Ahoy, squirts. Quint here with a report from a reader in Italy who has some information on a possible sequel to VAN HELSING. I don't know how well this "Ciak" magazine can be trusted, so count this as RUMOR for now. There's a screening of VAN HELSING in Austin on Tuesday that I'm pretty sure I'm invited to, so the Austin AICN crew should be seeing this in a couple of days. Will it be the big, stinking turd that the early reviews are saying it is? I hope not... But I will say this: Long live The Monster Squad!

Hello Harry,

For those who alrady hate "Van Helsing"...Make 'em read this! this month Italian cine-magazine "Ciak" reported an interesting dossier on the upcoming movie "Van Helsing", whose release date in Italy is on May the 7th, like in the U.S.A.

Well, the magazine said that producers of the film are currently still paying a rent for the studios in Prague, because if "Van Helsing" will do well at the box office in the first week-end of release, the production of a second movie will beging immediately (Jackman is under contract for a sequel...). "Ciak" went on stating that the new monsters that are going to perform in this new version are the Fish-Man from "Creature of the Black Lagoon" and the Invisible Man: the article says that Sommers had already "signed on" the Fish-Man for a cameo appearance in the original draft of "Van Helsing".... ...Interesting...

Cheers!

Italian Daydreamer