10 Horror Movie Monsters Who Encountered Something Way Worse

4. Dracula - Van Helsing (2004)

Stephen Sommers (of The Mummy fame) gave us another monster actioner in the early noughties, in the form of Hugh Jackman-led Van Helsing, arguably the first Universal Monsters crossover blockbuster. Using classic literature, such as Bram Stoker’s Dracula, as a jumping off point, the film furnishes us with a world where Dracula, Jekyll and Hyde, Frankenstein and others co-exist, and monster hunter Gabriel Van Helsing (Jackman) is there to keep them in check.

The film’s archvillain is of course Count Dracula – played to perfection by an emo-adjacent Richard Roxburgh – who is intent on duplicating Frankenstein's experiments in order to raise an army from thousands of his undead children. But while for the most part he is the biggest bad in town, dispatching monsters and Lycans with his strength, stamina, and nigh-invulnerability (not to mention his ability to turn into a whopping great bat creature), the final act of the picture has his take on something just as bad – and lose.

Bitten by a werewolf and doped up on righteous wolfy power, Van Helsing himself transforms into a beast, batters Dracula around for a bit, and chomps the vampire dead, killing his brood in the process. And what a nasty, screeching death it is.