adds to the horror factor.
It's not a great movie by any measure. A lot of it is predictable, and it doesn't give us a reason to care about the individuals. Even so, it's a fun movie. It apparently under-performed this past weekend, so I hope that it finds a cult following in the years to come.
The cast of Corey Hawkins, Aisling Franciosi, Liam Cunningham, David Dastmalchian, Jon Jon Briones and Nikolai Nikolaeff makes this movie a link between "The Walking Dead", "Game of Thrones" (twice), "Oppenheimer", "American Horror Story" and "Stranger Things".
This isn't like most Dracula movies. Dracula isn't the main or even a secondary character. The primary focus is on the people aboard the ship, including a Romanian woman who knows Dracula's horrible secret. The count himself isn't depicted as what we're used to. Far from the impeccably dressed, well-spoken aristocrat commonly portrayed onscreen, here he's a hideous monster with no aim except tearing you apart and drinking your blood. The claustrophobic, uneasy setting aboard the ship only adds to the horror factor.
It's not a great movie by any measure. A lot of it is predictable, and it doesn't give us a reason to care about the individuals. Even so, it's a fun movie. It apparently under-performed this past weekend, so I hope that it finds a cult following in the years to come.
The cast of Corey Hawkins, Aisling Franciosi, Liam Cunningham, David Dastmalchian, Jon Jon Briones and Nikolai Nikolaeff makes this movie a link between "The Walking Dead", "Game of Thrones" (twice), "Oppenheimer", "American Horror Story" and "Stranger Things".