Corrected entry: In the scene where the syringe containing the werewolf antivenom is held in the viscous liquid, surely the liquid which is shown to be more than highly corrosive, (by the way in which it chewed a hole in the metal grating) would have dissolved the metallic syringe parts, even if it left the glass component undamaged.
Kaite13
12th May 2004
Van Helsing (2004)
10th May 2004
Van Helsing (2004)
Corrected entry: When Van Helsing and Carl first arrive in Transylvania, we see a shot of Anna planting her feet on the well and talking to VH and Carl. On her right leg, tucked under the laces of her boot, is a white-handled knife. Later, when she takes Van Helsing to her house and is loading up on weapons to hunt Dracula, we see her pick the same knife up off a table and slide it into her boot - where it should already have been.
Correction: Anna pulls the knife out to slash at one of the Brides who is carrying her off. The Bride drops Anna onto the roof and Anna loses the knife as she falls. She probably has a matching knife back at the house and so just replaces the one she lost when she gets home.
8th May 2004
Van Helsing (2004)
Corrected entry: In the scene where Kate Beckinsale closes the window she recognizes the wolfman's wet footprints on the floor. A few seconds later, in another shot, the footprints are gone.
Correction: The camera doesn't pan over that same section of the floor again. It looks behind Anna, it looks around the corner and it looks several feet in front of where she stops, but not over that same patch of ground. And we see the wolfman has climbed on top of the cases so his prints would probably not be anywhere on the floor except where he walked from window to case.
12th May 2004
Van Helsing (2004)
Corrected entry: In the middle of the film, our heroes travel from Transylvania back to the Vatican, which is shown on a nice map representation. The thing is that the map states that the Carpathian mountain range is to the South of Transylvania (wrong, since it is to the North, though a bit reaches in to the left side of Romania) and that Budapest (and Hungary) is not to the Southwest but to the Northwest. At least they could've bought a map of Central Eastern Europe for a film with such a big budget.
Correction: The map doesn't have the cardinal directions written on it--the camera shot might imply those directions as the line is shown travelling toward the bottom of the screen, but there is no S or N to mark which way is north or south. The map could be twisted so that North is on the left of the screen, or even to the bottom.
9th May 2004
Van Helsing (2004)
Corrected entry: Budapest was originally called Buda-Pesth and it still was at the time the film is set, even if it DOES say Budapest on the map (sorry, but I'm not sure when it changed)
Correction: It still is Buda-Pesht, but how many Americans know that? I've also seen it spelled different ways in English (your Pesth, my Pesht, the usual Pest), so they had to use the format most common to the largest portion of the audience just so the viewer would know what they were referring to. Besides, who's to say that VH didn't have an American made map?
16th May 2004
Van Helsing (2004)
Corrected entry: In the Masquerade ball scene, VH sends Carl down into the ballroom to push the fire-breather into Dracula. A minute or so later, VH and Anna make their escape, and they find Carl in the next room. There is no way Carl could have got back upstairs and into that room in the time it took VH to get there.
Correction: There was plenty of time. VH and Anna stood on the balcony for quite a while as Dracula talked to them, then Frankenstein's Monster was wheeled through the ballroom reciting the 23rd Psalm (modified), then the other vampires made evil faces at them, THEN they ran to the room where they met up with Carl. Carl was probably running the whole time he was offscreen.
8th May 2004
Van Helsing (2004)
Corrected entry: In the scene where the brides of Dracula and Dracula are hanging upside down from the ceiling, their hair is obviously hanging down the right way, but not the jewelry on the brides. You can see the necklace on one of the brides laying flat on her neck and chest, when it should be dangling down towards her head.
Correction: The necklace is a rather stiff beaded thing--her earrings are going in the proper direction, so I assumed that the beaded necklace had simply stacked itself so that it stood 'upright'--ie, away from gravity. I have a similar necklace, and it can be done (the beads are so tight on the string it acts almost like blocks and can stand upright in a sort of tower). The director probably had to force it to stand up to keep the big dangly bits hanging on the bottom from obstructing the actress' mouth and face, but it can happen naturally.
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Correction: The metal bits looked like gold to me, and gold reacts with nothing except for mercury.
Kaite13