Dracula II: Ascension

The film focuses on a small group of scientists who hope to use Dracula\'s desiccated — but still alive — body to discover the secret of immortality. Elizabeth Blaine, working at the New Orleans morgue, receives Dracula\'s \'corpse\' from her friend & co-worker Luke following the events of Dracula 2000. (This is a departure from the epilogue of the first film, in which Mary Van Helsing explains in a voiceover that she had returned Dracula to London and assumed her father\'s duties as Dracula\'s keeper.)