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Review By Peter Belsito

Stockholm was the best film I saw at the recent Whistler Film Festival in British Columbia.

Many of us are familiar with the term “Stockholm Syndrome”, a phenomenon where imprisoned or kidnapped hostages start to identify emotionally or politically with their captors. The Patty Hearst story is probably one of its most famous examples.

In the most legendary and spectacular case of “Stockholm Syndrome” — the 1974 Patty Hearst affair, the kidnap victim swung all the way over to the other side. Yet that was far from typical. Patty, the 20-year-old heiress who wedded herself to the “revolutionary” Symbionese Liberation Army, was photographed sporting a beret and a born-again moniker (Tania!) and a machine gun.

This is Not about that incident at all.

This film is about the original story from which that the term takes its name. And it is far more complex and interesting than the title might suggest.

Viggo Mortensen has been offered the lead role of Henry Clemens in Neil Marshall's "The Last Voyage of the Demeter" at Millennium Films says Bloody Disgusting.

Based on a chapter in Bram Stoker's classic novel "Dracula", the story describes the disturbing voyage taken by the vampire count to England on a merchant vessel shipping cargo from Transylvania to London.

Stoker tells the story via the captain's log of the voyage, which begins in Bulgaria and becomes increasingly disjointed as members of the crew disappear as Dracula feeds on them to sustain himself.

Lowell Cauffiel penned the latest draft of the script which is reminiscent of the original "Alien" in which a crew is slaughtered one-by-one by a mysterious passenger. Ben Kingsley remains attached to play the ship's Captain.

Mike Medavoy, Arnold Messer and Bradley Fischer will produce.

The Last Voyage of the Demeter has been kicking around in development for nearly 10 years and has gone through many permutations since it was announced in 2004. Now, famed British horror filmmaker Neil Marshall is at the helm and the film appears to be gaining some traction.

Bloody Disgusting is reporting that Viggo Mortensen is being approached to play the lead role of Henry Clemens in the film, which is a remake of sorts of Bram Stoker’s Dracula. The film will focus on the section in the middle of the novel when Dracula travels across the sea to England on the Russian vessel: the Demeter, where he awakes and kills the entire crew.

In previous versions of the Dracula story on screen, this voyage is seen only very briefly. In Francis Ford Coppola‘s Dracula for example it is retained to a couple of shots. With The Last Voyage of the Demeter,...

As properties such as “True Blood” and “Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter” forge a new path into bloody silliness, it's been a spell since any grounded, literary-based portrayals of vampire mythology have hit the screen, with a few notable exceptions. Luckily though, one of the contemporary horror genre's leading directors, Neil Marshall, will tackle Dracula for his latest film, and now he's eyeing a leading man certainly known for gravitas.

Bloody Disgusting reports Viggo Mortensen has been offered the lead role of Henry Clemens in the sea-set “The Last Voyage of the Demeter,” the latest draft of which was written by Lowell Cauffiel. Instead of another sprawling remake of Bram Stoker's work though, Marshall will instead focus in on the novel's middle section aboard a Russian ship, the Demeter, where Dracula feasts on crewmembers one by one during the voyage from Transylvania to England. Told via scraps from cabin diaries and an investigation,...

After years of inter-changing stars, directors, and simple hopes of ever seeing this thing come together, The Last Voyage of the Demeter is about to take off. All seemed right back on track when Neil Marshall was handed directing reigns last month — for this project, the fact that he’s still attached is a good-enough sign — and the newest onscreen developments are coming in from BloodyDisgusting.

The latest and, I’d say, most interesting update concerns Viggo Mortensen, who Millennium Films are (reportedly) now seeking to play a character named Henry Clemens. (Don’t ask for the specifics, buddy.) It’s not unlikely this offer gets turned down and is, accordingly, passed to another talent — when it comes to choosing roles, this actor’s a picky sort of fellow — although I’d kind of love to see this come together. The confirmation will just have to wait, I guess.

And even if Mortensen does,...

The last thing we heard about this new Dracula movie, The Last Voyage of the Demeter, is that Neil Marshall (The Decent, Centerion) was attached to direct it. Today we've learned that Lord of the Rings star Viggo Mortensen has been offered the lead role of Henry Clemens in the film. The news comes from Bloody-Disgusting who also reports that Ben Kingsley is still attached to play the ship’s Captain. Noomi Rapace was also attached to the film at one point but there's no word if she's still attached. The story is described as being reminiscent of Ridley Scott's Alien.

The script for the movie was written by Bragi Schut over a decade ago. The most recent draft was written by Lowell Cauffiel, and it tells the story of the Demeter, the name of the ship that transported Dracula from Transylvania to London in Bram Stoker's classic story.

last we heard, Dog Soldiers director Neil Marshall was attached to helm The last Voyage Of The Demeter - the story of the doomed the ship that carried Dracula’s coffin from Transylvania to England - for Millennium Films. Sir Ben Kingsley and Noomi Rapace were also said to be on board as the ship's captain and a stowaway named Anna Billington, but nothing was ever officially confirmed. Now Bloody Disgusting report that both actors "may" still be attached, and that Viggo Mortenson has been offered the lead role of Henry Clemens. The site also reporst that the latest script draft by Lowell Cauffiel will "place the voyage center stage in a tale that is reminiscent of the first movie in the Alien franchise, in which a crew is slaughtered one-by-one by a mysterious passenger." If that cast comes together, I would definitely be very interested to see this one.