How did Van Helsing not turn into a vampire in the movie Dracula 2000?

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Paying homage to Wes Craven who recently passed away, I have a question about one of my favorite vampire movies that Craven was an Executive Producer, Dracula 2000.

In the movie, Van Helsing is the "keeper" of Dracula. Van Helsing must be able to survive in order to keep Dracula entombed for long periods of time. He puts leeches on Dracula's body and then injects Dracula's blood into his own through the leeches. This process keeps Van Helsing immortal, but only for a time because he has to continually repeat the process.

How did Van Helsing not turn into a vampire after this process?



Best Answer

The movie lacks any explicit showing of siring, the creation of a vampire. All we see is biting. The vamps at the beginning were bit on the plane before it crashed, and the Second Bride, the Reporter Solina afterwards. Lucy the Third Bride, is also shown just being bit.

Solina makes a vague reference to being chosen (as a lover) while she is in an interrogation room at a police station. Soon after, she breaks through and the movie implies she feeds on the Detective, while Dracula feeds on the Doctor. We don't see either of those two, or if anyone else in the police station who may have been killed, turned into vamps later in the movie. We also see that Prof. Van Helsing was killed, supposedly drained by the 3 Brides, but he also remains dead. Nor do we see the cameraman that Dracula attacks before he turned Solina.

The closest thing we see is the dream sequence/flashback when Dracula turns Mary and shows her how he was created. After biting her in the real world, she also drinks his blood in the dream sequence. Given that we are then shown a flashback to Dracula's disciple days, can't be sure if it is required for turning into a vampire or just the flashback or if it even happened in the real world.

So conclusively, the only thing that was shown is that Dracula bit them, and some turned while others might not have (or were completely ignored afterwards), and it might have to be a conscious choosing on Dracula's part on who turns.

One possible clue is that in the end, Dracula releases Mary of her vampirism.

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*Mary's pupils go from blood red, to white, to normal*

He had magical control over her vampirism and could release it by will alone, indicates that turning people into vampires could also be purely done by choice.

Dracula, as written by Bram Stoker, required multiple days (nights) of feeding on Lucy before she was turned, so it cannot be used as a base reference.




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Does Van Helsing become a vampire?

He later becomes a vampire himself after a meeting with Dracula revealed that Dracula was actually hunting the true monster of Elizabeth B\xe1thory, but Van Helsing is killed in a confrontation with Arthur Holmwood, as he cannot accept the revelation that they were hunting the wrong threat.

How is Van Helsing related to Dracula?

The eponymous character was inspired by the Dutch vampire hunter Abraham Van Helsing from Irish author Bram Stoker's novel Dracula.

Is Van Helsing a Dracula?

Abraham Van Helsing is an important character in Bram Stoker's Dracula, arguably the most important in the fight against the monster. Van Helsing is Dutch, and his foreignness reveals itself in his difficulty with the English language and his Roman Catholic faith.

Is Vanessa Van Helsing a vampire?

In 2016, Syfy introduced the world to Vanessa Van Helsing (Kelly Overton), a descendant of Abraham whose blood has the unique ability to turn vampires back into humans. It's a pretty good power to have, especially considering Vanessa woke up from a coma in the middle of a vampire apocalypse.



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