A flamboyant disaster, a huge insult to the horror/action genre

Rating: 1/10 (25 June 2005)

Van Helsing honors classic horror films just as Space Balls honors Star Wars. It seems that Hollywood loves to release these "trick" films where you expect to see some amazing horror/action flick but instead you get a goofy slap stick mess like Van Helsing. The PG-13 rating is your first warning as Director Stephen Sommers displays his true flamboyance as he uses almost every classic monster to tell this mess of a story in a toned down goofy fashion.
Although it advertises "Awesome Horror" Van Helsing features almost no blood in the entire film, Sommers is such a bad director it isn't even funny, the use of CGI for the monsters and special effects is down right incompetent, the portrayal of Dracula and his brides is so badly acted you wont believe your ears. And the script to get all these monsters together in one film is far from clever because when you finally learn the story and its twists, you will wonder what idiot approved the Script. Stephen Sommers clearly cant be stopped, his next projects include a "Flash Gordon" adaptation. His clear flamboyance and incompetence as a director can no longer be avoided. Do your self a favor and skip Van Helsing and check out "Bram Stoker's Dracula" with Anthony Hopkins as a flawless Van Helsing indeed.