Think you guys are missing the best part about the Carl / faramir character. He's a dead shot with everything he throws. Whether it's a bundle of bolts to Van Helsing, or a bucket at a devil vampire baby, or even a vial full of the werewolf cure, he doesn't miss. Literally the most accurate side character I've ever seen.
Just goes to show how much creativity Hollywood used to have. Sad, really. We have seen the rise and fall of the golden ages of cinema and video games.
Vampires couldn't see their reflections because mirrors used to be backed with a layer of silver, which was considered a 'pure' metal, so it didn't interact with vampires. However, modern mirrors are now backed with aluminium, so they would be able to see their reflections. Make of that what you will.
That seems like it would be a neat detail for a modern vampire movie, the Vampire hunter keeps an antique pocket mirror because you can't tell using glass/water/aluminium mirrors.
Not to "well actually" you since its not wrong. But the concept of silver being "Pure" wasnt so much its inherent purity, but moreso that when jesus was betrayed, the reward was pieces of silver. After his death silver was cursed by god to be the bane of all those who turned their back on god. All creatures of the night being vampires werewolves and ghouls/demons etc wouldnt even be able to look at it or be in its presence let alone obtain it for riches. If i remember correctly it wasnt the silver lining on mirrors but the idea that a mirror shows your soul and since dracula has no soul he wouldnt appear in it. Thats strcitly the van helsing explanation in stokers dracula. THe silver laced coating is a good mix of realism to it though.
@@CheezebladeI'll gladly "well actually" you, silver has been used to treat wounds and purify water for thousands of years due to its antimicrobial properties, Hippocrates wrote about it hundreds of years before the Christ myth
This is the type of Werewolves I love more than any others. They look like actual wolves instead of very hairy people. Increased muscles to show they can rip humans apart, but also a good amount of hair all over them to have a bit of physics and sell that they are real.
@@patrioticcat5768 I remember that! Lol I remember walking across a bridge and one of Dracula’s minions ran up to 10yo me from the dark, and scared me so bad that I ran through the entire thing only to be scared by a life size werewolf at the end lmao My dad chased after me.
Agreed, I liked the nice muscle tone they added to their bodies. The last erotic scene where werewolf Gabriel is holding Anna looked really good, I remember thinking "Am I weird for wanting to spoon with that werewolf? His fur would be so soft...." Well, at least I get some sort of confirmation that I wasn't the only person thinking that, rags probably thought that too.
When this movie came out I still had a vcr and on it were these 2 dials that controlled the image, you would turn the dials until the image had color and a good resolution. When I rented Van hellsing and the movie started in black and white I lost around 45 minutes on those dials trying to get the color back. When I realized that it was a stylistic choice I never felt dumber... Good times
@@justifiedkill7766 two things, first my father's philosophy of "i don't need a new one until the older breaks" and Brasil. If i'm not mistaken i still have the VCR somewhere, MF probably still works.
This is one of my favorite versions of Frankenstein's monster. He has the intelligence of the book monster, and the gentleness of the 1931 movie monster.
@@denkerbosu3551 Highlights the little character arc they were trying to do with van helsing where he rediscovers his humanity by saving a monster rather than just killing them.
This has a lot of similarities to _The Mummy_ because both films were originally meant to take place in the same universe (they are directed by the same guy). They were going to start doing all of the classic horror films in this new style. Shame they never continued with it.
Sommer's "Deep Rising" film was also meant to lead into a new King Kong film, and start a series of connected films, ages before the Monsterverse was kick-started. Dude was ahead of his time.
@@berserkasaurusrex4233 Ah, so that's why they end up on an island with huge monsters at the end. Also the actor playing Beni and Igor was also in that movie.
The werewolf being on the wall is indicative of an abomination. Going against nature. Dio from Jojo's walks up a wall when he is turned to show that he is no longer bound by human limitations. Dracula and his ilk can fly, but despite wearing shoes, we see him standing on the ceiling. He's not clinging to it, he's just... not natural enough to care about gravity.
It's probably at least a nod to exorcist movies where the possessed person slides on up the walls and ceiling. But putting Dracula at unnatural angles just 'cause, definitely highlights how much something like him doesn't belong in this world.
It has always bothered me, that Universal tried to make their own cinematic universe, but refused to take advantage of The Mummy and Van Helsing as a spring board for it. The had a blueprint in their back pocket for action adventure block busters and established Van Helsing and Rick O'Connell as lead heroes, you just needed a couple more.
Ay ironic, I was ranting about this in the discord these past few days. Like even if they wanted classical monsters, they could still have it be under some similar guise. Or even just creating different branches in other countries for foreign horror stories.
In Frankenstein the novel, Victor Frankenstein dies in the Arctic Circle after telling an explorer his sad tale. The monster, through stealth and setups, has everyone Victor loves killed by his own hand or by wrongful accusation and then capital punishment. Victor has spent years searching for the monster to kill him. The monster shows up on the explorer's boat after Victor dies. He expresses regret for all the atrocities he's committed, and then (I believe) leaves in a rowboat, knowing he'll eventually succumb to the cold.
Didn't the monster say he was going to set himself on fire? Something about destroying the evidence of his existence? Its been a while, I could be thinking of something else.
Yeah, he did. No idea where he's gonna get the wood though. The explorer in the book seems to assume that, because the sun barely ever sets there, it will be temperate at the pole. Maybe the creature has made a similar assumption.
I also love "Van Helsing, you murderer!" and Igor's "It's what I do", whenever I watch this movie with others I always quote those lines with perfect timing.
You gotta convince them to do Solomon Kane stuff. Since Van Hellsing in this movie is turned from the eccentric professor of Bram Stoker's Dracula to Solomon Kane with the serial numbers filed off and Catholic instead of Puritan Protestant. Makes me extra sad the actual 2009 movie didn't do good enough to get a sequel
Then watch Solomon Kane! The character Van Helsing basically ripped off. Puritan heathen and monster slayer from the creator of Conan. The 2009 movie was pretty good and his original stories are epic.
Stephen Sommers walked so the MCU could run (and then later trip over its shoelaces). Fucking loved this movie growing up and watching it with you guys was an absolute blast. Now we need this Mummy, Underworld, and Tomb Raider EFAPS~
Van Hellsing in this movie is turned from an eccentric professor to Solomon Kane with the serial numbers filed off and Catholic instead of Puritan Protestant. Which makes me all kinds of sad that the actual Solomon Kane movie didn't do well enough for a sequel.
Honestly, my favorite part of this movie, and I HAVE to think this change is purposeful because it’s so heavily emphasized in the movie, is the fact that Frankenstein’s Monster has thoroughly read the Bible and believes in God in spite of the circumstances of his creation. He believes thoroughly in the sanctity of life as a Christian as well as the fact that in spite of what he is, God MUST have a plan for him. I bring up this interesting choice of characterization because in Mary Shelly’s “Frankenstein,” it’s actually a major character trait of the Monster that he ends up reading “Paradise Lost” first and actually ends up SYMPATHIZING with Lucifer against God. He ends up seeing parallels between himself and the Devil in how he is also a supposedly “perfect” creation forsaken by his maker, and later goes on to torment Frankenstein and murder those closest to him out of rebellious rage. I have to think that the film made this character change as a respectful nod to the book because in the original Frankenstein film, the Monster is NEVER shown to be reading ANYTHING after its creation. So that means the makers of this film put in this detail on purpose. I dunno, I just found it an interesting juxtaposition.
@@HalbdaemonKite I like it because it gives the Monster characterization and personality that he’d otherwise not have. For example, it’s an interesting thematic irony that the Monster is shown to be kind of a better Christian than even Van Helsing, even though he’s not exactly “human.” You end up sympathizing with him because he clearly has a soul, and you genuinely hope Van Helsing saves him by film’s end. It’s a wonderful writing trick that just works really well for the movie.
@@thegrimcritic5494 Yeah a monster convincing Solomon Ka-- I mean "Van Helsing" it truly does have a soul and serves God as best he can is a pretty damn compelling plot.
@@thegrimcritic5494 Yeah, I like it too. I also actually like his "monstery" appearance, even though that's not what he's supposed to look like (iirc he's an absolue stud in the book). It kinda makes his character more poignant.
Kind of. He was designed to be a stud but he didn't really come out right. He looks like a jaundiced corpse that got stuck in the uncanny valley and is walking around.
What a fun movie. A good mix of comedy and action, with a bit of heart. Downright perfect casting across the board. And the visuals and set design is just perfection. Good to see them reacting to it after all this time. Besides Dracula hamming it up in every scene, I also like Anna's character. How she's portrayed as a downright stereotypical "action female" but it's so over-the-top and treated as a joke at times, that it fits. My favorite moment being when she grabs a weapon to fight off the vampire horde before Jackman comes in to pull her away. Compared to a movie today, or even back then, that'd play her completely straight and just make her annoying, it's a great attempt at the trope.
Yea in this universe dracula can move through reflective surfaces and shadows. So he can do the next best thing to teleporting. "1 or 2 people a month"........ That's up to 24 people a YEAR. For a secluded Transylvanian village in the 1800s that would devastate them and cause the village to collapse.
honestly, 1:14:50 made me cry laughing, just watching him get yeeted into the scaffolding was amazing. I've always wanted some type of media to have that happen where the fighting around equipment has it's consequences and it looks as stupid as it is
Yeah i played that shit on ps2 back in the day. It doesn't play out like the movie much at all and a lot of it was puzzle based but it definitely wasn't a bad game for the time.
My mom and I got this rented this movie (I can’t remember if it was from the library or the last Blockbuster or if it was vhs or dvd) but it was the first “family movie night” we decided to have after my dad passed away. I remember my mom having a long one sided argument with the tv because it wouldn’t “please let the movie play!” We also had a few good laughs at the action sequences and had a good cry when we saw the “for my dad” edit credits. Glad you guys enjoyed this movie as much as I do.
22:22 Another fun thing about Van Helsing is that it DID have a tie-in game that was a Devil May Cry clone. I saw a copy at my local secondhand store on the 3 for $5 shelf.
@@Dutchmanbeats. i remember it being really hard, granted i was maybe 12 at the time. I think i got stuck on the fight in the castle against the last two wives. Can't remember if i ever beat it
Fun fact: dwergi means dwarf in several languages, including Romanian, which means that they were actually just fighting an army of dwarves and that's how dwarves look and sound in that world.
I prefer Tolkien’s Dwarves. They make beautiful Stonework, armor, and weapons. Far less OSHA violations and safety concerns. Other than the giant hammers and furnaces.
1:04:05, when she states they need to save her family, and one of the guys says "isn't she the last of her family?" - in the early setup, it was explained that it was only Anna and her brother left, but the family had been defending against monsters for centuries so the church owes it to them. The family is cursed because Dracula is a member of the family, so Van Helsing has to kill Dracula BEFORE the last member of the family dies, inorder for their souls to be saved. Which is why it was so dramatic that Helsing defeated Dracula moments before Anna dies. The whole family line is gone, but he saved their souls.
"How could the MCU rip off Van Helsing?" -- Alan Silvestri wrote this score first, then repurposed some of it for his Avengers theme. Update, oh they got it at the end after all!
I 'member this. Good tisms! Alan Silvestri did the score for both Avengers and Van Helsing. That David Carradine version was not a sequel, which was permanently cancelled. The "franchise" is set to be rebooted soon (2022 - 2023).
@@Rags You guys gonna do Solomon Kane? Since Van Hellsing in this movie is turned from the eccentric professor of Bram Stoker's Dracula to Solomon Kane with the serial numbers filed off and Catholic instead of Puritan Protestant. Makes me extra sad the actual 2009 movie didn't do good enough to get a sequel.
When I was younger, I thought that both this movie and League of Extraordinary Gentlemen were set in the same universe. They both are pretty entertaining films though.
When you watch the actors commentary they reveal some really funny stuff like how the wall walking scenes were done, how the snow is potato and a whole lotta fun stuff really recommend it.
The mid-2000s were such a great time for movies. The studios were just like, "I don't know what to make next! Fuck it. Here. Drum fed crossbows and vampires."
Imo, best way to do the, "it's alive" line in a serious Frankenstein film. Would be to have Dr. Frankenstein refer to the monster as "He" the entire time until it comes to life. Then like in this film, have the monster go berserk off screen, and then cut to other characters pov coming into the castle and eventually run into a now traumatized Dr. Frankenstein that then utters the line, "i...it's alive,.....I..IT'S ALIVE". Then sharp camera turn to the monster looking down on all of them from the top of the stairs
1:21:40 "Why wasn't there a Van Helsing 2?" This movie actually was supposed to be the first of a series of adventure movies where he goes around finding and killing other monsters, like the Mummy and the invisible man, but iirc, people in theatres didn't like how goofy the movie was and it didn't make enough money, so the planned sequels never happened.
It made 300 million in 2004. That’s pretty dang good. But 160 mil. is also a lot to profit over. It would have had to make half a billion to get the sequel going. That’s a big ask even today.
Really poorly written. Terrible dialogue, acting is weak, and action is stupid (though entertainingly so) Perhaps if it had more self awareness, people would’ve enjoyed it.
In the original story, Dr. Frankenstein dies of exposure in the Arctic on a boat while chasing after the Monster. After imparting his story to the ship's captain (which is the bulk of the novel), the Monster shows up and takes the body and then sails off on an ice floe.
Yeah it could have been interesting to have him be captured and forced to help Helsing in the movie but I feel that would undermine his whole killing monsters purpose.
Critical Drinker seems to be up for it, in one of the open bar catch ups he suggested it as part of an adventure movies EFAP movies arc. Pirates of the Caribbean was also suggested.
Part of the fun is knowing it's just meant for fun. It's easier to relax and enjoy when you're not worried that, at some point, they're going to turn to the camera and tell you that YOU are the real monster.
"This needs to be a videogame!" - Mauler Actually, it was. It was basically a God of War clone (the OG God of War, not the new ones). For a movie tie-in game, it wasn't bad.
Ah yes the question "How does one kill a monster" so many versions and so many hollyood mythconceptions. For instance silver bullets are a relatively recent concept for werewolves dating back to the early day's of movies whereas historically killing them varied from no harder than other beast/person (such as the hunter who cut a paw off a wolf that attacked him then in the morning it turned into his wifes hand recognizeable by the wedding band and he rushed home to find her dead of blood loss) to the burn the entire family approach (used in one of the earlier cases to eliminate the curse). Vampires are especially fun because depending how broadly you draw from you could wind up having to do multiple different things (a wooden stake made specifically of aspen or hawthorn wood through the heart or navel, small stones or grains of incense in the coffin, garlic stuffed in the mouth, millet see scattered over his body, bury him again face downwards, wild thorny roses strung over his grave) to permanently kill them. Fun fact you could become a vampire are by being the child of a woman LOOKED at by one
@@lamrethal695 ahh yeh, it's weird innit. Could've sworn I've seen footage of em laughing at Frankenstein's monster, and at the poorly aged cgi vampire women in the village attack scene. Its kinda confusing me lol
They covered Nostalgia Critic's review of it, so there's probably some points of them laughing at how crazy the movie is just from NC's clips. But yeah I know what you mean, this seems familiar lol
They went through it partially, two times in a row, during an Halloween special. Discussion first, then through the prospect of criticizing a Nostalgia Critic fustercluck going over the movie. Might be repeating the same thing as others, but I'm multitasking and nothing is lost if I'm redundant.
Fun facts: 1) the vampires arent moving at super speed when they “teleport”. Theyre using hipnosis, and moving without you perceiving time passing you by. 2) how the cop knew it was van helsing from so far below? Many people reported to the cops bout a stranger looking for mr Hyde. The cop put 2 and 2 together with the descriptions. Found a gruesome “murder” and deduced it was van helsing at the top.
First off, I was not expecting this to be a efap movie, even though it's perfect fit in a way. I will say, when i first watched this movie, I treated like a serious movie and didn't like it coz there were plenty of times the good guys should of died. But rewatching it now, I definitely like it more... whether or not it was intended to be over-the-top and comical. I honestly wish we got more of dracula and his brides (and Igor). Then again, I'd like to see Van helsing and Carl just travelling around too. Maybe i just forgot but i didn't realise it was Hugh Jackman and David Wenham so that was nice to (re)learn. I really like the Werewolf designs in this, it's usually very much a hit or miss for me. So many times werewolves look like more like rats or something but they really nailed it here and it hasn't aged poorly either which is surprising. I also really like the transformation too. While i liked the vampire designs aswell, they aren't my favourite style/design but they looked very good nonetheless. Overall, It's definitely a fun watch with the addition of the efap crew reactions and commentary.
I like how he goes through all this effort to help get this woman into heaven, but then cremates her body... which the church considered heretical at the time... and thus would prevent her from getting into heaven.
Not precisely. In the Eastern Orthodox perspective (which she would be, because Catholicism isn't big in Eastern Europe), it's considered disrespectful and irreligious by the person conducting the cremation--but not something that would prevent God from sending the dead to his or her eternal destination. It's definitely an "honor the image of the God Who made you" sort of thing, not a "you screwed up someone else's salvation" thing. Catholic Canon Law only made an exception as of 1917 for cremation in times of plague or other situations that necessitate the quick disposal of a body--but if you live in a world where the dead turn into monsters, that exception may have been acknowledged sooner.
@@Davidofthelost I thought that and the beginning were the weakest part of the game. The doll house (clearly doing PT) and the robots in Heisenbergs factory were actually fun gameplay sections. But the castle was a snoozefest.
In the beginning, Wolf introduced Rags and MauLer to Van Helsing. It comes full circle with Das (with a wolf pfp) being introduced to it by MauLer and Rags.
I remember they made an anime movie that was a prequel to this, that was just Van Helsing hunting Mr. Hyde. There's also a Devil May Cry styled Van Helsing game.
A wise man once said; “the smaller the breasts, the closer you are to their hearts!” A wiser man once said; “bigger breasts are the expansion of the heart!” And the wisest man once said; “you must cherish the entire woman, as she’s the only doorway to her heart!”
1:04:02 when she says she must save her family, she is referring to the curse placed on her bloodline. Until Drac dies, all of her ancestor’s souls are damned or in purgatory or some shit. She wants to kill him to release their souls from torment, including her brother’s. I only saw this movie once when it first came out to rent on VHS back when I was like 14, but I always remembered that aspect of the film. These details are hard to pick up on when you’re joking around with a bunch of friends during a film, that’s why I’m always that friend rewinding shit in case some talks over a character.
Stephen summers movies are ALWAYS fun .. Deep Rising, Jungle Book (his version) .. and the Mummy .. good director who knows how to make a fun and entertaining movie. It’s too bad him and Jerry Goldsmith had a falling out (after ‘The Mummy’) .. cos as composer and director together .. they were one helluva team!
There IS an old game that came out, ilinear & short but great fun. It deviates from the movie in many absurd ways. Many fun ways too, you get to use the minigun.
I really love Van Helsing because I feel like it's made for somebody like me who hates horror movies. I love that the good guys have equal if not Superior force over evil, I love all their weapons, especially that crossbow, costumes are amazing, everybody is very strongly cast, and I love it when you get down to all the high octane action and thrills, the story is almost like a morality play of good versus evil. So often times most horror movies are the opposite way. Besides this isn't really a horror movie, as much as it is a high fantasy film, with a couple of monsters in it. Van Helsing was often marketed as a tribute to the universal monster movies the 30s, which it is, but it should have been honestly more marketed as a tribute to the Universal monster movies, and action adventure serials of the 30s. In fact, I think if you change a few things here and there this good movie could easily have been called Indiana Jones and the Tomb of Dracula. I also much appreciate the religious aspect of this film where it respects Christianity as the invincible force of good that is in real life. Cameos by Orthodox bishops in the Knights of the Holy order sequence was much appreciated. I really loved it the mystery of Hugh Jackman's character, and the ambiguity of his origins. I love all the characters honestly. I only wish Universal had more faith to continue the adventures of this character and his universe.
Dougray Scott was gonna play Wolverine but filming took longer than expected on Mission Impossible II so Hugh Jackman was cast and the rest is history.
Time for me once again to tell everybody to watch Stephen Sommers underrated as hell Deep Rising from 1998. Kevin J O'Connor (Benni/Igor) is one of the main characters, it's shitloads of fun and pretty well written (couple tisms here and there but nothing too major). Would make a great EFAP Movies.
Rags - “I’m not a Furry”
Also Rags
“Fucking werewolves” ^irresistible lust for^
Think you guys are missing the best part about the Carl / faramir character. He's a dead shot with everything he throws. Whether it's a bundle of bolts to Van Helsing, or a bucket at a devil vampire baby, or even a vial full of the werewolf cure, he doesn't miss. Literally the most accurate side character I've ever seen.
The sudden realization hes technically the precursor to Elizabeth from Bioshock Infinite. The perfect companion.
Just goes to show how much creativity Hollywood used to have. Sad, really. We have seen the rise and fall of the golden ages of cinema and video games.
"It costs 400,000 euros to fire this weapon, for 12 seconds."
-Hughvy Weapons Jackman
*600,000 dollarydoos
And more fiat Euros by the day with the way they're debasing the currency...
@@nillynush4899 Better trade your fiat for silver and gold monies.
@Nilly Nush it's what the EU gets for waging a proxy war against the nation where they most of their cheap gas and oil and other resources from
WHO TOUCHED MY GUN
Vampires couldn't see their reflections because mirrors used to be backed with a layer of silver, which was considered a 'pure' metal, so it didn't interact with vampires.
However, modern mirrors are now backed with aluminium, so they would be able to see their reflections.
Make of that what you will.
That seems like it would be a neat detail for a modern vampire movie, the Vampire hunter keeps an antique pocket mirror because you can't tell using glass/water/aluminium mirrors.
And technically, being an element, Silver IS a puremetal
Not to "well actually" you since its not wrong. But the concept of silver being "Pure" wasnt so much its inherent purity, but moreso that when jesus was betrayed, the reward was pieces of silver. After his death silver was cursed by god to be the bane of all those who turned their back on god. All creatures of the night being vampires werewolves and ghouls/demons etc wouldnt even be able to look at it or be in its presence let alone obtain it for riches. If i remember correctly it wasnt the silver lining on mirrors but the idea that a mirror shows your soul and since dracula has no soul he wouldnt appear in it. Thats strcitly the van helsing explanation in stokers dracula. THe silver laced coating is a good mix of realism to it though.
@@Cheezeblade in Dracula 2000 anyway lol
@@CheezebladeI'll gladly "well actually" you, silver has been used to treat wounds and purify water for thousands of years due to its antimicrobial properties, Hippocrates wrote about it hundreds of years before the Christ myth
32:30 Technically Faramir is a friar in this film, so I think Friarmir might be a better name for him.
This movie still has the best looking Werewolf
This is the type of Werewolves I love more than any others. They look like actual wolves instead of very hairy people. Increased muscles to show they can rip humans apart, but also a good amount of hair all over them to have a bit of physics and sell that they are real.
Yeah its not even close
I rememebr I went to universal studios after this release and they had a maze based on this move and it ended with this big mf scaring you in the end.
@@patrioticcat5768 I remember that! Lol I remember walking across a bridge and one of Dracula’s minions ran up to 10yo me from the dark, and scared me so bad that I ran through the entire thing only to be scared by a life size werewolf at the end lmao My dad chased after me.
Agreed, I liked the nice muscle tone they added to their bodies. The last erotic scene where werewolf Gabriel is holding Anna looked really good, I remember thinking "Am I weird for wanting to spoon with that werewolf? His fur would be so soft...." Well, at least I get some sort of confirmation that I wasn't the only person thinking that, rags probably thought that too.
When this movie came out I still had a vcr and on it were these 2 dials that controlled the image, you would turn the dials until the image had color and a good resolution.
When I rented Van hellsing and the movie started in black and white I lost around 45 minutes on those dials trying to get the color back.
When I realized that it was a stylistic choice I never felt dumber...
Good times
Damn.... still used a VCR in 2004-2005.
@@justifiedkill7766 two things, first my father's philosophy of "i don't need a new one until the older breaks" and Brasil.
If i'm not mistaken i still have the VCR somewhere, MF probably still works.
@@HabetVI VCRs were so sturdy as well, I think we only had one until DVDs came out.
@justifiedkill7766 we still have one, I couldn't play dvds until we finally got a ps2
This is one of my favorite versions of Frankenstein's monster. He has the intelligence of the book monster, and the gentleness of the 1931 movie monster.
I love his "Valley of Darkness" bit while he is captured.
@@denkerbosu3551 Highlights the little character arc they were trying to do with van helsing where he rediscovers his humanity by saving a monster rather than just killing them.
I love him and his different length arms
This has a lot of similarities to _The Mummy_ because both films were originally meant to take place in the same universe (they are directed by the same guy). They were going to start doing all of the classic horror films in this new style. Shame they never continued with it.
Brandon Frasier and Hugh Jackman together in a goofy monster movie would've been awesome!
Sommer's "Deep Rising" film was also meant to lead into a new King Kong film, and start a series of connected films, ages before the Monsterverse was kick-started. Dude was ahead of his time.
Indeed, imagine if Sommers got to do more monster movies
@@berserkasaurusrex4233 Ah, so that's why they end up on an island with huge monsters at the end. Also the actor playing Beni and Igor was also in that movie.
The classic monster extended universe
The werewolf being on the wall is indicative of an abomination. Going against nature. Dio from Jojo's walks up a wall when he is turned to show that he is no longer bound by human limitations. Dracula and his ilk can fly, but despite wearing shoes, we see him standing on the ceiling. He's not clinging to it, he's just... not natural enough to care about gravity.
DIO at least kicked foothold/holes into the wall as he stomped up it...
It's also a cool way to show off super strength...
It's probably at least a nod to exorcist movies where the possessed person slides on up the walls and ceiling.
But putting Dracula at unnatural angles just 'cause, definitely highlights how much something like him doesn't belong in this world.
It has always bothered me, that Universal tried to make their own cinematic universe, but refused to take advantage of The Mummy and Van Helsing as a spring board for it. The had a blueprint in their back pocket for action adventure block busters and established Van Helsing and Rick O'Connell as lead heroes, you just needed a couple more.
that would have been a great idea. just goofy fun action movies set through the eras and every now and again show theyre connected.
@@revolverswitch as long as kevin j o connor gets to goof around i wouldnt care lol.
i hope deep rising is part of the expanded universe.
@@conan2096 That would be all the epic. So much love for Deep Rising.
@@reaperezekial5168 thekevin j o connor cinematic universe will be the best :P
Ay ironic, I was ranting about this in the discord these past few days. Like even if they wanted classical monsters, they could still have it be under some similar guise. Or even just creating different branches in other countries for foreign horror stories.
In Frankenstein the novel, Victor Frankenstein dies in the Arctic Circle after telling an explorer his sad tale. The monster, through stealth and setups, has everyone Victor loves killed by his own hand or by wrongful accusation and then capital punishment. Victor has spent years searching for the monster to kill him.
The monster shows up on the explorer's boat after Victor dies. He expresses regret for all the atrocities he's committed, and then (I believe) leaves in a rowboat, knowing he'll eventually succumb to the cold.
Yeah, Kenneth Branagh’s version is closer to the source material, and even then they make some major changes.
@@Bouncy_Ball_Studios Too many, frankly, when you consider how perfectly faithful his adaptation of Hamlet was.
What Branagh did to the tale was worse than what Val Kilmer did to The Island of Dr Moreau.
Didn't the monster say he was going to set himself on fire? Something about destroying the evidence of his existence? Its been a while, I could be thinking of something else.
Yeah, he did. No idea where he's gonna get the wood though. The explorer in the book seems to assume that, because the sun barely ever sets there, it will be temperate at the pole. Maybe the creature has made a similar assumption.
"Too bad, so sad" is one of my favorite lines in movie history and I can't explain why lol
LoL that's my favourite line too. I'm not sure why either. It's just so memorable.
You can't explain why? Too bad, so sad.
I also love "Van Helsing, you murderer!" and Igor's "It's what I do", whenever I watch this movie with others I always quote those lines with perfect timing.
"Ya, go gay." _(*spoken with 0 passion)_ from Cursed is also pretty good.
"It's a sad sad situatiooon"
Methinks Drac might have skipped a few thousand inspections from OSHA. The turnover rate of his employees must be insurmountable!
Those employees must have been quite thirsty for the work that Drac had
Every 60 Seconds In Africa, A Minute Passes.
Sure, but I hear the Count has a fantastic Dental Plan.
You gotta convince them to do Solomon Kane stuff. Since Van Hellsing in this movie is turned from the eccentric professor of Bram Stoker's Dracula to Solomon Kane with the serial numbers filed off and Catholic instead of Puritan Protestant. Makes me extra sad the actual 2009 movie didn't do good enough to get a sequel
Van Helsing awakened my love for the wide-brimmed hat and longcoat combo for badass attire! Hugh Jackman looks so damn stylish!
If you like that particular fashion-style, you'd definitely enjoy playing "Bloodborne".
I'm off to fight monsters, let's grab the most dangerous attire to myself.
Then watch Solomon Kane! The character Van Helsing basically ripped off. Puritan heathen and monster slayer from the creator of Conan. The 2009 movie was pretty good and his original stories are epic.
Warhammer Witch Hunters. All heretics and blasphemers will burn in the name of the Sigmar!
@@arsenelupin9697 That's my first thought when I see Van Helsing now. The Bloodborne Hunter.
Stephen Sommers walked so the MCU could run (and then later trip over its shoelaces).
Fucking loved this movie growing up and watching it with you guys was an absolute blast. Now we need this Mummy, Underworld, and Tomb Raider EFAPS~
And we need _Deep Rising_ (1998), Sommers' first Action-Horror.
Van Hellsing in this movie is turned from an eccentric professor to Solomon Kane with the serial numbers filed off and Catholic instead of Puritan Protestant. Which makes me all kinds of sad that the actual Solomon Kane movie didn't do well enough for a sequel.
Good news is they did do the Mummy. Its a fun time to watch with em.
@@DIEGhostfish "Van Helsing" is half Solomon Kane and half "Kronos: the Vampire Hunter" reboot.
@@berserkasaurusrex4233 I will need to look into that.
Honestly, my favorite part of this movie, and I HAVE to think this change is purposeful because it’s so heavily emphasized in the movie, is the fact that Frankenstein’s Monster has thoroughly read the Bible and believes in God in spite of the circumstances of his creation. He believes thoroughly in the sanctity of life as a Christian as well as the fact that in spite of what he is, God MUST have a plan for him. I bring up this interesting choice of characterization because in Mary Shelly’s “Frankenstein,” it’s actually a major character trait of the Monster that he ends up reading “Paradise Lost” first and actually ends up SYMPATHIZING with Lucifer against God. He ends up seeing parallels between himself and the Devil in how he is also a supposedly “perfect” creation forsaken by his maker, and later goes on to torment Frankenstein and murder those closest to him out of rebellious rage. I have to think that the film made this character change as a respectful nod to the book because in the original Frankenstein film, the Monster is NEVER shown to be reading ANYTHING after its creation. So that means the makers of this film put in this detail on purpose. I dunno, I just found it an interesting juxtaposition.
It's one of the view versions of the monster, I've seen, that's actually articulate. (Maybe not to the level of eloquence of the book, but still.)
@@HalbdaemonKite I like it because it gives the Monster characterization and personality that he’d otherwise not have. For example, it’s an interesting thematic irony that the Monster is shown to be kind of a better Christian than even Van Helsing, even though he’s not exactly “human.” You end up sympathizing with him because he clearly has a soul, and you genuinely hope Van Helsing saves him by film’s end. It’s a wonderful writing trick that just works really well for the movie.
@@thegrimcritic5494 Yeah a monster convincing Solomon Ka-- I mean "Van Helsing" it truly does have a soul and serves God as best he can is a pretty damn compelling plot.
@@thegrimcritic5494 Yeah, I like it too. I also actually like his "monstery" appearance, even though that's not what he's supposed to look like (iirc he's an absolue stud in the book).
It kinda makes his character more poignant.
Kind of. He was designed to be a stud but he didn't really come out right. He looks like a jaundiced corpse that got stuck in the uncanny valley and is walking around.
I still think Van Helsing had the best looking werewolfs in cinema history.
Based on the comments on this video, a lot of people agree with you.
Best Werewolf and vampire design.
Considering the time period
Mr.Hyde , Vampires & Frankenstein too. Which is why I love monsters!😂
What a fun movie. A good mix of comedy and action, with a bit of heart. Downright perfect casting across the board. And the visuals and set design is just perfection. Good to see them reacting to it after all this time.
Besides Dracula hamming it up in every scene, I also like Anna's character. How she's portrayed as a downright stereotypical "action female" but it's so over-the-top and treated as a joke at times, that it fits. My favorite moment being when she grabs a weapon to fight off the vampire horde before Jackman comes in to pull her away. Compared to a movie today, or even back then, that'd play her completely straight and just make her annoying, it's a great attempt at the trope.
I was hoping Mauler would recognize one of Draculas brides was Dr.Poison from Wonder Woman.
EFAP is spoiling us with content right now, and I love it. Keep up the good work massives and may the long be with you all
Looking at avatars its like one year old one :)... EFAP #109 are the same
MauLers fave month, makes sense
Yeah this one was recorded way back around when they covered Nostalgia Critics Van Helsing Video.
Halloween season and Christmas season (which is objectively superior) always have the most content which makes sense.
I know, I feel special
Old windmills are extremely flammable actually!
Flour dust explodes like crazy and the old ones are hard to keep clean and the rest is wood and cloth!
Yea in this universe dracula can move through reflective surfaces and shadows. So he can do the next best thing to teleporting.
"1 or 2 people a month"........ That's up to 24 people a YEAR. For a secluded Transylvanian village in the 1800s that would devastate them and cause the village to collapse.
The only thing that can kill Dracula... is a Desert Eagle. It can shoot through anything.
Whad-Ja-Bring-Me!!
Chambered with .45 ACP. Have to make sure you kill the soul so he doesn’t come back again.
honestly, 1:14:50 made me cry laughing, just watching him get yeeted into the scaffolding was amazing. I've always wanted some type of media to have that happen where the fighting around equipment has it's consequences and it looks as stupid as it is
Villain is defeated by factory equipment and the result is a LiveLeak video
Actual decent screenwriting.
Fun fact: Richard Roxborough (Dracula) married the actress that played Verona (one of Drac’s brides) after this film.
"This needs to be a videogame"
It IS a videogame! It's a Devil May Cry-like action game. I remember it being awesome.
You're not kidding with the DMC-like description - dude literally moves and jumps like Dante. Not a bad looker for the PS2 as well.
I remember loving that game. Not surprising as I'm a massive dmc fan
I remember being annoyed not being able to be the were wolf.
Yeah i played that shit on ps2 back in the day.
It doesn't play out like the movie much at all and a lot of it was puzzle based but it definitely wasn't a bad game for the time.
There is actually an xbox tie in game. The demo of it was on the DVD release.
My mom and I got this rented this movie (I can’t remember if it was from the library or the last Blockbuster or if it was vhs or dvd) but it was the first “family movie night” we decided to have after my dad passed away. I remember my mom having a long one sided argument with the tv because it wouldn’t “please let the movie play!”
We also had a few good laughs at the action sequences and had a good cry when we saw the “for my dad” edit credits. Glad you guys enjoyed this movie as much as I do.
This movie and the 1999 Sleepy Hollow with Christopher Walken and Johnny Depp are two of my favorite Halloween movies growing up.
I watch both every year. Sleepy hollow is fucking great. Also Sorcerer's apprentice and prince of Persia as summer break movies.
22:22 Another fun thing about Van Helsing is that it DID have a tie-in game that was a Devil May Cry clone. I saw a copy at my local secondhand store on the 3 for $5 shelf.
it was a fun ass game
I loved that game I’d probably thinks it’s awful now but I got a lot of fun out of it
@@Dutchmanbeats. i remember it being really hard, granted i was maybe 12 at the time. I think i got stuck on the fight in the castle against the last two wives. Can't remember if i ever beat it
They put a demo of the Xbox version on the dvd release. Only time I ever saw that done.
@@donnyprocs It also had Castlevania references in it.
If my donations are going towards silver bolts to hunt and kill vampires then I’ll donate more. That’s just awesome
[faith intesifies]
Fun fact: dwergi means dwarf in several languages, including Romanian, which means that they were actually just fighting an army of dwarves and that's how dwarves look and sound in that world.
I prefer Tolkien’s Dwarves. They make beautiful Stonework, armor, and weapons. Far less OSHA violations and safety concerns. Other than the giant hammers and furnaces.
Between this and Underworld, Kate Beckinsale was in her peak hotness period.
Yes, Underworld was...formative for me
and EFAP would know by watching Underworld that Lycans are the ones that can transform at any time into a Manwolf.
I laughed my ass off at the cheeky shot from Black Widow in the montage at 1:17:57 of all the damage Kate Beckinsale's character took.
Not gonna lie, when I was a kid I actually thought that Van Helsing and the League of Extr. Gentlemen shared the same universe.
That would be cool.
Very similar spirit
Same
They shared the same CGI
They don't?
He was introduced to us as Faramonk, but by the time he's soliciting sexual favors, it turns out he was Friarmir all along.
Mauler is always like: "Oh you have never seen it? I can't wait for you to see *explains everything that happens in the movie*"
Its so fucking annoying. He is constantly introducing shit
Everyone knows it's strong MauLer, but a little known fact is that Absinthe makes the heart grow fonder.
I love this movie as narmy as it can be.
Also hands down has my favourite design/depiction for werewolves tbh.
"narmy" lol. new one for me.
mine too! The werewolves in this movie are just the right combo of human and wolf. Intimidating as fuck and brutally powerful
Agreed. Any time i see werewolves without the long snout the speed and the 50/50 characteristics it always seems wrong to me.
These are your favorite movie werewolves, really? ^^
Have you ever watched "An American Werewolf in London" or "The Howling" ?
Yes. Never seen a movie with more badass looking werewolves!
Oh my god. I just realized that both Van Helsing and Jacob Kane shotgun bats. Fantastic!
By Stephen Sommers's own admission his films are "turn your brain off and have fun" kind of movies and he loves making fun of his own plot holes.
He could've just made a better movie, whilst maintaining the overall goofy tone ^^
This statement feels more like a cop out, than anything else.
Even tho I like his movies, making fun "of his own plot holes" doesn't help anything
1:04:05, when she states they need to save her family, and one of the guys says "isn't she the last of her family?" - in the early setup, it was explained that it was only Anna and her brother left, but the family had been defending against monsters for centuries so the church owes it to them. The family is cursed because Dracula is a member of the family, so Van Helsing has to kill Dracula BEFORE the last member of the family dies, inorder for their souls to be saved. Which is why it was so dramatic that Helsing defeated Dracula moments before Anna dies. The whole family line is gone, but he saved their souls.
"How could the MCU rip off Van Helsing?" -- Alan Silvestri wrote this score first, then repurposed some of it for his Avengers theme. Update, oh they got it at the end after all!
I 'member this. Good tisms!
Alan Silvestri did the score for both Avengers and Van Helsing.
That David Carradine version was not a sequel, which was permanently cancelled. The "franchise" is set to be rebooted soon (2022 - 2023).
Anyone else find it sad that Mauler is clearly trying to create more Halloweiners by releasing all this content?
No, there seems to always be more stuff around Halloween.
Join us, you'll love it here
He needs every trick in the book to combat the obvious superiority of Christchads...
Implying that christmasnerds even exists. Everyone know they're just fiction.
Then what, we need chrismasfap movies too? More chrismastieners?
The moment I saw the Crowbill I knew Rags would say something because Sienna in Vermintde 2 has one and he really likes the game.
How astute.
@@Rags Oh Hi Rags! It is kinda mad tho that it is almost the exact same design as in V2, funny koinkidink.
@@Rags Ragoo!!
@@Rags more like acute
@@Rags You guys gonna do Solomon Kane? Since Van Hellsing in this movie is turned from the eccentric professor of Bram Stoker's Dracula to Solomon Kane with the serial numbers filed off and Catholic instead of Puritan Protestant. Makes me extra sad the actual 2009 movie didn't do good enough to get a sequel.
When I was younger, I thought that both this movie and League of Extraordinary Gentlemen were set in the same universe. They both are pretty entertaining films though.
When you watch the actors commentary they reveal some really funny stuff like how the wall walking scenes were done, how the snow is potato and a whole lotta fun stuff really recommend it.
Many of the extras are great. Happy I got the 2 disc DVD when it first came out.
The mid-2000s were such a great time for movies. The studios were just like, "I don't know what to make next! Fuck it. Here. Drum fed crossbows and vampires."
I'm happy to see the editor still uses "What you bring me!" in everything. I love that detail. Keep doing it editor, your work is glorious :D
"You're choking me!"
- I know, I'm glad it's working!
Imo, best way to do the, "it's alive" line in a serious Frankenstein film. Would be to have Dr. Frankenstein refer to the monster as "He" the entire time until it comes to life. Then like in this film, have the monster go berserk off screen, and then cut to other characters pov coming into the castle and eventually run into a now traumatized Dr. Frankenstein that then utters the line, "i...it's alive,.....I..IT'S ALIVE". Then sharp camera turn to the monster looking down on all of them from the top of the stairs
I honestly cant help but love this movie, so awesome yet campy. It's so much fun.
1:21:40 "Why wasn't there a Van Helsing 2?" This movie actually was supposed to be the first of a series of adventure movies where he goes around finding and killing other monsters, like the Mummy and the invisible man, but iirc, people in theatres didn't like how goofy the movie was and it didn't make enough money, so the planned sequels never happened.
Plus the fact that the movie's quips are dumber than the average tiktokker, even by the standards of the day.
@@HungryForTastyFoodAndComicArt That's part of the goofiness that I already mentioned.
It made 300 million in 2004. That’s pretty dang good. But 160 mil. is also a lot to profit over. It would have had to make half a billion to get the sequel going. That’s a big ask even today.
Really poorly written. Terrible dialogue, acting is weak, and action is stupid (though entertainingly so) Perhaps if it had more self awareness, people would’ve enjoyed it.
@@chopperjoe1998 Thanks for your review, but you appear to have gotten lost while looking for Rotten Tomatoes.
Damn, I remember seeing this as a kid. I loved it then, and I still love it now.
In the original story, Dr. Frankenstein dies of exposure in the Arctic on a boat while chasing after the Monster. After imparting his story to the ship's captain (which is the bulk of the novel), the Monster shows up and takes the body and then sails off on an ice floe.
Happens in I Frankenstein as well
I fucking LOVE this movie, from its design to its B movie straight forward simplicity and charm
Kinda sad we didn't get more of Mr. Hyde. His voice was fuckin' awesome.
Robbie Coltrane has been in plenty of films and TV. Easy enough to hear him there.
There's an animated prequel to Van Helsing with him in it
Do let's!
Yeah it could have been interesting to have him be captured and forced to help Helsing in the movie but I feel that would undermine his whole killing monsters purpose.
fun fact, Aleera (the red haired Bride of Dracula) is the same woman that played Dr. Poison in Wonder Woman
1:04:01
As long as Dracula lives, the souls of her ancestors cannot enter heaven.
Does this hopefully open the door for The Mummy '99?
I'm pretty sure they've said a few times on other EFAPs that they definitely plan to do The Mummy one day.
It better.
But just the first two.
Critical Drinker seems to be up for it, in one of the open bar catch ups he suggested it as part of an adventure movies EFAP movies arc.
Pirates of the Caribbean was also suggested.
After he made The Mummy, Steven Sommers was often asked, which monster will he include in his next movie. He responded: All of them! And made this.
Oh mein god.....What you guys BRING me? The gifts keep on giving.
Gott sei dank
40:00 Gods, it's Batwoman all over again. Channel that Jacob energy, Van Helsing!
The movie may have it's flaws, may have some weird dialogue, but man, it is fun as all hell.
Part of the fun is knowing it's just meant for fun. It's easier to relax and enjoy when you're not worried that, at some point, they're going to turn to the camera and tell you that YOU are the real monster.
55:52 this is actually clever foreshadowing, you see no one shows up in the mirror because... Yes, they are all vampires.
Literally the best movie there is, I don't care if you guys love it or tear this apart I'm going to love every second
They already said they loved it. Flaws and all.
@@Gwynbleidd1217 It's one of those movies that gets better the more stupid it gets.
I'm pretty sure they love it, even if they pick on it.
@@Narrative_Protocol just like Metal...
@@NicTheGreek1979 🤣🤣 poor Metal
"This needs to be a videogame!" - Mauler
Actually, it was. It was basically a God of War clone (the OG God of War, not the new ones). For a movie tie-in game, it wasn't bad.
Now you guys have to watch dog soldiers
Oooooooooooooh.
Bestest shout ever.
They better bring drinker on for it
Ah yes the question "How does one kill a monster" so many versions and so many hollyood mythconceptions.
For instance silver bullets are a relatively recent concept for werewolves dating back to the early day's of movies whereas historically killing them varied from no harder than other beast/person (such as the hunter who cut a paw off a wolf that attacked him then in the morning it turned into his wifes hand recognizeable by the wedding band and he rushed home to find her dead of blood loss) to the burn the entire family approach (used in one of the earlier cases to eliminate the curse).
Vampires are especially fun because depending how broadly you draw from you could wind up having to do multiple different things (a wooden stake made specifically of aspen or hawthorn wood through the heart or navel, small stones or grains of incense in the coffin, garlic stuffed in the mouth, millet see scattered over his body, bury him again face downwards, wild thorny roses strung over his grave) to permanently kill them. Fun fact you could become a vampire are by being the child of a woman LOOKED at by one
That aspen detail was in the third librarian movie.
@@pontiusporcius8430 I enjoyed those movies.
One version of fighting werewolves had it that if you struck them three times with silver, that would do for them.
Is it me, or is anyone else having a Mandela effect moment where they could've sworn the crew have already watched this in an EFAP movies???
The discuss it on EFAP 109, but I too thought they watched it fully
@@lamrethal695 ahh yeh, it's weird innit. Could've sworn I've seen footage of em laughing at Frankenstein's monster, and at the poorly aged cgi vampire women in the village attack scene.
Its kinda confusing me lol
They covered Nostalgia Critic's review of it, so there's probably some points of them laughing at how crazy the movie is just from NC's clips. But yeah I know what you mean, this seems familiar lol
They went through it partially, two times in a row, during an Halloween special. Discussion first, then through the prospect of criticizing a Nostalgia Critic fustercluck going over the movie.
Might be repeating the same thing as others, but I'm multitasking and nothing is lost if I'm redundant.
@@NicTheGreek1979 Same, I could swear I've already seen this!
Fun facts:
1) the vampires arent moving at super speed when they “teleport”. Theyre using hipnosis, and moving without you perceiving time passing you by.
2) how the cop knew it was van helsing from so far below? Many people reported to the cops bout a stranger looking for mr Hyde. The cop put 2 and 2 together with the descriptions. Found a gruesome “murder” and deduced it was van helsing at the top.
His reputation precedes him, after all.
First off, I was not expecting this to be a efap movie, even though it's perfect fit in a way.
I will say, when i first watched this movie, I treated like a serious movie and didn't like it coz there were plenty of times the good guys should of died. But rewatching it now, I definitely like it more... whether or not it was intended to be over-the-top and comical.
I honestly wish we got more of dracula and his brides (and Igor). Then again, I'd like to see Van helsing and Carl just travelling around too. Maybe i just forgot but i didn't realise it was Hugh Jackman and David Wenham so that was nice to (re)learn.
I really like the Werewolf designs in this, it's usually very much a hit or miss for me. So many times werewolves look like more like rats or something but they really nailed it here and it hasn't aged poorly either which is surprising. I also really like the transformation too.
While i liked the vampire designs aswell, they aren't my favourite style/design but they looked very good nonetheless.
Overall, It's definitely a fun watch with the addition of the efap crew reactions and commentary.
Oh, this movie was gloriously over the top. I can not wait.
He also directed the first GI Joe movie (The Rise of Cobra).
P.S. Lara Croft punches a shark in the second movie.
The first Tom Raider movie is probably still the best video game adaptation ever made ^^
I like how he goes through all this effort to help get this woman into heaven, but then cremates her body... which the church considered heretical at the time... and thus would prevent her from getting into heaven.
Not precisely. In the Eastern Orthodox perspective (which she would be, because Catholicism isn't big in Eastern Europe), it's considered disrespectful and irreligious by the person conducting the cremation--but not something that would prevent God from sending the dead to his or her eternal destination. It's definitely an "honor the image of the God Who made you" sort of thing, not a "you screwed up someone else's salvation" thing.
Catholic Canon Law only made an exception as of 1917 for cremation in times of plague or other situations that necessitate the quick disposal of a body--but if you live in a world where the dead turn into monsters, that exception may have been acknowledged sooner.
@@unimpartialobserverRight, but he's Catholic.
This is what RE Village was trying to be.
Oh, is that why RE 8 was as bad as it was?
Maybe they should try to emulate a better movie next time ^^
@@arsenelupin9697 RE8 wishes it was as good as Van Helsing
RE 8 was trying to be RE4 with Bloodborne
The only thing REVIII had going for it was Lady Dimitrescu and she made the Internet go crazy because she was a giant woman.
@@Davidofthelost I thought that and the beginning were the weakest part of the game. The doll house (clearly doing PT) and the robots in Heisenbergs factory were actually fun gameplay sections. But the castle was a snoozefest.
In the beginning, Wolf introduced Rags and MauLer to Van Helsing. It comes full circle with Das (with a wolf pfp) being introduced to it by MauLer and Rags.
Thank you for this wholesome symbolism
I remember they made an anime movie that was a prequel to this, that was just Van Helsing hunting Mr. Hyde.
There's also a Devil May Cry styled Van Helsing game.
Richard Roxbury has one of my favorite Dracula interpretations ever put on screen that isnt Gary Oldman.
I agree, he's such a magnificent ham.
You guys HAVE TO do the underworld series.. those I would pay to see get the efap treatment!!
I've been waiting for this since EFAP 109.
Glad I was not alone there.
Now waiting on EFAP Shazamalam as aquamarine man.
She gets stabbed through the chest with his claws, but managed to cure Van Helsing before she died.
There is an animated short film called Van Helsing: The London Assignment, which is about Van Helsing tracking down Dr. Jekyll/Mr. Hyde.
A wise man once said; “the smaller the breasts, the closer you are to their hearts!”
A wiser man once said; “bigger breasts are the expansion of the heart!”
And the wisest man once said; “you must cherish the entire woman, as she’s the only doorway to her heart!”
booba
@@kikiRa. Yes.
@@kikiRa. Every 60 Seconds In Africa, A Minute Passes.
“You must cherish the whole woman, for she is the other half of you.”
@@JewishFrog How fast does time flies by? 60 minutes per hour.
Wow they're just dropping EFAP Movies this month. Christmas (the superior holiday) is coming early this year.
No, that just means that Halloween gets a special treatment, and as an objectively superior holiday - rightly so.
What do you think they will watch for Christmas? Home Alone 1-6?
@@Сайтамен at least 1 and 2. 3 was ok, the rest are made for TV movies
1:04:02 when she says she must save her family, she is referring to the curse placed on her bloodline. Until Drac dies, all of her ancestor’s souls are damned or in purgatory or some shit. She wants to kill him to release their souls from torment, including her brother’s. I only saw this movie once when it first came out to rent on VHS back when I was like 14, but I always remembered that aspect of the film. These details are hard to pick up on when you’re joking around with a bunch of friends during a film, that’s why I’m always that friend rewinding shit in case some talks over a character.
And that's why the Cloud Anna scene is so important. It gives Van Helsing (and us) closure, because he can see the curse is broken.
"No civilian needs a fully semi-automatic crossbow that shoots 1 million holy-water arrows per second."
-The most popular President evar
A fun interesting adventure movie with cool characters and making us nerd out like crazy.
What an incredible dumb fun movie!
She had 200 HP. The earlier falls did 199 damage total. The last one did 2 damage.
Stephen summers movies are ALWAYS fun .. Deep Rising, Jungle Book (his version) .. and the Mummy .. good director who knows how to make a fun and entertaining movie. It’s too bad him and Jerry Goldsmith had a falling out (after ‘The Mummy’) .. cos as composer and director together .. they were one helluva team!
There are so many cool shots in this film, the director really knows how to frame a scene.
17:40 those who can transform at any time are called Lycans not Werewolves.
Only in one specific fandom. Classic werewolves could usually transform at any time.
I would love an Open world Game from this movie, travelling around, Killing Monsters with your automatic crossbow
That would be great fun.
There IS an old game that came out, ilinear & short but great fun. It deviates from the movie in many absurd ways. Many fun ways too, you get to use the minigun.
Witcher 3 maybe. Not exactly a perfect match, but probably as close as you'll get currently.
@@HolyApplebutteractually finished Witcher 3 a couple of times, still want my Automatic Crossbow
My personal favourite halloween movie. Never missed a year watching it for like past 7 years. Never fails to make me laugh
Dude my child self fucking loved this movie to death. Thought it was the coolest shit in the world.
Not the best structured sentence but I get your meaning.
@@mjgarak115 right you are sir. Right you are. Lmao
I really love Van Helsing because I feel like it's made for somebody like me who hates horror movies.
I love that the good guys have equal if not Superior force over evil, I love all their weapons, especially that crossbow, costumes are amazing, everybody is very strongly cast, and I love it when you get down to all the high octane action and thrills, the story is almost like a morality play of good versus evil.
So often times most horror movies are the opposite way.
Besides this isn't really a horror movie, as much as it is a high fantasy film, with a couple of monsters in it. Van Helsing was often marketed as a tribute to the universal monster movies the 30s, which it is, but it should have been honestly more marketed as a tribute to the Universal monster movies, and action adventure serials of the 30s. In fact, I think if you change a few things here and there this good movie could easily have been called Indiana Jones and the Tomb of Dracula.
I also much appreciate the religious aspect of this film where it respects Christianity as the invincible force of good that is in real life. Cameos by Orthodox bishops in the Knights of the Holy order sequence was much appreciated.
I really loved it the mystery of Hugh Jackman's character, and the ambiguity of his origins. I love all the characters honestly.
I only wish Universal had more faith to continue the adventures of this character and his universe.
Dougray Scott was gonna play Wolverine but filming took longer than expected on Mission Impossible II so Hugh Jackman was cast and the rest is history.
That critic must be in a coma with today's film industry if he thought Van fucking Hellsing was boring.
Time for me once again to tell everybody to watch Stephen Sommers underrated as hell Deep Rising from 1998. Kevin J O'Connor (Benni/Igor) is one of the main characters, it's shitloads of fun and pretty well written (couple tisms here and there but nothing too major). Would make a great EFAP Movies.