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ophelialoveshandsomemen · 3 months

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Say what you will about Van Helsing 2004; hate it, love it, be indifferent, But the All-Hallow's masquerade ball went sooooo hard and it had zero right to do so! It's a fun, campy, monster mash movie with wonderfully dated ( and expensive) cgi and non-stop action meant to be a popcorn flick one takes out to watch around spooky season. And it has this* chef's kiss* GORGEOUS 6 minute sequence plopped arbitrarily in the second act, which unexpectedly surpasses nearly every other ball in the last 30+ years of film( notable exception being the Cinderella 2015 ball) for literally no reason other than to be dramatic af.

Like feast your eyes on this Gothic masterpiece!!! Who doesn't want to immediately live in this picture?!??

They used those candles with oil in them so that they would have real candles, real string orchestra( I believe), probably around 100 real life extras( something which is tragically absent in modern film), said extras are all in beautiful fully decked-out costumes( which are in luxuriously dark colours, but nearly no fully black, another thing you cannot say for much modern cinema), REAL CIRQUE DU SOLEIL PERFORMERS for all the acrobatics!!!! Hell, instead of filming in a sound stage, where they could control the reverb and the acoustics and the size of the set and the bloody lighting ( they apparently had a heck of a time emulating the firelight for this sequence) and the temperature( it's very cold in stone churches!) better, they filmed in a Baroque church in Prague! As I said, peak dramatic splendour, jfc...

Think about that a second...They filmed a vampire masquerade in a Baroque Catholic Church( St. Nicholas' in Lesser Town, if you were curious) with amazing over-the-top acoustics and marble statues and real, tiled floors and marble pillars and a choir loft which they very much utilized, covered the pipe organ and the altar with a grand brocade curtain so it wouldn't be so obviously a, you know, a church! And there's a gold gilt elevated and canopied pulpit into which they put two vampire kiddies for, again, the sake of being dramatic.

And the costumes! They remind me of the 25th anniversary Phantom of the Opera Masquerade costumes. Same quality, like they're old, well-cared-for costumes pulled out of a warehouse, instead of fast industry churn-outs. With lots of trim and colour and masks and lace and feathers and..just...ugh.. they are all perfect! Just look at all the head pieces on the ladies and the hats on all the gentleman ( save Dracula of course) and the powdered wigs on the musicians. ANNNNDD! The dresses are historically correct!!!!!! It's the 80's bustle era! Nobody does the 80's bustle era in film anymore and it's a bummer. Oh and one other thing! Anna's ( and other women's) hair, at least here in the ball, is also historically accurate because it's all pinned up! None of those fucken modern beachwaves at a ball! Everybody's got updo's!

Gah, I swear, Dracula in his gold cloak really does things to me in this scene!

By the way, the acrobatics are bonkers in here for just background stuff!! Especially the random guys on unicycles and the dude playing the violin whilst standing on a ball...Like....WHAT?

Anyways, all this to say, that this masquerade ball feels sooo real and tangible and because of that it blows every other film out of the water, and no, I will not change my mind!!!!!

Here's a few more gifs, bcuz, why the hell not, this scene is sexy as fuu*ck?

Alright I need to go to bed now.

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losthavenmine · 5 months

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Van Helsing (2004)

#van helsing #richard roxburgh #filmedit #moviegifs #fyeahmovies #movieedit #userfilm #cinemapix #cinematv #horroredit #horrorgifs #flashing gif tw #usersavana #tusertyler #tuserhan #userpfeiffer

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eliseliedl · 8 days

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Van Helsing (2004)

#van helsing #filmedit #van helsing 2004 #filmgifs #horror movies #horroredit #richard roxburgh #hugh jackman #creaciones #he could have just lied to him AGSDGSJ i love this movie

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georgeromeros · 1 year

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Van Helsing (2004) dir. Stephen Sommers

#van helsing #van helsing 2004 #filmedit #actionedit #horroredit #fantasyedit #my gifs #movies #horror #fantasy #action #adventure #2000s #stephen sommers #hugh jackman #kate beckinsale #david wenham #elena anaya #richard roxburgh

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thymbyll · 4 months

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#emmy rossum #kate beckinsale #richard roxburgh #gerard butler #dracula #anna valerious #van helsing #the phantom of the opera #erik #christine daae

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the-swift-tricker · 2 months

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richard roxburgh as dracula in van helsing (2004) has honestly become one of my favorite takes on the character

#dracula #richard roxburgh #van helsing #van helsing 2004 #vampires #horror #video #swift-tricker's posts

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in-love-with-movies · 1 year

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Van Helsing (2004)

#Van Helsing #filmedit #horroredit #Hugh Jackman #Kate Beckinsale #Richard Roxburgh #Josie Maran #Stephen Sommers #my gifs #movie gifs

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periodcostumefantasylover · 6 months

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Dracula dances with Anna Valerious in Van Helsing in 4k

#van helsing #dracula #anna valerious #perioddramaedit #period drama #periodcostume #dancing #kate beckinsale #richard roxburgh #4k

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hawkaye · 1 year

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RICHARD ROXBURGH as Count Vladislaus Dracula - Van Helsing (2004)

#van helsing #filmtvdaily #filmedit #cinematv #cinemaspam #cinematicsource #dailyflicks #horroredit #richard roxburgh #*#tw flashing

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always-ascending · 1 year

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VAN HELSING 2004 | Dir. Stephen Sommers

#van helsing #filmedit #horroredit #fantasyedit #richard roxburgh #kevin j o'connor #my edit

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megmeg-chan · 6 months

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Where are you going to run, Victor? Van Helsing 2004 (2/?)

#van helsing 2004 #vladislaus dracula #van helsing 2004 edit #van helsing 2004 gif #vladislaus dracula edit #vladislaus dracula gif #mine #my gif #my edit #richard roxburgh edit #richard roxburgh gif #richard roxburgh #dracula gif #dracula

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xxgothchatonxx · 2 months

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Look, I love Nic Cage as Dracula ('Cagula', if you will) as much as the next Goth BUT Richard Roxburgh is still the king of campy Dracula performances.

Come on, they cast an Aussie in a villain role for a major Hollywood blockbuster (*shoos the box office away*) - did they really expect any scenery to be left un-chewed?

#dracula daily #dracula #richard roxburgh

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losthavenmine · 1 year

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