The Last Voyage of the Demeter has a clever central conceit and a capable director, but its nautical Dracula tale is undermined by a script that fails to commit. tracesauveur's review:
is a film that seemed to be fatally cursed. Writer Bragi Schut had a script written as far back as the early 2000s and, ever since, plans for production have consistently failed, with the property changing studio hands multiple times as various creative teams would onboard the film before later abandoning it. Directors David Slade and Neil Marshall; stars Ben Kingsley, Noomi Rapace, Viggo Mortensen and Jude Law—all were attached, and all left.
It starts with the rounding up of a crew for a special excursion to the British Isles for a mysterious client offering bonus pay for quick and safe passage across the treacherous waters. Captain Eliot and his mate Wojchek focus on gathering the roughest mariners they can find, save for one man named Clemens , hired on for his medical and navigational skills.
seemed to make him a prime fit for this type of bump-in-the-night horror. Here, he returns to the claustrophobia of his film, making another single-setting survive-the-night type of movie, but with the tangible, monstrous presence of Dracula stalking the ship as opposed to the ghostly haunting of a morgue.
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