[Xemem]

I would like any one who has any knowledge about Van helsing to tell me something about him. You may think Im just talking about the new movie, but apperently van helsing has been a part of many vampire(primarily dracula) legends, in many movies and books. From what I know he shows up as an older man in a camile apperance in most instance, but in some movies and books is even portriad as the doctor who leads every one too dracula and discovers most of the secrets....my probleme is the role of this charector in alot of mytholeogy based around vladimir dracul is always small or hardly ever mentioned. There seems to be virtualy no information on this charector. I would lke to know more about him. it would go well in my b.o.d.e(book of demon epithology) that im working on.

[MA-53]

van helsing was supposedly a really skilled demon/zombie/vampire/evil thingy killer. He helped to purge the world of dracula, etc. Basically any baddy you've ever heard of that was undead or something.

However, the movie SUCKED!! i mean really, it's not worth paying the five bucks to get in! Not even if you DID have popcorn.

[Res]

I saw the movie, I liked it.. i thought it followed very closely to the whole vampire/mythology.. Everything seemed to tie together just right.
I cant think of any history of Van Helsing though.. the movie was the first ive ever heard about him.


MX

[MA-53]

well, if you read the books about dracula, you'll hear him mentioned, I know that much.

[Sproogle At Study Hall]

Yeah, the movie was bad. For one, rapid-fire crossbows powered by gasoline??? The sentence contradicts itself! And how was there fire inside an ice fortress while it was raining?? There were too many flaws for me to point out. It was bad, like Troy. And Van Helsing is a decrepid old man in Dracula who uses his wit to fight him, not spinning handheld blades that are also impossible. Impossible to fight effectively with, not make, mind you.

[yoda bulk]

errrrrr i havent seen but i think they where trying to make it more exiting but this will disapoint readers of the books.

[Godfather]

i saw this one show in the discovery channel which allows u to use fire when its raining lol idk wut it was called but it was sap from a tree

[yoda bulk]

errrrrrrrmmmmm wot does this have to do with anythin...

Oh yeah the comment on fires.

[Xemem]

Duh!...im so stupid....I checked a freinds old print of braham stokers' "dracula". And Van hellsing is the name of the doctor(yes, he was a doctor /demon hunter and he was an old man). I should have known that from memory. any how he was in the book, and only slightly mentioned in most other renditions, and in some not at all. I really wanted to know if he gos back before stoker's book...I dunno any ways for any one who doesnt know. In the book and the movie based on the book "dracula", the texan deliverd the mortal blow to dracula with his 12 inch bowie knife. wich means that holly wood has once again messed up a perfectly good legend even more. they seem to have turned him into some kind of action hero, when in every other mention hes just the guy that knows whats going on before every 1 else. and just becuase frankenstiens' monster(victor frankenstien is the doctor who made the monster, the creature he created was never given a name), the wvere's(werewolfs), and dracula all come from transillvania(modern day bulgaria) or thereabouts, is no excuse to put them in a movie together and beyond that try to some how tie there stories together!....*pants*... you may get away with combining a where wolf and vampire story as they are tied. where ever one exists so does the other. there are even legends that the wvere's are both the **** hounds that guard a powerfull vamp's crypt and the vampires "mortal doer"(arrend boys). there is even a story(I belive you can find it in seceral old texts-i'll search my library), that a wvere who serves there master well, when vanquished becomes a vampire. while you can put those to together and get away with it(maybe even make it good) there is no ecuse for frankenstiens monster being in the movie other then location...maybe a camile apearance out of shear cooincadance.