Van Helsing (film) Van Helsing (film) Van Helsing is a 2004 American horror film written and directed by Stephen Sommers. It stars Hugh Jackman as vigilante monster hunter Van Helsing, and Kate Beckinsale as Anna Valerious. The film is an homage and tribute to the Universal Horror Monster films from the 1930s and '40s (also produced by Universal Studios which were in turn based on novels by Bram Stoker and Mary Shelley), of which Sommers is a fan. The eponymous character was inspired by the Dutch vampire hunter Abraham Van Helsing from Irish author Bram Stoker's novel "Dracula". Distributed by Universal Pictures, the
Usman T. Malik Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year", and The "Year’s Best Weird Fiction". In 2014 Malik became the first Pakistani to win the Bram Stoker Award for Short Fiction with his story "The Vaporization Enthalpy of a Peculiar Pakistani Family." Usman T. Malik Usman T. Malik is an award-winning speculative fiction author from Pakistan. His short fiction has been published in magazines and books such as "The Apex Book of World SF", Nightmare, Strange Horizons, and Black Static and in a number of "year's best" anthologies. He is the first Pakistani to win the Bram Stoker Award for Short Fiction.