Van Helsing (2004)

Directed by

Stephen Sommers

Genre

fantasy film, action film, horror film, swashbuckler film, adventure film, mystery film

Country

Czech Republic, United States

Runtime

2h 06m

Rated

PG-13

Rating

6.4 of 10 from 6,730 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A monster hunter travels to Transylvania to defeat Count Dracula and his creatures. He teams up with a local woman to stop Dracula's plan to unleash an army of monsters.

fast-paceddarkaction-packedsupernaturalgothicadventurouscampyvisually lush

What happens

Van Helsing is a 2004 action horror film written and directed by Stephen Sommers. It stars Hugh Jackman as monster hunter Van Helsing and Kate Beckinsale as Anna Valerious. Van Helsing is an homage to the Universal Horror Monster films from the 1930s and 1940s (also produced by Universal Pictures which were in turn partially based on novels by Bram Stoker and Mary Shelley), of which Sommers is a fan. Van Helsing was inspired by the Dutch vampire hunter Abraham Van Helsing from Irish author Bram Stoker's novel Dracula. Distributed by Universal Pictures, the film includes a number of monsters such as Count Dracula (and other vampires), Frankenstein's monster, Duergar, Mr. Hyde and werewolves in a way similar to the multi-monster movies that Universal produced in the 1940s, such as Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man, House of Frankenstein and House of Dracula. The film grossed $300.2 million worldwide against a budget of $160–170 million but was not well received by critics. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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