Dracula II Ascension is a 2003 directtovideo AmericanRomanian 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 directtovideo on June 7, 2003. The film marks one of the very few cinematic portrayals of certain aspects of vampire lore, such as a vampires compulsive need to count mustard seeds and untie knots.
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 Vaticans 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. ........
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