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Dracula II: Ascension is a 2003 direct-to-video American - Romanian vampire film, directed by Patrick Lussier. It stars Jason Scott Lee, Stephen Billington and Diane Neal. Filmed entirely in Romania by Castel Film Studios, the film is the sequel to Dracula 2000. It was released direct-to-video on June 7, 2003.
Dracula II: Ascension: Directed by Patrick Lussier. With Jennifer Kroll, Jason Scott Lee, Craig Sheffer, Diane Neal. A group of medical students discover the body of the infamous count.
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- Patrick Lussier
- 2003-06-07
NEW. After a band of medical students receives a decaying but living body reported to be the vampire Count Dracula (Stephen Billington), they set out to harness his power and immortality. As a...
- Patrick Lussier
- Horror
- Jason Scott Lee
A group of medical students find the body of Dracula and are offered $30 million to harvest his blood. They face a vampire killer from the Vatican and a deadly infection from the vampire's bite.
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was a 2003 film. It was the sequel to Dracula 2000 and was followed by Dracula III: Legacy.
The film focuses on a small group of overzealous scientists who hope to use Dracula's desiccated - but still alive - body to discover the secret of immortality. Elizabeth Blaine, working at the New Orleans morgue, receives Dracula's 'corpse' from her friend and co-worker Luke following the events of Dracula 2000. (This is a departure from the epilogue of the first film, in which Mary Van Helsing explains in a voiceover that she had returned Dracula to London and assumed her father's duties as Dracula's keeper).
Elizabeth examines the body and pricks her finger on a fang in what is supposed to be a human mouth. This leads her to alert her boyfriend Lowell, who is suffering from an ultimately fatal degenerative sickness. Lowell claims a wealthy investor wants to fund their research into the mysterious corpse (assuming the explanation for its condition is natural rather than having anything to do with the supernatural). They spirit the body away.
On their heels is Father Uffizi, seemingly the Vatican's official vampire hunter. He has been given the task of not only killing Dracula, but granting him absolution (the Church realizes that Dracula is in fact Judas Iscariot). This will allow the vampire to rest in peace. What the Cardinal giving Uffizi this task may or may not know is that the priest was scratched by a vampire fang in a previous hunt. Each day he exposes himself to the sun, burning out the vampiric infection while he screams in pain.
Luke (who secretly loves Elizabeth) doubts that Dracula is a purely natural phenomenon. He surrounds the now-awake (but severely weakened) vampire with folkloric wards like mustard seeds and knots. Elizabeth, meanwhile, feels increasingly strange as the infection in her grows, as does her attraction/bond to Dracula.
Finally, another member of the team injects himself with Dracula's blood, becomes a vampire and goes out to feed. He kills a woman, making her undead like himself. Uffizi finds and kills them both, then backtracks.
The truth comes out about Lowell. There is no "secret investor". Seeking a cure for his illness, Lowell has used Elizabeth and the others ruthlessly. An injection "cures" him but he survives mere moments before Uffizi arrives. Uffizi tells Elizabeth, now on the verge of becoming a vampire herself, to enter the sunlight. He says it will be agony, but the vampiric part of her will be burned away. Before that the now faceless Eric (dracula tore off Eric's face) attacks Uffizi and the others, Luke grabs a bottle of holy water and then jams the holy water in Eric's throat. Eric chokes on the holy water then dies. Then Uffizi goes after a now-free Dracula after noting that Luke will make a great vampire hunter someday.
•Jason Scott Lee as Father Uffizi
•Jason London as Luke
•Khary Payton as Kenny
•Craig Sheffer as Lowell
•Diane Neal as Elizabeth Blaine
•Brande Roderick as Tanya
A sequel to Dracula 2000, the film follows a group of scientists who try to revive Dracula for immortality. Father Uffizi, a vampire hunter, tries to stop them and Dracula, who is revealed to be Judas Iscariot.
Wes Craven Presents Dracula II: Ascension. R | Drama | 1 HR 25 MIN | 2003. WATCH NOW Watch on HBO. In this haunting sequel to Dracula 2000, a group of medical students sets out to unlock the secret to immortality using Dracula's body, but wind up raising hell instead as their experiment goes horribly awry.
Jun 7, 2003 · A group of medical students discover the body of the infamous count. Soon, they find themselves in the middle of a bizarre and dangerous conflict when a shadowy figure offers them $30 million for the body so that he may harvest his blood.
