Dracula II: Ascension (2003)
The terrifying sequel to Dracula 2000.
ジャンル : ホラー
上映時間 : 1時間 25分
演出 : Patrick Lussier
脚本 : Joel Soisson
シノプシス
Father Uffizi hunts vampires. He travels the world to behead them with his bullwhip, but his ultimate goal is to find the first vampire, Dracula. Medical students, Liz Blaine and Luke are charged with autopsying the body. When they open the abdominal cavity, they find that the liver and other organs are white, suggesting to Luke that the person did not produce his own blood but got it elsewhere, i.e., a vampire.
ブレイドはヴァンパイアと人間との間に生まれた混血で、人間を脅かすヴァンパイアを抹殺するために闘うヴァンパイア・ハンターだ。彼は母親を死に追いやった宿敵のヴァンパイア、フロストを追っていた。フロストは世界征服を狙い、暗黒院の書庫で古代予言書「マルガの書」をコンピュータで解読し、12人のヴァンパイアを生け贄に全能の力を得ようと企んでいた。ブレイドは彼らのアジト暗黒院に潜入、フロストがマルガを呼び起こす儀式を阻止しようとする。
社会に紛れたヴァンパイアと戦う闇のヒーロー、ブレイドは敵のひとりを射殺するが、相手がヴァンパイアの奴隷と化した人間だったことから殺人犯として拘束される。相棒ウィスラーの娘アビゲイルと武器の達人ハンニバル・キングに救われたブレイドは、2人の案内で人間のヴァンパイア・ハンター組織“ナイトウォーカー”と合流する。組織は彼に、かつてはドラキュラと呼ばれたヴァンパイアの始祖・ドレイクが復活したことを告げる。
翌年に大阪万博開催を控え、人類が初めて月に降り立った1969年の夏、小学生のケンヂは、同級生の仲間たちと空き地の原っぱに秘密基地を作った。そんな彼らの秘密の遊びの一つである“よげんの書”には、悪の組織、世界征服、人類滅亡計画、それを阻止する正義の味方など空想の数々が描かれ、彼らをワクワクさせるのだった。
Hapless Henry Palfrey is patronised by his self-important chief clerk at work, ignored by restaurant waiters, conned by shady second-hand car salesmen, and, worst of all, endlessly wrong-footed by unspeakably rotten cad Raymond Delauney who has set his cap at April, new love of Palfrey's life. In desperation Henry enrolls at the College of Lifemanship to learn how to best such bounders and win the girl.
In the heart of Styria the Karnstein Family, even after their mortal deaths, rise from their tombs spreading evil in the countryside in their lust for fresh blood. Baron Hartog whose family are all victims of Karnstein vampirism, opens their graves and drives a stake through their diabolical hearts. One grave he cannot locate is that of the legendary beautiful Mircalla Karnstein. Years of peace follow that grisly night until Mircalla reappears to avenge her family's decimation and satisfy her desire for blood.
Carpathian Count Alucard is invited to the U.S. by a young heiress. Her boyfriend and local officials are suspicious of the newcomer, who is interested in the "virile" soil of the new world.
A British agent's son is kidnapped and held for a ransom of diamonds. The agent finds out that he can't even count on the people he thought were on his side to help him, so he decides to track down the kidnappers himself.
1939年9月、7歳の少年ビルはロンドン郊外の映画館で第二次世界大戦の始まりを知る。鉛の兵隊で遊ぶのが好きな彼は「本物」の戦争に胸を躍らせたが、まもなく父クライブが出征、勇ましい気持ちは寂しさに変わる。15歳になるビルの姉は、カナダ兵の恋人とデートを繰り返し、母親と衝突していた。そんなある日、ビル一家は戦火で家を失い、田舎の祖父の家に移り住むことに。そこには、戦時中とは思えないのどかな生活が待っていた・・・
In 17th-century France, Father Urbain Grandier seeks to protect the city of Loudun from the corrupt establishment of Cardinal Richelieu. Hysteria occurs within the city when he is accused of witchcraft by a sexually repressed nun.
Two disc jockeys have a friend's murder to solve in the fringe-group melting pot of 1977 London.
A Southerner--young, poor, ambitious but uneducated--determines to become something in the world. He decides that the best way to do that is to become a preacher and start up his own church.
腕利きの殺し屋であるビクターは、ギャングの依頼で詐欺師・ローズの殺害を試みるが、相次いで失敗に終わる。その上、次第に標的であるはずのローズを女性として意識し始めた彼は、ある時彼女を助けてしまう。そして彼は偶然にも事件に巻き込まれたトニーと共に、ギャングたちから逆に追われる身となってしまうのだった。
Czechoslovakia, March 1939, on the eve of World War II. As the German invaders occupy Prague, inventor Axel Bomasch manages to flee and reach England; but those who need to put his knowledge at the service of the Nazi war machine, in order to carry out their evil plans of destruction, will stop at nothing to capture him.
体だけの気楽な関係を続けていた男女が、次第に相手を本気で愛するようになってしまったことから起こる葛藤をコミカルに描いたロマンティック・コメディ。
After surviving the incidents in Barrow, Alaska, Stella Olemaun relocates to Los Angeles, where she intentionally attracts the attention of the local vampire population in order to avenge the death of her husband, Eben.
Hugo Barrett is a servant in the Chelsea home of indolent aristocrat Tony. All seems to go well until the playboy’s girlfriend Susan takes a dislike to the efficient employee. Then Barrett persuades Tony to hire his sister Vera as a live-in maid, and matters take another turn for the worse…
The crooks in London know how it works. No one carries guns and no one resists the police. Then a new gang appears that go one better. They dress as police and steal from the crooks. This upset's the natural order of the police/criminal relationship and the police and the crooks join forces to catch the IPOs (Impersonating Police Officers), including an armoured car robbery in which the police must help the gangs to set a trap.
The year is 1885, and necrophiliac Dr. Hitchcock likes to drug his wife for sexual funeral games. One day he accidentally administers an overdose and kills her. Several years later he remarries, with the intention of using the blood of his new bride to bring his first wife's rotting corpse back to life.
Barrister Melville Farr is on the path to success. With his practice winning cases and a loving marriage to his wife, Farr's career and personal life are nearly idyllic. However, when blackmailers link the secretly closeted Farr to a young gay man, everything Farr has worked for is threatened. But instead of giving in, Farr decides to fight.
貧しい恋人のいる上流階級の女性ケイトは叔母が交際を反対。同じ頃、資産家の米国人女性と知り合うが……。H.ジェイムズの小説をもとに男女3人の愛と友情の行方を描くサスペンスフルな恋愛劇。
In the near future, Uffizi and Luke travel to the remote reaches of war torn Romania to rescue Elizabeth and finish the vampire once and for all. Along the way, they encounter TV news journalist and a corps of rebels trying to fight the vampire uprising which plagues their country.
Abraham Van Helsing, who has tangled with Count Dracula in the past, works as an English antiques dealer. Simon is a vampire hunter in training under his apprenticeship.
Forced to travel with her boyfriend to a horror festival, Laine begins to experience disturbing visions associated with the urban legend of The Creeper. As the festival arrives and the blood-soaked entertainment builds to a frenzy, she becomes the center of it while something unearthly has been summoned.