Dimension does their usual and cranks out a direct-to-video sequel to a moderately sucessful original film as, like the first movie, this opens with a kick ass sequence that has bad ass priest vampire hunter Jason Scott Lee taking care of two vampire vixens before settling down into a decidely more dull story that has wheelchair bound professor Craig Sheffer and some students bringing back the burnt-up corpse of Dracula in order to study him and try and use his blood to cure disease. Of course things eventually backfire.

Mediocre follow-up to an equally mediocre original; this is almost a *½ simply because nothing much really happens here, the story drags, Lee's character (who shows some promise) isn't used nearly enough, there's a ridiculous moment with a "ripped face" vampire and the script decides to write in more vampire "rules" (such as vampires can't resist knots and if you scatter seeds by them they have to stop to count them all) without explaning them - I've certainly never heard of them before.

Hard to decide which of the series is the better one - I'd rather just leave it at they're both pretty darn skippable. Apparently a third entry was filmed at the same time as this one.

Directed By: Patrick Lussier.
Written By: Patrick Lussier, Joel Soisson.

Starring: Jason Scott Lee, Jason London, Craig Sheffer, Stephen Billington.