Wes Craven Presents Dracula II: Ascension

The burned corpse of Dracula (Stephen Billington) is revived by a wheelchair-bound scientist, Lowell (Craig Sheffer), and his devoted students in an effort to cure Lowell of a fatal disease. They chain the demon to a slab at the bottom of an abandoned indoor swimming pool and begin their ...more

The follow-up to the theatrical Dracula 2000 (which made 30 million dollars in U.S. box office, not bad), written and directed by the same creative team, brings new faces and an impressive burst of energy to the continuing story. Considering its status as a direct-to-video sequel, production values are extraordinarily top-line, with all the money on the screen. Director Patrick Lussier keeps the pace steady and the gore factor high (bouncing severed heads and bathtubs of blood), but not ...more