Van Helsing is a thriller directed by Stephen Sommers and starring Hugh Jackman, Kate Beckinsale, Richard Roussburg, David Vinham, and Schuler Hansley.
The film tells the story of Van Helsing's trip to Eastern Europe, the home of the vampire Count Dracula, at the end of the 19th century to hunt down evil forces that have plagued the local area.
Under the cold sky, black clouds rolled, the wind gusted, a lightning bolt broke through the night sky, and the desperate demons and ghosts attacked the ancient town of "Transylvania". Set at the end of the 19th century, the vampire Dracula (Richard Locksberg), who has been entrenched in the ancient town of Transylvania for many years, has sucked up the blood of countless human beings, and has been trying to get his life and the offspring of the three vampire brides. Under the shadow of the evil of dracula's blood-sucking family, God had already promised the Villis family that if dracula had not been destroyed, their souls would not have ascended to heaven.
In order to eliminate the evil forces in Transylvania and save the Villeres family, the Catholic Church travels to the United States to invite Dr. Van Helsing (Hugh Jackman), a member of the Monster Hunter and Member of the Holy Order, to help them destroy Dracula. Van Helsing then put on his lethal weapon and rushed to the ancient city of Transylvania with his assistant Carl (David Venham). On the way, Van Helsing rescues another vampire female hunter and descendant of the Villeress family, Anna Viles (Kate Beckinsale), but to van Helsing's surprise, the people of Transylvania don't seem to believe Van Helsing. In their eyes, Van Helsing is also a violent monster, definitely not the hero who longs to save them. The enemy was also far more raging and terrifying than he had imagined, and he himself had almost been buried under the sharp teeth of the monster several times.
Sommers saw Bram Stoker's 1897 novel Dracula in 1983, in which Van Helsing was 60 years old and named Abraham. Van Helsing has appeared in countless films, but none of them centered on him. Sommers wanted to make Van Helsing his own, so he changed Van Helsing's name to Gabriel to make Van Helsing younger and cooler.
Van Helsing's biggest failure is that it revives the classic monster images without making them terrifying. Although the visual effects created by the film are very shocking, the story is weak, and the background of the gathering of the three devils is not clear.
The film belongs to the commercial film that does not let the audience use their brains, although dracula the vampire count Dracula imitates the classic horror image of the black and white film era everywhere, but the exaggerated action look cannot hide the taste of "game". The huge set, smooth action editing, endless monster transformation shots, and the minute-long heartbeat of the dubbing will make the audience feel worth the ticket price.
Van Helsing is a "hybrid horror genre" that integrates vampires, werewolves, and Frankenstein, and the monster hunter "Van Helsing" is jokingly called "a civil servant of the Holy See, affiliated with the Six Surreal Research Sections of Vatican Intelligence, code-named Zero Zero Nine", and then fights the glamorous rays as a hero. The film is a Hollywood-invested horror film, with huge sets, smooth action editing, and endless monster transformation shots that are constantly carried out intensive audiovisual bombardment.
"Van Helsing" is a good movie of fighting and killing, in which the various monsters are also the biggest attraction, the monsters in the film are carefully designed, the werewolf will tear his human skin with his claws when transforming, and the female vampire's cloak can turn into the wings of a bat, and the design is completely different from other works.