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
Rain Graves Rain Graves Rain Graves is an award-winning author of horror, fantasy, science fiction and poetry. She is also a noted Wine Poet, commissioned and featured by winemakers and wineries, and the Creator and Hostess of the Haunted Mansion Writer's Retreat. She is the 2002 Bram Stoker Award winner for Best Poetry Collection, "The Gossamer Eye" (along with Mark McLaughlin and David Niall Wilson), and the 2013 winner of the Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in Poetry along with Linda Addison, Charlee Jacob, and Marge Simon for "The Four Elements". Her first published story, "Thoughts of Anna," ("Transylvanian Society of