This was going to be a movie once. When Dracula gets in a coffin and has it sent to London, it travels by boat. Of course he wakes up during the night and kills off the crew members one by one. This is that story. That's it. Sure it's simple, but everything about Dracula is so damn cool. It's also one of the pillars of modern literature, right? A ton of things have been spawned from that book, mostly teen vampire sagas these days, but think about the creepy London of the 1800's, the fog, the candle light, the mysteries, the horse coaches rumbling down dark, cobble-stoned streets. All of this has come from Dracula and its thousands of film adaptations over the years. This is just as creepy. It's a dark ship in dark waters and storms and frantic, frightened crew members. It's blood and shadows and murder under mysterious circumstances. The art is great but the script is a little thin. I would have much rather gotten some back stories to the crew members and more dialogue between them. It's mostly just a bunch of sailors getting murdered while the captain prays to God in his room. A little more meat and this would have been a masterpiece. **1/2
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