Saturday, 12 September 2009

Van Helsing 2

The film Van Helsing was released in May of 2004. The hero, Gabriel Van Helsing, is not the same character as Bram Stoker's 1897 Dracula character Abraham Van Helsing, the character whose name and role as Dracula's foe - and nothing else - inspired the former.

Kyūketsuki Hantā Dī, or Vampire Hunter D, was first published in 1983, predating Van Helsing by twenty-one years.

Solomon Kane first appeared in the August 1928 issue of Weird Tales, in the story "Red Shadows," one of the first Sword-and-Sorcery tales. It predates Vampire Hunter D by fifty-five years, and Van Helsing by seventy-six years.

The next person who says Solomon Kane is a Vampire Hunter D ripoff or unofficial sequel to Van Helsing, is going to get shot by a cannon.
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6 comments:

  1. Crom's Bells30 September 2009 at 06:54

    Crom's Bells approves :)

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  2. Anonymous13 October 2009 at 05:35

    Well said, and well visualized.

    -Seamvs

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  3. Taranaich2 November 2009 at 10:00

    Thanks all! Though poor photobucket seems to have failed: I'll see if I can get it on to imageshack or some such.

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  4. Anonymous31 December 2009 at 19:03

    Solomon Kane THE MOVIE looks like a ripoff of Van Helsing. It also looks like shit and nothing like the books (where's the old crazed fanatic with the scary eyes?).

    You must be pretty dense if you can't grasp this.

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  5. Unknown25 December 2013 at 21:45

    Well the movie (and not the book) looks like a total ripoff of Vampire Hunter D in terms of scenery.

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    1. Taranaich2 January 2014 at 00:09

      Well, blame Michael J. Bassett for that. :P

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