One of the creepiest chapters of Bram Stoker’s Dracula is “The Captain’s Log” which tells the story of the merchant ship Demeter that sailed from Carpathia to London, not knowing that Dracula is aboard, hiding inside one of the 50 wooden crates it is carrying as cargo.
By the time the Demeter washes ashore, the crew is missing, and the captain is dead, tied to the wheel and clasping a crucifix.
The only thing that survives is the captain’s log, recording the deaths of his sailors and an eerie sighting of a “tall, thin man” — the monster Dracula.
The Last Voyage of the Demeter, directed by André Øvredal (Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark) adapts this terrifying chapter to film.
The Dracula we will see here is not the sophisticated aristocrat Gary Oldman portrayed in Francis Ford Coppola’s Bram Stoker’s Dracula, but the feral, bloodthirsty…
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