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"Few creatures of the night have captured our imagination like vampires.
What explains our enduring fascination with vampires? Is it the overtones of sexual lust, power, control? Or is it a fascination with the immortality of the undead?"

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CHAPTER VII

LOG OF THE “DEMETER.”

30 July.---Last night. Rejoiced we are nearing England. Weather fine, all sails set. Retired worn out; slept soundly; awaked by mate telling me that both man of watch and steersman missing. Only self and mate and two hands left to work ship.

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[–] Sergio@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

"OK, listen to this one: DRACULA VERSUS THE SPARTANS. Dracula's in a boat going to England and every night he goes out of his coffin to eat the sailors. But he eats too many of them, and the boat crashes into the Greek coast. Now it turns out that there are a bunch of Greek survivalists in the wilderness there, living and training as if they were ancient Spartans. They got shields, they got spears, they got helmets robes and loincloths and that's it. And they got to survive a week in this forest with Dracula hunting them down every night. Whadayasay?!?!?"

DING! the elevator stops. the doors open. what do you say?

[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

This would be pretty terrifying to experience. I haven't seen the 2023 film The Last Voyage of the Demeter, but reading this, it's easy to see how someone could make a horror film out of just these few log entries.

I did see the Netflix adaptation of Dracula. Or the first two out of three episodes, at least; the second of which was based loosely on these logs. It was just a total mess though and I can't recommend it.

[–] DScratch@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The Demeter episode was my favourite of the series. But yeah. Overall wouldn’t recommend.

[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 1 points 3 days ago

I think the first was my favourite, based purely on the fact that episode 2 was bad enough that I decided not even to bother watching episode 3. But neither episode I saw did much to recommend it.