The Last Voyage of the Demeter (2023) is a horror film inspired by a chapter from Bram Stoker’s Dracula, focusing on the eerie journey of the ship Demeter. The story follows the doomed voyage of the Demeter as it sails from Carpathia to London, unknowingly carrying a terrifying cargo—a coffin holding Count Dracula himself.

The crew, led by Captain Elliot, experiences a series of mysterious events as Dracula begins to haunt the ship, preying on the crew members one by one. The horror builds as the isolated crew fights to survive against a powerful and unrelenting evil, with no escape from the terror lurking in the shadows. As the ship drifts towards England, only a few are left to face the vampiric horror and the inevitable descent into darkness.

The Last Voyage of the Demeter is an eerie 2023 adaptation of part of Bram Stoker’s Dracula, and its cast, nautically-themed story, and — above all — its nightmare-fuel interpretation of Dracula himself has drawn intense speculation as the August release date approaches. Based solely on a single chapter from the legendary novel, The Last Voyage of the Demeter is a Dracula adaptation like no other, telling only the story of the ill-fated journey of the titular ship. Universal Studios’ legacy of classic monsters continues with this 2023 Dracula movie, and yet it manages to find a new approach to the seminal vampire story by focusing on one part instead of the whole.

The production of The Last Voyage of the Demeter has been anything but smooth. Director Neil Marshall was to direct the Dracula film, as announced back in 2012, but his involvement eventually fell through. Various casting announcements came and went with nothing coming to fruition until the project finally picked up steam in 2019 with director André Øvredal taking the helm. Amid a slew of other book-accurate portrayals of Dracula, The Last Voyage of the Demeter stands out with its Gothic tone and a strong cast that truly does justice to the story that has been told and retold for over a century on film.

The latest The Last Voyage of the Demeter news comes just ahead of the movie’s release. The final teaser for The Last Voyage of the Demeter has been released, showing off the movie’s version of Dracula in all his undead glory — and this Dracula which is much more monstrous than the seductive gentleman image seen in many previous adaptations. While The Last Voyage of the Demeter’s marketing has been doing an effective job of hiding the beast and letting the terror of the unknown do its work, it is not surprising that the final push before release is more willing to put its most iconic aspect front and center.