Stephen King and Guillermo del Toro Praise THE LAST VOYAGE OF THE DEMETER but It Sinks at the Box Office
This past weekend, I went out and watched the new Dracula-inspired horror film The Last Voyage of the Demeter. It’s a movie I was actually excited about seeing it, when I got to the theater, which is one of the most popular theaters in the Los Angeles area that is always crowded, there were only three other people in the theater, and that’s not a good sign.
The movie was a very fun horror movie, though! I enjoy it, and it reminded me of the kinds of older horror movies that I grew up watching. I dug the whole vibe of it and I loved the period setting. These days, these kinds of monster movies are being developed in a contemporary setting, which is boring to me.
But, audiences are still flocking to see Barbie and Oppenheimer, and The Last Voyage of the Demeter only made $6.5 million at the box office and it had a mid-size budget of $45 million. It’s a bummer that hardly anyone is seeing this movie! Stephen King and Guillermo del Toro both praised the film as well! Here are the X’s that they sent out:
If you’re a horror movie fan, this is a movie that you’ve got to see! Horror movies tend to do very well, so it’s weird that this one is bombing so hard at the box office. With these kinds of numbers, Hollywood is going to stop making these kinds of movies, and that makes me sad because these are the kinds of films that I want to see!
The movie was directed by André Øvredal (The Autopsy of Jane Doe, Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark) when he set out to make this movie, he wanted to bring audiences the scariest depiction of Dracula ever, and he might have succeeded in that. If you haven’t watched this movie yet, go see it!
The film’s story focuses on one chapter from Bram Stoker’s classic horror novel, it’s a unique story that follows the voyage of Dracula as he terrorizes on the high seas. It’s “based on a single chapter, The Captain’s Log, from Bram Stoker’s classic 1897 novel Dracula. The chapter tells the story of the Russian schooner, Demeter, which was chartered to carry private cargo – twenty four unmarked wooden crates – from Carpathia to London. The film will detail the strange events that befell the doomed crew as they attempt to survive the ocean voyage, stalked each night by a terrifying presence onboard the ship. When it finally arrived near Whitby Harbour, it was a derelict. There was no trace of the crew.”
The movie stars Corey Hawkins (Kong: Skull Island, The Walking Dead), Aisling Franciosi, Liam Cunningham, David Dastmalchian, Jon Jon Briones, Stefan Kapicic, and Nikolai Nikolaeff, with Javier Botet as Dracula.