2004 Directed by Stephen Sommers
Famed monster slayer Gabriel Van Helsing is dispatched to Transylvania to assist the last of the Valerious bloodline in defeating Count Dracula. Anna Valerious reveals that Dracula has formed an unholy alliance with Dr. Frankenstein's monster and is hell-bent on exacting a centuries-old curse on her family.
Hugh Jackman Kate Beckinsale Richard Roxburgh David Wenham Shuler Hensley Elena Anaya Will Kemp Kevin J. O'Connor Alun Armstrong Silvia Colloca Josie Maran Tom Fisher Samuel West Robbie Coltrane Stephen Fisher Dana Morávková Zuzana Durdinová Jaroslav Vízner Marek Vašut Samantha Sommers Dorel Mois Marianna Mois Laurence Racine Patrice Wojciechowski Kacie Borrowman Martin Klebba Ryan James
Derek Thompson Christian Alzmann Daniel Jeannette Jennifer C. Bell Gretchen Libby Scott Squires Ben Snow Leslie Fulton
Harry Cohen Ezra Dweck Dino Dimuro Christopher Assells Per Hallberg Bryan Bowen Leslie Shatz Karen Baker Landers Peter Staubli Bruce Tanis Dan Hegeman David Parker Dennis S. Sands Scott Sanders Lou Kleinman
Gabriella Pescucci Carlo Poggioli Nick Scarano Laura Baker Nancy Smytka Silvia Raiano Serena Fiumi Catherine Peña Jorge J. Gonzalez Renata Ryšavá
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Look, can someone please explain to me why people still treat the Brendan Fraser Mummy movie much more kindly than this? They're both great action-adventure films based on the classic Universal Monsters, but The Mummy seems to get a pass, despite some distractingly dated CG, while Van Helsing gets unnecessarily shit on. Sure, it has some dated CG as well, though nowhere near as bad as in The Mummy (1999). This deserves better and y'all done it dirty.
I think this film's reception proves why Universal will never succeed in getting a Dark Universe off the ground. For anyone like myself, who grew up watching things like Young Frankenstein, Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein, and The Monster Squad, as well…
Stephen Sommers with $45m budget = masterpiece
Stephen Sommers with $80m budget = masterpiece
Stephen Sommers with anything more than that = no, daddy Steve, put the computer graphics down
also the guy who plays the Frankenstein monster in this was Jud in Oklahoma with Hugh
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What a great opening. The stark b&w photography. The monster mash atmosphere. The exaggerated shadows and lightning strikes. It's a cute little short film ultimately undone by the rest of the movie, which is a garish, CGI aesthetic wasteland that feels like the worst possible recreation of something like Coppola's Dracula. Terrible.
Saw this pop up on Hulu and I hadn’t watched it since it was in theaters (now almost 20 years ago, good lord) and was curious if it was as bad as I remembered.
Nope — it was worse!
The practical sets are so beautiful and creepy, and then the CGI monsters look more cartoonish than the cast of Who Framed Roger Rabbit. This movie has aged so much more poorly than the old Universal Monsters classics it was ostensibly designed to update. Those will last forever. This is so bad I could barely even finish it; I had to break it up over several nights.
What do all the Brendan Fraser Mummy cultists make of this? Do they know this movie exists? Do they think it is an absolute nightmare or do they like this one too?
Effects so bad even your kids will comment on them, leather so tight even the best of us can't ignore, yes that's right, I'm talking about the one and only Van Helsing!
If Sam Raimi’s name was on the director credit y’all would be giving this shit five stars
