Rotten
The horror flick, at its height, was a lyrical caressing of our fears; by the end of this nonsense, you fear for the well-being of the genre. 'It's dead!'
Anthony Lane, New Yorker
Van Helsing
The one name they all fear.
2004 · 2h 12m · PG-13
Action, Adventure, Horror
Directed by
Stephen Sommers
Overview
Famed monster slayer Gabriel Van Helsing is dispatched to Transylvania to assist the last of the Valerious bloodline in defeating Count Dracula. Anna Valerious reveals that Dracula has formed an unholy alliance with Dr. Frankenstein's monster and is hell-bent on exacting a centuries-old curse on her family.
Director and cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
Rotten
It's empty calories: There isn't a single nourishing, non-synthetic sequence in the entire movie. Not a scene. Not a line. Not a look.
David Edelstein, Slate
Rotten
This moronic abomination is not a movie. It's just a noisy, nasty and repulsive video game-slash- theme-park haunted-house ride designed to appeal to the offspring of warlocks and trolls.
Rex Reed, New York Observer
Rotten
This is one of the dopiest movies of the year.
Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper
Rotten
The orgy of morphing, shrieking, lightning-cracking, and habitual rope-swinging quickly turns oppressive.
Ed Park, Village Voice
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