Episode Twenty-Eight - Van Helsing (2004)
Failure to Franchise · Trev Snyder & Chris Sorgiovanni
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Show Notes
Failure to Franchise's two-month "Curse of the Dark Universe" event kicks off, with a look at this much maligned Monster mash from the early 2000s. In the wake of director Stephen Sommers' wildly successful THE MUMMY and THE MUMMY RETURNS, Universal was eager to have him potentially relaunch the entire classic Universal Monsters line. His solution for this was to dive right into a crossover-type film featuring several of the monsters, but not focusing on ANY of them. Instead, Sommer's title character would be a drastic reinvention of Dracula's most famous enemy, now played by one of the biggest up-and-coming movies stars of the era. A hot director. A hot leading man. And a movie full of time-tested iconic horror characters. What could could possibly go wrong with 2004's VAN HELSING?