#van helsing (2016)

[thornsoflight]

I swear to god, if someone has not written the fanfic for van Helsing 2016 I will come out of retirement to write it myself

[atundratoadstool]

If you want to see a series where vampires are the closest to the book in terms of viciousness and of having their human personality warped: Van Helsing 2016. Vampocalypse in modern times, survival mode, unethical mystical & scientific research, cool characters. Quite a lot of gore and emotionally heavy scenes, though, so tread carefully! It also answers the question of "But what if vampires could be turned back into humans?" and the answer is "severe PTSD and survious guilt"!

Thanks for the rec! The undead turning back into the un-undead is honestly one of those concepts that's always been like catnip to me.

[bloustorm]

Watching Van helsing season 2 (my dad is watching and I'm kinda glancing over) and I so called it that after Mohammed stabbed himself and Sam bit him he would turn

Idk I'm really happy about it

... Also i spoilered myself :')

[sarcasticsciencefictionwriter]

Amanda Tapping directed four episodes of season one, omg.

I saw her name in the opening credits of episode six and I was like: OH!

So, I guess we got three of the Five.

Started watching Van Helsing (drama series) recently and I am very intrigued by it.

Mostly, I find it very amusing that both Christopher Heyerdahl and Vincent Gale are in the main cast.

Don't think we're going to see any more of The Five, but my little Sanctuary heart was laughing.

[save-me-spiderman]

Detective Spiderman at your service

[nerdychickshavemorefun]

8 Brief Thoughts About Van Helsing (2016)

It's now been a good chunk of time since Van Helsing (Syfy) final season came out on Netflix, and I would like to take a look back at some things from the early seasons that had such great potential and were ultimately squandered. Maybe one day someone can take some of these good ideas and have another go at it.

As a preface, in general I think that if this show had taken itself a little less seriously, been a little less unironically 90s-comicbook-style edgy, and just had more campy fun, they might've been able to keep the plot from flying off the rails at the end of season 3 and maybe would've been able to keep the MC likeable enough that they didn't have to stuff her in a closet for over an entire season.

And now, 8 things that could have been good:

1. the idea of a reverse vampire (someone who can bite vampires to turn them back into humans). I love the idea of being able to walk up to a classic, arrogant Gothic style vampire who remembers the Crusades and thinks humans are basically cattle, and just absolutely wreck them thematically and literally with just a little ~nibble~

2. Combining the classic "zombie apocalypse with fast zombies" setting (with half-starved feral vampires as the fast zombies), with having actual, intelligent villiand (well, varyingly intelligent) who can have the usual villian hierarchies and dynamics. Like if the various bad guy factions of The Walking Dead were lightly fantasy flavored and also not meant to just further bash into your head that all humans are horrible terrible monsters.

3. On a similar note, just having a show in an apocalypse setting that says "Humans aren't the worst, actually, because the vampires definitely are, and you have to magically and horrifically strip a person of their connection to emotion and humanity to get that". And if that's the opposite of the writers intentions and I've read it completely wrong, then I think they might've chosen being edgy and nihilist over being interesting.

4. Diversity. Not just in the representation of bi women, lesbians, BIPOC actors and characters (I cannot stress enough how big a deal having a confirmed-in-season-one bi female protag was for 2016), but in the in-world diversity of vampire clans/subspecies.

4.5. The Sisterhood. Obviously.

5. Putting a SHOCKINGLY gripping murder mystery in the middle of the first season of your post-apocalypse fantasy show.

5.5. Making Christopher Heyerdahl the murderer. The man never misses when it comes to playing compellingly unhinged characters. If you want a show with a script and plot that doesn't do him dirty like season 4 did, watch the first season of Hell on Wheels.

6. Having your mid-level BBEGs Tragic Backstory be "I was into BDSM in the 1700s and I had HORRIBLE taste in choosing a new dom and now here we are". I'm sorry but that is glorious and I still can't fathom why they waited until we no longer cared about the character to reveal it. They could've played it for comedy, they could've played it for developing the character (trust/control issues etc), and instead we got to wave at it as it passed us by on its way out the window.

7. Lady Dracula instead of good old Vlady, and the Three Spouses of Dracula instead of three wives. Liked the idea, felt the execution was lacking (but, to be fair, it was equally as lacking as everything else plot related in the later seasons). Please, someone just give me a modern Carmilla in vampire fiction.

8. A short list of themes they could have developed or developed better with this setting and these characters, and chose not to:

Human capacity for empathy and connection, and how that relates to ones definition of humanity.

In what ways does the fact that "humanity" can be given or restored in this setting conflict with the characters' assumed definitions of humanity. Further, address the fact that almost every single vampire killed in this series was originally a person who didn't want to be a vampire, and who could have been a human again. What are the personal and moral implications of actively killing a vampire when you could have just as easily turned back? Is there any real difference than just killing a human at that point?

The line between love and obsession/possession and the toxicity therein. After they mentioned that most vamps have a very limited emotional range, I would have loved to see this theme played out more in the vampires who still have close familial or romantic relationships (or, uh, I guess both), especially when you have Phil to contrast it with.

Found family and redemption arcs. Oldies but goodies. The amount of these themes/tropes they did have within the side characters' stories was most of what made the later seasons watchable for me, but I sometimes think we all might've got over the fact that Julius used to eat babies just a little too quickly.

[lifewithaview]

Kelly Overton in Van Helsing (2016) Coming Back

S1E4

Vanessa and Mohamad head into the vampire-controlled streets in search of Dylan, the daughter that Vanessa orphaned when she 'died'. Back at the hospital, Cynthia is found dead. Doc soon discovers that what looked like a suicide is actually a deliberate murder. Is there a killer among-st the group? On their return to the hospital, Vanessa is captured by vampires while Mohamad leads a new group of refugees to the hospital.

[losthavenmine]

"I am what they say I am... I'm a monster."

Van Helsing (2004); The Howling (1981); Bad Moon (1996); The Wolf Man (1941); An American Werewolf in London (1981); Penny Dreadful (2014-2016); Underworld (2003); Skinwalkers (2006); The Wolfman (2010); Dog Soldiers (2002)

[fiotrethewey]

Yeah poor Arthur keeps getting made into either an arse or a bad guy (and the excuse is always "he was boring in the original so I am fixing him")

He's an arse to everyone in Dracula 2016

He's horrible in Hammer Dracula

He's the one who throws away the garlic in Bram Stoker's Van Helsing out of jealousy

He's a power hungry fascist in The Adventures of the Athena Club (everyone in the crew of light is evil there, minus Mina and Dracula who eloped together)

He's a villain in Anno Dracula (Jack is too) and the author admitted it was just because he hates him

He's a greedy murderous opportunist in Lucy Undying (though still not as evil as Mina)

What's boring at this point is completely changing his personality. Make him interesting with the building blocks you have than by making him an OC. He Would Not Fucking Say That.

RIGHT!? And the thing is he’s not boring in the novel? He wins Lucy’s heart, still trusts in his friends despite them being suitors to help him with his ailing fiancée. Not to mention his dad dying and taking on a title around the same time his fiancée dies and takes it mostly in his stride. (That man deserves to cry dammit.)

He’s incredibly resourceful (see dogs and the money for lock picking/travel) and he alone had to do something that no one else in the novel had to do, stake a vampire that was previously their loved one.

Jonny even said he can’t do that.

[v4nhelsing]

Hugh as gabriel van helsing i will always love you (i have a horrible hyperfixation) LOOK AT HIMM<3

Van helsing 2004 is one of my favourite movies ever and has been since 2016 and people need to talk about it more I BEG!!!!

[padmaddean]

Pride month Day13

Sarah (Doc) & Joline Van Helsing (2016–2021)

[bloustorm]

Watching Van helsing season 2 (my dad is watching and I'm kinda glancing over) and I so called it that after Mohammed stabbed himself and Sam bit him he would turn

Idk I'm really happy about it

... Also i spoilered myself :')

[batterknowsbetter]

FRANKENSTEIN

Samuel West Van Helsing 2004 Harry Treadaway Penny Dreadful 2014-2016 Colin Clive Frankenstein 1931 James McAvoy Victor Frankenstein 2015 Charlie Tahan (voice) Frankenweenie 2012 Kenneth Branagh Frankenstein 1994 Gene Wilder Young Frankenstein 1974 Peter Cushing The Curse of Frankenstein 1957

[sarcasticsciencefictionwriter]

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Last Song: Too Sweet by Hoizer

Favorite Color: Reds or pinks. I like dark/bright reds!

Currently Watching: WandaVision, Van Helsing (2016), and technically Wednesday and Supernatural, but those last two are on pause.

Last Movie: I have no clue, to be honest, I haven't been watching movies lately. It might be Clue.

Sweet/spicy/savory: Sweet! I have a major sweet tooth.

Relationship Status: Single

Last thing you googled: I looked up if the sign language in Van Helsing (2016) is real.

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[itefi-n-ferlet]

A mention of Jellal in a TV Series. 🥺 He was the MC's favorite anime character & she went back in time & used his name on a tomb in order to keep safe some stuff that was humanity's last hope against the vampire& her sister found that clue in the future. Check the video ⬇️

In some subs, they put "Jamal Fernandes" but you can clearly hear that she says "Jellal" in this very english way to pronounce his name, also, you can see that the last letters of the name are "LLAL"

The TV series is Van Helsing 2016 (Season 5. Ep 7)