Hotel Transylvania 3 Summer Vacation: The Unseen Version

My name is Nicholas.

I'm pretty sure a large portion of people have heard of the popular Adam Sandler animated film franchise called Hotel Transylvania, starring Sandler as Dracula himself and Selena Gomez as his daughter Mavis. Dracula built a hotel for monsters on Mavis' birthday to keep them away from humans after his wife's death, but then a human named Johnny comes to the hotel and falls in love with her, and because of him, monsters and humans finally became friends. In the second film, Dracula and his friends teach Mavis and Johnny's son, Dennis, how to be a real vampire. In the third film, all of the monsters go on a monster cruise lead by Captain Ericka, who was revealed to be the great granddaughter of Van Helsing, who secretly planned this cruise as a death trap to kill all of the monsters. There's also a fourth film coming up soon, which I'm pretty sure you're excited about.

However, while the first two films were perfectly fine on their own, the third film had something very....let's just say, abnormal included. Before I tell you what it was, I need you to do the following things:

1. Read my story at night time with no lights on. Make sure the only light is the one radiating from your computer screen.
2. Make sure there is utter silence. There must be no sound whatsoever, no television, no music, no talking, nothing.
3. Make sure you're all alone.

Why am I asking you to do these things? You'll see why soon enough....oh, how very soon you'll see.....

It all started at what felt like was going to be a normal day at school. However, something special was about to happen after school. They were going to have a movie night in the gym, which they do every year. This year, it was Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation. I signed up for this event, thinking it was going to be extremely fun. I really love watching movies too, especially animated ones.

After school, I went to the gym to watch Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation with everyone else who signed up. I had a great time there. I watched the movie, ate popcorn, and even got to chat with others. Once the movie was finally over, I waited near the front door of the school for my grandmother to pick me up, but nobody showed up. My grandmother had a bad memory, so it may take a while. I decided to take a walk around the school until she came. As I passed by the gym, however, I noticed the giant screen where we watched the movie was still on. That's odd, how come they didn't turn it off?

I decided to take a look in the gym to see if anybody was still there. Nope, nobody. Maybe they just forgot to turn it off and left? I shrugged it off and decided to head back to the front door to see if my grandmother was here yet. As I got to the gym door, however, it suddenly slammed shut.

I tried to open the door. It was unlocked, but it felt like something was blocking it from the other side, some kind of force stronger then the strongest man. Panicking, I ran towards the emergency exit of the gym, but again, I couldn't open it. What was going on here?

I then heard some kind of noise coming from right behind me. I turned around to see what it was. It was coming from the big screen that displayed the main menu of Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation, but it looked....almost like something you would see in a horror film....first of all, it was colored a deep shade of red. The characters displayed in the background, Dracula, Mavis, Dennis, Johnny, Wayne, Wanda, Tinkles, Griffin, Frank, Eunice, and Blobby, were different too. In the original main menu, I remember all of them had happy looks on their faces. In this one, they all looked depressed and scared and their eyes were extremely black with white dots in the middle. The song playing in the background, "I See Love" by Jonas Blue and Joe Jonas, sounded extremely distorted and off-key. I could even hear whispering among it. At the bottom, instead of the buttons reading "Play Movie", "Languages", "Scene Selection", and "Special Features", there was just one line of text which read:

"You nosy student, you shouldn't have come in here"

The menu then melted down the screen, almost like blood running down a wall, and then it slowly faded to black.

It then cut to the DJ battle scene of the movie, where Johnny and Van Helsing fight over playing music to stop the kraken from attacking the monsters. It seemed like it was normal, but the movie just skipped ahead, right? That's what I thought too. Oh dear god, I was wrong.....forgive me, you must forgive me.....I am choked up, just writing this....I wanted to forget this, but something compels me to share my story.....during the part where all of the monsters danced to "Macarena", I expected it to go as it did in the movie, Van Helsing's music script rips itself apart, Van Helsing ends up dancing and then falling down a gorge, Dracula saves him, and then Van Helsing makes a truce with the monsters. This is not what happened.

Instead, the movie suddenly flashed back and forth with scenes, as if the movie was being rewound and fast-forwarded at the same time. I could hear a lot of gibberish from the scenes being played over and over like this. It was kind of annoying for me. However, I could also make out some....extra scenes added. I saw a burning crucifix in a field, a bruised and bloodied woman hanging out of the back of a car trunk, a caved-in head lying in a pool of its own brain matter, skinned corpses which were hard to tell if they were humans or animals, and a garbage bag full of what looked like chopped-up body parts and organs, as the camera peered inside to show its contents. None of them looked animated like the film. They all looked.....real. What was I seeing? Is this some kind of prank? If it is, it was not funny.

Finally, it stopped back at the film. I could not believe what I saw seeing now. Van Helsing had stabbed Dracula in the chest with a kitchen knife. I could see the look of pain and horror in Dracula's face. Everyone around was staring at them. They looked extremely scared by what they were seeing. Van Helsing's facial expression was the worst all. It was one of horror, malice, one someone in a terrible nightmare would have. His teeth were sharp and crooked and his eyes....almost seemed as if they have been....stitched shut.

As I watched in horror, Van Helsing slid the knife downward into Dracula's body. I could hear the flesh tearing as he cut deeper and deeper. Guts were coming out like a fountain and Dracula let out a scream. It didn't sound like Adam Sandler's acting either. It actually sounded bloodcurdling, like someone in great pain, being tortured, or slowly dying. Once the knife couldn't go any further, Van Helsing pulled it out of Dracula and blood and muscle tissue splattered all over the screen. It didn't look animated either. It looked like it was paint, or marker, or dye, or ketchup, or.....real.

The scene then transitioned. It wasn't a fade to black transition or a scene cut transition. It was a firey transition, almost like the previous screen had just burned up. It showed Hotel Transylvania, but the sky was blood red and the hotel itself was in shambles and on fire. The camera panned down to show Van Helsing. He had the same face as before, but he was covered in blood and there was a piece of flesh hanging from his teeth. It looked like he was staring at something. The camera panned over to what it was. Oh god, I almost wanted to claw my eyes out when I saw it, it was terrifying, horrible, inhuman.

It was Mavis hammered into a crucifix, almost like the crucifixion of Jesus Christ. Her skin was blue, hangs were ripped out and shoved into her eye sockets, her throat was sliced open, her hair and scalp were peeled like a banana revealing her skull, there was a stake in her chest, and her stomach....oh god....it had been torn open....her entrails were slowly leaking out. Van Helsing just kept staring at her lifeless corpse. Eventually, he said slowly in a low, almost Satanic, demonic voice, "Suffer, daughter of Dracula. You and all of the monsters. You were never meant to be together with humans."

At this moment, I screamed out in horror, almost praying that someone would hear me. Now, you might be thinking “Why don't you just attempt once more to escape?”. I couldn't....something deep down inside me told me if I left, I would regret it. I had to finish watching, I just HAD to.

Van Helsing then entered the hotel. The entire interior was a wreck. There were mangled, mutilated remains of humans and monsters scattered everywhere and blood was splattered all over the walls and floor. I could hear screaming in the background. Some were horrible, bloodcurdling ones. You could tell they came from one in great agony. I could also hear a horrible twisted laugh, one of great malice, almost as if someone had been hunting an animal and thoroughly enjoying himself all to much. The noises slowly faded out, as if they were chasing someone or something in an opposite direction.

Van Helsing looked around at the carnage grinning to himself. He seemed proud of what he apparently has done. I then heard something clattering, which broke the mind-numbing silence. It sounded like something was crawling towards Van Helsing. He turned his head around. I saw his eyes have changed. They were blood red and full of malice, hate, and anger, almost like the eyes of a demon.

It panned over to what he was looking at. Dear god, forgive me. No human should be forced to see that. It was Ericka, his great granddaughter. Her entire lower body was missing with her intestines slowly trailing behind her. Parts of her face were missing, her hair was stained red with blood, and there were shreds of flesh and white clothing dangling from what was left of her arms. She was crying, but not with tears. It was blood trickling down her face.

"Why are you doing this, great grandfather?" she said weakly "I'm feeling like monsters aren't like what they used to be anymore....I feel like they've changed.....they're our friends now.....please....."

Van Helsing responded in a hellish tone, even worse than before, "You think monsters are our friends? You ask for forgiveness to them from me? Do you take me as your God? Monsters will receive no divine forgiveness from me....you see, Ericka, it's my job to make them all SUFFER! and since you talked to Dracula behind my back and tried to help the monsters, I shall give you punishment! You will burn along with the monsters!"

A bunch of arms, hellish arms, suddenly sprouted up from the floor and grabbed Ericka. She struggled to get free, but she couldn't, and was torn down into what seemed to be an endless, hellish abyss. All the way down, I could hear her bloodcurdling shriek echoing. Then Van Helsing slowly turned, as if nothing had happened. He even let out a small, evil giggle. By this point, I had almost been wishing for the same thing to happen to me, just so I wouldn't have to see this anymore! At this point, I was crying so hard I almost felt like a little girl. I felt weak, empty, as if I was about to throw up. As much as I wanted to, I just couldn't choke anything out.

Van Helsing then went to some kind of field in the back of Hotel Transylvania. Oh god, the field had crucifixes all around it. Into them were hammered in the corpses of Johnny, Dennis, Winnie, Vlad, Tinkles, Wayne, Wanda, Frank, Eunice, Murray, Griffin, Crystal, Blobby and his baby and puppy, Sunny, and even Johnny's family and Quasimodo (who were not even in the third film). Their faces were all horribly mutilated beyond recognition. Their eyes were dangling out of their sockets and blood was leaking out of what was left of their faces onto the ground. They were also split open and their insides were lying wetly on the ground in huge piles under their feet.

Now something happened out of this horrible, nightmarish thing I was witnessing. The whole school then began to shake, as if an earthquake was happening. The only light in the gym blew out and now all I had left was the screen. I was now in the dark, alone, in my shaking school. I could hear my fellow classmates flee and the teachers and staff run out. I could then hear the car tires squealing as they raced away. Why were they in such a hurry to escape? I then turned back to the screen, as if I was being forced to watch.

Van Helsing was holding Dracula's severed head in his hands. He was bringing it over to another door in the back of Hotel Transylvania. It was black and it looked extremely old, with a skull and crossbones in the middle. There was a small green glow coming from it. I don't remember seeing this door in any of the films. As soon as Van Helsing got close to the door, it swung open. Oh god, how I wish I could unsee what I saw and heard.

It was hellish demon of indescribable horror, burning in a portal to what seemed to be Hell itself. It wasn't even animated like the film was, it was extremely real. Was this the Devil? Van Helsing handed Dracula's head over to the demon, who took it from his hands.

"I see after all these years, son, your mission to kill Dracula is finally complete" it said in the most hellish tone imaginable, one of extreme rage, anger, malice, and hatred, as it looked into Dracula's lifeless face.

"Yes, father" Van Helsing replied "After all these years, I finally put an end to the undead king, and all of the monsters too. They all cried, suffered, and burned. I even punished my great granddaughter for trying to save them. A feast of souls waits for you below."

"Good, my son" it replied as it threw Dracula's head into the portal "Now, back to your cage!"

At that moment, I finally threw up all over myself. Van Helsing started to tear off his own face. It sounded like someone aggressively pulling apart a raw steak. His machine body then started to split open and fall to pieces with blood heavily leaking out of it, like a sponge full of blood being squeezed. The skin on his arms was falling off as well and falling onto the ground with loud splats. Eventually, all of his skin and metal parts were gone and lying on the ground, revealing a strange creature. It looked like a flayed dog with a fleshy human skull for a head, two long skinny arms with sharp claws, and a long neck. Blood was dripping off of its body.

It crawled towards the portal and its "father" kicked it into what appeared to be Hell itself. Then it turned towards the screen and looked at me, the viewer, and said "Oh, don't worry, your world is next. It will suffer at your hands. You will be mine.....all of you....you are next....."

Just when the end credits started to play, the screen suddenly caught on fire. The fire alarms around the school blared and the sprinkler system went off. As the screen slowly burned I could only weep at this horror as the sprinklers rained down on me. This couldn't be real, it couldn't!

"Nick, Nick, wake up!"

My eyes slowly flashed open. I was still in the gym, but it was daytime. Everything was wet and all that was left of the screen was a bare metal stand. Above me stood my friend Tina, who said "Oh thank God, you're alright, when the firefighters came, they found you unconscious".

My whole body was rattled, broken almost. I had this uncontrollable urge. Turning to Tina, I said "Don't thank God on this day. He won't save us. He abandoned us, his abominations, his failed creations." Tina looked at me horrified. She ran out screaming. I quickly got up and left.

And here I sit, writing the story of my experience, calmly. Maybe now I accept my place. Remember, if you're school is displaying Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation, don't stay late at school to re-watch it. Isn't that right, Tina? Slowly turning to her dismembered body. You're next.....I am coming....I am his chosen slayer for this world....a messenger of Hell itself....I'm coming for you.....each and every one of you.....you'll never stop me.....don't try to run or hide.....I'll find you.....

Written and Based on the story "Hope is Lost" by TheMidnightWings a.k.a. Nicholas James Snyder. Inspired by "Squidward's Suicide" by Alec Cremeans and "Hotel Transylvania 3: Alternate Ending" by Affan Jamsari.