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While "Dracula" author Bram Stoker would have you believe that Van Helsing is a quirky Dutch polymath with a gentlemanly academic interest in monster hunting, director Stephen Sommers had something else in mind.

Namely, "What if Van Helsing was hot?"

Released in 2004, "Van Helsing" offered a bold, swarthy reimagining of Stoker's character — who, to be fair, had taken on a life of his own throughout the 20th Century thanks to a storied career in Universal Monster movies.

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Tojo Blades: The Tojo Blades are the close to moderate range bladed weapons used by Gabriel Van Helsing.

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Just as he'd done with "The Mummy," Sommers imbued the horror staple with kinetic action, adventure, romance, and more camp than a U.S. National Park. Following its titular monster hunter (Hugh Jackman, hot off 2003's "X2: X-Men United"), Van Helsing goes on a quest for a secret society called the Holy Order to find and kill Dracula (Richard Roxburgh).

Along for the ride are Carl (David Wenham), an ingenious friar-weapons expert and Anna (Ka