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  1. Critics Consensus:The Last Voyage of the Demeter finds a fresh angle on Dracula's oft-told tale, although lackluster execution often undercuts the story's claustrophobic tension. Metacritic: 52 (26 Reviews) “Dracula,” in its deathly way, is a fairy tale. But “The Last Voyage of the Demeter” is strictly prose, and rather plodding prose ...

  2. Aug 11, 2023 · Now comes “The Last Voyage of the Demeter,” a feature-length expansion of those 16 pages that fully examines the strange occurrences aboard one of the most doomed sea journeys in literary history. Upon hearing this movie’s premise for the first time, I wasn’t entirely convinced it could work. This would be a film where practically every ...

  3. Aug 10, 2023 · The Last Voyage of the Demeter turns one of the most riveting chapters from Bram Stoker’s Dracula into a soggy feature-length horror that never finds its sea legs. By Charles Pulliam-Moore, a ...

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  4. Aug 24, 2024 · The days of the Demeter – a wooden sailboat in an age when metal and steam are fast taking over – already seem numbered, even before an undead aggressor is stowed away belowdecks. Yet The Last Voyage of the Demeter, for all its doomed trajectory, rewrites the script, and even promises a different kind of sequel entirely uncharted by Stoker.

  5. Aug 21, 2023 · The Last Voyage of the Demeter is gory but parched; it does just enough to whet our appetites without remotely slaking our thirst. Adam Nayman is a critic, lecturer, and author based in Toronto. His latest book, David Fincher: Mind Games, is available from Abrams Books. Categories: Reviews. What we do in the shadows: André Øvredal’s pulpy ...

  6. Aug 11, 2023 · The Last Voyage of the Demeter hoists sail underneath an excellent conceit. The film is an adaptation of a single chapter from the 1897 novel Dracula, Chapter VII, which is an account of a ship’s voyage chartered from Varna, Bulgaria to Whitby, England. The novel Dracula is epistolary and this account is the Captain’s Log, […]

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  8. Aug 10, 2023 · In “The Last Voyage of the Demeter,” I found myself inclined toward the reverse exclamation: “Just go below deck and kill him already!”. Based on a chapter in Bram Stoker’s novel ...