Richard Roxburgh, Van Helsing
With new Van Helsing-centric movie in the works, thanks to Universal’s bottomless appetite for keeping its signature monsters hard at work, there’s no better time to try and recall what actually happens in this 2004 action-extravaganza starring Hugh Jackman and Kate Beckinsale (who by that point had already starred in the first of several Underworld movies). The movie’s silly, but at least Richard Roxburgh’s performance—which you could call vampy and mean it in multiple senses of the word—is of the knowingly over-the-top variety.
