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The Last Voyage of the Demeter

The Last Voyage of the Demeter (2023)

A crew sailing from Varna (Bulgaria) by the Black Sea to England find that they are carrying very dangerous cargo. A crew sailing from Varna (Bulgaria) by the Black Sea to England find that they are carrying very dangerous cargo. A crew sailing from Varna (Bulgaria) by the Black Sea to England find that they are carrying very dangerous cargo.

  • André Øvredal
  • Bram Stoker
  • Bragi F. Schut
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  • Corey Hawkins
  • Aisling Franciosi
  • Liam Cunningham
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As those of you with a decent grasp of horror trivia already know, the Demeter was the ship whose ultimately doomed journey to deliver some especially dangerous cargo from Transylvania to London was chronicled in the seventh chapter of the Bram Stoker classic Dracula . Although this section, running 16 pages in my copy, contains some of the most evocative imagery in that sometimes clumsily written book, the whole episode is not that important to the narrative. It simply illustrates how the title character got from point A to B, and on the rare occasions when filmmakers have chosen to bring this story to the screen, the journey is either reduced to a brief montage or newspaper headline or ignored entirely. 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 audience member would not only know exactly what the supernatural force at the center of the story is before the Universal logo hits the screen. But they would also—barring some unexpected deviation from the well-known narrative—know exactly how the on-screen events would play out. To me, it looked like just another attempt by Universal to introduce the character that played such a key role in the studio’s history to contemporary audiences following the misfired likes of “Dracula: Untold” and the recent and dreadful “ Renfield .” That may have been the case, but the results are a big step up from those previous stumbles, an often striking take on the tale that makes up for what it lacks in surprise with a lot of style and some undeniably effective scare moments.

Set in 1897, the film opens as the Demeter is about to set sail from Transylvania to London, carrying Captain Eliot ( Liam Cunningham ), loyal first mate Wojchek ( David Dastmalchian ), his grandson Toby ( Woody Norman ), and a small crew that grows even smaller when some of the locals recruited for the journey get skittish when they see that the cargo contains many large crates being sent by an unknown figure to Carfax Abbey in London. Among those recruited at the last second is Clemens ( Corey Hawkins ), who signs on as the ship’s doctor to get passage home to England. His expertise comes in handy when one of the boxes is accidentally opened, and an apparent stowaway ( Aisling Franciosi ) is discovered with a mysterious malady that requires numerous blood transfusions. 

Soon, strange things begin happening on the ship. All the livestock on board and Toby’s beloved dog are slaughtered throughout one grisly evening. Sailors begin seeing and hearing odd things at night while on watch, and even the ship’s rats appear to have vanished, leading up to the deathless line, “A boat without rats—such a thing is against nature.” The members of the crew soon begin disappearing, driving the already skittish ones who remain further into paranoia that is not helped when the stowaway, whose name proves to be Anna, finally wakes up and informs Clemens and the others that to steal a line from Mel Brooks , yes, they have Nosferatu. As Dracula ( Javier Botet ) continues snacking through the ship, the rapidly dwindling survivors try to figure out how to stop him before they reach London.

The film was directed by André Øvredal , whose previous credits include such intriguing horror-related efforts as “ Trollhunter ,” “ The Autopsy of Jane Doe ,” and the underrated “ Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark .” This time, he is trying to figure out how to tell a story in which everyone in the audience will be ahead of the characters on the screen at virtually every given point. He accomplishes that primarily by focusing heavily on visual style, creating a moody and haunted atmosphere throughout—even during the scenes set in the daytime—that is both eerily beautiful and just plain eerie. "The Last Voyage of the Demeter" is one of the better-looking horror films to come along in a while. The cat-and-mouse games between Dracula and the crew are staged in a manner that suggests a seafaring variation of “ Alien ,” with Øvredal milking scenes for maximum tension before culminating in some nasty business. 

Bear in mind, some of that business is indeed quite nasty—the visualization of Dracula shown here is a particularly grotesque and demonic variation, the scenes of slaughter are definitely gory enough to earn the “R” rating, and not only does the one character you are conditioned to expect to somehow avoid a gruesome demise end up suffering just that, but they also do so more than once. The performances, especially the ones from genre MVP Dastmalchian, Franciosi (so effective in “ The Nightingale ”), and Botet, are all strong and convincing, which helps to raise the emotional stakes to make up for the lack of surprise.

There are two points where the film stumbles a bit. Although the relatively slow and measured pacing employed by Øvredal to generate suspense is mostly effective and preferable to the quick-cut approach others might have taken, a few scenes here run on too long for their own good. Also, the film—Spoiler Alert!—indulges in one of the most irritating elements of contemporary horror cinema, a final scene that exists solely to set up future movies if this one does well at the box office. 

And yet, the rest of the movie works enough so that these flaws don’t hurt things too badly. “The Last Voyage of the Demeter” may not be a classic in the annals of Dracula cinema along the lines of the Terence Fisher's Hammer production “Horror of Dracula,” Werner Herzog ’s version of “ Nosferatu the Vampyre ,” or Francis Ford Coppola ’s “Bram’s Stoker’s Dracula.” But it is a smart, well-made, and sometimes downright creepy take on the tale that both horror buffs and regular moviegoers can appreciate in equal measure. 

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The Last Voyage of the Demeter (2023)

Rated R for bloody violence.

118 minutes

Corey Hawkins as Clemens

Aisling Franciosi as Anna

Liam Cunningham as Captain Eliot

David Dastmalchian as Wojchek

Chris Walley as Abrams

Stefan Kapičić as Olgaren

Martin Furulund as Larsen

Nikolai Nikolaeff as Petrofsky

Woody Norman as Toby

Jon Jon Briones as Cook

Javier Botet as Dracula / Nosferatu

  • André Øvredal

Writer (based on the chapter "The Captain's Log" of Dracula by)

  • Bram Stoker

Writer (screen story by)

  • Bragi F. Schut
  • Zak Olkewicz
  • Christian Wagner
  • Patrick Larsgaard
  • Julian Clarke

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  • Bear McCreary

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André Øvredal — the director of "Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark" and "Trollhunter" — returns with a new vision for Dracula in "The Last Voyage of the Demeter."  Based on the chapter titled "The Captain's Log" in Bram Stoker's "Dracula," the film follows the crew of the Demeter ship as they transport cargo to England in 1897. While the early parts of their voyage are smooth sailing, the crew begins to realize that with each passing night, their numbers grow smaller. It turns out that a bloodthirsty creature has been brought aboard and is hunting them down, so the crew must band together and come up with a plan to kill the beast before they reach the mainland. 

After some more comical and charming recent depictions of Dracula , "The Last Voyage of the Demeter" reminds viewers why he's one of the scariest movie monsters. Øvredal brings a chilling Dracula to the big screen in what becomes a harrowing story of survival. Every time night falls, audiences are left in fear of what horrors will come and wondering who will bite the dust the next. Throughout all the scares and sudden turns, there are also some strong and surprisingly emotional story threads with these characters that lead to a gripping and jaw-dropping finale. Let's delve into the ending of "The Last Voyage of the Demeter."

What you need to remember about the plot

Before unpacking the film's tense finale, there are some important elements that influence the fates of the characters and their final bout with Dracula (Javier Botet). When the monster emerges each night, he targets one crew member, draining their blood so that he can regain his power and strength. As he picks off the crew one by one, Dracula goes from being a frail corpse crawling out of the shadows to a fearsome beast with devastating power. Not only can Dracula turn the crew members into his mindless minions just by biting them, but once he has consumed enough blood, he can grow wings and can fly. 

By the time the crew comes to terms with the reality that they're being hunted by a monster, there's only a handful of them left and they've been mentally and physically worn down. They've witnessed most of their companions be slaughtered or turned against them by Dracula, and Captain Elliot (Liam Cunningham) has even lost his grandson Toby (Woody Norman) to the beast. However, crew member Clemens (Corey Hawkins) is able to rally those who remain to form a new plan that'll kill Dracula and keep him from reaching the mainland. But their plan to leave Dracula stuck on the sinking Demeter doesn't go as planned and leads to unimaginable bloodshed.

What happened at the end of the movie

Although Clemens' plan to use Anna (Aisling Franciosi) — a woman who was stored with Dracula as his personal feeding source — as bait to lure the creature out makes sense when he explains it, Dracula also quickly catches on to what they're up to. Dracula not only kills most of the remaining crew — leaving only Clemens and Anna alive – but he causes so much chaos and destruction on the ship that it is now barreling towards the mainland. Eventually, Dracula has Clemens in his claws and is on the verge of killing him until Anna steps in and frees him. This also causes one of the masts to fall apart and pin Dracula into the middle of the ship. Unfortunately, the monster is able to break free before the ship crashes into the mainland and flies away while Clemens and Anna float on debris just off-shore. 

While Clemens is hopeful that the two of them can make it to safety, Anna's eyes turning pale signifies that she's succumbed to Dracula's bite and will burst into flames when the sun rises. Even though Clemens performed a blood transfusion on her, it only delayed the inevitable. Clemens is crushed by this realization, but Anna has accepted her fate and thanks Clemens for helping her fight back against Dracula. Without fear, she sits atop some debris and floats away from Clemens, burning to death slowly when the sun hits her skin. 

What happens between Clemens and Dracula

Although the newspaper headlines seen in the final moments state that there were no survivors aboard the Demeter, we come to learn that there are actually two: Clemens and Dracula. Clemens has made it to shore and is now the only surviving crew member of the ship. While in England, Clemens searches for Dracula — who he believes is still out there somewhere — and he is given some direction on where the creature could be. Clemens has now made it his life's goal to hunt and kill Dracula so that the world can be rid of this monster. But he is unaware that he's closer than he thinks to his vampiric enemy. 

Clemens hears the knocking code used on the ship and feels that it's coming from Dracula himself as a form of taunting. Suddenly, Dracula is shown hiding his horrid face under some clothes and holding the cane that Clemens found in his coffin on the ship. Dracula passes by Clemens causing him to leave his chair and follow him onto the streets. Now, neither Dracula nor Clemens is afraid to make their presence known to each other and their newfound rivalry begins.

What does the end of the movie mean

When the crew talks about what they plan to spend the money earned from the trip on, Clemens delivers a vastly different answer. Instead of wanting to spend it on a new place to live or pleasurable spoils, he says he doesn't care for the money much and hopes to gain a better understanding of the world from his travels. Although he's scoffed at by most of the crew, there's a deeper, more personal reason behind this that plays into Clemens' pursuit of Dracula at the end. When further explaining his experience in life as a Black man, Clemens talks about how he's been looked over simply because of the color of his skin. Despite his getting a great education and being a highly-skilled doctor, he was often turned away or outright rejected for being Black, causing him to become disillusioned by people and the world. 

This explains why Clemens is so obsessed with exploring and trying to gain a better understanding of the world. This mindset also influences his intrigue with Dracula — a being that goes against his more logical thinking and scientific views. Now that Clemens knows that this monstrous entity exists in the world, he wishes to understand its motives and origins so that he can defeat it — which possibly influences his desires to be accepted and acknowledged for his actions rather than rejected for who he is. 

Another explanation

The ending of "The Last Voyage of Demeter" also establishes a pretty grim reality for the world, and Dracula's appearance is a bad omen for humanity. Not only is Dracula free and living amongst the humans, but so far no one knows how to kill him. Even though Clemens survived his fight against Dracula on the Demeter, he isn't aware of how to defeat the vampire since Anna didn't have the answer and none of the weapons they used did anything. Further, if something as monstrous as Dracula exists, who knows what other horrors and evil creatures could exist in this world too? Evil is walking around freely and this could have damning consequences. 

However, there are people like Clemens who are willing to put everything on the line to stop evil entities like Dracula. Clemens is portrayed as the Van Helsing surrogate in this story, and he pledges his life to find and kill Dracula no matter what it takes. Even when Clemens is near death fighting Dracula, he shows that he isn't afraid of him, and his further pursuit of him is meant to act as a reminder of how evil can and should be fought against. While there are powerful entities out there that represent the same kind of evil that Dracula does, there's always a way to fight back, and this is something we see at the end of the film.

What has André Øvredal said about the film and future sequels

André Øvredal is one of the most notable rising forces in the horror genre over the last few years with films like "Trollhunter," "Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark," and "The Autopsy of Jane Doe." Now with "The Last Voyage of the Demeter," he's delivered his own horrifying take on Dracula that shows a lot of potential to be something more. Speaking to Bloody Disgusting , Øvredal praised Javier Botet's performance as Dracula and said he was "curious to see how the audiences are feeling about the portrayal of Dracula, which I'm very proud of."

While Øvredal is happy with how the film has come together, the question remains whether he would have the time to continue working in this world if the opportunity comes to a sequel. It was announced that he's no longer set to direct the upcoming adaptation of Stephen King's "The Long Walk" and the only project he's currently listed to direct is a sequel to "Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark." A lot hinges on the success of "The Last Voyage of the Demeter" but Øvredal clearly isn't opposed to the idea of a sequel, so we'll just have to watch this space to see if further vampire projects come about.

What the end could mean for the franchise

Perhaps the biggest question posed by the end of the film is whether we could see more of this world. Given how this film concludes, there's certainly room for a sequel or even a prequel to be made. With Clemens now on a life-long mission to kill Dracula, a sequel could see these two at each other's throats again. Clemens could be seen trying to help another community that's being terrorized by Dracula or searching for answers on how to kill this demonic entity. We could also possibly get a prequel that fleshes out Dracula's backstory and mythos more and could even be led by Anna since her village was controlled by Dracula for a long time. Given that the film is set in the world of Bram Stoker's "Dracula," other installments could be created to adapt other parts of the novel and further flesh out this world.

What could keep the film's franchise potential from happening

While the film has clear goals for its future, there are things that could keep it from reaching them. The first obstacle the film needs to overcome is its opening weekend at the box office. It releases at a time when both "Barbie" and "Oppenheimer" still have a hold over the box office, and there's plenty of competition from the summer blockbusters. The current projections for "The Last Voyage of the Demeter" range from about $6 to $11 million — which wouldn't put it in striking distance of either film based on what they're projected to earn. The film will desperately need some good word of mouth and strong legs to have a good box office run. 

The next factor in "The Last Voyage of the Demeter" being a success is if moviegoers like it. Critics, so far, haven't been too fond of the film, but the audience is often the driving force behind a film's success. The last hurdle for "The Last Voyage of the Demeter" is the competition from other vampire films — including another from Universal themselves. "Eternals" director Chloé Zhao has a "Dracula" film on the way for Universal and Pablo Larraín's vampire film "El Conde" is coming to Netflix in September. So, there's a lot of competition that could steal the film's thunder and keep it from its future ambitions.

What does the ending mean for Universal's desires to reboot their classic monsters

It's no secret that Universal has been doing everything it can to bring its classic monsters back into the limelight for years. After the Dark Universe joined the other failed cinematic universes , Universal faced an uphill struggle. However, through films like "The Invisible Man" and "Renfield," they've seen that there are ways to bring their monsters back without the need for a connected cinematic universe. "The Last Voyage of the Demeter" isn't outwardly expressed as Universal's attempt to bring one of their classic monsters back to life, but it could easily be seen as a way for Dracula's cinematic legacy to continue.

Since "Renfield" fell flat at the box office , the door is wide open for another "Dracula" story to become Universal's next big horror franchise focused on the character. With the closing moments of "The Last Voyage of the Demeter" seeing Clemens begin his pursuit of Dracula, the story could easily continue, either in a sequel or possible future crossovers should Universal reignite their monster universe.

Why the ending gives viewers a different kind of Dracula

While recent depictions of Dracula have highlighted some of his more charming characteristics, or put a comedic spin on his presence, "The Last Voyage of the Demeter" takes the character back to his horror roots. Instead of being seen as this unsuspecting charmer with a hypnotizing power, Dracula is shown here to be more of an escaped demon from hell. His teeth are disfigured and sharpened to quickly draw blood from his victims and he has a pale, emaciated look that will instantly give you chills. By the time Dracula reaches his final form at the end of the film — with his wings and bat-like ears — he looks even more demonic. 

However, what's most interesting about this portrayal of Dracula is that he doesn't change his look when trying to hide among humans. When he is shown in the final moments of the film, he's just wearing clothes that slightly obscure his face to help him blend in. This is interesting since it was established earlier that he controlled Anna's village for years despite clearly standing out. This suggests that instead of using charm and suave looks to control those around him, this Dracula relies more on fear, intimidation, and force to control others — something that is incredibly different from other Draculas we've seen before.

What new mythos comes from the ending

Along with a new physical depiction of Dracula, the ending of "The Last Voyage of the Demeter" also establishes some interesting new mythos surrounding the character and his new pursuer, Clemens. With this Dracula using fear and intimidation to maintain his power, we get a more beastly monster who views his victims as disposable sources of food rather than people. He's much more dangerous to people than ever before and the minions he creates with the virus from his bite are much more violent and destructive than ever before. When Olgaren (Stefan Kapičić) gets possessed, he's shown to be very zombie-like and will go to any length — including self-harm — to do Dracula's bidding. Let's not forget the fact that anyone with Dracula's blood in them will be consumed by flames by the time morning comes around — further evidence that becoming Dracula's minion is deadlier than ever before. 

In Clemens, we get a new type of Van Helsing — one who will go to the ends of the earth to kill Dracula. Rather than have a background as a hunter or someone who's been tormented by Dracula for many years, his feud with Dracula is fresh and his background as a doctor gives him new ways of fighting the monster's control. These elements give the film a sense of familiarity but a newness as well, and the ending puts its own spin on the classic mythos in a way that feels exciting and interesting.

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The Last Voyage of the Demeter Reviews

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Worse (for the crew), it thoroughly enjoys terrifying its victims before opening their veins. Far from the charming and debonair Draculs of yore, this Count is a real asshole, and Øvredal and Schut, Jr. go places not many modern horror movies do.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 25, 2024

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It's simply not scary.

Full Review | Original Score: C | Dec 4, 2023

final voyage of the demeter

A compelling terror tale that retains the flavor of Bram Stoker but adopts the pattern of Alien (the tagline might as well have been “At sea, no one can hear you scream”).

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 28, 2023

final voyage of the demeter

Despite the nature of its monster, the film lacks any real bite and feels very predictable and lacking in atmosphere or movement.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | Oct 6, 2023

The concessive events that are narrated... do not successfully spark interest sufficient to maintain afloat this two-hour film that is also not very entertaining. [Full review in Spanish]

Full Review | Oct 5, 2023

A gothic claustrophobic horror tale that presents us with an animalistic and genuinely scary Dracula, who is brought to aggressive life by Javier Botet.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 28, 2023

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The Last Voyage of the Demeter is pretty in that gritty style that says everyone needs a bath and no one should share a comb. With 95% of the film taking place on the Demeter, the ship feels both vast and claustrophobic.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Sep 23, 2023

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You have a pretty good sense of what’s going to happen. ... If you have a boat with a “Vampire on Board” bumper sticker, there’s a good chance that one crew member after another is getting slaughtered, and it’s just a matter of watching it happen.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 23, 2023

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The movie knows exactly what it is ... It doesn’t take itself seriously, but it’s also never winking at us, which is a fine line to walk.

Full Review | Sep 11, 2023

final voyage of the demeter

Director André Øvredal knows how to deliver jump-scare horror. … Here, though, he throttles back on the in-your-face horror, opting instead to build up tension and let it snap in measured doses.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 10, 2023

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Did we really need this Dracula footnote to set sail at all? Perhaps not, but while Øvredal’s expansion on the world isn’t as fun as the grim fables from which it draws blood, it still has some bite.

Full Review | Sep 9, 2023

final voyage of the demeter

It’s just such a well executed, relentlessly grim, and creepy horror entry with a Dracula we’ve never actually seen before.

Full Review | Sep 6, 2023

Nosfera-too bad this movie is boring and terrible!

Full Review | Sep 5, 2023

final voyage of the demeter

There is a lack of ideas, both in terms of staging and content, in order to keep the audience happy. [Full review in Spanish]

Full Review | Aug 31, 2023

final voyage of the demeter

Either the undercooked screenplay needed to marinate for another decade or two or, more likely than not, the promise inherent in the premise was never meant for anything more than what it always was, a chapter in Stoker’s novel.

Consistently creepy yet rarely terrifying, this flat spinoff doesn’t make any meaningful additions to the mythology of the source material.

Full Review | Aug 30, 2023

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There’s a brief novelty to the bloody spectacle that Øvredal’s latest provides but this supposed final voyage feels considerably thin by its end

final voyage of the demeter

I'm not quite sure how you make a vampire slasher on a boat boring and yet here we are.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | Aug 29, 2023

final voyage of the demeter

It manages to develop a tense and slightly bloody story, where all sexuality has been removed from Dracula in order to portray him as a true monster. It could have been better, but it's not like I regret seeing it at the cinema. Full review in Spanish.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 29, 2023

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While not the best vampire film, its phenomenal visuals, cast, and tense moments make The Last Voyage of the Demeter worth watching. 

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The Last Voyage of the Demeter’s ending, explained

Blair Marnell

In Bram Stoker’s Dracula , a single chapter, The Captain’s Log , is devoted to chronicling the story of the Demeter, the doomed ship that was duped into bringing Dracula to England. Screenwriters Bragi Schut Jr. and Zak Olkewicz expanded on that chapter and turned it into a standalone feature film, The Last Voyage of the Demeter , which was directed by André Øvredal.

How does The Last Voyage of the Demeter end?

What comes next for dracula.

In this film, Dracula (Javier Botet) is about as far from a romantic figure as you can get, and there will be no kissing for this Lord of the Vampires. At no point in the movie does Dracula even remotely resemble a normal human being. Instead, he is evil incarnate who feeds on the crew and their livestock without any regard for them. Dracula might have remained undiscovered if Anna (Aisling Franciosi) had not been found by Clemens (Corey Hawkins), the new doctor on the Demeter. Because Dracula had been using Anna as his unwilling source of blood, he quickly finds new sources of nourishment.

Hawkins previously starred in The Walking Dead , while Franciosi had a small but pivotal role on Game of Thrones as Ned Stark’s late sister and Jon Snow’s mother, Lyanna Stark. Another Game of Thrones veteran, Liam Cunningham, plays Captain Elliot, while The Suicide Squad ‘s David Dastmalchian portrays Elliot’s first mate, Wojchek. The rest of the cast includes Woody Norman as Toby, Jon Jon Briones as Joseph, Stefan Kapičić as Olgaren, Nikolai Nikolaeff as Petrofsky, Martin Furulund as Larsen, Chris Walley as Abrams, and Nicolo Pasetti as Deputy Hirsch.

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Now, we’ll tell you about the ending of The Last Voyage of the Demeter and what it means for the events that take place after the movie.

Warning: the rest of this post contains spoilers for The Last Voyage of the Demeter .

The ending of this movie was never in doubt. After all, it is called The Last Voyage of the Demeter , and the opening moments of the film show the wreck of the ship and the alarmed reactions of the authorities before flashing back to four weeks earlier. Judging from the way the crew treated the Demeter, it was a fine ship before Dracula came along. But his presence ensured that the Demeter’s voyage to England was a one-way trip.

By the time the remaining crew of the Demeter realizes that Dracula must be stopped at all costs, there are far too few of them left. Clemens and Anna come up with the idea of using Anna as bait and trapping Dracula on the Demeter before they sink the vessel to the bottom of the sea. What they didn’t know is that Dracula has wings, and their plan may have been doomed from the start. Captain Elliot and Wojchek, give their lives in the effort, but Dracula is only briefly trapped before the Demeter runs aground in England.

Both Clemens and Anna manage to survive by jumping off of the ship and holding on to a piece of wreckage as it approaches the shore. Unfortunately, Anna reveals that while Clemens’ blood transfusions saved her life, they only prolonged her transformation into a vampire. Rather than allow herself to become like Dracula, Anna shares a farewell with Clemens and allows the morning sunlight to burn her to death.

With Dracula unleashed in England, the events of Stoker’s novel begin to unfold again …with one key difference. Clemens has also made it to shore, and he has made it his mission to destroy Dracula. Because of his earlier investigation into Dracula’s resting place, Clemens knows where Dracula intends to sleep during his stay in England. And at dawn, Clemens intends to put an end to Dracula’s evil once and for all.

If only it were that simple. In the film’s closing moments, Clemens is alarmed to see that Dracula is not only aware of his survival, the vampire toys with him in a crowded bar before escaping into the night. Regardless, Clemens is not deterred from his quest for revenge. And while Clemens does not encounter any of Dracula’s enemies from the novel, like Jonathan Harker or Abraham Van Helsing, it’s entirely possible that Clemens’ presence could change the events of Stoker’s story if a sequel materializes.

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‘The Last Voyage of the Demeter’ Review: A Dracula Movie That’s Intriguingly Old-Fashioned, Until Its Conventional Megaplex Demon Shows Up

André Øvredal adapts a section of Bram Stoker's "Dracula" into what feels like a sea-voyage studio drama from 1966. But his Gollum-with-teeth vampire is right out of the visual-effects factory.

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The Last Voyage of the Demeter

The film was adapted from the “Captain’s Log” section of Bram Stoker’s “Dracula,” which chronicles what happens after Dracula stows himself aboard the Demeter to travel to London. There are 50 shipping crates aboard, all shaped like coffins and filled with dirt. And Dracula haunts the vessel like the most spectral of demons — or, at least, he did in the novel, and in the shipboard sequence of “Nosferatu” (1922), where Max Schreck famously played the vampire as a skeletal nightmare zombie aristocrat with sticklike teeth and febrile eyes staring out of his bald rat’s head.

The strange thing about “The Last Voyage of the Demeter” is that the old-fashioned atmosphere goes right out the window whenever Dracula shows up. In this one, he’s a fast-moving goblin-like creature, with a devil’s head atop a spindly body, which makes him resemble a medieval stone gargoyle crossed with Gollum crossed with some razor-toothed animalistic demon out of a Jason Blum horror movie. He’s played by an actor (the creature specialist Javier Botet), but mostly he seems a product of the visual-effects department. There are shock cuts and savage montages as he rips into the throat of a crew member.

But “The Last Voyage of the Demeter” is strictly prose, and rather plodding prose at that. I appreciated the film’s willingness to take its time, but as Dracula knocks off one crew member after the next, we seem to be watching some rotely garish and not all that scary 19th-century version of “Alien,” or maybe “Mutiny on the Bounty” remade as a slasher film.

Most of the performances are corny enough to feel at home in a pirate movie. There’s the noble Old World captain (Liam Cunningham), the nasty Russian (Nikolai Nikoleff), the callow ladykiller (Chris Walley), the paranoid captain’s mate (David Dastmalchian), the addled chef (Jon Jon Briones), and the captain’s innocent young son (Woody Norman). But Corey Hawkins, who has the lead role of Clemens, a physician trained at Cambridge who’s been shut out of medicine because of his race, has a saturnine glare and a lithe quickness of mind the movie could have used more of. Clemens believes in science and nature; he’s in thrall to learning about the world. The presence of a vampire kind of messes with his view, and the drama, what there is of it, emerges from how the film makes this demonic intrusion feels unprecedented.

Clemens discovers a stowaway, Anna (Aisling Franciosi), who is catatonic with infection, and he uses infusions of his own blood to nurse her back to life. But she never completely recovers, and the other crew members keep showing up as clawed mincemeat. They might survive for a while, but then, instead of turning into vampires, each bitten person has a moment of spontaneous combustion, with embers rising out of their bodies to consume them. That’s the most poetic thing in the movie. The rest of the time, “The Last Voyage of the Demeter” is too explicit, too dawdling yet rapid-fire, too much like other horror films.

Reviewed at AMC Lincoln Square, Aug. 9, 2023. MPA Rating: R. Running time: 118 MIN.

  • Production: A Universal Pictures release of a DreamWorks Pictures, Reliance Entertainment, StoryWorks Production Ltd./Studio Babelsberg, Phoenix Pictures/Wise Owl Media production. Producers: Bradley J. Fischer, Mike Medavoy, Arnold W. Messer. Executive producers: Matthew Hirsch, Chris Bender, Anne Rodman, Jeb Brody.
  • Crew: Director: André Øvredal. Screenplay: Bragi Schut Jr., Zak Olkewicz. Camera: Tom Stern. Editor: Patrick Larsgaard. Music: Bear McCreary.
  • With: Corey Hawkins, Aisling Franciosi, Javier Botet, Liam Cunningham, David Dastmalchian, Jon Jon Briones, Stefan Kapicic, Nikolai Nikolaeff, Martin Furulund, Chris Walley, Woody Norman.

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The legend of Dracula is born. Watch the trailer for The Last Voyage of the Demeter now. The Last Voyage of the Demeter In Theaters August 11th http://demetermovie.com/ Facebook: https://uni.pictures/TLVOTDFB Instagram: https://uni.pictures/TLVOTDIG Twitter: https://uni.pictures/TLVOTDTW TikTok: https://uni.pictures/UniTikTok --- Based on a single chilling chapter from Bram Stoker’s classic novel Dracula, The Last Voyage of the Demeter tells the terrifying story of the merchant ship Demeter, which was chartered to carry private cargo—fifty unmarked wooden crates—from Carpathia to London. Strange events befall the doomed crew as they attempt to survive the ocean voyage, stalked each night by a merciless presence onboard the ship. When the Demeter finally arrives off the shores of England, it is a charred, derelict wreck. There is no trace of the crew. The film stars Corey Hawkins (In the Heights, Straight Outta Compton) as Clemens, a doctor who joins the Demeter crew, Aisling Franciosi (Game of Thrones, The Nightingale) as an unwitting stowaway, Liam Cunningham (Game of Thrones, Clash of the Titans) as the ship’s captain and David Dastmalchian (Dune, the Ant-Man franchise) as the Demeter’s first mate. The film also features Jon Jon Briones (Ratched, American Horror Story), Stefan Kapicic (Deadpool films, Better Call Saul), Nikolai Nikolaeff (Stranger Things, Bruised) and Javier Botet (It films, Mama). From DreamWorks Pictures and the producers of Zodiac and Black Swan, The Last Voyage of the Demeter is directed by Norwegian horror virtuoso André Øvredal (Scary Stories To Tell in the Dark, Trollhunter), from a script by Bragi F. Schut (Escape Room), Stefan Ruzowitzky (The Counterfeiters) and Zak Olkewicz (the upcoming Bullet Train), based on the chapter “The Captain’s Log” of Bram Stoker’s Dracula. The film is produced by Brad Fischer and by Oscar®-nominated producer Mike Medavoy and Arnold Messer for Phoenix Pictures and is executive produced by Matthew Hirsch.

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Last voyage of the demeter cast guide: who's who in the terrifying new high-seas dracula movie.

The new Dracula movie The Last Voyage of the Demeter boasts an exciting cast for the high-seas horror movie.

Warning! Contains spoilers for The Last Voyage Of The Demeter! The Last Voyage Of The Demeter cast lead the exciting new horror movie that brings Dracula back to the genre. Inspired by a brief section within Bram Stoker's novel of Dracula, the 2023 Dracula movie details a ship, the titular Demeter, making its voyage to London. However, unbeknownst to the crew, Dracula is being transported in a crate across the seas and wakes during the voyage to feast on the crew. It is an exciting setup for a horror movie that shakes up the vampire movie formula by bringing in elements of claustrophobic modern monster franchises like Alien , and The Last Voyage of the Demeter cast is a great ensemble that brings the tale to life.

With the name of Dracula iconic enough to guarantee an audience draw, The Last Voyage of the Demeter wisely avoids packing its ensemble with known names and A-listers and instead uses character actors and genre favorites to immerse the audience in this new horror story. There is a wide array of talents portraying the doomed cast of the Demeter, as well as an interesting new take on Dracula himself that, for many viewers and critics alike, has been the standout part of The Last Voyage of the Demeter cast.

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Corey Hawkins As Clemens

Clemens and Anna look on in fright in The Last Voyage of the Demeter

Corey Hawkins stars in The Last Voyage of the Demeter cast as Clemens. Clemens is a doctor joining the journey of the Demeter for passage from Carapathia to London. Clemens is a man interested in learning as much as he can about the world, and he has a natural heroic streak to him, wanting to help people in need. While the rest of the crew is consumed with fear and grief, Clemens leads the plan to stop Dracula. Even as the sole survivor of the Demeter, Clemens still vows to stop at nothing to kill the creature.

Outside of the Last Voyage Of The Demeter cast, Corey Hawkins is an American actor who first gained notoriety and attention for his performance as Dr. Dre in the music biopic of NWA Straight Outta Compton . Following his breakout role in that movie, Hawkins went on the join the cast of Kong: Skull Island and headlined the short-lived reboot of 24 . Hawkins also starred in the acclaimed musical In the Heights and Joel Coen's The Tragedy of Macbeth . He will next be seen in the musical The Color Purple and starring opposite Samuel L. Jackson and John David Washington in The Piano Lesson .

Aisling Franciosi As Anna

Aisling Franciosi in The Last Voyage of the Demeter

Aisling Franciosi joins The Last Voyage of the Demeter cast as Anna. Anna is a stowaway onboard the ship who is more aware of the danger they face than anyone. She is from the same village where Dracula's castle resides and was bitten by the vampire and used as a source of blood for the voyage. After Clemens seemingly saves her with a blood transfusion, Anna joins him, in attempting to kill Dracula. Unfortunately, she has already begun to turn into a vampire and accepts her fate by being burned in the sunlight as the ship reaches shore.

Aisling Franciosi is an Italian-Irish actor whose breakthrough role was headlining the acclaimed horror movie The Nightingale . She also appeared as Lyanna Stark on Game of Thrones with the flashback sequences revealing the secret about Jon Snow being a Targaryen . She will next headline the biography movie Rothko also starring Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Russell Crowe.

Liam Cunningham As Captain Eliot

The captain looks on in concern in The Last Voyage of the Demeter

Liam Cunningham's The Last Voyage of the Demeter is Captain Eliot who is captain of the titular ship. As in Bram Stoker's Dracula , the captain's journal is the evidence of the massacre onboard the ship. Eliot is a rational leader who cares about the safety of his crew. But the loss of his grandson at the hands of Dracula causes him to be overcome with grief. While he pulls himself together for the last stand against Dracula, Eliot is killed.

Liam Cunningham is one of the most recognizable faces in The Last Voyage of the Demeter cast. The Irish actor is best known for playing Davos Seaworth, one of Jon Snow's closest allies on Game of Thrones after being introduced in season 2. Cunningham's career is filled with a variety of different roles with movies like Alfonso Cuarón's A Little Princess , The Guard opposite Brendan Gleeson and Don Cheadle, and the horror cult hit Dog Soldiers . He will next be seen reuniting with Game of Thrones creators D.B. Wiess and David Benioff in Three-Body Problem .

David Dastmalchian As Wojchek

David Dastmalchian looks on in The Last Voyage of the Demeter

David Dastmalchian stars as Wojchek in The Last Voyage of the Demeter cast. Wojchek is the first mate to Captain Eliot onboard the Demeter. Something of a minor antagonist at points throughout The Last Voyage of the Demeter, Wojchek is a dark and untrusting person who has a great connection to the ship as he sees it as his home. Though he helps the other heroes fight against Dracula in the climax, he is killed in the process.

Another somewhat more recognizable name in the The Last Voyage of the Demeter cast, David Dastmalchian is an American actor who gained a lot of notice for his memorable role as one of The Joker's followers in Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight . He then went on to be a fixture in the superhero genre, playing Kurt in the MCU's Ant-Man movies as well as starring as Polka-Dot Man in The Suicide Squad . Dastmalchian has worked with Denis Villeneuve on Prisoners , Blade Runner 2049 , and Dune . He also recently reteamed with Nolan as part of the star-studded cast of Oppenheimer .

Javier Botet As Dracula

Dracula looms in the darkness in The Last Voyage of the Demeter

Javier Botet joins The Last Voyage of the Demeter as Dracula. There have been many different actors who have played Dracula over the years, but while the likes of Bela Lugosi and Gary Oldman have played him as something of a seductive gentleman, Botet's take of the iconic character is more monstrous and only speaks once during the movie. The ending of The Last Voyage of the Demeter sees Dracula has arrived in England and disguised himself as a human.

Fast becoming a staple of modern horror movies, Javier Botet is a Spanish actor who has a lot of experience playing monsters on screen. His tall stature of 6 feet 7 inches and slender frame have led him to play The Crooked Man in The Conjuring 2 , the distended "Hobo" in It , and Niña Medeiros in the [REC] movies.

The Last Voyage Of The Demeter Supporting Cast

The wheel of the Demeter from The Last Voyage of the Demeter

Woody Norman as Toby: Toby is the young grandson of Captain Eliot who forms an early bond with Clemens. Unfortunately, in the movie's darkest moment, the young boy is bitten by Dracula and burns in the sunlight as his body is being buried at sea. Norman is a relative newcomer who found his breakthrough role in the drama C'mon C'mon opposite Joaquin Phoenix. He was recently in the horror movie Cobweb and will next be seen opposite Chris Pratt and Millie Bobby Brown in The Electric State .

Stefan Kapičić as Olgaren: Olgaren is the only victim of Dracula to be spared and gradually turns into a vampire himself, eventually burning in the sunlight after being tied to the ship's mast. Kapičić is a German actor who is perhaps best known for providing the voice of Colossus in Deadpool . He also appeared in Better Call Saul as Caspar, a member of Werner Ziegler's construction crew. He is confirmed to return as Colossus in Deadpool 3 .

Nikolai Nikolaeff as Petrofsky: Petrofsky is a hostile member of the crew who picks a fight with Clemens early on but gets his comeuppance as Dracula's first human victim on the ship. Nikolaeff is an Australian actor who has appeared in smaller roles in a number of high-profile television shows, including Daredevil , Fargo , and Stranger Things .

Jon Jon Briones As Joseph: Joseph is a crew member overcome with fear who attempts to leave his shipmates behind by stealing a lifeboat only to be killed when Dracula flies after him and kills him. Briones is a Filipino actor and singer who has appeared in several of Ryan Murphy's projects like Ratchet , An American Horror Story , and An American Crime Story . He recently starred alongside Brian Tyree Henry and Kate Mara in the series Class of 09 .

Martin Furulund as Larsen: Larsen is another part of the Demeter crew who is brutally killed by Dracula following the death of Petrofsky. Furulund is a Norwegian actor who has appeared in some standout dark comedies from his homeland, including Headhunters with Nikolaj Coster-Waldau and In Order of Disappearance starring Stellan Skarsgard.

Chris Walley as Abrams: Abrams is another crew member who is killed by Dracula in the climax of The Last Voyage of the Demeter . Walley is an Irish actor who starred in the cult movie Young Offenders and its television spinoff. He has also appeared in Sam Mendes' Oscar-winning war movie 1917 .

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Director Andre Ovredal and Javier Botet as Nosferatu on the set of The Last Voyage of the Demeter.

André Øvredal ’s The Last Voyage of the Demeter may be based on one chapter of Bram Stoker’s Dracula , but the film has had many chapters in its 25-year development saga.

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Guillermo del Toro was also once attached to the project, and when his schedule became an issue, he quickly recommended Øvredal as his replacement. Del Toro had just produced Øvredal’s Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (2019), so the two filmmakers had some early discussions about the project before setting sail.

“I had great conversations with him at the beginning, before we got off the ground, and they were extremely helpful,” Øvredal tells The Hollywood Reporter . “I learned so much from working with him on Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark that I was already inside his mind to the degree that I can be.”

Javier Botet, one of the world’s preeminent creature performers, also worked with Øvredal and del Toro on Scary Stories , and he took on the storied role of Dracula in Demeter . Øvredal kept Woody Norman’s young character separated from Botet’s character in order to capture the former’s real surprise during a dramatic scene in the film. Norman, who was already coming off of another disturbing movie in Cobweb , very much wanted the immersive experience.

“Woody hadn’t seen him yet, so we started recording to get his first reaction as Javier came in from the darkness. And he really had a wonderful reaction,” Øvredal says. “You can tell from his eyes that he’s seeing something that he had never seen before, so that was very deliberate.”

Below, during a recent chat with THR , Øvredal also discusses how a potential sequel would have to differ from the source material.

Well, I’m not gonna take any credit for that. I was just a lucky director who happened to be there when the producers and the studio got it into production. They have obviously worked with several super-talented filmmakers over the years, and I was just glad that everything finally came together. Every movie is a miracle to get off the ground, especially a movie like this. It’s set on a ship, it’s a period piece, it needs the right financing structure and it needs the right people behind it on every level. So it just happened to be on my watch, and I’m very lucky. 

With so many different drafts of the script, did you just focus on the most recent one?

I was sent a draft that was more or less the latest one. It was the one that Amblin had optioned. And later, when I started talking with Bragi [Schut Jr.], the original writer, he sent me a very early draft from his childhood. ( Laughs .) So that was great to read, and it had a lot of the same things. So, even though the script has evolved, it still retained his original vision throughout the process. And even with the draft that [co-writer] Zak Olkewicz wrote while I was working on it with him, it’s still the same story even after that draft. 

Before you saw the script, were you skeptical that a 33-page chapter from Bram Stoker’s Dracula could be enough to furnish a two-hour feature film?

Not really. You have the characters, you have the setting, you have Dracula and you have the time to introduce this crew. There’s a lot of stuff to mine, and you want to build the dread and the tension slowly through the movie, as everything starts creeping up on the crew. So there’s definitely a lot of material there, and it was an exciting read. It was one wonderful set piece after another, and the characters were really affecting. So I never really thought of it that way.

Your movie is contained to a ship and each character loses their mind a little bit. Did your cast and crew also feel a bit of cabin fever in such a contained environment for 18 hours a day?

The movie actually takes place during the same time of year that we’re in right now: late July to early August. Did that factor into your release date at all? 

It humorously landed there, but that was a date that Universal suggested to us. Early on, we had a January date, but that was just a placeholder. And then we discussed with them where we actually wanted the movie to be, and it became August 11. And it was like, “That’s perfect, because that’s when the story actually happens.” So it’s been fun to see people commenting online about that.

Guillermo del Toro was once attached to some degree, and being a big fan and former collaborator of yours, he recommended you for the job. Did he serve as a sounding board during production or post?

No, unfortunately. He was so busy with two other movies throughout my process with Demeter . He was working on Nightmare Alley at the same time as we were prepping this, and then he was working on Pinocchio . But I had great conversations with him at the beginning, before we got off the ground, and they were extremely helpful. I learned so much from working with him on Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark that I was already inside his mind to the degree that I can be. I learned so much about the precision of storytelling and how to view a movie from top to bottom, and the way he thinks is extraordinary.

Somewhat, yeah. We did leave a little bit of surprise. We did it specifically with Woody [Norman] when we were about to shoot their first scene together. It’s when Toby sees Dracula for the first time and when he [spoiler] … ( Laughs .) Woody hadn’t seen him yet, so we started recording to get his first reaction as Javier came in from the darkness. And he really had a wonderful reaction. You can tell from his eyes that he’s seeing something that he had never seen before, so that was very deliberate. And it was actually something that Woody really wanted. He didn’t want to see him before we actually shot the scene, and it was a great game.

With so many different versions of Dracula, how did you decide on the look of your iteration? 

The movie ends in a place where people are going to want to see what happens next, especially since there’s a variation from the book. Have you talked at all about what the next chapter would be? 

Yeah, we’ve been humorously discussing whether this movie can keep going. Our title, The Last Voyage of the Demeter , obviously kind of ends it, but the whole idea was to be as truthful to the original source material as possible and still create our own story. But if you wanted to do a sequel, you would actually have to do a revisionist tale, because what happens at the end of the movie does not entirely match up with the book. So you’d have to go a completely different route, and that would be intriguing. So if you were making a sequel, you would probably want to follow the basic trajectory of the book, while adding in some new elements.

I also noticed you thanked Radiohead’s Thom Yorke in the credits. Did he contribute in some way, shape or form?

He just consulted briefly on the score and the soundscape, but that was it, really.

Decades from now, when you’re reminiscing about the making of The Last Voyage of the Demeter , what day will you likely recall first? 

*** The Last Voyage of the Demeter is now playing in movie theaters. This interview was edited for length and clarity .

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This piece was written during the 2023 WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes. Without the labor of the writers and actors currently on strike, the movie being reviewed here wouldn't exist. This article also contains spoilers for "The Last Voyage of the Demeter."

When Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley published her novel "Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus" in 1818, she kicked off genre fiction as we still know it to this day. She also captured the zeitgeist of that time period in regard to humanity's scientific study and technical progress, observing a relationship between the known and unknown where infinite possibilities lay, possibilities that carry with them a mixed sensation of wonder and fear.

79 years later, Bram Stoker captured a bit of that same vibe again, with his horror novel "Dracula." Taking a collection of various myths and folklore that had persevered through the ages and combining them with the deeds (embellished or not) of infamous historical figures like Vlad the Impaler and Elizabeth Bathory, Stoker created the most well-known example of the fictional vampire. Like "Frankenstein," "Dracula" is seemingly an eternally malleable creation; not only have there been numerous works of art inspired by the character and the book, but there are also nearly as many direct adaptations of the character and Stoker's novel, each with their own unique tones, themes, allegories and so on.

One of the core themes seen in most adaptations of "Dracula" is the way the titular vampire is able to achieve his goals thanks to exploiting human weaknesses: the superstitious are too fearful and easily dismissed by the "civilized" intellectuals, themselves easily manipulated into believing vampires aren't real. In adapting a single chapter of "Dracula," "The Last Voyage of the Demeter" ( read our review here ) captures this conflict in miniature, using the pressure-cooker single location of the doomed vessel to make its characters confront the reality of Dracula, recognizing him as a threat only too late.

Like any good horror film, "The Last Voyage of the Demeter" presents its characters with numerous warnings and omens that go foolishly unheeded. The movie even goes one further than that, presenting the audience with ill tidings by opening on August 6, 1897, when the destroyed and deserted ship Demeter is found crashed on the shore near the seaside town of Whitby, England. As the shaken men who discover the ship and the captain's logbook come to realize, there are no survivors.

Flashing back to July 6, 1897, we're introduced to Captain Eliot (Liam Cunningham) and his first mate, Wojchek (David Dastmalchian), as they attempt to crew up the Demeter for what Eliot intends to be his final journey. Clemens (Corey Hawkins), a doctor in desperate need of work, is itinerant, his status as an educated Black man meaning that bigots refuse his services. Wojchek refuses him for the ship's duty, dismissing him as simultaneously over- and under-qualified. Yet one of the men the first mate chooses instead almost kills Eliot's young son, the cabin boy Toby (Woody Norman), when he drops a large wooden crate after seeing a symbol of a dragon stamped on it.

Eliot and Wojchek dismiss the image as hysterical superstition and hire Clemens to replace the frightened man. They make no connection between the man's reaction to the symbol (which appears to be the mark of the Order of the Dragon ), nor the way the Transylvanian villagers refuse to load the crates marked with that symbol onboard the Demeter, paying Wojchek a large sum of money ("More than I paid for them to bring it here," the first mate remarks) for the ship's men instead. The Demeter sets sail with the crates intact, blissfully unaware of what the cargo really holds.

That all changes one night during the voyage when Clemens discovers that some of the crates in the cargo hold have been displaced and tampered with. In a pile of dirt, he finds the body of Anna (Aisling Franciosi), a young woman at death's door due to, as Clemens diagnoses it, a blood disease. At the same time, the crew begins finding strange happenings about the ship, most alarmingly the graphic deaths of their livestock and the ship's dog, Huck. Captain Eliot puts forth a theory that these animals are victims of a viral malady passed by bite wounds, an idea that Clemens can't easily swallow. As the doctor reveals during a meal, his major interest in life lies in making sense of the unknown, a quality that doesn't allow him to readily accept such easy explanations.

The male crew members have a different explanation for the occurrences: the presence of Anna on board as a stowaway and a woman brings superstitious bad luck on both counts. As Clemens continues to administer blood transfusions to Anna, nursing her back to health, the woman eventually regains consciousness and explains that her being on board is indeed bad luck, but not in the way the crew thinks.

She reveals that the vampire known as Dracula (Javier Botet) has been smuggled onto the ship in one of those crates filled with soil, and his ultimate destination is Carfax Abbey, in London. The reason for his voyage is that he must go someplace where his potential victims do not know of him or the danger he poses; Anna's villagers not only know how to avoid him, they know how to appease him, having chosen Anna and others like her as live sacrifices, thereby turning them into living blood bags.

Toby or not Toby

Even when faced with the uncomfortable reality of Dracula being on their boat, the crew of the Demeter attempt to treat the problem as they would if any wild animal had gotten on board. What they fail to realize, of course, is that Dracula is neither man nor beast, a being who isn't just following his nature but also his desire. He is, in no uncertain terms, Evil with a capital "E."

The men of the Demeter learn this lesson the hard way, especially when the sailor Olgaren (Stefan Kapičić) is attacked by Drac during the vamp's nightly hunt, but doesn't die right away. Clemens discovers that transfusing Olgaren won't work, and the man reawakens the following night, immediately attacking Toby. When the rest of the crew rush to Toby's aid, subduing Olgaren, they fail to realize that Dracula has found his way to the boy instead, feeding on the youth while the men watch helplessly.

The crew is further traumatized when Olgaren, tied to the ship's mast, is incinerated by the rising of the sun and burned to a crisp. Clemens, finally beginning to come around to believing Anna's story, insists that Toby cannot be saved, arranging for a burial at sea. A distraught Eliot refuses to let his men toss Toby overboard, and the boy, now a vampire, attacks the captain in broad daylight, making his demise a scarring event in more ways than one. By this point, it's apparent that director Andre Øvredal is not going to pull any punches with this story, certainly not for matters of taste or morality.

Facing the unknown

The systematic attacks by Dracula as well as the step-by-step discovery of his abilities serve several purposes: for one thing, it gives the film a slasher-like structure where Dracula dispatches one victim at a time in various grisly ways (a quality that emulates Ridley Scott's "Alien"). For another, it slowly leads Clemens and his compatriots down a path of understanding and, eventually, acceptance that such a thing as a vampire is real. There's also a third reason, perhaps the most insidious of all: as Anna points out, Dracula isn't merely toying with the humans — he's rationing them.

Armed with the knowledge that Dracula intends to wipe out every last person on the Demeter and that his arrival in London means the certain deaths of countless other victims, Clemens rallies the remaining survivors to attempt to ambush Dracula as well as ensure the Demeter does not reach port by sinking it. Wojchek, who was to be made Captain by Eliot after this voyage, refuses that last point at first. Yet Clemens, who by now has begun to accept the potential truth within superstition and the supernatural, reminds him that a ship survives not within the literal wood it's made from, but within the people who were part of it.

Clemens, Anna, and the other survivors do their best, but Dracula proves to be a formidable foe. Clemens even attempts to diminish some of Dracula's power, declaring that although he admits he does not understand how the vampire exists, he does not fear him, to which Dracula chillingly replies: "You will." Fortunately, Anna and Clemens are able to distract Dracula long enough to pin him to the ship's mast while they flee into the ocean, and the Demeter reaches its final destination as it crashes ashore.

One last sunrise

Of course, Dracula is not so easily defeated: as soon as the Demeter stops moving, the vampire is able to triumphantly free himself from the ship (in a moment that recalls one of the film's other inspirations, F.W. Murnau's "Nosferatu" ). Meanwhile, Clemens and Anna are left floating on some stray pieces of wood a mile or so offshore, and Clemens makes the tragic discovery that Anna has indeed been infected with vampirism.

That doesn't mean the woman has lost her humanity, however: in her final act of defiance, Anna refuses to succumb to Dracula's influence over her, rejecting her thirst for blood and instead choosing to meet the sunrise one last time. As Anna burns, the moment seems to recall the tragedy of "Rogue One: A Star Wars Story," itself a movie that functions in a similar fashion to "Demeter," telling a story that fills in a previously blank bit of lore.

Vampire hunter D (for Doctor)

The final moments of "The Last Voyage of the Demeter" are the most surprising: Øvredal, along with writers Bragi F. Schut and Zak Olkewicz, excitingly break the rules the film seemed to establish. To wit: the Demeter is not canonically supposed to have any survivors (save Dracula, of course), and yet Clemens still lives after his ordeal.

In much the same way culture was never the same after the publications of "Frankenstein" and "Dracula," Clemens is a changed man, a scholar and intellectual who nonetheless concedes the existence (or at least potential existence) of the supernatural. In honoring his fallen shipmates and the woman who refused to be given to the creature, he's now made it his mission to hunt Dracula down in London.

Earlier in the film, Anna explains how Dracula can take the shape of a man, and most adaptations of "Dracula" take this literally, having him appear as human as anyone. In a nod to both "Nosferatu" as well as Tobe Hooper's adaptation of Stephen King's "Salem's Lot," this Dracula does not make himself look human so much as camouflage himself in order to blend in with humans, making him a bit like the mutated cockroaches in Guillermo Del Toro's "Mimic." It's a perfect encapsulation of the film's take on Dracula and vampires in general, allowing the relationship between the supernatural and the natural to be uncomfortably close, and not going so far as to take magical shortcuts.

Dracula remixed?

While "The Last Voyage of the Demeter" is a pleasingly nasty, single-minded horror film, it leaves a lot of room for the future should the movie be successful. In other words, this is not like "Rogue One" insofar as it's meant to fit seamlessly into the canon of another adaptation of "Dracula" — instead, it's its own adaptation of Stoker's novel, just exclusively focusing on the one chapter that is often neglected or glossed over.

With that in place, there's the explicit possibility that a sequel could continue the "Dracula" story with this new character of Clemens continuing on, causing further ripple effects in the adaptation. Would this last survivor of the Demeter effectively replace vampire hunter Abraham Van Helsing, or join him on his quest? If this film is the "Alien" of "Dracula" adaptations, might Clemens next find himself in an "Aliens" situation, forced to face his nemesis in increased numbers for a second round? What is that stylish cane that Dracula sports, the one with a silver wolf's head — isn't it remarkably similar to the one owned by Sir John Talbot in 1941's "The Wolf Man?" Is Universal attempting to restart their "Dark Universe" of Monsters?

Whatever happens, it's clear that "The Last Voyage of the Demeter" is as good an example as any that the "Dracula" novel is one of the most enduring and endlessly fascinating stories ever written, one that isn't — and needn't be — told the same way twice.

André Øvredal on How Dracula Evolves Throughout 'The Last Voyage of the Demeter'

Øvredal made sure Javier Botet's Dracula was methodically unveiled from the shadows as the film ramps up.

The Big Picture

  • The Last Voyage of the Demeter offers a fresh take on Dracula, showing him in a beastly form as he preys on the ship's crew in a gruesome fashion.
  • Director André Øvredal aimed for a gradual reveal of Dracula, allowing the audience to see him evolve alongside the crew.
  • Javier Botet's portrayal of Dracula adds to the character's creepiness, with his excellent performance lending an unsettling quality to the vampire.

Few monsters of horror legend have quite as long a shadow as Dracula. First introduced in Bram Stoker 's legendary novel, the titular count has become the archetypal vampire, appearing sophisticated, manipulative, and, of course, bloodthirsty. In The Last Voyage of the Demeter , however, audiences will witness Dracula as he's never appeared before — slinking through the shadows of the Russian ship en route to London and ripping through every crew member in a beastly form. Speaking to Collider's Perri Nemiroff , director André Øvredal explained how the vampire evolves throughout the film as the crew and the viewers learn more about the creature prowling the ship.

The Last Voyage of the Demeter is based on a single chapter within Stoker's original novel in which Dracula boards the merchant ship Demeter from Carpathia to London, leaving it without any crew members save for the captain by the time it arrives in port. With the film, the terrifying reality for the crew as the unholy creature kills them one by one in a gruesome fashion is finally confronted. Showing just how far removed this is from the typical Dracula viewers know, it's been described as an Alien -like film where the creature slowly creeps out of the darkness and reveals more of itself as the agonizing journey continues.

Øvredal's goal was for that gradual reveal of Dracula to feel like an evolution as everyone within the film and without becoming more familiar with how it looks and how it attacks. Writing the reveals to fit the script was crucial for him to ensure the pace feels right when watching the creature at work :

"The mystery of the look of Dracula is obviously a huge thing that, when you're sitting watching the movie, you're supposed to feel evolution. I'm very much about working with the dramatic effect of discovery and therefore, the creature, which you are discovering in this movie, the evolution of the creature, is the biggest one. So, in the beginning you need to kind of keep him in the shadows. I mean, you know. You kind of need to keep him in the shadows, and as he evolves, as the creature evolves, you can bring him more and more out. You gotta just go by a gut feeling, but at the same time, you're also breaking down the script. You're also putting together all the scenes that are with Dracula and trying to analyze, 'Is this evolution working when you go from here? Now it's 10 minutes later. Now it's three minutes later. When we see him now, what have we learned? What have we not learned?' It is also a scientific process."

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Dracula Is Made All the Creepier Thanks to the Actor Behind It

Of course, it certainly helps when Javier Botet is the man behind the monster. Botet has built a reputation for his excellent character acting as nightmarish horror creatures like the Crooked Man from The Conjuring 2 , KeyFace from Insidious: The Last Key , and the Slender Man from the ill-fated film based on the internet sensation. He's even been a Xenomorph before in Alien: Covenant . A recent featurette dove into how Botet became Dracula through the use of some gnarly prosthetics and make-up, but much of the beast's twitchy, uncanny nature is due to the actor's excellent performance, giving Dracula a "feral" feel as he sought the crew's blood.

The rest of the cast of The Demeter is stout too with Corey Hawkins leading the group as Clemens, a doctor who joins the crew of the cursed ship. Also on board are Aisling Franciosi , Liam Cunningham , David Dastmalchian , Jon Briones , Stefan Kapičić , Nikolai Nikolaeff , Woody Norman , Martin Furulund , Chris Walley , and Nicolo Pasetti .

The Last Voyage of the Demeter is now playing in theaters. Check out the trailer below and don't miss our full interview with Øvredal .

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The Last Voyage Of The Demeter: Ending, Explained

The tale of a Russian schooner ferrying Dracula across the open sea takes a couple of interesting twists and turns.

In these uncertain times, no ending can be considered final. Stories thought to be over get sequels thirty years later, and even the most contained narrative will be seen as a franchise opportunity. The Last Voyage of the Demeter tells a claustrophobic tale of horror on the high seas. Some critics saw its ending as a backdoor tease for a potential cinematic universe. Do those accusations have merit?

The Last Voyage of the Demeter is an adaptation of a single chapter from Bram Stoker's classic novel Dracula . The book's narrative is told through letters and scraps of in-universe literature. The seventh chapter is a clever horror short story buried in the battle against the vampire. The Captain's Log has little impact on the rest of the novel, but it's a perfect standalone experience.

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What is The Last Voyage Of The Demeter about?

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On a stormy night off the coast of England, the brutal waves drag a disheveled schooner to the shore. When officials come to investigate the vessel, they find a mess of corpses and viscera. There are no survivors. The first man to step aboard is traumatized but leaves holding the captain's log. The film's story is told through its text. Captain Elliot of the Demeter arrives in Romania, where he needs to hire strong sailors for a treacherous quest. He and his men are offered an exorbitant sum to ferry fifty unmarked crates from Romania to London, with a bonus to be paid for beating the clock. Elliot and his first mate Wojchek meet Clemens, a doctor they initially underestimate. The strange men who unload the Demeter's charges scare off one of Wojchek's other hires, and Clemens saves the captain's grandson Toby from a falling crate, so Clemens is invited aboard.

Clemens joins the crew of the Demeter as they shove off. The voyage seems uneventful initially, but strange occurrences swiftly terrify the men. Clemens discovers a woman in the cargo deck. She seems to be ill, but Clemens' routine blood transfusions gradually bring her back to life. The other crew members see the stowaway, Anna, as a bad omen. The ship's livestock and Toby's beloved hound turn up dead. Each animal sports a tremendous bite wound on its neck. The next night, a crew member disappears. Another sailor dies the following evening. The realization hits the crew at different times and in different ways. Clemens remains skeptical. When Anna finally wakes up, she explains that a nightmarish monster called Dracula is aboard the Demeter.

As the crew realizes they're being picked off, they choose different strategies. Most are unwilling to risk the bonus to return to port. Clemens remains unsure of the evil aboard. Anna tries to warn her new friends. She's covered in similar bite marks. She explains that Dracula has kept her home village under his heel for generations. Olgaren, a member of the crew, identifies the threat immediately. Dracula has already killed several of his friends. When he tries to evade the vampire, he is left alive and tied up in the ship's rigging. After Olgaren awakens from his injuries, his eyes roll back into his skull, and he becomes a mindless zombie. The sailors drag him outside and tie him to the mast. When the sun rises, he burns to death. Most of the Demeter's crew is dead. The survivors can no longer ignore the threat.

How does The Last Voyage Of The Demeter end?

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After Olgaren is dragged away, Dracula attacks young Toby . The crew tries to save him, but they're too late. Elliot collapses after Toby's injury, blindly convincing himself that his grandson must survive. Wojchek and Clemens decide that the boy must be put out of his misery. As they prepare to push him into the sea, Elliot swears he notices Toby move. The captain moves the shroud, exposing Toby's body to sunlight. He bursts into flames, burning Elliot's face as he drops into the sea. The loss is devastating, leaving only Elliot, Wojchek, Clemens, and Anna alive. The ship's chef, Joseph, escapes in a lifeboat, only to be killed by Dracula. As the boat returns unoccupied, the remaining crew members formulate a plan.

Clemens proposes drawing Dracula into the open before sinking the vessel and escaping in the lifeboat. Wojchek and Elliot are infuriated, arguing that the Demeter is their home. The captain and first mate volunteer to go down with the ship. The Demeter is a day away from England. Anna realizes that the vampire has been rationing the crew members, and with only one night left, they're all on the menu. Dracula emerges, and a fight breaks out. Wojchek dies as Dracula reveals his massive wings. Elliot ties himself to the wheel, fixing their course with his body. Clemens is dragged up the mast by Dracula. Anna sends half of the towering structure into Dracula's body, pinning him to the Demeter. The cargo hold is filling with water as they leap into the ocean.

Anna and Clemens escape Dracula, but the Demeter still reaches London. Concerned lighthouse keepers guide the vessel in. Dracula leaves the ship and disappears into the city. Anna and Clemens float on wreckage toward the shore. Anna reveals that she's infected and chooses to die on her terms. Clemens reaches London with a new purpose. He uses the documents in the cargo to find Dracula and swears to devote his life to finding the monster in disguise.

If there is to be a sequel to The Last Voyage of the Demeter , it will follow Clemens as he pursues Dracula. This aspect of the story isn't in the book. It would be entirely new material. It isn't out of the question, but adding to the miserable conclusion of the chapter changes the tone. The Last Voyage of the Demeter is exactly the contained horror story fans expected, but the last five minutes are a surprise.

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The Last Voyage of the Demeter is Basically Alien, Just Set in the 1800's on a Ship

Nothing wrong with wanting to pay tribute to the greats.

(from left) Nosferatu (Javier Botet) and Clemens (Corey Hawkins) in The Last Voyage of the Demeter (2023)

When Steven Spielberg 's company is producing your movie, you've basically got a blank check to ape the master.

Recently sitting down with Universal Pictures to discuss The Last Voyage of the Demeter (in theaters everywhere Aug. 11), director André Øvredal explained how Spielberg's treatment of horrific material inspired the  Dracula  project.

How Steven Spielberg and David Fincher Inspired The Last Voyage of the Demeter

"Even in the most suspenseful moments, they have such warmth," said the filmmaker behind such spine-tingling titles as  The Autopsy of Jane Doe and Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark . "I think the humanity always comes through, regardless of the spectacle. And I think that’s been an influence."

Øvredal also cited David Fincher's "stark, cold, very clean visual style" as a major source of inspiration. "I love the classical use of camera, the classical use of light and the whole nine yards," he added.

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Ridley Scott's Alien Was The Rubric For  The Last Voyage of the Demeter

Based on a single chapter in Bram Stoker's seminal vampire novel, The  Last Voyage of the  Demeter follows the crew and passengers of a humble merchant vessel sailing from Transylvania to London on a routine cargo run...or so they think.

Skulking aboard the ship, picking off characters one by one, is a centuries-old monster desperate for fresh human blood to sustain its insatiable hunger. Of course, the limited and claustrophobic setting, paired with the inclusion of an unstoppable creature that only knows how to kill, harkens back to a Ridley Scott classic .

“It was really an Alien -style story set on the ocean in 1897, with Dracula instead of the alien monster,” Øvredal states in the official production notes. "I was captivated by all the characters onboard. They felt like a real crew of people who are there to do their job, and the mystery deepened as the story unfolded. I really loved the contained nature of the film, where we’re out at sea on the ship, and they’re facing this enemy but they have no comprehension of what it is."

"Drawing inspiration from films like Alien , we used the concept of a confined setting as our narrative capsule,” adds producer Mike Medavoy. "In fact, my prior involvement with Alien during my time at United Artists, when Walter Hill was associated with the original script, made the concept of being confined to a single location with no escape resonate with me. In the case of Demeter , we have a devil aboard a ship, being transported to London to embark on a new life. Similar to Alien , the heart of the story lies in the gripping events that transpire on that vessel."

The Last Voyage of the Demeter swoops into theaters next Friday — Aug 11. Click here to sink your fangs into some tickets!

Want to satisfy your craving for undead fare in the meantime? Renfield and Vampire Academy are now streaming on Peacock. Looking ahead,  SYFY's Reginald the Vampire   is  set to return  later this year for a second season. 

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