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- 2023
- R
- Universal Pictures
- 1 h 58 m
- 2023
- R
- Universal Pictures
- 1 h 58 m
Summary 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 v...
Directed By: André Øvredal
Written By: Bram Stoker, Bragi F. Schut, Zak Olkewicz
- 2023
- R
- Universal Pictures
- 1 h 58 m
- 2023
- R
- Universal Pictures
- 1 h 58 m
The Last Voyage of the Demeter
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6.0
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Summary 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 v...
Directed By: André Øvredal
Written By: Bram Stoker, Bragi F. Schut, Zak Olkewicz
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 33 Critic Reviews
52
36% Positive
12 Reviews
12 Reviews
52% Mixed
17 Reviews
17 Reviews
12% Negative
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 33 Critic Reviews
52
36% Positive
12 Reviews
12 Reviews
52% Mixed
17 Reviews
17 Reviews
12% Negative
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
An often striking take on the tale that makes up for what it lacks in surprise with a lot of style and some undeniably effective scare moments.
What truly distinguishes Last Voyage of the Demeter, beyond its thick atmosphere of dread, is its gleeful cruelty, the delicious mean streak with which it sets up its suspense set pieces and its kills.
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 113 User Ratings
6.0
41% Positive
46 Ratings
46 Ratings
44% Mixed
50 Ratings
50 Ratings
15% Negative
17 Ratings
17 Ratings
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 113 User Ratings
6.0
41% Positive
46 Ratings
46 Ratings
44% Mixed
50 Ratings
50 Ratings
15% Negative
17 Ratings
17 Ratings
Pretty enjoyable and fun film, keeps you intrigued.
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For the life of me, I cannot understand why THE LAST VOYAGE OF THE DEMETER is not doing better at the box office because the movie is really good! The movie reminds me of the old British horror movies that I love to watch on MeTV around Halloween. Americans just do not appreciate good acting, have no imagination anymore, and only have an appetite for blood and guts. Go see this movie, and you will be scared and thrilled (about the good acting in the movie) and love eating popcorn while watching!
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When it does get fun and gory, the moments end too quickly but provide enough gore and a few jump scares to leave you satisfied.
Adapted from a chapter in Bram Stoker’s novel, the picture initially has some gory fun with its close-quarters suspense, but Ovredal unsuccessfully tries to elevate his monster movie with flimsy psychological depth and unconvincing emotional underpinnings.
Every plot twist is easily anticipated...The ending hints at the possibility of a sequel, but that’s a prospect that leaves one cold. As far as “Demeter” is concerned, enough is enough.
Overall, there’s just nothing about this interpretation of the character that makes him stand out as Count…Dracula versus just another standard vampire, a fact that only becomes more troubling since it’s doubtful most people will equate the Demeter with Stoker’s novel at all.
If you’re going to make an R-rated horror wank about Dracula slurping throats with a smile on his face, make sure that the rest of the movie doesn’t suck as hard as he does.
I loved how they were able to take just a short brief chapter retelling of Ram Stoker's canonical account written for the original Dracula and made it into this epic movie that is absolutely everything that vampire enthusiasts whatever love the Lord everything about it the action sequences and the way that they compiled this into such an edge of your seat movie was incredible and I absolutely loved that
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The Last Voyage of the Demeter is a movie directed by André Øvredal (Troll Hunters, 2010, The Autopsy of Jane Doe, 2016), that tells basally the prologue of 1897's Bram Stoker's "Dracula" (1847-1912) that tells about the Captain's Log of the Bulgarian ship named after the movie tile in 1867, before the events that happens in England.Bragi Schut Jr. that took almost 20 years to put the idea to a movie adapted the text to a full screenplay (Escape Room, Velvet Road) and there may reside the big flaw of the movie, because the rhythm is inconsistent and the plot even being interesting moves very slowly, with many flaws. It tries to emulate an ancient Alien the 8th passenger movie to this setting.Maybe the worst mistake was to put a protagonist Corey Hawkins in the role of the afro-english doctor Clemens that survives the trip and will start the hunt for Dracula, this already show in a pre-credits scene where the doctor is on a bar and see's the shadowy figure of Dracula, alrey telling the viewers that will de a sequence, on cinema or streaming.Nothing to say about the well know story - a massacre of the tripulation of the ship, that consists with the book, and the arrival at the destiny as a wreck with the coffin containing earth of Dracul's "bed" (I wonder if it sunk in the middle of the Atlantic what would happened - no earth, but no no sunlight so...anyway:). After some gruesome assassinations on the ship, is obvious that somebody would be suspicious of each other, but not in the scale they happen, The mouse and cat cat between Dracula (in his man-bat form) and crew is the main core of the movie. Göran Lundström made the wonderful prosthetic work that was used almost 100% oon the scenes with dracula only using CG to put the artist that interpreted it on the creature (that is very similar to the one at Midnight Mass at Netflix)Beside the prosthetics and some scenes, the movie is too slow, and the final is ridiculous. I would give it a score of 6,0 out of 10,0 / B- by the effort.
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The fact that all this didn’t go down in some 200 year old dilapidated mansion in the middle of nowhere was quite a refreshing change of scenery!
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With a decent cast and pretty good cinematography, this movie ended up being a huge dissapointment. The director and writers really let this one down. Even though the cast is quite small, most of the characters were basically extras with zero development. The hamfisted foreshadowing the director tried to employ was so obvious you knew exactly what was going to happen about 2 minutes before every event. The film jumped from one moment of action to the next so quickly that spatial continuity went out the window, which is impressive as the setting is so small it should have been easy for the audience to keep their bearings while moving throughout the ship. It felt to me that the director was so focused on delivering visually impressive shots (which they did) that the narrative was simply an after thought. If they would have taken the time to establish the setting, had a few moments of peace between major plot events, and actually tried to give the characters a small semblance of a survival instinct, this film would have been much better off.
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Some of the worst editing and sound design I have ever seen. It had good ideas but it constantly bombards you with loud noises and camera cuts that take you out of the experience. It actually made me feel sick on how badly it was edited.
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Production Company
Dreamworks Pictures,
Reliance Entertainment,
Storyworks Productions,
Studio Babelsberg,
Phoenix Pictures,
Amblin Partners,
Wise Owl Media
Release Date Aug 11, 2023
Duration 1 h 58 m
Rating R
Tagline The Legend of Dracula is Born.
Awards
Golden Scythe Horror Awards
• 2 Wins & 11 Nominations
Dracula Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
International Film Music Critics Award (IFMCA)
• 1 Nomination
