1337xMovie: Van Helsing’s Best Scenes
Van Helsing’s Best Scenes – Join Van Helsing (Hugh Jackman), Anna (Kate Beckinsale), and Carl (David Wenham) on their epic fantasy-horror adventures to slay Dracula (Richard Roxburgh) and his band of monsters. What was your favorite Van Helsing scene? Sound off in the comments below!
FILM DESCRIPTION: Famed monster slayer Gabriel Van Helsing (Hugh Jackman) is dispatched to Transylvania to assist the last of the Valerious bloodline in defeating Count Dracula (Richard Roxburgh). Anna Valerious (Kate Beckinsale) reveals that Dracula has formed an unholy alliance with Dr. Frankenstein’s monster (Shuler Hensley) and is hell-bent on exacting a centuries-old curse on her family. Together Anna and Van Helsing set out to destroy their common enemy, but uncover some unsettling secrets along the way
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 both an 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.
The eponymous character 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 received generally negative reviews.
Directed by | Stephen Sommers |
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Written by | Stephen Sommers |
Based on | Dracula by Bram StokerFrankenstein by Mary Shelley The Wolf Man |
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Cinematography | Allen Daviau |
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Music by | Alan Silvestri |
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Sommers Company
Stillking Films |
Distributed by | Universal Pictures |
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131 minutes |
Countries | United States Czech Republic |
Language | English |
Budget | $160–170 million |
Box office | $300.2 million |