Continuity mistake: When Van Helsing is talking with the undertaker and the undertaker says "Never to late digging graves", he lifts his shovel. When it cuts from behind him the shovel is lowered. (00:44:45)
Continuity mistake: When Anna is trying to free her brother from the gurney, the leather strap around his neck disappears and reappears from shot to shot. (01:00:55)
Continuity mistake: After Aleera has grabbed Sara and Van Helsing runs after to the edge of the cliff looking for them, we see him holding his hand to his wound. When it cuts to Carl and the Frankenstein Monster getting to him we see him placing his hand on the wound again. (01:18:05)
Continuity mistake: In the opening shot at the Ball when Carl and Van Helsing are to "trade" Frankenstein for Anna, everybody has a reflection in the mirrors at either side of the ballroom although they are later to be revealed as Vampires and have no reflection. (01:20:45)
Continuity mistake: When Anna and Van Helsing embrace to kiss, the hands with which they caress each other change position and even totally swap in between cuts. In one shot Van Helsing will be touching her with his right hand, the next shot with his left hand, the next shot with no hand, etc. (01:36:05)
Continuity mistake: Towards the end of the movie, in the scene where Anna is taking the werewolf cure to Van Helsing and the vampire bride stops her on the large fallen pillar, she falls so she is in a sitting position with the cure in her left hand. She then switches it to her right. Then in the close-up shot, the cure is still in her left hand and she switches it again. (01:49:50)
Continuity mistake: When we get to Anna, right before she stabs Aleera, we can see traces of the concrete under the snow above her. Two shots later the snow is totally covering the concrete. (01:49:50)
Continuity mistake: When the friar is about to stake Van Helsing at the end, it shows him taking an overhand swing with the stake up ready to plunge. Then it cuts and the friar is grasping the stake, which is down by his waist. Then it cuts to the first shot again. (01:52:35)
Continuity mistake: At the very end, when the werewolf leans over the dead girl before picking her up, her eyes are open, but when he turns around with her and faces the camera, her eyes are closed. The werewolf could not have closed her eyes with his paws and claws nor with his arms full with the girl. (01:52:55)
Continuity mistake: In the final fighting scene between Dracula and Van Helsing it can be seen that Dracula has all his fingers. However, later in the scene, when he asks Van Helsing for the return of his ring, one of his fingers is missing.
Continuity mistake: When Dracula and Van Helsing meet for the first time, Dracula's hand placement changes between shots. This happens twice, once when he is saying 'But like me, hunted by all others." During this, his hands move from his side to taking his gloves off. And again, when he says 'You are the great Van Helsing,' his hands move from his sides to being in the air.
Continuity mistake: Before Van Helsing looks at Dracula's children in the "eggs" by biting it off and dropping it to the ground, he removes one of his gloves. However, when he starts shooting the offspring, then fighting Dracula, that glove is back on his hand.
Continuity mistake: When Anna is running away from the Wolf Man she is wearing felt shoes but when Velkan pushes her out of the way she is back wearing her high heeled boots.
Continuity mistake: Near the end of the attack of the Brides, Marishka is about to make her final "charge". The wind blows the hair back from her face, showing that she is not wearing any earrings. Yet after Van Helsing kills her and she starts to disintegrate, she is wearing large triangular dangling earrings. (It's not because her jewelry disappears in her flying form - she is shown wearing bracelets and rings in *both* forms).
Continuity mistake: In the scene in the village, after the brides have attacked, Anna lands on top of Van Helsing. In one shot she is sitting with her legs under his arms, in the next shot she sits above his arms. When they roll, her legs are back under his arms.
Continuity mistake: In the scene where Van Helsing is fighting Dracula's brides for the first time, when the sun comes up and they disappear, there is a wooden table behind Anna when she stands up, and there's nothing on it. But a couple of shots later there is the dead body of a man on it.
Continuity mistake: Anna wears high-heeled boots during the movie, but during some action scenes, they are flat-bottomed boots.
Continuity mistake: As revealed in the DVD commentary, the character Anna's hair changes somewhat in some scenes. Noticeable is the very slight changes that occur before she finds out her brother is a werewolf. An original mistake was already corrected, but I assure you it's there. It's just hard to see.
Continuity mistake: After killing Dr. Frankenstein, Dracula has blood on his lips. After he uses his hand to wipe the blood away, no blood is on his hand.
Continuity mistake: When the movie begins and the villagers are raiding the castle, Dr. Frankenstein tries to sneak through a basement door. Dracula produces an explosion and Doc turns his head away. From the opposite angle it's still facing forward.
Answer: During their conversation Dracula is able to move around the room without Viktor noticing it. Then Dracula is standing on top of the fireplace behind Viktor, that's why he turns his head the first time. When Dracula suddenly slams the chest Viktor is surprised to see Dracula suddenly standing in front of him so he instinctively turn his head to look at the fireplace to believe his own eyes.
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