Dracula II Ascension
Director: Patrick Lussier
Genre: Direct-to-video, Horror
Year: 2003
Country: United States of America
Language: English Language
Starring: Khary Payton, Diane Neal, Craig Sheffer, Jason Scott Lee, Tom Kane, Jason London, Jennifer Kroll, Stephen Billington, Roy Scheider, David J. Francis, Rutger Hauer, Brande Roderick, John Light
Dracula II: Ascension is a 2003 horror 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. The film marks one of the very few cinematic portrayals of certain aspects of vampire lore, such as a vampire's compulsive need to count mustard seeds and untie knots.
The film focuses on a small group of 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 & 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
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