Wes Craven presents Dracula II - The Ascension
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| German title | Wes Craven presents Dracula II - The Ascension | ||
| Original title | (Wes Craven presents) Dracula II: Ascension | ||
| Country of production | United States | ||
| original language | English | ||
| Publishing year | 2003 | ||
| length | 81 minutes | ||
| Age rating | FSK 16 | ||
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| Director | Patrick Lussier | ||
| script |
Joel Soisson Patrick Lussier |
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WK Border Joel Soisson Patrick Lussier |
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Marco Beltrami Kevin Kliesch |
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| camera | Douglas Milsome | ||
| cut | Lisa Romaniw | ||
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Wes Craven presents Dracula II - The Ascension is an American horror film from 2003. It is the second film in the three-part series "Wes Craven Presents Dracula". The film is a direct sequel to Wes Craven Presents Dracula from 2000. The film received another sequel in 2005 with Wes Craven Presents Dracula III - Legacy , which was also directed by Patrick Lussier.
action
A charred corpse is brought into the New Orleans morgue. Two medical students, Elisabeth and Luke, begin the dissection but discover some anomalies. While examining the teeth, Elisabeth injured herself on them, but kept silent about the incident. The two students suspect that the corpse could be a vampire, and Elisabeth then contacts the terminally ill Professor Lowell, her lover. Shortly thereafter, an anonymous prospect reports, offering Luke 30 million dollars for the vampire's corpse.
Only a little later, the vampire hunter, Father Uffizi, appears in the morgue, who wants to give the corpse the final unction , since the dead person is Dracula's corpse. But the two students manage to steal the body from the morgue by distracting Uffizi and the investor with another corpse. Under the guidance of Professor Lowell, the students take the vampire body to an uninhabited country house, where two other students have already prepared a blood-filled bathtub in which the vampire is to be brought back to life. When the students examine the still lifeless body after a while, the vampire suddenly comes to life and kills one of them. The investor, who calls himself Eric, shows up just in time and can tame the vampire with artificial UV light.
Despite initial doubts after the death of their friend, the students see the chance with further research to find the secret of immortality. They are encouraged by Professor Lowell, for whom the secret of immortality is vital, as he will soon die due to illness. The vampire is held captive in the house's drained pool. The professor and the students experiment with his blood and mix, without paying attention to the risk, vampiric and human blood. Driven by the madness of eternal life, one of the students splashes Dracula's blood. For Professor Lowell, the research threatens to fail because the last remaining vampiric blood reserve has been used up. He looks for the vampire and asks him to bite him in the hope of gaining eternal life. Shortly afterwards, Elisabeth discovers the professor lying motionless on the floor in front of the vampire.
Elisabeth, who slowly begins to transform, feels more and more attracted to the vampire and gives the vampire her own blood to drink. She does this to get new blood from the vampire and to be able to save the professor. After the infusion, the professor regains his strength. He confesses to having been with Elisabeth only because of his illness, not out of love. He also says that he and his friend Eric have been looking for a vampire and eternal life for years.
Eric, who appropriates the last freshly drawn blood supply, is overwhelmed by Luke. The professor, who has since turned into a vampire, is killed by Uffizi. The vampire, strengthened by Elisabeth's blood, breaks free and kills Eric. Uffizi, noticing that Elisabeth is transforming, instructs Luke to bring her into sunlight to stop the transformation, but the vampire thwarted her escape outside. Uffizi, who killed the other students turned into vampires, now faces the vampire to give him absolution . In this way he can find God again and would be redeemed. But Elisabeth, now completely transformed into a vampire, injures Uffizi with his crossbow and thus stops him, so that she and the vampire can escape.
criticism
"The horror film, which strives for originality, does not combine the many set pieces of the genre into a satisfactory unit and thus is unable to keep the tension to the end."
Web links
- Wes Craven presents Dracula II - The Ascension in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Wes Craven presents Dracula II - The Ascension. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .