The Last Voyage of the Demeter Featurette

Dracula’s back, and he’s hungrier than ever. In The Last Voyage of the Demeter, we’re promised a frighteningly fresh spin on the ancient bloodsucker.

Instead of capes and castles, we’ve got a cramped ship, an endless ocean, and a crew full of sailors getting picked off one by one. It’s like Alien meets Master and Commander.

Director André Øvredal doesn’t shy away from the Alien comparisons either. “I really loved this Alien-style story set on the ocean in 1897 and with Dracula instead of the alien monster. It was just all the elements were really exciting.”

The new featurette called A Look Inside takes you behind-the-scenes on production of Universal’s 1897-set horror, with insight from key figures involved in the project. Figures like Corey Hawkins (Straight Outta Compton), and Liam Cunningham, who’s no stranger to sailing, having played Davos Seaworth in Game of Thrones.

When movies adapt classic novels, they usually use the whole book. Where The Last Voyage of the Demeter differs is the way it adapts just one chapter. It’s based on the chapter of the same name from Bram Stoker’s classic novel Dracula, which tells the story of a crew aboard a merchant ship stalked each night by a merciless presence.

The Last Voyage of the Demeter sails into cinemas August 11.