Thrice Bitten (Part 2) : André Øvredal – “The Last Voyage of the Demeter”

More of the same! “The Last Voyage of the Demeter” concerns itself with a minor (but effectively disturbing) episode from Bram Stoker’s “Dracula”: the Count’s maritime journey from remote Romania to London. F. W. Murnau had dealt with the incident, and so had Werner Herzog. What’s worthy about this new horror adventure is that it …

Thrice Bitten (Part 1): Chris McKay -“Renfield”

Poor Bram Stoker! He had no idea that the expanding popularity of cinema and the vagaries of copyright laws would turn a well-executed, well-received epistolary horror novel into part of the foundational, subconscious mythology of anyone born after 1897. And he never got to cash-in. It’s sort of impressive that a hundred years later people …