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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