Van Helsing fights Dracula
The first time I watched a movie with Dracula in it, I completely freaked out. So much that it was several months before I could sleep with the windows to the bedroom open, in case that caped, un-dead, fangs-wearing blood-sucker came in after me. I still question the wisdom of showing horror movies
Film: Van Helsing
Stars: Hugh Jackman, Kate Beckinsale
Director: Stephen Sommers
Screenplay: Stephen Sommers
Length: 145 mins
Rating: PG-13 for violence and frightening images
Showing: Cineplex, Garden City from today
Preview by: Kalungi Kabuye
The first time I watched a movie with Dracula in it, I completely freaked out. So much that it was several months before I could sleep with the windows to the bedroom open, in case that caped, un-dead, fangs-wearing blood-sucker came in after me. I still question the wisdom of showing horror movies to eleven year olds.
I am much older now and know that Dracula is just a matter of fiction and Transylvania never existed. In any case, Ugandans are more likely to be freaked out by tales of some annoyed ancestor sending spirits (mayembe) to cane them at night than of some weird looking guy with his teeth all hanging out of his mouth looking to suck someone’s blood.
(Some joker said that if Dracula tried that now he would end up catching AIDS)
In what is supposed to be a kind of ‘dream-team’ of monsters, the film Van Helsing follows the adventures of 19th century monster hunter Dr. Abraham Van Helsing, who first appeared in the book Dracula by Bram Stoker.
In this one, Van Helsing (Hugh Jackman) is summoned to the mysterious East European country of Transylvania to vanquish a league of evil forces and figures, such as Count Dracula (Richard Roxburgh), the Wolf Man (Will Kemp), and the Frankenstein’s monster (Shuler Henlsey).
Assisting him after some fashion is Anna Valerious (Kate Beckinsale), the heir of a long-running family committed t hunting down and destroying Dracula. Elena Anaya, Silvia Colloca and Josie Maran play Dracula’s wives, while David Whenam plays a friar that escorts Van Helsing through the dangerous wilderness.
Also involved in the whole mess is some mysterious monster called Mr. Hyde, who has some sort of tie to a chemist known as Dr. Jekyll.
This move opens worldwide today, but it was first planned to release in the summer of 2003.
Apparently it was delayed to allow extra time for the extensive special effects. It would have competed with the release of Mission Impossible 3 and Spider-Man 2, but the latter was postponed to July because of filming delays.
Stephen Sommers also wrote and directed The Mummy, and The Mummy Returns, and here is talk of a television series based on this movie. With a working title, Transylvania, it will be written by Sommers, and will be about a young Texan cowboy who is recruited to become the sheriff of a small Texan town that is frequently besieged by strange creatures and events.
Stars: Hugh Jackman, Kate Beckinsale
Director: Stephen Sommers
Screenplay: Stephen Sommers
Length: 145 mins
Rating: PG-13 for violence and frightening images
Showing: Cineplex, Garden City from today
Preview by: Kalungi Kabuye
The first time I watched a movie with Dracula in it, I completely freaked out. So much that it was several months before I could sleep with the windows to the bedroom open, in case that caped, un-dead, fangs-wearing blood-sucker came in after me. I still question the wisdom of showing horror movies to eleven year olds.
I am much older now and know that Dracula is just a matter of fiction and Transylvania never existed. In any case, Ugandans are more likely to be freaked out by tales of some annoyed ancestor sending spirits (mayembe) to cane them at night than of some weird looking guy with his teeth all hanging out of his mouth looking to suck someone’s blood.
(Some joker said that if Dracula tried that now he would end up catching AIDS)
In what is supposed to be a kind of ‘dream-team’ of monsters, the film Van Helsing follows the adventures of 19th century monster hunter Dr. Abraham Van Helsing, who first appeared in the book Dracula by Bram Stoker.
In this one, Van Helsing (Hugh Jackman) is summoned to the mysterious East European country of Transylvania to vanquish a league of evil forces and figures, such as Count Dracula (Richard Roxburgh), the Wolf Man (Will Kemp), and the Frankenstein’s monster (Shuler Henlsey).
Assisting him after some fashion is Anna Valerious (Kate Beckinsale), the heir of a long-running family committed t hunting down and destroying Dracula. Elena Anaya, Silvia Colloca and Josie Maran play Dracula’s wives, while David Whenam plays a friar that escorts Van Helsing through the dangerous wilderness.
Also involved in the whole mess is some mysterious monster called Mr. Hyde, who has some sort of tie to a chemist known as Dr. Jekyll.
This move opens worldwide today, but it was first planned to release in the summer of 2003.
Apparently it was delayed to allow extra time for the extensive special effects. It would have competed with the release of Mission Impossible 3 and Spider-Man 2, but the latter was postponed to July because of filming delays.
Stephen Sommers also wrote and directed The Mummy, and The Mummy Returns, and here is talk of a television series based on this movie. With a working title, Transylvania, it will be written by Sommers, and will be about a young Texan cowboy who is recruited to become the sheriff of a small Texan town that is frequently besieged by strange creatures and events.