Van Helsing
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.
What critics thought
Critics were nearly united in panning Van Helsing as a CGI-bloated spectacle with no wit, character development, or internal logic — a rare dissent came from Roger Ebert, who found the monster-mashing excess genuinely fun by the finale. The central split is between those who found it torturously hollow and the cult audience that embraced it as gleeful camp.
“There are quite a few unintentionally funny moments, although the overall experience was too intensely painful for me to be able to advocate it as being "so bad, it's good”
James Berardinelli·ReelViews
“looks like a movie assembled by a room full of computer geeks munching Doritos and playing Wolfenstein in between stints of designing Dracula's fangs”
Bill Muller·The Arizona Republic
“Sommers tries to hold an audience for two hours with nothing up his sleeve but colored ribbons, bright sparklers and a kazoo. What he proves is that this is no way to make movies”
Mick LaSalle·San Francisco Chronicle
“Van Helsing is silly, spectacular and fun”
Roger Ebert·Chicago Sun-Times
Parents guide
- Violence
- moderate
- Sex
- mild
- Profanity
- mild
- Substances
- mild
- Intensity
- moderate
Genres
Horror, Adventure, Action
Cast & Crew
Stephen SommersDirector
Hugh JackmanVan Helsing
Kate BeckinsaleAnna Valerious
Richard RoxburghCount Vladislaus Dracula
Josie MaranMarishka
David WenhamCarl
Shuler HensleyFrankenstein's Monster
Elena AnayaAleera
Kevin J. O'ConnorIgor
Alun ArmstrongCardinal Jinette
Will KempVelkan
Silvia CollocaVerona
Tom FisherTop Hat
Alan SilvestriComposer
Allen DaviauCinematographyVan Helsing
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.
What critics thought
Critics were nearly united in panning Van Helsing as a CGI-bloated spectacle with no wit, character development, or internal logic — a rare dissent came from Roger Ebert, who found the monster-mashing excess genuinely fun by the finale. The central split is between those who found it torturously hollow and the cult audience that embraced it as gleeful camp.
“There are quite a few unintentionally funny moments, although the overall experience was too intensely painful for me to be able to advocate it as being "so bad, it's good”
James Berardinelli·ReelViews
“looks like a movie assembled by a room full of computer geeks munching Doritos and playing Wolfenstein in between stints of designing Dracula's fangs”
Bill Muller·The Arizona Republic
“Sommers tries to hold an audience for two hours with nothing up his sleeve but colored ribbons, bright sparklers and a kazoo. What he proves is that this is no way to make movies”
Mick LaSalle·San Francisco Chronicle
“Van Helsing is silly, spectacular and fun”
Roger Ebert·Chicago Sun-Times
Parents guide
- Violence
- moderate
- Sex
- mild
- Profanity
- mild
- Substances
- mild
- Intensity
- moderate
Genres
Horror, Adventure, Action
Cast & Crew
Stephen SommersDirectorHugh JackmanVan HelsingKate BeckinsaleAnna ValeriousRichard RoxburghCount Vladislaus DraculaJosie MaranMarishkaDavid WenhamCarlShuler HensleyFrankenstein's MonsterElena AnayaAleeraKevin J. O'ConnorIgorAlun ArmstrongCardinal JinetteWill KempVelkanSilvia CollocaVeronaTom FisherTop HatAlan SilvestriComposerAllen DaviauCinematography