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Van Helsing (2004) - 67 corrections

Directed by Stephen Sommers, starring David Wenham, Hugh Jackman, Kate Beckinsale, Richard Roxburgh (add more)

Genres: Action, Adventure, Horror, Fantasy, Thriller

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The left hand of God is a synonym for the Holy Spirit. [The Left Hand of God is typically the archangel Gabriel, not the Holy Spirit. This is why Dracula refers to Van Helsing as "Gabriel" throughout the film; he is the archangel incarnate. Gabriel and the Holy Spirit are two separate and very different entities in Christian theology.]
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On some of the film's promotional posters, the city view behind the lead characters shows landmarks of Budapest (the Parliament, the Danube and the Chain Bridge) in front of Dracula's Transylvanian castle. [Promotional material such as posters, artwork and DVD covers are not considered parts of the film, and as such, these are not movie mistakes.]
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Really poor CGI job on the first Dracula Bride's death scene - her face looks pasted on and out of proportion with the rest of her body, even before she starts to disintegrate. [This would be a great mistake, had it not been that her body was shriveling up before it disintegrated, which is why her head was much bigger than the body. You can tell because for the first portion of the shot, her body is in perfect scale, but shrinks a little bit when she starts to wriggle and scream.]
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When Anna and Van Helsing are tailing the werewolf, Anna sees some fur hanging on a tree. Anna tells Van Helsing that after the first full moon a person remains a werewolf forever. Earlier in the movie, there is a shadow of a werewolf chained to the wall. Obviously the Velkan werewolf since Velkan had killed the werewolf that bit him. Since this werewolf is Velkan then that means that his first full moon has occurred and he should be trapped in werewolf form up until his death. But when he returns to his home he is seen as a human for just a few seconds, before changing back to a werewolf. [She didn't mean that you would stay a werewolf forever. She meant that once bitten by a werewolf, you would have the werewolf curse upon you forever.]
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When Van Helsing "agrees" to trade Frankenstein for Anna, Aleera tells Van Helsing that there will be a masquerade ball in Budapest. Aleera never tells Van Helsing exactly where in Budapest the ball will be at but Van Helsing and Carl find it with no problem. [He simply got the information off-screen.]
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When Dr. Frankenstein stabs Dracula with the sword, he stabs him from the front, but when Dracula bites him, he pulls the sword out from the back. [You only see the shadow of him pulling out the sword, but it is plausible that he pulls the sword out from the back, hilt and all, then heals himself.]
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When the coach is getting ready to take the Frankenstein monster to Rome, Anna says "Nothing is faster than Transylvanian horses - not even a werewolf." Yet during the coach journey, the werewolf attacks the coach. How could it have caught up with them? (I don't think the Brides could have carried it - carrying such a large and heavy creature would have slowed them down too much). [First off all, believing that the vampire brides were incapable of carrying a werewolf is pure speculation. In fact, earlier in the movie you can see them pick up a cow and throw it through the roof of a building with ease, so carrying a werewolf in human shape should be a breeze. Secondly, it is entirely possible that Anna is boasting when she talks about the speed of the horses. And thirdly, even if the Transilvanian horses are extremely fast normally, Van Helsing wanted Draculas minions to catch up with them - that's why he rigged a trap in one of the coaches. And if we were to start calculating the speed of six horses dragging a heavy coach with one extremely heavy passenger plus some luggage opposed to the speed of an unencumbered solitary werewolf... well, you get the point.]
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When Van Helsing slices Mr. Hyde's arm off, there's hardly a drop of blood. This is a major amputation, there should be blood spurting from the stump. [There are certain angles in which a limb (even a major amputation) can be cut which will cause the major arteries and veins to collapse, causing very little blood loss. My guess is, with Van Helsing being such an expert, that he knew how to cut the arm.]
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Hyde's bullet wound appears and disappears throughout the scene. [Hyde's bullet wound is there during the entire scene. It is just in shadow much of the time.]
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The placement of the regions on the map is a bit mixed up: in reality, Budapest was (and is) to the Northwest of Transylvania, not to the Southwest. To reach the Vatican by starting off South from Transylvania would be more than a five hundred mile detour. [We never see a "key" on the map, so for all we know, the map is just being displayed as if upside-down, so the blood-trickling effect would work.]
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When Verona rips the side off of the coach, there is nothing inside, yet in a few shots later, she sees a bundle of stakes attached to explosives. [The reason we didn't see any stakes in the first shot is because we didn't see the floor of the carriage, which is where the stakes were stashed. (we only saw the seats in the first shot, it's not until the second shot where we actually see the floor and all of the explosives.]
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After Dracula has bitten Dr. Frankenstein, Dracula just drops the body. Based on the way Dracula drops it, the body should have fallen on its side. When the Frankenstein Monster is picking up the body, the body is now lying perfectly straight on the ground with its arms at its sides. [The body could have bounced. Also, people don't die instantly from blood loss, he might have convulsed or twitched onto his back.]
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When Frankenstein's monster falls into the windmill in the beginning, you see a large gear fly up and out at the exact same angle at which Frankenstein just fell. Physically impossible, unless of course the gear was able to somehow move through the creature. And it does NOT have to do with Frankenstein falling into the cave underneath. [It might have hit both Frankenstein and the monster on its way up without we noticing it as it all happens below the flaming inferno. Also we can the the wheel come spinning on its way up so it makes sense that they were hit by it instead of 'going through' them.]
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When the lightning hits the bridge as the friar crosses it, there is no real rain on the bridge, but a split second later, the bridge is inundated as if it had been rained on for minutes. [You can clearly see it is raining on the bridge before and after the lightning strikes.]
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When Van Helsing is on the coach and is attacked by the brides a shot from behind the coach shows him riding through a pass cut through the mountain. It immediately cuts to a shot from the side and only trees are behind the coach. [This was done to show them riding through the Carpathians before getting to Budapest. The scene with the mountains shows them in the Carpathians and the scene in the forest shows them getting in to Budapest.]
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Before Anna first sees Velcan transform into a werewolf, her hair changes slightly in several different shots while she investigates the strange noise. [Her hair remains as it is through all the scenes.]
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In the scene when Carl and Van Helsing arrive in Transylvania, Carl is measured by the Grave Digger as 5 foot 7 inches. In 1880s Europe, most people used the metric system. [You have supplied your own correction: "MOST people used the metric system". The grave digger is one of the ones who didn't.]
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Throughout the movie, Dracula's 3rd finger on his right appears and disappears. [When looking closely at Dracula's right hand throughout the movie, you will see that the 3rd finger is always there only until the point when he mentions the ring. In truth, when Dracula shows where his ring WOULD have been, he was only keeping the 3rd finger down to show it. The finger was never really cut off.]
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After Dracula kills Dr. Frankenstein, you can see the blood (Computer generated) on his face "retract" up into his mouth, before he wipes at it with his hand. Mismatched computer effect. [No, Dracula is a vampire. Obviously, he has the power to "absorb" blood into his body without having to use the undignified approach of licking himself.]
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When Van Helsing and Carl are riding through the snow capped mountains, it is obvious that most of the mountains are just a painted set prop. [All of the shots were either on location, or done with Computer Graphics. There are no set props during the scene.]
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