It's been nearly 20 years since Hugh Jackman put on the black hat and trench coat to star as the titular vampire hunter in Van Helsing, and in that time the film has largely (and tragically) been forgotten. With countless monster-related movies and television shows out there that center around these same characters and concepts such as Penny Dreadful and even Hotel Transylvania, it makes sense that this 2004 film (not to be confused with the SyFy series of the same name) has fallen to the wayside, especially since it was critically panned at the time. But what's interesting about Stephen Sommers' take on the Universal Classic Monsters brand is that, much like his work on The Mummy and The Mummy Returns, this film tends to drop the horror (though not entirely) in favor of the traditional blockbuster "action-adventure" model while still honoring what came before.
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