I saw Dracula 2000 years ago, but I haven't seen it yet for the project. I did watch its sequel Dracula II: Ascension tonight because... well, I've gotta watch something.
I'm going to be watching a lot of somethings, I think.
A little (very little) background: at the end of Dracula 2000, Dracula is chained to a cross and left to burn in the sun.
This picks up later that morning, when Dracula's charred body is taken to the morgue. After some tests, the morgue attendants- medical students- realize that they've discovered
a vampire.
They contact their teacher and classmates who speculate what they could do with a vampire- specifically steal enough blood to fill a bathtub, then soak the vampire in it.
Their teacher suffers from a degenerative muscular disorder and sees the vampire as a chance to cure himself.
There's also a warrior priest hunting vampires.
This is from Dimension Pictures, the less artsy wing of Miramax. They used to do some quality stuff, then turned into a mill churning out direct to video sequels to movies that missed playing in theaters for one reason or another and distributing foreign genre stuff that deserved more attention that it got (like Dario Argento's Mother of Tears.)
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