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Deep
in the mountains of Carpathia lies the mysterious and mystic
land of Transylvania-a world
where evil is ever-present, where danger rises as the sun
sets, and where the monsters that inhabit man’s deepest
nightmares take form.
Innovative filmmaker Stephen Sommers-
who so imaginatively re-envisioned Universal’s classic Mummy character in
the worldwide blockbusters The Mummy and The Mummy Returns – now
widens his cinematic scope and multiplies is creative inspiration
by breathing new life into the most time-honoured pantheon
of classic Universal monsters and setting them in a stunning
new world of fantastical reality.
Sommer’s all- encompassing
vision for a world as tangible, real and visceral as any
caught in the stranglehold of inescapable
evil blends the recognizable and the unimaginable into a
vivid, epic backdrop for his tale of ultimate evil against
a lone force of good: Van Helsing.
Audiences will be drawn into a visionary,
supernatural but seemingly all-too-real world of Sommers’ singular creation
set in 19thCentury London, Rome, Paris and Transylvania-
where mankind is a constant danger from incarnate evil in
a multitude of forms: monsters that outlive generations,
defying repeated attacks from the doomed brave souls that
challenge them in their never-ending war upon the human race.
In Sommers’ hands, Dracula, Frankenstein’s Monster,
the Wolf Man and others are effectively reborn as dynamic
heirs to the traditions handed down by the filmmakers of
the classic Universal monster pictures. Honouring their legacy
while propelling them into the next generation of cinema,
Sommers turns what was once a classic into cutting edge.
Into this world, brought to life
and played out on massive sets and sweeping locations,
Sommers brings Van Helsing (Hugh
Jackman), the legendary monster hunter born in the pages
of Bram Stoker’s Dracula. In his ongoing battle to
rid the world of its fiendish creatures, Van Helsing, on
order of a secret society, travels to Transylvania to bring
down lethally seductive, enigmatically powerful Count Dracula
(Richard Roxburgh) and joins forces with the fearless Anna
Valerious (Kate Beckinsale), out to rid her family of a generations-old
curse by defeating the vampire.
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