Marishka

'''"To bad...so sad."

- Marishka to Van Helsing before attacking him. '''

Marishka is one of Count Vladislaus Dracula's three brides in the 2004 film, Van Helsing.

She is one of Gabriel Van Helsing's enemies-the first Vampire he kills when coming to Transylvania.

During the film, she is first seen with the other two of Dracula's brides in their bat forms, flying toward Anna Valarious and Van Helsing.

She is told by Verona, one of Dracula's two brides, to finish Van Helsing while the Vampires attack the village looking for Anna. Marishka eagerly agrees and flys to attack Van Helsing, being shot with multiple silver arrows that failed to strike her in the heart.

She appears on the roof of a home, her wounds healing as she hisses at Van Helsing. When Carl, Van Helsing's close 'sidekick', alerts Van Helsing of a small fountian of Holy Water by a curch in the village, Marishka smiles and hisses before leaping from the roof and ramming into Van Helsing, repeatidly knocking him and tossing him into walls-only to bring Van Helsing closer to his crossbow, which he needs to finish her off.

Carl alerts Van Helsing of Marishka as she flys toward him, and Van Helsing runs to the fountian of Holy Water, dipping in the bow end of the crossbow, turning around, and fireing the crossbow. The silver, Holy-Water wet arrows shoot into Marishka as she flys above Van Helsing, ramming into the roof of a village home, screaming and gasping while she turns into ashes, her bones clattering onto the ground.

This kills her and Marishka is not seen again but only mentioned in the rest of the film.