Dracula II: Ascension
2003 (V)
Dracula: Who am I? Gilles de Rais, Vlad Tepes, El Hazarid... Dagobert, Proximus, Uther, Caligula... (sigh) ... ah... Iscariot... and so many more that I've long forgotten.
Dracula: So noble what you said to the girl. About the sunlight purging her of evil. But she's too far gone and you know it. You know she will die. Father Uffizi: Better by her own hand than mine. Dracula: I like that. You're more ruthless than I am.
Kenny: How much more real does it have to get? Lowell: We know he's alive, Kenny. We just don't know what's keeping him alive. Eric: Or if that essence can be safely transferred to another person. Kenny: I just got through planting my best friend in someone's backyard. Excuse me if I don't give a shit. So unless this essence of yours can bring her back, I just want to get my money and get the hell out of here. Lowell: Tanya's dead. It doesn't work on dead cells. Kenny: No? How does it work then, Lowell? Does it work on diseased cells? Would it work on that? How about cells from some poor palsy piece of shit in a wheelchair who... (shouts) Kenny: Oh, my God! That's you! Lowell: You're missing the big picture here. Kenny: Sure, Lowell. You won't be just sitting there with your Nobel prize, you'll be dancing with it.
Tanya: Maybe we need virgin blood. Kenny: (rolls eyes) Why? Tanya: Didn't Elizabeth Bathory always bathe in virgin blood? Elizabeth Blaine: No, no. Because when my blood touched its skin, it reacted. Kenny: There goes the virgin theory.
Eric: (about to be bitten) Go on. I'll just live forever. Dracula: Ah, but will you want to? (bites off Eric's face)
(Elizabeth is taking a blood sample from Dracula.) Dracula: Erzabet... "oath of God" in Hebrew. Is it not? The noble caretaker of the dead, giving names to the nameless, and now taker of blood. (Elizabeth is surprised that Dracula has no more blood) Dracula: What's wrong, bloodsucker? Did you think my blood would be limitless? Better that you protect what you already have than to seek more where there is none.
Kenny: It won't change who you are. It'll just make you better. Hell, it'll turn you into fuckin' Superman! Luke: Or pure refried evil. Elizabeth Blaine: Where you have been? Luke: (pulling out bottles of water) Shopping. Kenny: You know, evil is just a state of mind, fella. Lowell: He's right. In clinical studies, it is completely irrelevant. Luke: Is it? Is this the new you, Lowell? Here's the new you on holy water. (Luke pours holy water on Lowell's skin sample soaked with vampire blood and it stars fizzing.) Kenny: It's acid. You threw fucking acid on it! (Luke drinks the holy water) Kenny: So, what are you saying? Luke: What I'm saying, Kenny, is that thing out there is a monster. And I'm no better than you, because I'm the one who stole it. But don't pretend it's something else. You know what it is.
Lowell: Okay. We all know it's a vampire. Nobody's kidding themselves here. The trick is to separate the diseased vector - the evil, if you will - from the healthy one. Eric: Right. Like a vaccine. When you take what makes you sick and you turn it into a cure.