Helsing pursues evil on behalf of the Holy Order, which has protected mankind "from time immemorial". A year later, monster hunter Gabriel Van Helsing travels to Notre-Dame de Paris and kills Dr. The mob burns down the windmill, seemingly killing the monster. Dracula kills Frankenstein and as an angry mob storms the Castle, the monster flees to a windmill with Frankenstein's body. In 1887 Transylvania, Doctor Victor Frankenstein, aided by his assistant Igor and Count Dracula, creates a monster. The film received mostly negative reviews but grossed $300 million worldwide against a budget of $160–170 million. 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. Distributed by Universal Pictures, the film includes a number of monsters such as Count Dracula (and other vampires), Frankenstein's monster, Duergar, Mr. The eponymous character was inspired by the Dutch vampire hunter Abraham Van Helsing from Irish author Bram Stoker's novel Dracula. The film is a homage and tribute 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. It stars Hugh Jackman as Dutch monster hunter Van Helsing, and Kate Beckinsale as Anna Valerious. Yeah this is bad.Van Helsing is a 2004 action gothic horror film written and directed by Stephen Sommers. The final straw was the grizzled marine who survived 3 years in almost complete isolation yelling out in fury "SHUT THE FRICK UP". The scenario seems to have some potential but we are forced to slog behind infuriating characters that refuse to observe anything around them and act with no consistency or agency. The set design is poor, I laughed out loud at some absurdities like wet glossy blood on a baby carrier that's supposed to have been ravaged at least 3 years prior, or a seemingly never-ending supply of bullets and smokes that we're supposed to believe were in short supply months before the story kicks off. The constant fades between scenes with abruptly chopped stock music, make it look like someone just edited this in Windows Movie Maker. The premise seemed like something I'd love, and there's something there but I couldn't bring myself to go past Season 1 Episode 3, and frankly I'm shocked to read how people say this is when the show was good. 3 Failed attempts at building some structure and now utterly killed it with the "elders" and the "Van Helsing", like come on! I hope to all vampires that it picks up quickly because even I am running out of patience here, I'd rather stare at a blank wall than see another cliche plot twist and lazy writing! From one cliche plot twist to another, I am yet to see anything that is worth this series, that makes this series its own unique story and seriously 2 seasons and you don't know anything about this world, except that it is "infested with vampires" and everyone is just running around like a maniac. Visuals aren't at all what you'd hope for in this day and age, it's NOTHING like the movie, the writing is sloppy to say the least and down right stupid at its worst, like characters suddently know things they shouldn't know just because they wanted to go on with the story, which I find unacceptable to be honest. Every single classical plot twist, literally one after another after another, it's like watching Dynasty with Vampires. I've watched 2 seasons, I don't know why I still bother at this point.
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