At Dracula's castle, Frankenstein's monster was stuck when he swung down and was below the bridge. When the friar released the rope, he swung into the room where Anna was fighting one of the brides. Note that when he swung in, the rope was above the window. This implies that he was below the bridge. When Anna jumped out of the window, she was way above the bridge, the same bridge the friar was on. [When swinging on a wire, the motion is in a "U" shape. You swing upwards at the end, so it made sense that Frankenstein on the wire would swing back up over the bridge and through the window where Anna was.]

When the Sun is being blocked by a cloud just before the vampire ladies come back out in the village, the shadow of the cloud appears as a defined edge crossing the ground. This would be true for a solid object but clouds are water vapor and gaseous in nature; thus, no defined boundary between dark and light. [When a cloud moves in front of the sun, it is very easy to follow a very much defined line across the ground. This is the edge of the cloud, therefore making this scene correct in its portrayal of the shadow.]

It was a full moon when Anna's brother turned into a Werewolf. It was within a couple of days (at most) of this occurring that Van Helsing strapped the monster into the cart and set off for Bulgaria. Van Helsing gets to Bulgaria, is bitten by a Werewolf, and we CLEARLY hear Carl say that it is "two days" until the next full moon. If you consider that a full-moon occurs every 28 days or so, then it has taken approximately 24-26 days to get from Transylvania to Bulgaria, which by horse and cart is probably fair enough. So how did they get BACK to Frankenstein's tower in Transylvania in LESS than one day? It MUST have been less than a day, otherwise he would have turned into a Werewolf LONG before they got back to the Tower, let alone had enough time to find the secret door and head into Dracula's lair. [It's never said that they were in Bulgaria when Carl said about it being two days before the next full moon. Given that it only takes them a day to reach the tower, they have obviously returned to Transylvania.]

When Dracula and Van Helsing first meet, Dracula mentions Istanbul. During the time period of the film (1870s), Istanbul would have been called Constantinople. [While westerners didn't officially adopt the name Istanbul until 1930, the Ottoman Turks started calling it that when they captured it in the 1400's.]

When Van Helsing is in Dracula's castle, there's a shot where there's one of Dracula's ugly assistants moving on the ground behind him. It's actually a crew member moving a fake arm attached to a stick. [It's not a crewmember moving a fake arm, it's really one of Dracula's assistants, with a wrench in his hand.]

When all we see are the shadows on the wall of Igor torturing the werewolf, the electric sparks are visible on the wall coming out of the prod's shadow. [That was not a shadow on the wall, but rather, a silhouette on the large silky curtains in front of them. So it makes sense we see the bright sparks.]

In one of the final scenes as Frankenstein's monster is hauled up to the ceiling in Castle Dracula we get a shot of one of Count Dracula's midget helpers operating the winch. It's fitting that he's pushing the crank handle at the bottom of its revolution as the crank is considerably bigger than him and he wouldn't be able to reach high enough to give it a full turn. [I'm unsure if it is visible in the movie, but in some behind-the-scenes features on the DVD, it shows that the momentum of the crank carries the trolls off the ground, and the weight of the creatures with the momentum causes the crank to finish the revolution. Sort of a comedic and demonic Ommpa-Loompa joke.]

It's not at all overcast when the bride seizes Anna en route to Budapest or when she appears to Van Helsing and co. by the Danube, yet it's already been established that vampires can't move around in sunlight. [Actually, it is very overcast, I have watched the scene several times, and the sun is not visible at all.]

When Igor falls from the bridge, he doesn't move at all. [Actually he does, but the shot was framed in such a way that it could give the illusion he is not moving. Watch his legs towards the end, they do kick about a little bit.]

When there is a werewolf transformation, the infected person's skin falls off to reveal the werewolf underneath. When changing back to human, the werewolf's skin falls off. When Van Helsing becomes a werewolf, his human skin falls off as he changes. As he battles Dracula, the full moon is covered by the clouds and Van Helsing simply reverts to his human form. No werewolf skin falls off; he just changes back. [If you look carefully, you can actually see his fur fall. This transformation was made such to show his sorrow about killing Anna. This is explained and shown in one of the DVD's commentaries.]

When Carl's "solar bomb" goes off, Dracula is still alive even though we see the bright light shining through every one of the windows, and every other vampire (other than one bride) is incinerated by the blast. [Well we've seen in the film that Dracula isn't a normal vampire. Wooden stakes, crucifixes, holy water etc seem to hurt him, but not kill him (the woman gives a long list of all the methods they've tried to kill him). Dracula could have been seriously hurt by the light (which would explain why he doesn't go out in daylight) but not killed.]

The vampires in this movie are able to move around outside during the day when it is overcast because the clouds are blocking the sun. The fundamental flaw with this is that sunlight can penetrate clouds, or else it would be completely dark when it is cloudy, so these vampires should have been destroyed. [Many vampire tales allow vampires to move in indirect sunlight, such as the kind that would filter through clouds. Otherwise they would never be able to come outside at all; even moonlight is only reflected sunlight.]

When Dracula says "And perhaps the devolution of my ring." he shows that one of his fingers has been cut. Dracula's regenerating abilities should have made it grow back. [If the finger was lost before Dracule got killed and revived as living undead it would have not worked. The healing abilities only cure injuries which were inflicted after changing into a vampire.]

If Velkan knew that a werewolf can kill Dracula, why didn't he kill him? Or at least try, because he really wanted Dracula dead, but he behaved like Dracula's puppet. [Velkan didn't know that a werewolf could kill Dracula. When Anna and Van Helsing first met, Anna tells Van Helsing that her family has tried many means of trying to kill Dracula, but to know avail. From hanging, burning, even the stake through the heart. She then says that no one knows how to kill Dracula. This would mean that her brother wouldn't know either. The discovery of how to kill Dracula didn't come until later in the movie.]

How come when Valkan was attacked by a werewolf it happened in the morning, but when Valkan turned into one it happened on the night of a full moon? [It is explained in the movie that after the second full moon, the transformation is permanent, so the one that attacked him transformed two or more full moons ago.]

Two of Dracula's brides have colored hair. The other one has dark hair. We see that the brides with colored hair die (one with holy water, and the other with the stakes from the carriage.) So that would mean that the one with dark hair is left. However, one of the brides with colored hair is the one that tells Van Helsing about the All Hallows Eve Ball. And this happens after those two brides are killed. [The second bride that is killed (the one with the stakes from the carriage) is the bride with the dark hear, and therefore it is a bride with coloured hair that is left.]

In the confessional, the priest tells Van Helsing the Valerius family's souls can never enter Heaven as long as Dracula is alive. Later in the scene, the priest says "We cannot let their souls fall into Purgatory." Catholic doctrine defines Purgatory as Heaven's penalty box; all souls there get to Heaven eventually. [Purgatory is the same thing as Limbo and it is possible to be trapped there forever. In that time period it was doctrine that unbaptised children were forever trapped in Purgatory.]

During the scene where Van Helsing and the others are fleeing in the carriages with Frankenstein's monster and are then attacked by the vampire brides and the werewolf, as the werewolf is thrown onto the top of the carriage, the top of the carriage completely envelops in flames. The amount of kerosene in the small lamps that were on the sides of the carriage was not enough to fuel a fire that large. Also, there was no way the fire could be spread to both sides in such a manner. [It is possible that the top of the carriage was made of canvas that had been treated with paraffin to protect it from the elements. This could be the reason the whole top went up into flames (The lantern was probably a gas burning lamp). A good example of using paraffin to treat canvas is the 1944 Hartford Circus Fire. The tents were weather proofed with a mix of gasoline and paraffin, because the gov't made fire retardant unavailable to use because it was needed for the war. In less than 10 minutes after the fire started the tent collapsed and 169 people were killed, 69 of them were children.]

At the end when Helsing & Dracula are fighting in their "supreme" mode's, when Helsing cuts Dracula's neck, he begins to bleed, and the old legend goes that vampires don't have blood/a heartbeat. [Traditionally, vampires don't have a heartbeat, but I have never heard that they don't have blood. They don't have a circulation of blood, but they still store it in their bodies and use it to stay alive. Besides, the vamps in a movie do not need to fit exactly with the traditional image of a vampire, as they occupy a "movie universe" that can differ from other universes or "realities".]

In the scene at the masked ball, when Dracula and Anna are dancing in front of the mirror and he is invisible, you can see other ball-goers dancing in the mirror. Because they are all vampires, they should be invisible too. [No, they are invisible. Anna is the only one seen in the mirror.]