When the first trailer was released for The Last Voyage of the Demeter, the film received some criticism. Even before its release people mocked the idea of Dracula on a boat. These people have never read Bram Stoker’s Dracula because the movie was based on the captain’s log that was in fact in the novel. Which the movie directly tells you right at the beginning. But unfortunately most people dismissed this movie out of hand due to their own illiteracy.
Clocking in at almost exactly 2 hours The Last Voyage of the Demeter tells an untold chapter of Dracula’s story. I think this movie was smart to use something that we haven’t seen before while still staying true to the book. I love seeing new angles taken with vampires in general but specifically with Dracula because there are only so many configurations of an existing story. I don’t think it’s a top tier vampire film by any means but that is simply because there are so many. As far a sDracula stories go I would put it in the middle tier. I don’t think anything beats The Invitation from last year but I appreciate the creativity of this movie. I’d give it a solid 8/10.
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