Van Helsing (2004) movie poster

Van Helsing (2004)

"The one name they all fear."
ThumbScore
👍 87%Google users liked it ⓘ
Critics Score
🎬 30%
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Runtime
2h 12m
Rated
PG-13
Country
Czech Republic, United States of America
Language
English
TMDB Rating
6.4/10 (6,504 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes
24%
Metacritic
35

Cast

Hugh Jackman as Van Helsing · 73% avg
Kate Beckinsale as Anna Valerious · 68% avg
Richard Roxburgh as Count Vladislaus Dracula · 71% avg
David Wenham as Carl · 76% avg
Shuler Hensley as Frankenstein's Monster
Elena Anaya as Aleera · 69% avg
Will Kemp as Velkan
Kevin J. O'Connor as Igor · 73% avg

Is Van Helsing good?

Yes. 87% of real audiences liked it, by Google's archived audience score. Critics scored it lower at 30%, but audiences disagreed.

Where it ranks on ThumbScore

Rank in its genre
#99 / 1168 · Horror
Rank in its year
#26 / 175 · 2004
Rank among its director's films
#2 / 6 · Stephen Sommers

By audience score, among films with 500 or more votes.

Overview

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. Wikipedia ↗

About the Film

Van Helsing is a 2004 American gothic action horror film directed by Stephen Sommers. Hugh Jackman stars as Gabriel Van Helsing, a legendary monster hunter working for the Vatican's secret order, who is sent to Transylvania to help Anna Valerious, played by Kate Beckinsale, destroy Count Dracula, played by Richard Roxburgh, before the Valerious family's souls are consigned to purgatory. Van Helsing must battle not only Dracula but also Frankenstein's Monster, the Wolf Man, and Dracula's vampire brides in a maximalist gothic adventure.

Stephen Sommers, fresh off The Mummy franchise, applied the same popcorn-entertainment approach to Universal's classic monster properties, creating a film that was relentlessly action-packed at the expense of subtlety. Hugh Jackman brought physical credibility and brooding charisma to the title role, and the production design — all crumbling castles, lightning-struck laboratories, and windswept Transylvanian villages — was impressively atmospheric. Van Helsing earned $300 million worldwide on a $160 million budget.

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