How Did the Movie Van Helsing Inspire Me?
In my Thursday 13 blog post titled Movie Lists Fun (Childhood Favorites, Comfort Movies, All-Time Favs), I shared lists of movies, including my all-time favorite movies. Next to several of those movie titles there had been an asterisk, indicating that those films had inspired/influenced me as a writer.
The Movies:
Gothika
Once a month, I am going to highlight one of those movies and reveal how it inspired/influenced me.
This month's movie is...
Van Helsing
How did it inspire me?
Dracula and his ball.
In Book 2 of my Secret Book Baby Series, vampires make an appearance. One of them is a vampire king. The Dracula in Van Helsing influenced this character. I do not picture this Dracula as my character aside from the hair and pale skin, nor does my vampire king have an accent, but I created my character during the time when I was especially obsessed with this movie.
And the ball...my vampires have a ball...and my FMC is forced to dance with the king. So, yeah, see the similarities with that? It unfolds all very different, and it's not a masquerade ball, but the influence is plain, and I'm not hiding that.
Van Helsing, for being a low budget film, is fabulous. It doesn't get nearly as much love as it should.
