The astute viewer might note The Last Voyage of the Demeter tells a piece of a story we already know the end to. The even more astute one might be aware of the types of loopholes movies like these can make to circumvent the obvious result. Now even if we all have a good idea how this movie will turn out, perhaps it could make something out of the in-between. Except it doesn't. Its probably the most action oriented Dracula we've seen but just as tedious as the worst of them. It had a chance to generate a claustrophobic tension like Carpenter's The Thing. Instead it just alternates from a night sequence of the creature leaping out to rip someone apart and in the day where everyone argues and does frankly nothing. We are also treated to the boringest host of characters you can imagine and scenes that seek to go above 'merely horror'-that are amusingly strained. The movie is completely inorganic, forced and flat.
Review of The Last Voyage of the Demeter
