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Compiled by: Jack Foley
TO CELEBRATE the release of Van Helsing, starring Hugh Jackman
and Kate Beckinsale, on May 7, readers now have the chance to
win a PS2 games console and 10 copies of the game.
Runners up prizes include Van Helsing T-Shirts and Monster Slaying
packs.
Hunt and battle The Wolf Man, Frankenstein, and Mr Hyde in the
mythic settings of legendary Transylvania; Castle Frankenstein,
Vaseria Village and Castle Dracula.
Simply click here, or on the link in the right-hand column, for
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About the film...
During a time in history when the supernatural still seemed as
conceivable as the everyday, when storytellers supplied imaginative
reasons for the unexplained and when mythic creatures still crept
by night… there was a single figure fighting against the
dwindling mysteries hidden in the encroaching darkness: Van Helsing.
Gabriel Van Helsing (Jackman) is a man cursed with a past he
cannot recall and driven by a mission he cannot deny. Charged
by a secret organization to seek out and defeat evil the world
over, his efforts to rid the world of its nightmarish creatures
have been rewarded with the title that now follows him: murderer.
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Van Helsing roams the globe an outcast, a fugitive, a loner,
himself hunted by those who don’t understand the true nature
of his calling.
When dispatched to the shadowy world of Transylvania, Van Helsing
finds a land still mired in its past…where legendary creatures
of darkness come to life…a place ruled over by the evil,
seductive and undefeatable vampire, Count Dracula (Richard Roxburgh)…and
it is Dracula that Van Helsing has been sent to terminate.
Anna Valerious (Kate Beckinsale) is one of the last of a powerful
royal family, now nearly annihilated by Dracula.
A fearless hunter in her own right, Anna is bent on avenging
her ancestors and ending an ancient curse by killing the vampire.
Joined by a common foe, Van Helsing and Anna set out to destroy
Dracula along with his empire of fear.
But in challenging an enemy who never dies, Van Helsing uncovers
a secret he never imagined and comes face-to-face with the unresolved
mysteries of his own enshrouded past.
Stephen Sommers, the innovative filmmaker behind the worldwide
successes of The Mummy and The Mummy Returns, now takes audiences
to an action-filled, fantastical world, where the iconic monsters
of cinema legend meet the famed monster hunter out to vanquish
evil in all its forms: Van Helsing.
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