If you loved Tales of the Black Freighter, try Van Helsing: The London Assignment

A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.

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Tales of the Black Freighter

2009 · dir. Daniel DelPurgatorio, Mike Smith

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Van Helsing: The London Assignment

2004 · dir. Sharon Bridgeman

What they share

Theysit in Action / Animation / Horror territory. If that's the register that drew you to Tales of the Black Freighter, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.

What Van Helsing: The London Assignment is

Fog clings to gaslit alleys, autumn 1887, a pocket watch stopped at 3:07. Van Helsing tracks claw marks up brick walls and blood-slick cobbles to a chemist’s shattered shop. Feels like Hammer Horror called a truce with a Saturday morning cartoon.

If you loved Tales of the Black Freighter, try Van Helsing: The London Assignment

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Van Helsing: The London Assignment

What they share

What Van Helsing: The London Assignment is

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