Abbot and Costello get a modern melodramatic makeover.

Rating: 1/10 (11 January 2005)

What this movie lacked in originality was balanced quite equally with it's futile attempt to redefine the vampire genre.
Color coded filters will hold your hand in an attempt to convey the mood of each scene while dragging you to the end of the movie, unless of course you are lucky enough to break free and run away.
Like so many movies being mass produced, hyped up and pumped out, Van Helsing weaves an incongruent story around a painfully puerile script and ceaseless onslaught of special effects.
The curse of Van Helsing is a strange combination Gothic science, metaphysical vapirism, and lycanthropy, a vision that goes not only unrealized, but becomes quite tedious early in the movie.
I highly recommend warding off Van Helsing.