The film was filmed at the Ballandoff Studios in Prague in January 2003. Van Helsing’s underground armory was built here. The crew also went to the 15th-century castle 90 kilometers outside Prague for live shooting. In the film, Dracula’s masquerade was filmed in St. Nicholas Cathedral in Prague. In order to film the scene of the vampire bride attacking Transylvania, the crew fully applied live shooting, motion capture and digital special effects technology. The Cablecam aerial photography system was built, and the erected steel wire rises from 10 feet above the ground to hundreds of feet in the air, so that the suspended camera can fly across the entire scene at high speed.
The square in front of Notre-Dame Cathedral in the film was shot in Prague's Old Town Square, where the chase of the carriage was filmed. In April, the crew returned to the United States for filming and set up a set including the foyer, balcony, skylight and Dracula Castle’s laboratory, coffin chamber and skylight in the Playa Vista studio in Los Angeles. In mid-May, the crew moved to Duny Studios, where the lobby of Dracula Castle was built.
