The Last Voyage of the Demeter (2023) on Netflix
Clemens, a doctor who studied at Cambridge, joins the crew of the ship Demeter as it loads crates in Varna, Bulgaria, bound for London. Something aboard stalks the crew each night.
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Plot summary
In Varna, Bulgaria, the merchant ship Demeter takes on large wooden crates bound for London. Local Romanian workers deliver the shipment, pay the quartermaster Wojchek and the crewman Olgaren, and say they must be gone before sundown. Clemens, a doctor and Cambridge graduate, offers the ship his medical skills, but Wojchek turns him down and hires an older man instead. Loading a crate, that man recognizes a dragon emblem on it and lets the tackle rope go; Clemens saves Captain Eliot's grandson Toby from the falling crate. The man calls the emblem a bad omen and leaves, and Eliot hires Clemens in his place. Clemens meets Joseph, Petrofsky, Larsen and Abrams. At sea, a crate breaks open in the hold, and he finds a woman, Anna, buried in soil.
Cast
- Graham Turneras Constable
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Last Voyage of the Demeter (2023)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Makeup designer Göran Lundström said the full prosthetic makeup he applied to Javier Botet as Dracula took four hours, an hour longer than the three hours usual for full-coverage makeup, because of the gluing and covering the creature suit required.
- Screenwriter Bragi F. Schut Jr. was working at a Hollywood model shop when he befriended a colleague who had worked on Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992); a miniature of the ship Demeter used in that film inspired him to write an Alien-inspired script set aboard the ship.
- Thomas Newman was announced as the film's composer in April 2022 but left the project in June 2023 because of scheduling conflicts, and Bear McCreary replaced him.
