It wouldn’t be his only horror film in 1991 he played the role of Rick in Critters 4. The short run time keeps the film moving at a decent clip so even modern audiences weaned on speed-plotted TV crack can stick with it without falling asleep during slower interludes.Īnders Hove plays Radu with flair, clearly enjoying his vacation away from the trappings of television soap General Hospital. (Pun intended.) The acting, largely the work of then-current and future soap opera stars, is sometimes over the top but decent, and the special effects aren’t laughably bad. (The film clocks in around 80 minutes, and that’s a good thing!)įans of low budget horror will no doubt eat this up.
Who will wind up with the Bloodstone and control of ancient Castle Vladislas? Who will live and die? Who will get bitten and turn into a vampire? Michelle, Mara and Lillian wind up in the middle of a power struggle between good vamp Stefan, who takes a liking to Michelle, and bad vamp Radu. Laura Tate, Irina Movila and Michelle McBride round out the main cast as Michelle, Mara and Lillian, three college coeds visiting the Romanian town of Prejmer on a college trip to study Romanian culture and superstition.Īlso notable is actor Angus Scrimm ( Phantasm‘s Tall Man) in a small role as King Vladislas, Radu and Stefan’s father.ġ991, Romania.
Michael Watson ( Bold & the Beautiful) plays his brother, Stefan, a good vampire who prefers living in the open among the humans.
The film stars Anders Hove ( General Hospital) as Radu Vladislas, a vampire hellbent on controlling the Bloodstone, which apparently drips the blood of the saints. So it was with Subspecies, a 1991 vampire horror/romance that resonated with direct-to-video connoisseurs with its good-enough-to-be-spooky stop-motion special effects and moody atmospherics thanks to location filming in then-newly post-revolution Romania. Your purchase helps pay the bills at this website! When you saw that logo, you knew what you were getting – low budget, quirky filmmaking with the charm and atmosphere to keep us interested in that VHS tape playing on the old Curtis-Mathes deck.Ĭlick to order the Subspecies I-III Blu-ray collection at Amazon. On second thought, it was a bit of a revolution for young viewers like me in the early 90s.įor many videostore and cable fiends in the early 90s, Full Moon Features was one of our generation’s go-tos. It didn’t start a cinematic revolution, but still spawned a handful of sequels.
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