In Van Helsing 2: The Awakening (2026), Gabriel Van Helsing (Hugh Jackman) has disappeared into a forgotten corner of Europe, hiding from the Vatican, from the monsters he once hunted—and from the curse of the werewolf still burning in his blood . When entire villages vanish overnight and churches are found emptied, their stone saints weeping black tears, a terrified young seer tracks him down with a single prophecy: “The First Vampire is waking.”

Dragged back into a world of secret orders and forbidden scriptures, Van Helsing discovers that Dracula was only a disciple of an older, buried evil whose return will turn every creature of the night into one unstoppable hive mind .

As his own transformations grow stronger, he must decide whether to fight the darkness… or unleash it, using the beast within as the only weapon powerful enough to stand against the rising god of blood. Thunderous gothic battles, plague‑lit streets and catacomb chases lit by flickering candles make The Awakening a brutal, operatic clash between faith, fate and the monster in the mirror