Five years after the events of Dracula II: Ascension, Father Uffizi and Luke (Jason London) discover that Dracula (Rutger Hauer) has returned with Elizabeth (Diane Neal) to his castle in the Carpathian Mountains. However, fearing that Uffizi has been tainted by Dracula, Cardinal Siqueros (Roy Scheider) refuses to give Uffizi his blessing for the mission. Uffizi defrocks himself and sets out with Luke to Bucharest.
Romania has been devastated by a civil war, and NATO
peacekeepers line the streets. In an abandoned village, Uffizi and Luke
find a crashed helicopter containing a news reporter, Julia (Alexandra Wescourt),
and her cameraman. The cameraman is turned by the vampire clowns
terrorising the village, but all are destroyed by Uffizi and Luke. They
leave Julia but are soon lured into a rebel trap. They find Julia with
the rebels, refusing to return to England with nothing but a story on vampires.
The undead attack the rebel base during the night, but Uffizi, Luke
and Julia survive, proceeding to Dracula's castle. There they find
Elizabeth, almost totally turned to Dracula's way of life. Dracula
mortally wounds Julia and tells Uffizi that only through God's
forgiveness can he truly die, but Uffizi engages the ancient vampire in a
duel and ultimately destroys him by first biting him and draining him
of his blood, then beheading him, announcing that he should consider
himself forgiven. Meanwhile, Luke, on her request, beheads Elizabeth.
Luke leaves the castle, while Uffizi sits on Dracula's throne, with
Julia revived as a vampire. The film ends with the implication that
Uffizi, who has missed the morning purge of his vampiric curse, has
become the new vampire lord.
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