Van Helsing corrections

Van Helsing (2004) - 66 corrections

Directed by Stephen Sommers, starring David Wenham, Hugh Jackman, Kate Beckinsale, Richard Roxburgh

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If Dracula knew the only way he could be killed was by a werewolf, why wouldn't he kill all the werewolves instead of using them and taking the chance one might kill him one day? We already found out from Anna that they had tried every means to kill Dracula so obviously there wasn't a real need to use the werewolves to do his bidding. He could have done anything a werewolf could do by himself, or send out one of his wives. [Werewolves are great hunters and none of them had a reason to attack Dracula nor even knew that they were the only thing that could kill him. If he had tried to kill all of them, the werewolves would surely have had their revenge and killed him too.]

When Van Helsing and Anna originally find the icy portal into Dracula's secret lair, Van Helsing forces his hand through and then pulls it back through. His hand is covered in snow as if it were storming worse than a Canadian winter. However, when Van Helsing and Anna actually cross through the portal they are in the midst of a thunder storm. [They do encounter a thunderstorm at the old Frankenstein castle, and later it does storm at Dracula's castle, but when they first cross through the portal it IS snowing.]

At the end, when VH has set fire to the pyre, there is only about 2-3 feet between the pyre and the vegetation around it. With a fire that big, surely the radiant heat would catch all this on fire. And where is the smoke? [There is smoke present in this scene. The smoke is what drifts upward and forms the vision of Anna's face in the sky.]

How did Van Helsing know that the werewolf was Anna's brother? She never told him. [Van Helsing overheard some of the conversation that the two had before Anna's brother reverted to his werewolf form.]

In the end of the movie when Frankenstein is paddling away on his raft, why does he have the light on when it's daylight? [This isn't much of a mistake, since it doesn't affect the outcome of the movie. It was the Frankenstein Monster's own decision to put the light on. My best guess as to why he decided to put it on is that it appeared as though it was sunset and night would soon fall, so maybe he wanted to be ready for it.]

In the scene near the end of the movie, the Frankenstein monster was tied up on top of Dracula's Castle. After the first bolt of lightning hit him, he tried to break the chains (or belts?) and succeeded except for his left leg, which was still chained up around his ankles. Suddenly, a second bolt of lightning struck him. The next shot (from afar)shows that the Frankenstein monster's whole body is still tied up to the bed. [Frankenstein's Monster never made an attempt to break out of the metal bracelets that bound him to the table (he didn't even try to break out of the chains while riding in the stage coach but asked Carl to unlock him). Van Helsing freed him from every lock except his left leg (not the monster himself) and when the lightning struck a second time the force pushed him back flat up against the table again.]