Tag: Bram Stoker
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Every Failed Van Helsing Reboot, From Tom Cruise to Channing Tatum
Abraham Van Helsing was first introduced in Bram Stoker’s 1897 novel Dracula. Inevitably, the character made his way into the 1931 Universal feature Dracula, portrayed by Edward Van Sloan (who would reprise the role in Dracula‘s Daughter in 1936). In the original novel, Helsing’s presence is only requested by the main characters because of his…
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Will There Be a ‘Dracula Untold 2’?
While it seems like audiences are inundated with a new incarnation of Spider-Man or Batman nearly every year, there have been countless depictions of Bram Stoker’s iconic gothic vampire Dracula on the big screen. There are certainly quite a few genuine classics of the horror genre that have featured the character; F.W. Murnau’s 1922 masterwork…
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The Last Voyage Of The Demeter Is A Reminder That One-Location Horror Movies Freakin’ Rule
This post contains spoilers for “The Last Voyage of the Demeter.”Dracula might have been around for centuries as of the beginning of Bram Stoker’s “Dracula,” but the latest film featuring the undead vampire — “The Last Voyage of the Demeter” — represents something of a dying breed these days. Much will (and has) be written about the…
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The Last Voyage Of The Demeter Ending Explained: That Sinking Feeling
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…
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‘The Last Voyage of the Demeter’ Review: Dracula Has a Few Sailors for Dinner in This Watery Pile of Ship
André Øvredal’s “The Last Voyage of the Demeter” is technically adapted from the chapter from Bram Stoker’s “Dracula” in which the famous vampire ships himself to England while feasting on the crew, but this drab and generic piece of mid-August schlock might as well be based on a napkin where someone once wrote: “What if…
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The Disease That Javier Botet Lives With, And How It Became His Acting Superpower
In Bram Stoker’s 1897 novel “Dracula,” the titular Count travels from his remote castle in the Carpathian Mountains to a new home in England on a ship called the Demeter. He travels with multiple coffins filled with earth and is sealed in a coffin of his own. Weeks after departing, the Demeter drifts into Whitby…