Van Helsing
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.
Plot
In 1887 Transylvania, Doctor Victor Frankenstein, aided by his assistant Igor and Count Dracula, creates a monster. Dracula kills Frankenstein when he refuses to go along with the vampire's designs for the creature as Igor, revealed to be under Dracula's pay, watches impassively. As a mob storms the castle, the monster flees to a windmill with Frankenstein's body. The mob burns down the windmill, seemingly killing the monster. A year later, Gabriel Van Helsing, a monster hunter who works for the Knights of the Holy Order, an organization that protects mankind, travels to Notre-Dame de Paris and kills Dr. Jekyll after a brawl with Mr. Hyde. Van Helsing remembers nothing before he was found on the steps of a church nearly dead, and hopes to earn pardon for his forgotten sins and regain his memory.
Awards
Cast
- Allison Queal
- Alun Armstrong
- Dana Morávková
- David Wenham
- Elena Anaya
- Hugh Jackman
- Jan Pavel Filipensky
- Jaroslav Vízner
- Josie Maran
- Kacie Borrowman
- Kate Beckinsale
- Kevin J. O'Connor
- Ladislav Ondřej
- Marek Vašut
- Martin Klebba
- Petr Vlasák
- Richard Roxburgh
- Robbie Coltrano
- Samuel West
- Shuler Hensley
- Silvia Colloca
- Tom Fisher
- Will Kemp
- Zuzana Durdinova