The Last Voyage of the Demeter (Collector's Edition): Blu-Ray Review - The Film Junkies

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Last updated 22 janeiro 2025

The Last Voyage of the Demeter (Collector's Edition): Blu-Ray Review - The Film Junkies

Available this week on Collector’s Edition Blu-ray is André Øvredal’s The Last Voyage of the Demeter, which was adapted from The Captain’s Log chapter of Bram Stoker’s 1897 novel, Dracula. With the-exception-of The Invisible Man, classic monsters have not faired well at the box office in recent years. Attempts to bring them back have pretty much bombed. Examples would be The Mummy, which even Tom Cruise couldn’t save, Dracula Untold and most recently, The Last Voyage of the Demeter. However, I would say Demeter is the most watchable of the lot. It is also not so much about Dracula, as it is about the voyage that brought him from Varna to England and the crew that fell victim to his late-night feedings. Demeter feels more like Alien on a boat than it does a Dracula tale. In July of 1897 the merchant ship Demeter left the port of Varna, Bulgaria and headed to England with a cargo consisting of large wooden crates. Among the crew are Captain Elliot (Liam Cunningham), quartermaster Wojcheck (David Dastmalchain), the captain’s grandson Toby (Woody Norman) and a new arrival, Clemens (Corey Hawkins), who happens to be a doctor, that is willing to work for a []

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