How Did the Movie Van Helsing Inspire Me?

In my Thursday 13 blog post titled Movie Lists Fun (Childhood Favorites, Comfort Movies, All-Time Favs), I shared lists of movies, including my all-time favorite movies. Next to several of those movie titles there had been an asterisk, indicating that those films had inspired/influenced me as a writer. 

The Movies:

Pitch Black 

UltraViolet

Matrix: Reloaded

Van Helsing

Gothika

Once a month, I am going to highlight one of those movies and reveal how it inspired/influenced me.

This month's movie is...

Van Helsing

How did it inspire me?

Dracula and his ball.

In Book 2 of my Secret Book Baby Series, vampires make an appearance. One of them is a vampire king. The Dracula in Van Helsing influenced this character. I do not picture this Dracula as my character aside from the hair and pale skin, nor does my vampire king have an accent, but I created my character during the time when I was especially obsessed with this movie.

And the ball...my vampires have a ball...and my FMC is forced to dance with the king. So, yeah, see the similarities with that? It unfolds all very different, and it's not a masquerade ball, but the influence is plain, and I'm not hiding that.

Van Helsing, for being a low budget film, is fabulous. It doesn't get nearly as much love as it should.

I suck. I'm Sorry.

 

Dear Blog Visitor,

I haven't visited many of your blogs in a very long time.

That is why I suck and why I am sorry.

Since I started my full-time job last June, I've found it harder and harder to visit other blogs.

I work, I go home, I try to write as much as I can as long as I have the energy and motivation, I go to bed, and repeat. Come the weekend, I'm trying to recuperate from the work week and write, write, write. I haven't even had time to read a graphic novel. *sigh*

(This work/life routine may be the same with you, and you still may be able to visit blogs and comment on them, but I urge you to remember that we all have different capacities for things. I am a spoonie and suffer from a lot of chronic pain, more than I did at the start of last year, so that takes it out of me, too.)

At work, there's been times when I could create blog posts (like now), but for some reason, I'm not able to log in to comment on other people's blogs or even to reply back to comments on my own posts, which is less than ideal. I have to do that on my iPad, which is also less than ideal. 

I forget all the time to use one of my own devices to reply back to comments on my own posts, which is sad.

So, I want to say to those of you who visit my blog but maybe don't comment, THANK YOU! I may not see a visible sign that you're here, but I SEE YOU, and I appreciate your visit.

To those of you who visit and leave a comment (there's a few of you who I consider my faithful commenters), I THANK YOU for continuing to visit my blog and to grace me with your thoughts when I haven't done the same for you in a long time.

I am going to do my best to visit more of your blogs, and I really mean that.

For now, THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU! And I am sorry for not reciprocating as much as I should've. I’ll get better at it. I promise.

Take care,

Chrys Fey