“The Devil is real… may God have mercy on us all.”

If you know us, then you know we love everything vampire related. “The Lost Boys,” “Blade,” “Interview With A Vampire,” “Fright Night,” “Salem’s Lot,” “Near Dark,” and on and on and on.  This month, Universal Pictures takes us all the way back to Bram Stoker’s “Dracula,” the story that has inspired generations of horror stories.  More  specifically, “The Last Voyage of the Demeter” focuses on one chapter of the book.

Based on a single chilling chapter from Bram Stoker’s classic novel Dracula, The Last Voyage of the Demeter tells the terrifying story of the merchant ship Demeter, a Russian vehicle, which was chartered to carry private cargo—fifty unmarked wooden crates—from Carpathia to London.

Strange events befall the doomed crew as they attempt to survive the ocean voyage, stalked each night by a merciless presence onboard the ship. When the Demeter finally arrives off the shores of England, it is a charred, derelict wreck. There is no trace of the crew.

The film stars Corey Hawkins (In the Heights, Straight Outta Compton) as Clemens, a doctor who joins the Demeter crew, Aisling Franciosi (Game of Thrones, The Nightingale) as an unwitting stowaway, Liam Cunningham (Game of Thrones, Clash of the Titans) as the ship’s captain and David Dastmalchian (Dune, the Ant-Man franchise) as the Demeter’s first mate.

The film also features Jon Jon Briones (Ratched, American Horror Story), Stefan Kapicic (Deadpool films, Better Call Saul), Nikolai Nikolaeff (Stranger Things, Bruised) and Javier Botet (It films, Mama). From DreamWorks Pictures and the producers of “Zodiac” and “Black Swan,” “The Last Voyage of the Demeter” is directed by Norwegian horror virtuoso André Øvredal (Scary Stories To Tell in the Dark, Trollhunter), from a script by Bragi F. Schut (Escape Room), Stefan Ruzowitzky (The Counterfeiters) and Zak Olkewicz (the upcoming Bullet Train), based on the chapter “The Captain’s Log” of Bram Stoker’s Dracula.

In the middle of the ocean, with no land in sight, no one can hear you scream.  We are pumped to see this supernatural horror hit the big screen on August 11, 2023.  We’ll be easy to find at the theater as we snack on our garlic popcorn.