Van Helsing and Carl rescue Anna and escape from the masquerade guests, revealed to be vampires.Īt Anna's castle, Carl explains that Dracula is the son of Valerious the Elder. Van Helsing locks the monster in a crypt, but the undead retrieve him for Dracula. Aleera kidnaps Anna and offers to trade her for the monster at a masquerade ball. Verona and Velkan are killed, but Van Helsing is bitten. While attempting to bring the monster to Rome, Van Helsing and his crew are ambushed by the brides and Velkan, near Budapest. It comes to life, revealing the knights as a vampire and a werewolf in battle. In Anna's castle, Carl discovers a hidden painting of two rival knights.
Eavesdropping on their discussion, Velkan escapes with this new information. Van Helsing and Anna escape and stumble upon Frankenstein's monster at the windmill, who reveals that he's the key to Frankenstein's machine to give life to Dracula's brood. Dracula's spawn come to life before dying, due to lacking Frankenstein's original formula. They stumble upon Dracula's plan to duplicate Frankenstein's experiments to give life to thousands of his undead children, using Velkan as a conduit.ĭuring the fray, Dracula confronts Van Helsing, whom he regards as an ancient rival.
Van Helsing and Anna pursue Velkan to Frankenstein's castle. That night, Velkan visits Anna to warn her of Dracula's plans but transforms into a werewolf and escapes. Van Helsing and Carl, a friar and weapons inventor, arrive at a village and join Anna's fight with Dracula's brides – Verona, Marishka and Aleera, slaying Marishka in the process. In Transylvania, Anna and Velkan attempt to kill a werewolf controlled by Dracula, but it falls with Velkan into a deep river gorge, managing to bite him in the process. Their ancestor vowed that his descendants would kill Dracula or spend eternity in Purgatory. Van Helsing, who remembers nothing before he was found crawling up the steps of a church nearly dead, hopes to earn pardon for his forgotten sins and regain his memory.Īt the Order's Vatican City headquarters, Van Helsing is tasked with traveling to Transylvania, destroying Dracula and protecting Anna and Velkan Valerious, the last of an ancient Romanian family. 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. Van Helsing is a 2004 action gothic horror film written and directed by Stephen Sommers.
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