Tag: Dracula
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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…
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‘Last Voyage of Demeter’ Images Bring a New Dracula to Life
Dracula is back and not in Renfield’s kind of campy, toxic way, but rather a very sinister way, in André Øvredal’s The Last Voyage of the Demeter. Based on a single chapter from the 1897 Bram Stoker novel Dracula, the movie seems as terrifying as its legendary monster. Universal has released new images from the…
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Post your questions for Jonathan Rhys Meyers
What’s it like to play Dracula? And Henry VIII and Elvis? And play tennis for Woody Allen? Only one man can say, and he’s waiting to tell all about his versatile careerJonathan Rhys Meyers has played everyone from Elvis (in 2005 miniseries Elvis) to Dracula (in 2013 TV series Dracula) and Henry VIII in The…
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Willem Dafoe in Talks to Reunite with Robert Eggers for ‘Nosferatu’
After working together on “The Lighthouse” and “The Northman,” Willem Dafoe and Robert Eggers are looking to team up for a third time. Dafoe is in talks to join Eggers’ next film, his previously announced “Nosferatu,” sources have told IndieWire.Inspired by the iconic 1922 German silent film from F.W. Murnau, which itself was based heavily…