Hapless sailors become a blood-sucking buffet in a lifeless and predictable vampire horror flick. The Last Voyage of the Demeter, based on "The Captain's Log" chapter from Bram Stoker's Dracula, had the base elements to be terrifying. Getting stuck on a doomed ship at sea with a ravenous beast is a promising premise. There's nowhere to run or hide. Fight for your life or die horribly. What we get is a painfully slow slog through tired genre tropes. The characters don't have an ounce of self-preservation or rationality. They're akin to flailing teens running blindly in the dark with a killer ambling behind them.
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