{"id":35905,"date":"2025-09-11T11:57:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T11:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/squireslair.com\/?p=35905"},"modified":"2025-09-11T11:57:00","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T11:57:00","slug":"van-helsing-caravan-of-garbage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/squireslair.com\/?p=35905","title":{"rendered":"Van Helsing &#8211; Caravan Of Garbage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 2004 Universal attempted the impossible, recreate the success of The Mummy reboot from 1999 using the classic monsters of old.  At it turns out that was impossible and would continue to be so until The Invisible Man in 2020.  Over the next four weeks we&#8217;re going to take a look at a series of movies that each tried to start their own Dark Universe incorporating classic movie monsters.  This week it&#8217;s Van Helsing from 2004 starring Hugh Jackman and Kate Beckinsale which pits Gabriel Van Hesling against a really bizarre version of Dracula.  Thanks for watching our Caravan Of Garbage review<\/p>\n<p>Check out bigsandwich.co for early videos, bonus podcasts, movie commentaries and video game let&#8217;s plays<\/p>\n<p>Extended Audio Edition \u25ba https:\/\/youtu.be\/esiSXkcuimM<\/p>\n<p>James&#8217; Twitter \u25ba http:\/\/twitter.com\/mrsundaymovies<br \/>\nMaso&#8217;s Twitter \u25ba http:\/\/twitter.com\/wikipediabrown<\/p>\n<p>Edited by Ben \u25ba  @LaurenceMP4 https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/laurence_hisee\/ &amp; @BenFromCanada  https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/benchinapen\/<\/p>\n<p>SUBSCRIBE HERE \u25ba\u25ba http:\/\/bit.ly\/1IQB3kh<\/p>\n<p>TWP iTunes \u25ba https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/au\/podcast\/the-weekly-planet\/id718158767<\/p>\n<p>TWP Direct Download \u25ba https:\/\/play.acast.com\/s\/theweeklyplanet<\/p>\n<p>TWP YouTube Channel \u25ba https:\/\/goo.gl\/1ZQFGH<\/p>\n<p>Patreon \u25ba https:\/\/patreon.com\/mrsundaymovies<\/p>\n<p>T-Shirts\/Merch \u25ba https:\/\/www.teepublic.com\/stores\/mr-sunday-movies<\/p>\n<p>#DarkUniverse<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2004 Universal attempted the impossible, recreate the success of The Mummy reboot from 1999&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":35906,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[28,2,22],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/squireslair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35905"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/squireslair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/squireslair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/squireslair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/squireslair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35905\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/squireslair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/35906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/squireslair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/squireslair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/squireslair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}