The crew of the merchant ship Demeter attempts to survive the ocean voyage from Carpathia to London as they are stalked each night by a merciless presence onboard the ship.
This movie contains 47 potentially triggering events.
The dog dies and their definitely is a howl/whimper. It was painful to listen to. Leave the theater T the time the dog starts sniffing underneath. Walk fast. Count to about 30 then walk back in. They show the dogs corpse. It was painful to get through for me. Don’t know why they just had to bring a dog into the mix
The grandson is visiting with the grandfather. The son’s mother is still alive, as the grandfather mentions returning his grandson to his grandson’s mother.
Only child in movie is very loved by the people around him. There’s one scene where he cries after the death of his pet and he expresses that he’s worried about failing his grandfather. It’s clear that his grandfather isn’t angry when he gives him a job later on.
All of the livestock including the pigs, chickens, and sheep are killed off-screen around the same time as Huckleberry. We see all of their bodies multiple times before they are thrown overboard. Very sad.
Dracula gets his chest crushed between two broken halves of the ship's mast. It looks very painful and he shrieks in pain, but he survives due to being who he is.
In the cargo hold, the protagonist discovers an alive person partially buried in dirt from a fallen crate, meaning the person was previously trapped in there. The crew members later find evidence that Dracula was buried in another crate. Other crates are opened and found to be filled with dirt as well, but the protagonist says he doesn't see signs of anyone being in them.
Dracula transforms into a bat monster and has sharp fangs and wings. Several people also start turning into vampires from bites. Their eyes turn white and cloudy.
In the scenes about preparing to leave port, a prospective crew member has a large scar around one blind eye. Additionally, when characters are turned by Dracula, their eyes turn pure white. One of the turned characters also repeatedly smashes their face against a door, and an eyelid is mildly swelled as a result. Lastly, one crew member gets grabbed from behind, and then there is a closeup of Dracula slowly clawing the skin right beside the crew member's eye, though the eye itself is unharmed.
While there is blood and gore, I found it relatively tame for a horror movie. The most graphic gore is the clawed and bitten dead sheep and dog shown throughout 2 scenes at the beginning of the voyage. For the rest of the movie, Dracula's attacks do leave blood on the ground, and bloody neck wounds are sometimes briefly shown, but Dracula's teeth actually biting into skin is not shown onscreen. Some characters' wounds are also surprisingly minor or not even shown, such as someone repeatedly smashing their face into/through a door only resulting in a cut on their nose and forehead, and the source of blood dripping from a dead body is not shown. The exception would be the captain's reddened and blackened burns (they don't look super realistic though), and a tiny bit of bone sticking out of the protagonist's broken leg (no closeups, no blood, and it's not very visible for the rest of the scene).
Dracula drains a child of blood, leading to his death. He later reanimates as a vampire and bursts into flames before another character throws him overboard. There are closeups of his dead, charred face as he sinks to the bottom of the ocean.
A character was chosen to be Dracula’s human feedbag. Supposedly he forced her to go with him wherever he went, despite her not wanting too. I would say this was kidnapping, but some may not.
Characters are turning into vampires and someone says they’re “possessed by the beast” while another states that it is more like a virus. It depends on if you consider becoming a vampire to be possession.
Not exactly. The Demeter does get damaged (a toppled mast, and a hole in the hull), but remains intact. None of the books or trinkets in the captain's quarters are shown to be damaged. The only significant item is the captain's log, which of course survives, though ink bleeds and gets smudged when someone finds the log, opens it in heavy rain, and frustratingly doesn't even try to protect it from water damage.
Under the influence of Dracula characters exhibit violent behavior and one has a break from reality. However, I dont know if mind control is really classified as a "mental illness."
Crew members often walk through narrow corridors below deck, and most rooms are very cramped, with ceilings just above their heads. In the cargo hold, the protagonist hunches over to get under a fallen crate, and discovers an alive person partially buried in dirt from the crate, meaning the person was previously trapped in there. While no one is ever shown in a crate, the crew members later find evidence that Dracula was buried in another crate. There are also several scenes where Dracula is shown crouching in small spaces to hide. Additionally, the 1st crew member to be turned is restrained with ropes in several scenes while struggling to get free, and the 2nd is wrapped in canvas like a dead body before escaping.
There is talk about whores and brothels, including by a child. He states a brothel is a place you can pay women to take off their knickers. There is also a slur against Black people.
When selecting crew members, they announce that they're looking for 'able bodied men.' A muscular man steps forward, saying that he's strong, but he's laughed at and dismissed because his left eye is blind. He is later picked though.
Every scene the Asian cook is in, he says something about Christianity. He often references things in the Bible. The rest of the time, he says negative things about people who aren't Christians, and ultimately believes that Dracula's attacks are a punishment for the other crew members' supposed sins. A few characters also wear or clutch cross pendants, and refer to Dracula as "the Devil."