Movie Review done by Dunya SUBSPECIES
Michael Watson Laura Tate Anders Hove Michelle McBride
Irina Movila Angus Scrimm
Director: Ted Nicolaou Released: 1991
For those vampire movie lovers who are unfamiliar with the
Subspecies saga, Full Moon entertainment, who has brought us such
movies Puppetmaster and the Trancers series, has taken a stab at the
Vampire genre. Ted Nicolaou is the creator of the story line, and also
the director of all three pictures. He deserves a good amount of credit
He has done his homework when it comes to Vampires, and he has expanded
upon historical mythology to bring us several new Vampire scenarios.
Hollywood based of course and I did enjoy all of them.
The main character is the disgusting Vampire Radu, who's long icky
fingers has reminded us of the creature in "Nosferatu." Radu was
actually the historical brother of Vlad Dracula, and so it gives us a
feeling of connection to Vampires "history". Radu is the son of the
king of the Vampires in Transylvania. In the first film, he kills his
father to assume the throne, but his brother, Stephan, who is a perfect
sexy looking male Vampire, is destroyed by Radu in the end with the aid
of an American college student named Michelle. The next movie begains
where the other one ended, leaving nothing out.
In the moves part 2-4 Michelle finds herself on the run through the
streets of Transylvania, trying to escape the resurrected Radu. Some
may think the movie is kind of dumb ,but what one sees after watching
any of the Subspecies films. Regardless of its flaws, however, I still
enjoyed them.
Bloodstone: Subspecies 2 introduces us to a refreshing look at the
same old Vampire adding Vampire traits that only an enthusiast
could come up with.
I hope that Ted Nicolaou will contune with a few more .Perhaps
adding more of the creatures from other places.
VAMPIRE JOURNALS as he did in part 4 of Bloodstorm. Putting Ash into
the story once again. When I thought he had been killed by the
dreaded sun...
These are older movies but in the times the vampire movies were
good. without all the added effects and all. I still enjoy a hammor
flick.
Blessed be, Dunya
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