Van Helsing
Van Helsing is a 2004 American period action horror film written and directed by Stephen Sommers. It stars Hugh Jackman as vigilante monster hunter Van Helsing, and Kate Beckinsale as Anna Valerious. The film is a homage and tribute to the Universal Horror Monster films from the 1930s and 1940s (also produced by Universal Studios which were in turn based on novels by Bram Stoker and Mary Shelley), of which Sommers is a fan.
Plot
In 1887, Transylvania, Dr. Victor Frankenstein, with help from his assistant Igor and Count Dracula, successfully creates a monster. Dracula, a vampire, kills Frankenstein to use the creature for his own purposes. As an angry mob storms Castle Frankenstein, the monster flees to a windmill with his dead creator. The mob burn down the windmill, apparently destroying the monster.
Awards
Cast
- Alun Armstrong
- Dana Morávková
- David Wenham
- Elena Anaya
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- Hugh Jackman
- Jan Pavel Filipensky
- Jaroslav Vízner
- Josie Maran
- Kate Beckinsale
- Kevin J. O'Connor
- Ladislav Ondřej
- Marek Vašut
- Martin Klebba
- Richard Roxburgh
- Robbie Coltrane
- Samuel West
- Shuler Hensley
- Silvia Colloca
- Tom Fisher
- Will Kemp
More details
| author | Stephen Sommers |
|---|---|
| award | TV Krant Filmposter Award |
| contentLocation | Czech Republic Paris Romania Transylvania Vatican City |
| director | Stephen Sommers |
| editor | Bob Ducsay Kelly Matsumoto |
| genre | action horror |
| keywords | 1887 abraham van helsing ambush angry mob attack bite brides of dracula budapest capture count dracula cure curse discover fight frankenstein\'s monster friar full moon gabriel igor kidnap kill monster mr. hyde murder notre-dame de paris paint purgatory read slay three brides van helsing victor frankenstein werewolf windmill |
| musicBy | Alan Silvestri |
| producer | Bob Ducsay Stephen Sommers |
| publisher | Universal Pictures |
| recordedAt | Czech Republic Florida Los Angeles Paris Prague |
| theme | swashbuckler vampire vigilante |