Dracula has been dead and loving it for over 125 years.
The blood-sucking count has been adapted to screen in every conceivable way, and he shows no signs of stopping.
Earlier this year we got the legendary vampire in the form of Nicolas Cage in “Renfield.” He’s been Bela Lugosi, and Christopher Lee, and Frank Langella, and Udo Kier, and Gary Oldman, and — well, I could go on and on, until the sun comes up and turns me into dust.
Bram Stoker’s vampire captures our imagination; he’s sleek, seductive, and deadly.
He can woo and kill in equal measure.
We love Dracula, don’t we folks? That said, with so many Dracula movies out there, what else is there to do with the material? I mean, can anything come close to the dizzying, sophisticated highs of “Dracula 2000“?”The Last Voyage of the Demeter” takes a somewhat novel approach.
Rather than adapt Stoker’s entire epistolary novel,…
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