Van Helsing

Stupidity: When Anna, Velkan and the villagers successfully trap the gray werewolf in a huge cage, the villagers start firing on it. Anna says they need to use Velkan's gun because it has silver bullets in it. Since everybody knew they were fighting a werewolf, all of them should have had silver bullets for their guns.

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Suggested correction: They lived in a remote mountain village and obviously did not have a very luxurious life. So they simply did not have enough silver to make bullets for everyone. They could only afford one gun with silver bullets. But they loaded their guns with normal bullets because that at least made them feel a bit more secure compared to going against a werewolf bare-handed, even though normal bullets were actually useless.

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That a remote mountain village in 19th-century Transylvania did not have enough silver to fill every gun with silver bullets offers a plausible explanation of why they did not use silver bullets in every gun. You cannot fill a gun with something you do not have.

Continuity mistake: Towards the end of the movie, in the scene where Anna is taking the werewolf cure to Van Helsing and the vampire bride stops her on the large fallen pillar, she falls so she is in a sitting position with the cure in her left hand. She then switches it to her right. Then in the close-up shot, the cure is still in her left hand and she switches it again. (01:49:50)

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Question: How could Dracula's werewolf antidote work on regular werewolves? I thought it could only work the first night they became a werewolf, and it had to be before the twelfth chime of midnight? Or did I miss something?

Answer: There is a lot of confusion about Dracula's control of werewolves and the antidote. After the twelfth stroke of midnight, a werewolf is under the complete control of Dracula. This is why Velkan couldn't kill Dracula: He knew a werewolf could kill him, even tried telling this to his sister, but couldn't consciously kill Dracula. Dracula keeps the antidote as a safety measure: If any werewolf summons enough will to get out of his control, he can make them human again.

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