‘We’re a doomed crew on a doomed ship,’ is a terse summary of the contents of André Øvredal’s The Last Journey of the Demeter; if you recognise something about that title, it’s probably because this handsome Dreamworks period-vampire film is based on a chapter of Bram Stoker’s Dracula, the one in which the Transylvanian vampire spends four weeks overpowering the sailors on the ship transporting him to England. That’s not a bad idea of a movie, and so it proves; Stephen King and Guillermo Del Toro voiced their approval for the bloody result, but it stiffed in the US and well over a year since its UK release was cancelled, The Last Voyage of the Demeter finally dribbles out on streaming…..
