Movie Review: The Last Voyage of the Demeter

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Movie Review: The Last Voyage of the Demeter

Movie Review: The Last Voyage of the Demeter by Henry McMullen I’ll always have tremendously high hopes for a vampire story. And an imagined film based on the one chapter in Bram Stoker’s original Dracula novel that tells the rather brief tale of the Prince of Darkness’ ocean voyage from Transylvania to England sounded like […]

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