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As those of you with a decent grasp of horror trivia already know, the Demeter was the ship whose ultimately doomed journey to deliver some especially dangerous cargo from Transylvania to London was chronicled in the seventh chapter of the Bram Stoker classic Dracula . Although this section, running 16 pages in my copy, contains some of the most evocative imagery in that sometimes clumsily written book, the whole episode is not that important to the narrative. It simply illustrates how the title character got from point A to B, and on the rare occasions when filmmakers have chosen to bring this story to the screen, the journey is either reduced to a brief montage or newspaper headline or ignored entirely. Now comes “The Last Voyage of the Demeter,” a feature-length expansion of those 16 pages that fully examines the strange occurrences aboard one of the most doomed sea journeys in literary history.

Upon hearing this movie's premise for the first time, I wasn’t entirely convinced it could work. This would be a film where practically every audience member would not only know exactly what the supernatural force at the center of the story is before the Universal logo hits the screen. But they would also—barring some unexpected deviation from the well-known narrative—know exactly how the on-screen events would play out. To me, it looked like just another attempt by Universal to introduce the character that played such a key role in the studio’s history to contemporary audiences following the misfired likes of “Dracula: Untold” and the recent and dreadful “ Renfield .” That may have been the case, but the results are a big step up from those previous stumbles, an often striking take on the tale that makes up for what it lacks in surprise with a lot of style and some undeniably effective scare moments.

Set in 1897, the film opens as the Demeter is about to set sail from Transylvania to London, carrying Captain Eliot ( Liam Cunningham ), loyal first mate Wojchek ( David Dastmalchian ), his grandson Toby ( Woody Norman ), and a small crew that grows even smaller when some of the locals recruited for the journey get skittish when they see that the cargo contains many large crates being sent by an unknown figure to Carfax Abbey in London. Among those recruited at the last second is Clemens ( Corey Hawkins ), who signs on as the ship’s doctor to get passage home to England. His expertise comes in handy when one of the boxes is accidentally opened, and an apparent stowaway ( Aisling Franciosi ) is discovered with a mysterious malady that requires numerous blood transfusions.

Soon, strange things begin happening on the ship. All the livestock on board and Toby’s beloved dog are slaughtered throughout one grisly evening. Sailors begin seeing and hearing odd things at night while on watch, and even the ship’s rats appear to have vanished, leading up to the deathless line, “A boat without rats—such a thing is against nature.” The members of the crew soon begin disappearing, driving the already skittish ones who remain further into paranoia that is not helped when the stowaway, whose name proves to be Anna, finally wakes up and informs Clemens and the others that to steal a line from Mel Brooks , yes, they have Nosferatu. As Dracula ( Javier Botet ) continues snacking through the ship, the rapidly dwindling survivors try to figure out how to stop him before they reach London.

The film was directed by André Øvredal , whose previous credits include such intriguing horror-related efforts as “ Trollhunter ,” “ The Autopsy of Jane Doe ,” and the underrated “ Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark .” This time, he is trying to figure out how to tell a story in which everyone in the audience will be ahead of the characters on the screen at virtually every given point. He accomplishes that primarily by focusing heavily on visual style, creating a moody and haunted atmosphere throughout—even during the scenes set in the daytime—that is both eerily beautiful and just plain eerie. "The Last Voyage of the Demeter" is one of the better-looking horror films to come along in a while. The cat-and-mouse games between Dracula and the crew are staged in a manner that suggests a seafaring variation of “ Alien ,” with Øvredal milking scenes for maximum tension before culminating in some nasty business.

Bear in mind, some of that business is indeed quite nasty—the visualization of Dracula shown here is a particularly grotesque and demonic variation, the scenes of slaughter are definitely gory enough to earn the “R” rating, and not only does the one character you are conditioned to expect to somehow avoid a gruesome demise end up suffering just that, but they also do so more than once. The performances, especially the ones from genre MVP Dastmalchian, Franciosi (so effective in “ The Nightingale ”), and Botet, are all strong and convincing, which helps to raise the emotional stakes to make up for the lack of surprise.

There are two points where the film stumbles a bit. Although the relatively slow and measured pacing employed by Øvredal to generate suspense is mostly effective and preferable to the quick-cut approach others might have taken, a few scenes here run on too long for their own good. Also, the film—Spoiler Alert!—indulges in one of the most irritating elements of contemporary horror cinema, a final scene that exists solely to set up future movies if this one does well at the box office.

And yet, the rest of the movie works enough so that these flaws don’t hurt things too badly. “The Last Voyage of the Demeter” may not be a classic in the annals of Dracula cinema along the lines of the Terence Fisher's Hammer production “Horror of Dracula,” Werner Herzog ’s version of “ Nosferatu the Vampyre ,” or Francis Ford Coppola ’s “Bram’s Stoker’s Dracula.” But it is a smart, well-made, and sometimes downright creepy take on the tale that both horror buffs and regular moviegoers can appreciate in equal measure.

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The Last Voyage of the Demeter (2023)

Rated R for bloody violence.

118 minutes

Corey Hawkins as Clemens

Aisling Franciosi as Anna

Liam Cunningham as Captain Eliot

David Dastmalchian as Wojchek

Chris Walley as Abrams

Stefan Kapičić as Olgaren

Martin Furulund as Larsen

Nikolai Nikolaeff as Petrofsky

Woody Norman as Toby

Jon Jon Briones as Cook

Javier Botet as Dracula / Nosferatu

André Øvredal

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Bragi F. Schut
Zak Olkewicz
Christian Wagner
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A crew sailing from Varna (Bulgaria) by the Black Sea to England find that they are carrying very dangerous cargo. A crew sailing from Varna (Bulgaria) by the Black Sea to England find that they are carrying very dangerous cargo. A crew sailing from Varna (Bulgaria) by the Black Sea to England find that they are carrying very dangerous cargo.

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The strange thing about “The Last Voyage of the Demeter” is that the old-fashioned atmosphere goes right out the window whenever Dracula shows up. In this one, he’s a fast-moving goblin-like creature, with a devil’s head atop a spindly body, which makes him resemble a medieval stone gargoyle crossed with Gollum crossed with some razor-toothed animalistic demon out of a Jason Blum horror movie. He’s played by an actor (the creature specialist Javier Botet), but mostly he seems a product of the visual-effects department. There are shock cuts and savage montages as he rips into the throat of a crew member.

But “The Last Voyage of the Demeter” is strictly prose, and rather plodding prose at that. I appreciated the film’s willingness to take its time, but as Dracula knocks off one crew member after the next, we seem to be watching some rotely garish and not all that scary 19th-century version of “Alien,” or maybe “Mutiny on the Bounty” remade as a slasher film.

Most of the performances are corny enough to feel at home in a pirate movie. There’s the noble Old World captain (Liam Cunningham), the nasty Russian (Nikolai Nikoleff), the callow ladykiller (Chris Walley), the paranoid captain’s mate (David Dastmalchian), the addled chef (Jon Jon Briones), and the captain’s innocent young son (Woody Norman). But Corey Hawkins, who has the lead role of Clemens, a physician trained at Cambridge who’s been shut out of medicine because of his race, has a saturnine glare and a lithe quickness of mind the movie could have used more of. Clemens believes in science and nature; he’s in thrall to learning about the world. The presence of a vampire kind of messes with his view, and the drama, what there is of it, emerges from how the film makes this demonic intrusion feels unprecedented.

Clemens discovers a stowaway, Anna (Aisling Franciosi), who is catatonic with infection, and he uses infusions of his own blood to nurse her back to life. But she never completely recovers, and the other crew members keep showing up as clawed mincemeat. They might survive for a while, but then, instead of turning into vampires, each bitten person has a moment of spontaneous combustion, with embers rising out of their bodies to consume them. That’s the most poetic thing in the movie. The rest of the time, “The Last Voyage of the Demeter” is too explicit, too dawdling yet rapid-fire, too much like other horror films.

Reviewed at AMC Lincoln Square, Aug. 9, 2023. MPA Rating: R. Running time: 118 MIN.

Production: A Universal Pictures release of a DreamWorks Pictures, Reliance Entertainment, StoryWorks Production Ltd./Studio Babelsberg, Phoenix Pictures/Wise Owl Media production. Producers: Bradley J. Fischer, Mike Medavoy, Arnold W. Messer. Executive producers: Matthew Hirsch, Chris Bender, Anne Rodman, Jeb Brody.
Crew: Director: André Øvredal. Screenplay: Bragi Schut Jr., Zak Olkewicz. Camera: Tom Stern. Editor: Patrick Larsgaard. Music: Bear McCreary.
With: Corey Hawkins, Aisling Franciosi, Javier Botet, Liam Cunningham, David Dastmalchian, Jon Jon Briones, Stefan Kapicic, Nikolai Nikolaeff, Martin Furulund, Chris Walley, Woody Norman.

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‘The Last Voyage of the Demeter’ Review: Blood on the Water

This horror movie, based on a chapter from Bram Stoker’s “Dracula,” is set on a cargo ship unwittingly transporting an evil demon.

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A man and a woman on the deck of a ship have looks of dismay on their faces. The man is crouching while the woman lies on the floor, both looking up.

By Natalia Winkelman

Horror heads are accustomed to screeching at the screen, “Don’t go in the basement!” In “The Last Voyage of the Demeter,” I found myself inclined toward the reverse exclamation: “Just go below deck and kill him already!”

Based on a chapter in Bram Stoker’s novel “Dracula,” this squally scary movie is set on a London-bound merchant ship doomed to a bloody routine. Days are safe, but sundown brings the terrorizing thirst of the vessel’s vampire stowaway, who emerges in darkness to bite a few necks before retiring to his makeshift cargo coffin.

The regularity of Dracula’s circadian timetable raises the question: Why doesn’t the crew just attack around noon? It could have saved the movie’s beneficent hero, Clemens (Corey Hawkins), a boatload of trouble.

The movie begins as Clemens, a British doctor, appeals to Captain Eliot (Liam Cunningham) to join the Demeter’s company. The only educated man onboard, Clemens nonetheless proves an able deckhand, winning the favor of both the salty first mate, Wojchek (David Dastmalchian), and the captain’s wide-eyed grandson, Toby (Woody Norman).

But “The Last Voyage,” directed by André Ovredal, doesn’t waste time on characterizations. Before long, bad omens and creaky floorboards give way to repetitive, swollen set pieces as Dracula picks off the shipmates one by one. The script does find time for a feeble feminist gesture — the story’s sole woman can cock a rifle — and a monologue about racism. These efforts to update the tale are about as successful as those of the sorry crew, whose fates were written over a century ago.

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Costarring Aisling Franciosi, André Ovredal's horror film is based on a single chapter of Bram Stoker's classic novel 'Dracula.'

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(from left) Clemens (Corey Hawkins) and Anna (Aisling Franciosi) in The Last Voyage of the Demeter, directed by André Øvredal.

There’s a reason that Dracula has endured as a figure of fascination for horror filmmakers for more than a century. Bram Stoker’s vampire creation proves endlessly malleable, subject to all sorts of depictions from actors as far afield as Max Schreck, Bela Lugosi, Christopher Lee, Frank Langella, Gary Oldman and, most recently, Nicolas Cage . The role is catnip, especially since the Count can be as sexy as he is menacing, as seductive as he is deadly.

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The Last Voyage of the Demeter Review

Drac’s on a boat and, he’s drinkin’ blood and….

From a handful of pages by Bram Stoker comes The Last Voyage of the Demeter, a moody hunt-and-kill chronicle of Count Dracula’s passage from Transylvania to England. Director André Øvredal expands upon a single chapter in Stoker’s pioneering novel to imagine how its titular vampire fed his hunger at sea. Journal entries about missing crewmen are translated into a rain-soaked nightmare of bad sailor’s luck, torn open necks, and waterlogged isolation that plays to Øvredal’s storytelling strengths. It’s a throwback to broody, Hammer-esque horrors with dread as thick as a fog over the moors, and while the journey isn’t quite fit for a nearly two-hour runtime, there’s still a bloody-good addition to Dracula lore found in the dimly lit decks and cargo hold of the Demeter.

Writers Bragi F. Schut, Stefan Ruzowitzky, and Zak Olkewicz introduce protagonists like Corey Hawkins’ Cambridge graduate Clemens or David Dastmalchian’s gruff and hard-nosed second mate Wojchek, helping us sympathize with characters who are otherwise faceless cannon fodder in the source material. From Liam Cunningham as Captain Eliot – a sympathetic leader making one last haul before retirement – to Aisling Franciosi as the mysterious stowaway Anna, Øvredal’s ensemble feels at home quivering under a doomy, gloomy moonlight, petrified by a gangly figure lurking in the shadows.

Famed creature actor Javier Botet (It, Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, Mama) brings “The Evil” (as Drac is referred to by his unwitting shipmates) to life in a form that recalls F. W. Murnau’s Nosferatu and Tobe Hooper’s Salem’s Lot miniseries. Demeter’s Dracula is a vile bloodsucker who begs audiences to cower in his presence. Bat-like features distance this vampire from the dreamy Brad Pitt and Robert Pattinson types, driving home the animalistic nature of Botet’s performance.

The waters churn around the Demeter in a sign of continued distress, tossing the wooden vessel around as a reminder that it’d be a perilous place to be with or without the murderous addition to its manifest. Øvredal channels the Universal Monsters classics of the 20th century whenever lightning bolts illuminate scenes of prolonged dread, drawing fear from the hopelessness of being set adrift with one of horror’s heaviest hitters. Cunningham’s narration is stoic and resigned as spooked seamen fall to fang-gnashing demises each night, but the structure becomes repetitive. The Last Voyage of the Demeter is sea-sickeningly claustrophobic, but sustaining the crew’s paranoia for roughly 110 minutes is an uphill battle. The script stays true to Stoker down to the tiniest speck of cursed Transylvanian soil, and the performances are steeped in survival urgency, yet there are instances where the slow-burn torment needs to be reignited.

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Maybe that’s because The Last Voyage of the Demeter has a set destination with an outcome that can’t be rearranged. Øvredal tells a tale that Stoker confined to punchy entries in a captain’s log, which makes the inevitability of slain galley cooks and skittish lookouts less gripping in a second act that withholds Dracula’s full potential. The introduction of an underage livestock handler attempts to heighten the stakes, and Clemens’ experiences with Victorian-era racism speak to societal monsters, but otherwise, Schut and Olkewicz stick to the predator-prey standards. Familiarity is the film’s friend more often than not, yet it briefly turns foe when the cast tries to generate suspense in scenes with an obvious answer: There’s a vampire on board the Demeter.

There are other minor quibbles, like when computer animation steps in for practical craftsmanship that would look infinitely sharper, but nothing that’s a stake to Last Voyage of the Demeter’s heart. This movie adores being a horror time capsule that gives actors like Dastmalchian and Hawkins opportunities to pay homage to more theatrical genre films that relied on performance to supplement their visual trickery. Øvredal dusts off buried treasures of Old English verbiage and vampire mythology, and while excitement may lay in hiding for longer than hoped, the director unleashes his creature of the night in a way that would make Tod Browning proud.

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The Last Voyage of the Demeter should delight horror fans raised on Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi, and offers an R-rated bite of vampiric brutality for genre fans with a stronger bloodlust. Øvredal does well to transport his cast to a time when scary stories were told around lanterns in the dead of night, and even if the moodiness evaporates due to a protracted runtime and the foregone conclusion of Dracula’s landfall, the director accentuates the basics of violent feeding sessions in hair-raising fashion.

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OK, class, get out your copies of Dracula and open them to Chapter Seven. Now, skim past the newspaper clipping from the Dailygraph that Mina Murray has pasted into her journal, the one about the storm off the coast of Whitby, and go directly to the part listed as “Log of the ‘Demeter.” You’ll see that Bram Stoker has replicated what appears to be a captain’s diary, detailing the curious goings-on of a voyage from the Bulgarian town of Varna to London; it’s one of the more clever epistolary tricks the author trots out in his 1897 novel. A Russian seafaring vessel, the Demeter shipped out of port on what promised to be a routine trip across the Mediterranean Sea. The crew, however, is spooked. They think they’ve seen a strange man wandering the deck in the wee small hours. It will not end well.

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If The Last Voyage of the Demeter feels like you’re watching some sort of dare — “I dare you to take these three pages and make a movie out of them!” — or a footnote etched with stretch marks from being pulled as far as it can go into action- horror territory, that’s because it’s 2023 and even the dust in the I.P. corners are fair game. Will those who find the mustiest pieces of horror-lit lore dig this more than those just pining for a halfway decent jump scare? Probably. Will others mining for something deeper find that references to racial prejudice circa the late 19th century feel a little too tossed away, or the “well, it could be a franchise” ending too ambitious? Maybe. Will moviegoers from all walks of life have to endure lines like, “A boat without rats… such a thing is against nature!”, delivered in the campiest way imaginable? One hundred percent most definitely yes.

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At the core of director André Øvredal’s The Last Voyage Of The Demeter is a story concept with a strong and captivating beginning and ending. Based on a tiny segment in Bram Stoker’s Dracula , it starts with the king of vampires being loaded on to a fully crewed ship bound for England, and it concludes with said ship arriving at its destination without a single human survivor. With that intriguing setup and dark conclusion, what still remains is the need for the filmmakers to create a meaty middle – one with rich characters whom we care about as they are methodically slain by a blood-sucking monster.

David Dastmalchian in The Last Voyage of the Demeter

Release Date: August 11, 2023 Directed By: André Øvredal Written By: Bragi Schut, Jr. and Zak Olkewicz Starring: Corey Hawkins, Aisling Franciosi, Liam Cunningham, and David Dastmalchian Rating: Rated R for bloody violence Runtime: 119 minutes

Unfortunately, the film – based on a screenplay by Bragi Schut, Jr. and Zak Olkewicz – is unable to deliver those vital components, and the end result is a repetitive and dull horror movie with little more going for it than a moderately interesting feral approach to its legendary vampire.. The ferocity of Dracula increases over the course of the movie as he is made stronger with each victim he takes, though that idea fails to translate into escalating stakes, and without interesting personalities to invest in, the whole ride actually gets duller as the titular vessel gets ever closer to its terminus.

Set in 1897, The Voyage Of The Demeter begins as Captain Eliot (Liam Cunningham) plans to sail his cargo ship from Romania to England, and while the planned transportation of a box with a dragon symbol on it ends up scaring off some of his hired help, Eliot finds a volunteer replacement in a doctor named Clemens (Corey Hawkins). The boat launches with a small crew including Eliot’s first mate, Wojchek ( David Dastmalchian ), a cabin boy (Woody Norman), a cook (Jon Jon Briones) and a few strong hands (Stefan Kapiĉić, Nikolai Nikolaef, Martin Furulund, Chris Walley), but also aboard is a mysterious stowaway named Anna (Aisling Franciosi) and the hungry, vicious fiend known as Dracula (Javier Botet).

Tensions rise as people start going missing and turn up dead, and as the protagonists slowly begin to realize what they are up against, they must not only try to protect themselves, but also figure out what to do about the creature before arriving in England.

The bland collection of characters in The Voyage Of The Demeter prevents engagement in the story.

The plot setup in The Voyage Of The Demeter is not unlike an Agatha Christie novel, with an ensemble getting trapped together and methodically killed off… but the key component that’s missing is the mystery. We know whodunit (Dracula); we know howdoneit (exsanguination); and we know whydoneit (he’s hungry). We even know that the monster will definitely survive. With all of those questions off the table and unavailable to draw audiences into the movie, what’s left is for the filmmakers to get us to really care about the doomed characters aboard the eponymous boat, and that ends up being the feature’s greatest failure.

The movie certainly has likable and talented performers, but too many of them blend together with similar perspectives, backgrounds and attitudes, and everyone else is each given one (1) unique quality that they must cling to like a life preserver (Eliot is a caring grandfather to the ship’s cabin boy; Wojchek is devoted to the sea; Anna, a Romanian, knows the stories of Dracula; etc.). The one exception to this is Clemens… but his backstory is only revealed shortly before the third act climax, and by then it’s too little, too late. There is nothing provided helps us forget or care that basically everyone is going to end up as vampire food, and that motivates disengagement with everything that’s going on. It’s an energy reminiscent of the middle chapters in the Friday The 13th franchise.

There are far too few scary scenes in The Voyage Of The Demeter, and they are repetitive.

If we did care about the lives of the characters, that would also help mitigate The Voyage Of The Demeter ’s other paramount issue: flat horror action. One of the best aspects of the film is witnessing the evolution of Dracula, as the his appearance and abilities change as he regularly feasts on the crew (the work of limber performer Javier Botet and the production’s makeup department deserve high praise), but that doesn’t extended to variety in his attacks/diversity in the way in which the movie tries to deliver scares. With its familiar creature (who can only attack at night) and tight confines in the setting, opportunities aren’t robust to mix things up, so even with plenty of bloodletting the experience gets tired as it closes out the second hour of its runtime.

Had it worked to keep its connection to Bram Stoker’s novel a secret (adding a mystery to the plotting) or made a more significant effort to change up vampire lore, The Voyage Of The Demeter is a movie that could have had something going for it, but it misses the swings that it takes. It’s dull, dark, uninspired, and while bloody, it’s certainly not scary. Between this film and Chris McKay ’s Renfield , Dracula is having a rough 2023.

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There’s something inherently, gleefully ballsy about a film like The Last Voyage Of The Demeter right from the jump, before you’ve seen the title card hit the screen. Anyone who’s read Bram Stoker’s Dracula , or seen certain Dracula movies, knows we’re talking about a doomed voyage, and at certain points in André Øvredal’s historical horror film, characters even say outright what the title implies. This boat is doomed from the start.

The Last Voyage of the Demeter Is a Delightfully Nasty Piece of Work

A movie like The Last Voyage of the Demeter must drive some members of the spoiler police nuts. It’s based, as an opening credit tells us, on a brief episode in Bram Stoker’s novel Dracula — a captain’s log from the doomed Russian schooner that carries the legendary vampire and his crates of Transylvanian earth from Romania to London. The film itself begins with the discovery of the corpse-filled ship on a dark and stormy night, before flashing back to the first days of its journey with an unsuspecting crew of hardened sailors. So we know the story, we know what’s in those mysterious boxes emblazoned with the image of a dragon, and we know just about everybody on the boat is going to meet an unsavory end.

But this is where a real filmmaker gets to show their chops. With the ending basically a foregone conclusion, they can’t hide behind the drip-drip-drip of narrative disclosure. The characters may not know what exactly they’re dealing with, but we do; pretend that we don’t and you’ll lose us. That means the suspense has to come from, yes, cleverly engineered scenes of pursuit and carnage but also from atmosphere and character, those noble virtues so many genre films nowadays skimp on.

The movie has certainly got atmosphere. Like a proper haunted ship, the Demeter moves through treacherous lashings of rain and seemingly endless gray mist, its lanterns feebly lighting the way. One wonders if Norwegian director André Øvredal ( Trollhunter , Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark ) has spent some time staring at J.M.W. Turner and George Philip Reinagle and Caspar David Friedrich paintings; the film’s mood of doomed romanticism suggests he has.

The despair outside reflects the desperation inside. The crew of sailors, led by veteran Captain Elliot (Liam Cunningham) and the haunted-eyed first mate, Wojchek (David Dastmalchian, who makes everything he’s in better), are themselves a mercenary lot, suspicious and cynical and impulsive. They’re eager to sail fast because there’s a bonus in it for them if the ship arrives early. Joining them on the voyage is a young, Cambridge-educated doctor, Clemens (Corey Hawkins), who is initially rejected because he’s too well dressed and his hands are not rough enough. But then he saves the captain’s young grandson Toby (Woody Norman) from getting crushed by a falling crate, and he’s invited onboard.

The film does set up a potentially intriguing philosophical debate between the curious, scientific-minded Clemens and the rough men around him. “I want to understand the world,” he tells them. “Perhaps it needs to be experienced,” comes the reply. The deck is stacked against him, of course; there is, after all, a vampire on the ship. As a bizarre, bald, fanged figure starts to appear to the crew in brief, half-imagined glimpses, the pigs and goats and chickens onboard are mysteriously torn open, and the rats disappear. (“A boat without rats? Such a thing is against nature!”) The crew discovers a half-dead Romanian stowaway (Aisling Franciosi) with suspicious marks on her neck, and soon enough she’s warning them about what’s going to happen. Watching Clemens try and insist that there must be material explanations for all these occurrences could have easily become annoying, but Hawkins brings to the character a touching sense of anxiety: We understand that he needs to believe in reason and science because that’s all he’s got in this world. You feel for the guy.

But enough about the characters. What truly distinguishes Last Voyage of the Demeter , beyond its thick atmosphere of dread, is its gleeful cruelty, the delicious mean streak with which it sets up its suspense set pieces and its kills. All too often, studio horror films — especially ones based on classic monsters — can feel a little too tame, too bland, partly as a result of efforts to broaden their appeal. Not this one. Last Voyage of the Demeter certainly isn’t afraid to go for the gore, and it isn’t afraid to do away with characters we assumed would be off-limits, often in the nastiest possible ways. The film is filled with delightfully savage surprises. And suddenly, in this most predetermined of movies, anything seems possible.

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'The Last Voyage of the Demeter': Release Date, Cast, Trailers, and Everything We Know So Far

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After many script rewrites and production changes, the film's release date was moved from January 27, 2023, to August 11, 2023 . As of now, The Last Voyage of the Demeter will only be available to watch in theaters, as no streaming date has been announced yet. The film has been given an R-rating and has a runtime of 119 minutes.

The first trailer for The Last Voyage of the Demeter was released on Universal Picture's YouTube channel on April 13, 2023. Set to a moody remix of The Smashing Pumpkins' "Bullet with Butterfly Wings," the trailer unleashes plenty of vampire carnage.

This was followed by a teaser trailer released on July 18, 2023. The fifteen-second video doesn't show much, but it does plenty to raise the scare level, with mysterious deaths and a terrifying look at the movie's Dracula. See it here:

On July 31, a Look Inside featurette for The Last Voyage of the Demeter was released via Rotten Tomatoes, promising an Alien -esque story. See it here:

Bragi F. Schut ( Escape Room ) wrote a story and screenplay based on Chapter 7 of Dracula all the way back in 2002, but the film languished in development limbo for nearly two decades. Along the way, numerous interested directors came and went from the project, including Robert Schwentke ( RED ), Marcus Nispel ( Friday The 13th ), David Slade ( 30 Days of Night ), and Neil Marshall ( Hellboy ). Ditto for onscreen talent; at one point, Viggo Mortensen ( Lord of the Rings ) was cast to play the captain but dropped out after the production hit numerous snags. Ben Kingsley ( Ghandi ) and Noomi Rapace ( Girl With The Dragon Tattoo ) were also attached at one point . Finally, Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark director André Øvredal took the helm in 2019 , working off a screenplay written by Bragi and Zak Olkewicz .

The film is produced by Brad Fischer , Mike Medavoy , and Arnold Messer , and executive produced by Matthew Hirsch . The production companies involved include Amblin Entertainment, Amblin Partners, Latina Pictures, New Republic Pictures, Phoenix Pictures, Universal Pictures, and Viola Film, with distribution by Universal Pictures. Roman Osin and Tom Stern serve as the cinematographers and Thomas Newman composed the film's score.

Related: Comparing Universal's Dueling 1931 'Dracula' Films – Which Is More Unsettling?

Principal photography began in June 2021 in Berlin. The film was also shot in Malta and production on the movie wrapped in the fall of the same year with Amblin announcing the end of filming with a Twitter post dated September 30, 2021.

The Last Voyage of the Demeter stars Corey Hawkins ( The Tragedy of Macbeth ) as Clemens, a doctor who comes aboard the ship. Hawkins is also set to star in the upcoming remake of The Color Purple later this year. Aisling Franciosi , who appeared in Game of Thrones and the upcoming film The Nightingale , plays Anna, a young stowaway who helps battle the merciless count. Liam Cunningham ( Clash of the Titans ) will play the ship's captain, who might go down even if his boat doesn't. David Dastmalchian ( The Suicide Squad ) plays the ship's first mate, Wojchek.

And of course, the man of the midnight hour, Count Dracula is played by Javier Botet . When he was five years old, Botet was diagnosed with a rare genetic condition called Marfan syndrome, which affects the body’s connective tissues, giving him unusually flexible and long limbs. In a rather inspirational way, Botet has used his rare physical traits to make a career playing surreal and often nightmare-inducing characters like the Slender Man in the movie of the same name, the Crooked Man in Conjuring 2 , and the terrifying title character from the 2013 horror film Mama . Considering his unique talents, fans can probably expect Botet's portrayal of Dracula to be less "jaded and debonair aristocrat" and more "horrifying wall-crawling monster"--with a serious case of the munchies. Other members of the ensemble cast include Jon Jon Briones , Stefan Kapicic , Nikolai Nikolaeff , Woody Norman , Martin Furulund , Nicolo Pasetti , and Chris Walley .

In Chapter 7 of Stoker's novel, the captain's diary entries recount the ship's journey from Carpathia, where they pick up some strange private cargo: 24 strange, heavy wooden crates that are to be delivered to London. At first, the journey seems normal, but things very quickly take a sinister turn. Everyone is anxious but can't figure out why they continue to face one extremely unfortunate event after another. First, a strange man is spotted on board, then crew members start disappearing. A terrible storm hits the ship and the first mate goes crazy, throwing himself overboard. The captain finally realizes that some sort of evil supernatural creature is stalking his crew, picking them off one by one. In the spine-tingling final entry, he's holding a rosary in his hands and lashing himself to the mast, determined to defy the monster and the storms to the very end. He leaves his log in a bottle in the hopes that someone who finds it may be able to decipher the terrible truth behind the events that have befallen him and his ship. By the time the nearly ruined schooner pulls into its next port, there's no one on board except one clearly insane man.

Expanding a little on the events of the chapter, the film follows various characters, including a doctor, the captain, and first mate of the ship, and a stowaway who clearly picked the wrong boat to sneak onto. No one thinks to check the wooden crates in cargo where Dracula rests during the day, and by the time the sun sets, it's too late: Dracula is hungry. In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, Øvredal described the film as " Alien -on-a-ship in 1897." That rather nicely sums up the story, don't you think?

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Dracula’s new 2023 movie borrows the 1 good thing from 2014’s rotten tomatoes disaster.

The Last Voyage of the Demeter is the latest movie to feature Dracula, and it borrows a distinct element from another vampire movie from 2014.

The Last Voyage of the Demeter takes inspiration from Dracula: Untold, featuring a brutal and decaying Dracula design that deviates from traditional interpretations of the character.
Both films depict vampires as carnivorous monsters rather than seductive beings, which sets them apart from other adaptations of Dracula.
While the new Dracula film's Rotten Tomatoes score remains precariously bad, The Last Voyage of the Demeter may attract a passionate fanbase with its terrifying portrayal of Dracula and even make skeptics appreciate Dracula: Untold for its genre-subverting choices.

The Last Voyage of the Demeter took one good thing from a 2014 Rotten Tomatoes disaster. Focusing on the doomed voyage mentioned in just one chapter of Bram Stoker's horror classic Dracula , the movie expands on what happened during the vampire's sea passage from Transylvania to London, in which Dracula attacked the crew of the Demeter and sustained himself on their blood. It features a Dracula that bears very little resemblance to any recent versions of the Prince of Darkness that often emphasize his seductive physicality and sophistication.

Back in 2014 Dracula's origin story became the subject of Dracula: Untold and its premise introduced a unique version of Dracula (as played by Luke Evans). While the movie didn't perform well at the box-office and seemed to indicate an audience distaste for anything that deviated from traditional versions of the Count, it did feature a surprisingly terrifying take on vampirism. One character in particular shares several similarities with the villain in The Last Voyage of the Demeter's cast and sets the precedent for a new, more carnal Prince of Darkness.

Last Voyage Of The Demeter’s Dracula Design Is Similar To Untold’s Master Vampire

One salient component of The Last Voyage of the Demeter is its brutal Dracula design which is very similar to Dracula: Untold's Master Vampire. Vlad Tepes hears of a "monster" lurking in the mountains that is said to be hundreds of years old and can grant whoever is willing to succumb to his curse incredible powers and longevity. Committed to saving his kingdom from an Ottoman invasion Vlad makes the arduous journey to find the Master Vampire (Charles Dance) whose character design has an animalistic and brutal quality.

Like Dracula in The Last Voyage of the Demeter , the Master Vampire is pale, gaunt, and appears to be decaying. At one point he was incredibly powerful, but by the time Vlad meets him he's weak after being exiled to his cave and driven into hiding. Both Dracula and the Master Vampire can unhinge their jaws to expose rows of sharp fangs, and their appearance changes into something a lot more bestial than humanoid, highlighting the effects of the "curse" of vampirism.

Dracula Untold's Vampire Helps Last Voyage Of The Demeter Be Scarier

Dracula: Untold opted to show vampires as brutal carnivores rather than urbane and sophisticated sex symbols as seen in the 1939 version of Dracula with Bela Lugosi or Prince of Darkness with Christopher Lee, which helps The Last Voyage of the Demeter stand apart. Even in Bram Stoker's Dracula, the BBC Netflix Dracula mini-series, or The Invitation , Dracula has feral moments, but there is much more emphasis on his ability to seduce his prey rather than simply rip them to shreds. Not many Dracula films depict the vampire as a monster out of fear that it will disrupt the characterization people have in their heads.

The Dracula that ravages the Demeter's crew is certainly scarier than any recent iteration of the Count, but it remains to be seen how much fans will embrace the concept given the new 2023 Dracula movie's Rotten Tomatoes score . Dracula: Untold bombed at the box office for a variety of reasons, but one of them was because Dracula was so different from his predecessors after being turned immortal by the Master Vampire. The Last Voyage of the Demeter will certainly have a passionate fanbase because of how terrifying Dracula is, and it might even make skeptics appreciate Dracula: Untold for its genre-subverting creative choices.

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The Last Voyage of the Demeter has been given some strong endorements from two horror veterans.

The Last Voyage of the Demeter offers a unique take on Bram Stoker's Dracula , focusing on the ship that brings Dracula to Whitby.
Stephen King praises the movie, comparing it to the "throat-ripping" horror films of the 60s and 70s.
Guillermo Del Toro enjoys the movie's stunning visuals, describing it as "gorgeous, lavish, and savage."

The story of Dracula has been told many times in the last hundred years, but this weekend’s release of The Last Voyage of the Demeter is an unusual and unique take on Bram Stoker’s novel. Rather than following the journey of Jonathan Harker to the home of the infamous Count, the film focuses on several chapters of the novel that are written in the form a Captain’s log and detail the fateful voyage of the Demeter; the ship that brings Dracula to the shores of Whitby. Although the movie has met a lukewarm reception from critics, two of biggest names in tales of horror have thrown their weight behind it.

In recent comments, Stephen King , who has delivered his fair share of vampire stories in the likes of Salem’s Lot , and director Guillermo Del Toro , have shared their feelings on The Last Voyage of the Demeter , and have delivered some high praise indeed for André Øvredal’s directorial effort. King said of the movie:

“I was doubtful about THE LAST VOYAGE OF THE DEMETER, but it’s a throat-ripping good time. It reminded me of the best of the Hammer movies from the 60s and 70s.”

For del Toro, who is known for delivering some stunning visuals in his work, it is no surprise that the look of the movie is a big part of his review. He wrote:

“I enjoyed Last Voyage of the Demeter so much: gorgeous, lavish and savage!!”

However, the opening box office for The Last Voyage of the Demeter looks to be as lacking as its praise from Rotten Tomatoes critics, who only rated the movie with a 45% approval rather, although that has increased from a lowly 32% after the first wave of reviews. Having said that, audiences are more on board the voyage with a 73%, which in recent times has been a growing trend among many movies.

Related: The Last Voyage of the Demeter: Why the Horror Movie Is Perfect for Game of Thrones Fans

Guillermo del Toro Handed The Last Voyage of the Demeter To Its Director

Guillermo del Toro giving his seal of approval to The Last Voyage of the Demeter will be a big boost to director André Øvredal, who was handed the project when del Toro had to step away from directing the movie. Although they had previously worked together, there is nothing more daunting than taking over a project from an Oscar winning director like del Toro . Øvredal said in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter:

“I had great conversations with him at the beginning, before we got off the ground, and they were extremely helpful. I learned so much from working with him on ‘Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark’ that I was already inside his mind to the degree that I can be.”

With audiences being more inclined to agree with del Toro and King as opposed to critics, it is clear that this Dracula outing is connecting with the audience it set out to please.

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Hot on the heels of this week’s Renfield , a comedic take on the Dark Lord’s relationship with his less-famous familiar, the trailer for the upcoming film The Last Voyage of the Demeter is here to remind you of one very basic thing about Vlad the Impaler, which is that he’s real goddamn scary.

Based “ The Captain’s Log ,” an early passage from Bram Stoker’s epistolary novel, the film will follow the crew of the merchant ship Demeter as it slowly discovers that its cargo of goods includes the vampire himself.

Familiar faces pepper the Demeter’s crew, like Corey Hawkins ( In the Heights ) playing a doctor on board, Liam Cunningham ( Game of Thrones ’ Ser Davos Seaworth) as the Demeter’s captain, and David Dastmalchian ( The Suicide Squad ) as the ship’s first mate.

It turns out the Demeter’s perilous journey also mirrors that of the film, which was mired in development hell for 20 years after writer Bragi Schut sold the initial screenplay .

The Demeter will finally complete its long trip from Transylvania to London on Aug. 11, when The Last Voyage of the Demeter finally arrives in theaters.

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Late Night With the Devil stands out as one of the most unique horror films since It Follows , thanks to its retro style and mash-up of filming techniques, being something of a found footage with a twist. With David Dastmalchian cast in the role of Jack Delroy, the film has the perfect leading actor, bringing its narrative together in a fittingly unsettling fashion.

5 The Last Voyage Of The Demeter Explored An Underrated Dracula Tale

The last voyage of the demeter (2023).

The Last Voyage of the Demeter is an adaptation of a single chapter from Bram Stoker's original Dracula novel and follows the crew of the eponymous ship as they unknowingly transport the coffin of Dracula across the sea. What begins as a standard voyage slowly descends into a masterfully executed isolated horror, as the creature of the night stalks the crew by night, picking them off when they're alone.

The Last Voyage of the Demeter follows its crew in the stormy seas as their numbers shrink to the predations of Dracula. With one of cinema's scariest depictions of Dracula to date and a harrowing setting of a ship at sea, the film stands out as one of the more unique vampire movies in recent memory.

4 The Menu Is Psychological Horror At Its Finest

A young couple travels to a remote island to eat at an exclusive restaurant where the chef has prepared a lavish menu, with some shocking surprises.

The Menu follows a group of wealthy snobs who, in their desperation for social clout and a transcendent experience, attend the exclusive Hawthorne restaurant, managed by Chef Julian Slowik. However, once their night of wine and dining begins, the group suffers an increasingly intense, violent, and terrifying ordeal. Remarks and insults become threats, which become acts of violence and cruelty, including one of the chef's cooks taking his own life.

The Menu is a masterful blend of satire, dark humor, horror, and drama all in one, as Chef Slowik demoralizes his pretentious guests, from ignorant food critics to social climbers who don't even value the art form. As the night progresses, the customers begin to realize and accept that there's no escape from the fate the chef has prepared for them. The film brilliantly weaves between violent tension and dark humor, with some genuine laugh-out-loud moments to balance the horror.

3 Texas Chainsaw Massacre Is Non-Stop Carnage

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One of many reboots of its decade, 2022's Texas Chainsaw Massacre follows the arrival of a small group of friends to the small Texan town of Harlow, which they plan to gentrify. When they mistakenly force an elderly woman who cares for Leatherface from her home, they incur the wrath of the iconic masked killer . When the woman dies as a result of her eviction, Leatherface returns to Harlow, claims a fresh mask, and begins his biggest killing spree yet.

Throughout a single night, Leatherface claims two dozen victims and faces off against a vengeful, older Sally Hardesty. Despite criticisms, the movie delivers non-stop fan service, has some genuinely great jump scares, and creates the scariest version of Leatherface in well over a decade.

2 X Kickstarted A Creepy Slasher Franchise

In 1979, a group of young filmmakers set out to make an adult film in rural Texas, but when their reclusive, elderly hosts catch them in the act, the cast find themselves fighting for their lives.

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X follows a small group of friends making adult movies as they rent out a small cabin beside an elderly couple's farmhouse. When the elderly woman, Pearl, discovers what the guests are doing, she descends into a spiral of violence spurred on by a life of her own sexual repression. When one of the men rejects Pearl's advances, she murders him, later setting her sights on the rest of the group, with her husband helping along the way.

X is an intense slasher that pays homage to older, exploitation-style horror, and shocks audiences every step of the way. The film kicked off a new slasher franchise for fans, with the 2021 movie excelling at taking the innocence of the elderly and turning it into a horrifying look at repression and frustration.

1 Evil Dead Rise Continued The Franchise's Stellar Quality

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A twisted tale of two estranged sisters whose reunion is cut short by the rise of flesh-possessing demons, thrusting them into a primal battle for survival as they face the most nightmarish version of family imaginable.

The latest in Sam Raimi's iconic Evil Dead franchise, 2022's Evil Dead Rise follows a woman named Beth, who visits her sister and her kids after discovering she's pregnant. After arriving at her sister's apartment, Beth and her sister's family take refuge in the building's basement after an earthquake hits. There, the children discover an ancient tomb, and find the Necronomicon Ex Mortis. When they play a recording of a man reading from the book, the kids unwittingly summon the terrifying Deadites, who possess their mom.

Evil Dead Rise focuses on Beth protecting the kids from her Deadite sister, transforming the apartment building into a gruesome maze of death and horror. The movie easily surpassed the 2013 remake of the original and took the franchise back to its terrifying roots following the comedy of Ash vs. Evil Dead .

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Going to movie theaters bring people together. They can also polarize them after leaving, depending on what they saw. So what better movie to offer the best of both worlds than the new film from Alex Garland? Because no one has ever been polarized in their thinking after watching Annihilation or Men . By next weekend, his latest film will have outgrossed all of his previous films, but moviegoers may be more divided than ever.

King of the Crop: Civil War Earns Highest Opening Weekend for A24

We kid, of course, to play into the rhetoric around Garland’s Civil War . The film’s initial high Tomatometer score from SXSW has come back to Earth a little, but the majority of critics are still very much in favor of it, as evidenced by its Certified Fresh status. Audiences are a little less enthralled but still overall satisfied with 77% Audience Score, but a “B-“ from the Cinemascore crowd, the first grade of its kind for 2024 and the first since Ridley Scott’s film about a tyrannical leader named Napoleon . Still, folks spent $25.7 million to give A24 its highest opening weekend ever, a record previously held by Ari Aster’s Hereditary ($13.5 million). Already, Civil War is the ninth highest-grossing film in the company’s history, and by the end of next weekend, it should be at least sixth and on its way to becoming its second. Or could it be A24’s No. 1?

Gross is one thing, but with a $50 million budget (and possibly higher), it’s going to take some other countries delighting in America destroying itself for this film to prove profitable. It would also take some incredible word of mouth for Civil War to stretch towards overcoming the $77+ million of Oscar-winning Everything Everywhere All At Once . But it is not unheard of for an April film with an opening like this to achieve that goal.

Mel Gibson’s We Were Soldiers did it back in 2002 with just a $20 million opening. The Christian music film I Can Only Imagine did it with a $23 million start. If these two groups can just get together, there’s no telling what can be achieved. Then again, that “B-“ grade looms over it. But looking at last year’s grades of its ilk, horror films including The Boogeyman , Thanksgiving , Cocaine Bear , and Meg 2: The Trench all had multiples over 2.75 (while The Pope’s Exorcist , Renfield , and Last Voyage of the Demeter were all under 2.23), so maybe horror of all types sell, as someone once told me — even if that hasn’t been the case in 2024 so much with Night Swim , Imaginary , and The First Omen . Civil War has a little old-fashioned war to deal with next weekend, along with some fresh horror, but the calendar is also pretty light until we get into May and should allow the discourse to maybe drive a little curiosity until then.

The Top 10 and Beyond: Godzilla x Kong Slips, Monkey Man and The First Omen Drop

After two weeks at the top, Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire falls back to second place with $15.4 million. That brings its 17-day total to $157.9 million, which is not far away from displacing Kong: Skull Island to become the second highest-grossing film in the Warner Bros. MonsterVerse. Does it have a shot at 2014’s Godzilla ? That would mean getting over $200 million, and that could be close. Its third weekend is in the vicinity of John Wick: Chapter 4 ($14.4 million) but is also $10 million ahead of its overall pace. That suggests a final gross possibly right below $200 million. It is going to want to stay above $8 million in its fourth weekend to keep that pace going. Warner Bros. would certainly love to achieve that, but with over $400 million worldwide, the film is already a success and should ensure another entry. Speaking of which, the studio’s Dune: Part Two added another $4.3 million and is now up to $272 million domestic and $673 million worldwide.

In third place with just $5.9 million is the Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire in its fourth weekend. The film is at $96.9 million and inching its way towards $100 million. That’s a better fourth frame than either 10,000 B.C. or A Wrinkle in Time ($4.8 million each), suggesting it could still have a chance at getting over $110 million. It would at least like to stretch over $112.4 million to pass Ghostbusters II to avoid having the lowest-grossing domestic haul of the franchise. (Of course, with inflation, that sequel would have made about $283 million.) But it is going to have the lowest worldwide haul by a lot. With still less than $150 million, it is almost certain to become the first to not gross over $200 million worldwide.

Universal’s Kung Fu Panda 4 fell just 29% to $5.5 million. That brings its total to $173.6 million. The animated film is also over $425 million worldwide and could be the first in the franchise not to reach half-a-billion. But by carrying a lower price tag ($85 million) than the other three films, it is currently the most profitable film of 2024 so far. The studio’s pickup of Dev Patel’s Monkey Man isn’t doing as well, though, falling nearly 60% down to $4.1 million in its second weekend. That’s $17.7 million in the bank for that film. Universal also re-released Dreamworks’ Shrek 2 in 1,512 theaters this weekend and it grossed $1.35 million.

In horror news, 20th Century Studios’ prequel The First Omen made $3.7 million over the weekend, bringing its total to $14.6 million. The $30 million budgeted film continues a losing streak for the Disney-acquired company since the massive profits of Avatar: The Way of Water in 2022-23. Alien: Romulus is up next for them in August. The first of two giant spider films debuting this month, Sting , grossed $487,000 in 750 theaters. Arcadian , the Quiet Place -like apocalyptic monster film briefly featuring Nicolas Cage, was in 1,100 theaters and grossed $481,100.

The period high school golf film starring Dennis Quaid and Jay Hernandez, The Long Game , premiered at the 2023 SXSW Film Festival but opened in limited release this past weekend, earning $1.39 million. Trafalgar Releasing put out the concert film by Suga (aka Agust D) of BTS and it grossed $961,015 last Wednesday in 784 theaters. SUGA: Agust D TOUR D-DAY THE MOVIE played again on Sunday and made another estimated $990,881, which was enough in one day to sneak into the top 10 this week.

Last year’s top 10 romance, Someone Like You , fell off the list this week with $849,000. It has grossed $4.8 million. Also falling out just behind it is Mark Wahlberg and the dog, Arthur the King , grossing $840,000 for a total of $23.5 million. Focus’ Housekeeping for Beginners from director Goran Stolevski ( You Won’t Be Alone , Of An Age ) expanded into 75 theaters but grossed just $70,000. His previous films grossed $264,055 and $556,585, respectively. Bertrand Bonello’s The Beast with Lea Seydoux and George MacKay grossed $50,000 after expanding into 23 theaters. It will expand further next week. The best per-theater average of the week looks to go to the Zellner Bros.’ Sasquatch Sunset . The Bleecker Street released grossed an estimated $93,005 in 9 theaters for a $10,333 average. It will expand next weekend.

On the Vine: Abigail Fights The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare

Mentioned earlier its more horror and more war. The child vampire home invasion film Abigail from the duo known as Radio Silence ( Ready or Not , Scream 5 and 6 ) is the one to likely bet on for next weekend. Horror fans have been stingy this year, but maybe this is the one they will sink their teeth into. Then, another year, another Guy Ritchie film. This time The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare with Henry Cavill and Alan Ritchson tells a real-life Inglourious Basterds -like tale of British soldiers recruited to kill Nazis during WWII. Hugo Stiglitz is even in it and is hoping it could supplant Civil War for a second place finish.

Full List of Box Office Results: April 12-14, 2024

$25.7 million ($25.7 million total)

$15.4 million ($157.9 million total)
$5.8 million ($96.9 million total)

$5.5 million ($173.6 million total)
$4.3 million ($272.1 million total)
$4.1 million ($17.7 million total)
$3.7 million ($14.6 million total)
$1.39 million ($1.39 million total)
$1.35 million ($1.35 million total)

$990,881 ($2.2 million total)

Erik Childress can be heard each week evaluating box office on Business First AM with Angela Miles and his Movie Madness Podcast .

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