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33 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 75The A.V. ClubMatthew JacksonThe A.V. ClubMatthew JacksonDespite this unevenness, there’s a lot to love in The Last Voyage Of The Demeter for horror fans and casual moviegoers alike.
- 70IGNMatt DonatoIGNMatt DonatoThe 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.
- 67ConsequenceClint WorthingtonConsequenceClint WorthingtonAdmittedly, big stretches of Demeter are a bit overwritten and unnecessary; there’s no real need for a film like this to exist, especially considering we know how it’ll all turn out. But as long as it’s here, it might as well be celebrated for what it is: lean, effective nautical horror of a type we don’t often get anymore. Seaside scares are a rare thing these days, especially when Øvredal packs this much atmosphere and characterization into such a wafer-thin premise.
- 58ColliderChase HutchinsonColliderChase HutchinsonFor all the ways Botet and company put their hearts into giving it some life, the film is persistently defined by death of not just its characters, but of creativity itself.
- 50Movie NationRoger MooreMovie NationRoger MooreThe script provides a few good lines and the cast a few decent moments. But “old school” Universal horror — dating from the studio’s 1930s history — means “old hat,” in most cases.
- 50The Seattle TimesSoren AndersenThe Seattle TimesSoren AndersenEvery plot twist is easily anticipated...The ending hints at the possibility of a sequel, but that’s a prospect that leaves one cold. As far as “Demeter” is concerned, enough is enough.
- 45PolygonJoshua RiveraPolygonJoshua RiveraThere are no surprises in The Last Voyage of the Demeter. Just about everything in the story plays out exactly how the average horror fan might assume it would, exactly how they know it will, because the movie begins with the end of the story, then does little to play up the dread that comes with that knowledge. And most of us, unfortunately, know too much about this story already.
- 42The Film StageEthan VestbyThe Film StageEthan VestbyA bit of a bad feeling about Demeter‘s overall direction came when the “save the cat” screenwriter device, as penned by Bragi Schut Jr. and Zak Olkewicz, was used less than ten minutes in.
- 40The Daily BeastNick SchagerThe Daily BeastNick SchagerWhether hewing to the letter of Stoker’s source material or branching off in novel directions, this B-movie distends itself without purpose.
- 25IndieWireDavid EhrlichIndieWireDavid EhrlichIf you’re going to make an R-rated horror wank about Dracula slurping throats with a smile on his face, make sure that the rest of the movie doesn’t suck as hard as he does.