Bram Stoker's Van Helsing

Well, while the 2021 movie "Bram Stoker's Van Helsing" from writer and director Steve Lawson wasn't as bad as I had believed and feared it to be, then it should be said that the movie does suffer from it being a story that has been told so many times before that it is starting to lose its appeal in a new presentation.

"Bram Stoker's Van Helsing" provided me with somewhat adequate entertainment. Sure, the storyline is one that is rather familiar to me already, but it should be said that the atmosphere of the movie and the acting in the movie actually helped make it watchable.

Now, this 2021 movie "Bram Stoker's Van Helsing" is by no means revolutionary, nor is it a movie that was particularly necessary, as the story of "Dracula" has been told many times before. But "Bram Stoker's Van Helsing" takes the story and presents it from Abraham Van Helsing's point of view, and thus effectively putting Dracula out of the equation, for better or worse.

"Bram Stoker's Van Helsing" suffers from its pacing. The storytelling is somewhat monotonous and tedious at times, which makes for a somewhat prolonged viewing experience. And that is the main reason why my rating of "Bram Stoker's Van Helsing" fell below average.

While watchable, "Bram Stoker's Van Helsing" is hardly an outstanding movie, nor is it a movie that you'll watch more than once. Now, it wasn't a bad or poor movie, but it just didn't have enough punch to turn it into a remarkable movie experience.

My rating of "Bram Stoker's Van Helsing" lands on a four out of ten stars.

While I could slam the acting and directing, that's obvious and appalling. But what I feel deserves some special hate is the utter contempt for Bram stoker's novel that seems to ooze from this rubbish that would be an insult to student films. From small changes like making Van Helsing english again rather than being dutch like in the book or who owns the manner the film takes place at to large things like Lucy's destruction, the removal of Quincy Morris completely. The kind caring Van Helsing that would bend over backwards for his friends of the book is replaced with a poorly acting twitchy weirdo who jumps at the idea that it's vampires literal seconds after meeting Lucy. Lucy is made a selfish social climber who chose to marry Arthur for his money while trying to jump Seward's bones. Arthur a man of caring and compassion who was a good man thrown into a horrible circumstance with the loss of both his father and fiancée in the same week is now replaced with a raging unlikeable piece of human garbage who hates Van Helsing before even meeting him. The fact they had the gall to drag Bram Stoker's name into this dung heap is applying given it seems to have nothing but contempt for it's source material.

While it is only an hour an twentyish minutes it ill feel like an eternity. Do yourself a favor and avoid this dreck. It's not worth your time if your a vampire fan, a fan of Bram Stoker, a fan of horror or just of movies. It fails on every front. Spare yourself the boredom and annoyance.

Oh boy, here we go again.

A very poorly made film of a classic story that does not really need to be retold.

Poor acting and poor cast of said bad acting leave your stomach churning and wanting to press the stop button on this film at almost every point in the movie.

Save yourself the headache and discontent. Pass this movie over twice if you have to.

There isn't much to be said about this movie. It is the worst version of the story and I cannot figure out why it needed to be done. It adds absolutely nothing new to the story.

If it wouldn't be a remake of an iconic story I'd be more forgiving, but this just feels like an insult. The acting is quite bad and the only piece of action in the end was done so amateurishly it was just laughable.

Been watching Van Helsing and Dracula classics for DECADES. This was unbelievably, incredibly bad. Shove a few people in a big house and let them yammer away. Blood transfusions from anyway seems to be the way to go.

I tried watching - then I said to my husband, stupidly. "Why is Van Helsing still talking after 50 minutes, saying nothing." I cannot describe how truly bad this movie is. Rotten tomatoes shouid be thrown with wild abandon.