Van Helsing

La Federala and I had a nice night with fish and a Movie. we saw Van Helsing which was exceedingly average. a solid C. maybe a good summer matinee. the 2 lead actors were good, but the rest of the cast was borderline corny in some parts and just lame in others.

it was interesting to see all the different 'horror' characters in one movie but the homages were at times decent. in the opening Frankenstien scene, they follow the sequence shot for shot. and there is a nice, small book reference i won't list here.

Supposedly this film was orininally planned years earlier as a sequal to the Bram Stoker- Dracula movie with Anthony Hopkins reprising his role.