Discover what evil that lurks aboard the merchant ship ‘Demeter,’ which was chartered to carry private cargo, in the new 360 experience that looks at the creation of the infamous vampire; film hits theaters August 11.
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The upcoming movie The Last Voyage of the Demeter has plenty going for it. The premise—following Dracula’s voyage to England—is enticing. The cast, including Corey Hawkins, Liam Cunningham, and David Dastmalchian, is fantastic. Director André Øvredal (Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, Trollhunter) knows how to do creepy as well as exciting. And, of course, it has some of the best source material ever in Bram Stroker’s Dracula.
I know that the Demeter travelogue portion of Dracula takes literally less than ten pages in the whole book, but those epistolary passages (well known to anyone who follows Dracula Daily, as we have just sailed through the traumatizing passages) are incredibly horrific and haunting. Not to mention that they used all practical effects for this vamp, which I, personally, cannot get enough of. This film is going to take those sparse moments of realization and turn them into an epic battle between t
It’s fitting that he’s starring in a Dracula movie: As a kid, he’d dress up as a vampire and host haunted houses every Halloween in his parents’ Overland Park basement.
It’s fitting that he’s starring in a Dracula movie: As a kid, he’d dress up as a vampire and host haunted houses every Halloween in his parents’ Overland Park basement.