The Last Voyage of the Demeter (2023)

August 9, 2023 (DE) • Horror, Fantasy • 119m

Overview

The crew of the merchant ship Demeter attempts to survive the ocean voyage from Carpathia to London as they are stalked each night by a merciless presence onboard the ship.

Director

Zak Olkewicz, Bragi F. Schut, Bram Stoker

Top Billed

Corey Hawkins

Keywords

ship monster based on novel or book sacrifice vampire supernatural gothic horror supernatural horror dracula 1890s

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Reviews

MovieGuys

⭐ 7/10

September 3, 2023

Last Voyage of the Demeter, manages to wring every creepy last drop, out of what is, a rather limited setting.

This is a disturbing film in many respects. It takes the myth of Dracula as envisioned by Bram Stoker and makes something fundamentally primal, awful and genuinely chilling, out of it.

This vampire is not your polite, European, with dental problems but more your monstrous Nosferatu.Its a sensible choice, as it amps ups the fear f… read the rest.

Admiral Toad

⭐ 4/10

September 24, 2023

Very middle ground horror movie. The CGI Dracula is pretty boring throughout. Not much new to offer.

Manuel São Bento

⭐ 7/10

November 17, 2023

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"The Last Voyage of the Demeter breathes new life into the Dracula narrative, offering a surprisingly fresh take on the classic tale. This adaptation stands out with exceptional makeup work, impressively relying on real, practical effects instead of succumbing to the CGI trend. A remarkable choice that adds realism to the gruesome scenes filled … read the rest.

BornKnight

⭐ 6/10

November 18, 2023

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 claustrophobic 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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whitsbrain

⭐ 6/10

January 30, 2024

The voyage of Dracula across the seas to London was a tale that I always wanted to see put to film. Unfortunately, this movie did not put enough of an emphasis on this actually being Dracula. Yes, it was stated in the movie by the characters, and some of the lore was set up at the start, but once they set sail on the Demeter, it turned into another demon-beast just killing victims.

Dracula's monstrous form looked great, there just wasn't enoug… read the rest.

Niko

⭐ 5/10

September 15, 2024

The Last Voyage of the Demeter has a huge amount of wasted potential. The setting is atmospheric and the cast is decent. The real downside to it is that it shows way too much way too early. The suspense and mystery is killed by completely unveiling the "bad guy" in the first third of the movie and it unfortunately devolves into a B-movie adjacent creature flick from there on.

I'm not one to complain about characters making dumb choices for the… read the rest.

GenerationofSwine

⭐ 1/10

April 20, 2025

The Last Voyage of the Demeter, nope. They had to do it didn't they? A movie about the ship that brought Dracula to England in the late 19th Century and... modern day political messaging.

They were like, nope, we can't just make a Dracula movie, we have to push ***THE MESSAGE*** and honestly, that's what killed it. No one wants that. They don't want the racial politics, they just wanted Dracula killing people on a boat in the 1880s.

Ins… read the rest.

Dean

⭐ 8/10

August 5, 2025

What a great movie. To be honest, I liked it more than "Nosferatu (2024)".

Sierbahnn

⭐ 7/10

June 16, 2026

So much better than it deserved to be
For being a throw-away line in the book this story is both engaging and true to the spirit of the hook of the story.

The characters are relatable and human, making the same kind of decisions you might expect from people under such extreme conditions. These are not camp or ridiculous contrivances, but fully relatable people. Liberties have been taken to make the characters work in a story like this, but it… read the rest.