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

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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Van Helsing: The London Assignment

2004 · dir. Sharon Bridgeman

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Tales of the Black Freighter

2009 · dir. Daniel DelPurgatorio, Mike Smith

What they share

Theysit in Action / Animation / Horror territory. If that's the register that drew you to Van Helsing: The London Assignment, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.

What Tales of the Black Freighter is

Darkness on the ocean, a lone sailor, a splintered ship wheel, the sound of crashing waves. A mariner's desperate voyage home. A haunting tale of survival from the Watchmen era.

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

Van Helsing: The London Assignment

Tales of the Black Freighter

What they share

What Tales of the Black Freighter is

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