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THE LAST VOYAGE OF THE DEMETER – Bear McCreary
Original Review by Jonathan Broxton
When the Irish author Bram Stoker was writing his classic horror novel Dracula in 1897 he included a passage noting that a ship, the Demeter, ran aground in Whitby in North Yorkshire; all the crew on board were dead, and the only cargo were boxes of earth from a castle in Transylvania. This is, of course, the back story of how the evil vampire count came to be in England in the first place, and the fate of the Demeter is well known to those knowledgeable about Dracula lore – but there has never been a film about the Demeter before, and what terrible events transpired on the ship… until now. The film is essentially an extrapolation on the ’Captains Log’ chapter of Stoker’s original novel, and has been described by some critics as ‘Alien on a boat,’ as one by one the crew are picked off by the monster on board. The film stars Corey Hawkins, Aisling Franciosi, Liam Cunningham, and David Dastmalchian, and is directed by Norwegian filmmaker André Øvredal. Read more…
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