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Van Helsing's memory lapses

posted 9 years ago by CountVladDracula
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Hammer's Van Helsing doesn't know what he's talking about... I know Hammer tends to be inconsistent but has anyone noticed that in Horror of Dracula (Dracula 1958) Doctor Van Helsing claims vampires cannot take animal form yet in the direct sequel, Brides of Dracula (which shows clips of Horror of Dracula at it's start) says they can take animal form, in fact you see Baron Meinster take bat form. Cut ahead to the 1970s. Peter Cushing is playing a Van Helsing and this time he claims he's never heard of fire working against a vampire... yet fire is used in Brides of Dracula and lightning strike / fire is in Scars of Dracula. I think Doctor Van Helsing has a memory problem.

[–] fromevildead 8 years ago

are you insane~?~

dr. van helsing wasnt IN scars of dracula, so there was nothing he could remember...

and 1970 van helsing wasnt in brides of dracula either, because brides was set at least a hundred years before 1970... this helsing was a descendant..