Dracula II: Ascension (2003) (2025)

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• Review by horrormika ★★★★★

  This was surprisingly a very good and entertaining vampire movie. What I loved the most about it is that it's very fast paced and it didn't drag at all. The story was pretty good although it is not connected to the first movie. It's full of known faces so that's another plus. And I think that I liked it more then dracula 2000. Can't wait to see the third and final movie in this franchise, hopefully it's as entertaining as this one.

  Overall this is a very good movie that I would highly suggest to everyone.

• Review by Kat ★★★ 3

  It's the best Dracula sequel I've seen. And also the only Dracula sequal I've ever seen... Aside from a few flashbacks, it doesn't have much to do with Dracula 2000. But who doesn't love a hot blonde vampire?

  Speaking of blonde vampires, Dracula is so Spike coded in this. There's even a scene where he flips on a leather jacket, just like Spike did after he killed the 70s slayer. Sadly though, Dracula didn't get enough time to be hot and instead focused too much on the mediocre and generic early 00s characters. Still it's not that bad 🤷‍♀️ What will they do for Dracula 3000?!

• Review by Ian West ★★ 5

  I still think I like Dracula 2000slightly better.

  lololol I can’t believe I’m watching these. It has been rather entertaining.

• Review by Corey ★★★½

  Sheds a layer of the stern, committed zeal from the predecessor’s blistering barrage of the Count’s very-American 21st-century debut, but retains the exact strain of blue-hued-combustible entertainment, splicing humor and sedation into the narrative to (try to) create something with a greater cohesive magnitude without making a fool of itself, nor losing the absurd heart that pumps its melodramatic veins full of the good stuff. Jason Scott Lee’s Constantine-adjacent vampire decapitator Father Uffizi is a genre gem, as is Roy Scheider’s jump-scare prophetics + Jason Landon’s pre-Scooby Doo Matthew Lillard—the personality is brimming far beyond the limitations of DTV/lost-relic VHS filmmaking, and is just the right amount of riotous blasphemy without compromise. They don’t make ‘em like they used to x2.

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• Review by Joachim Jelle ★½ 1

  Wait wait wait, hold the fuck up. Are you seriously telling me that vampires are compulsive counters and will count mustard seeds if you dump them on the ground, leading the vampires to potentially starve because they will be counting seeds instead or burn in the sun because they would be staying out too long? And are you telling me that straight-to-DVD Dracula 2: Ascension uses this as a slight plot point? Guys, I think we might have a masterpiece on our hands!

• Review by Rob Hill ★★ 2

  I'm not a huge fan of Dracula 2000, so throwing this on felt pretty dicey, but I'm kinda impressed?

  This looks very DTV (and it is), but it isn't a terrible film. I don't know that Jason Scott Lee can excel in every type of role, but he's certainly competent here. SVU alumn Diane Neal is also very good.

  I do think this bogs down in a way that an 85 minute film should not, but a couple decent twists keep this watchable.

• Review by pd187 ★★★★½

  i love this dopey flick.. seen it 6-7 times in the last few years & it works every time

• Review by Geoffrey Broomer ★★½

  Director Patrick Lussier and writer Joel Soisson return to Dimension’s Dracula 2000 property, but without the box office expectations or studio interference that came with thinking “Wes Craven Presents” might mean something.

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  An initial scene set to Marco Beltrami’s previous theme, in which a young woman with short brunette hair – bearing a striking resemblance to previous star Justine Waddell – is stalking through the streets by a shadowy figure with a profile that looks much like Gerald Butler’s Dracula, only to subvert expectations and introduce Jason Scott Lee as Belmontesque vampire killer, Father Uffizi. It still has many of the…

• Review by Luna Rain ★ 2

  Going back to this 2000s Dracula trilogy, though I have no idea why they would turn the mediocre action romp into a series, we stride into Dracula II: Ascension. Same director, same writer though now he doubles as producer (which is probably a bad sign), let’s see how they follow it up.

  A painfully unfunny, poorly written and just plain stupid plot, but what would you expect from a movie following up an industrial rock music video of a horror movie. On of those films that have the worst idea for a plot, a bunch of idiots decide that resurrecting a monster that will kill them is a good plan.

  For that reason, I’m immediately out once shit hits the…

• Review by grapejuiceplus ★★★ 1

  After watching Nocturama, I needed to chill out a bit, and this hit the spot. I love the fake New Orleans setting. Seems like they just bought a banner from the dollar store that says "happy mardi gras" and put a few purple beads on the counter at the hospital- perfect. The kung-fu priest with the razor blade whip, chopping off vampire heads- how cool is that? Also, when the guy injects the vampire blood but it's filmed like a drug trip- oh yeah. Vampire being held hostage in an abandoned pool- yes. Toy Story reference ("to infinity and beyond!"), Men In Black reference. A vampire's compulsive need to count mustard seeds!! (Sesame Street reference?) This is really 2000s bad, but also kind of wonderful. They should have called it Dracula 2003, though.

• Review by 𝕭laze the 𝓐ction 𝕵unkie ★★

  Jason Scott lee takes his turn at Vampire Slaying. While not featuring a bad-ass Dracula like Dracula 2000's Gerard Butler, Jason Scott Lee as Father Uffizi is really almost as fantastic, even if being plainly lower budget. Having parts that are strung out and fairly boring, there are also some great parts, like the bathtub sequence, the faceless vamp, and everything Jason Scott Lee, who should've gotten more screen time. In the end I may be being generous by giving it two stars.

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• Review by Casey ★★½

  Whaaaat?! Ok so in this one, some researchers resurrect a charred Dracula from the first film using a bathtub of blood, and then he comes back as some kinda bleached blond new-wave zombie bro and they chain him up. Craig Sheffer plays a wheelchair-bound professor with a degenerative disease who wants to use the newly imprisoned Dracula's blood to make a cure. All the while, the research team is getting turned into draculas and doing dumb shit, and a John Wick-like priest is out here just kicking ass and snatching heads. My dude Roy Scheider shows up for 3 minutes as a Cardinal!

  A crazy third-act twist like in the first one is absent here, but the weird Jesus shit…