Moustroll Good movie but grossly overrated

Borserie it is finally so absorbing because it plays like a lyrical road odyssey that’s also a detective story.

Doomtomylo a film so unique, intoxicating and bizarre that it not only demands another viewing, but is also forgivable as a satirical comedy where the jokes eventually take the back seat.

Catangro After playing with our expectations, this turns out to be a very different sort of film.

Leofwine_draca Another low-budget production from Charles Band's Full Moon Pictures, and one of his better ones this time around. At least there's a lot going on, and it's not as rubbishy as you might expect from Band's CV. This is the beginning of his own vampire mythology which would be expanded upon in three sequels (to date), and has all the usual ingredients of a vampire movie: scantily-clad female victims chained to cellar walls, lots of bloodsucking, coffins, stakes, and ruins and graveyards. The usual suspects, but, while this fails as a horror film to be scary, at least it passes the time in a dumb but enjoyable way.Anders Hove plays the lead vampire and is clad in Nosferatu-inspired makeup, complete with deathly pale face and incredibly long fingers. He's sufficiently grotesque as the baddie. His half-brother is Stefan, a "human" vampire complete with clean-shaven visage and tacky '80s hairstyle. Also appearing in the cast are three teenage girls, two annoying Americans and one with a silly French accent. Predictably they become objects of affection and lust for the two vampire brothers and a battle for control ensues. The rest of the cast include a manservant who speaks like Bela Lugosi, a cameo from Angus Scrimm in a ludicrous white wig, and a trio of animated little demons whose sole reason for appearance just seems to be that they look "cool".What this film does have in its favour are some authentic locations, as it was partially filmed in Romania. Just like THE HOWLING II, in fact, another film which benefited from some local colour. The dilapidated castle is also a nice setting for the film and would have been atmospheric in more stylish directorial hands. Another thing on this film's plus side is the relatively high level of splatter, scenes including decapitations, messy bloodsucking, and a wonderful opening which sees broken fingers turning into the aforementioned little demons. While these aren't explicit, they serve to move the film along at a fast pace, and the short running time also makes it easy to sit through. There are no boring scenes of dialogue or wandering about in this film, as something is going on to further the plot at every moment, which I liked. SUBSPECIES may not be a brilliant or inspired film but there are a lot of worse films out there...

worthythorn24 Subspecies is one of those films that I had seen on the shelves of video stores for years and never got around to watching until recently. I didn't have a legitimate reason for bypassing it so many times, but this time I figured I would finally check it out. I'm glad that I did because it is a fairly interesting film. It really offered nothing new to the vampire sub-genre (aside from the sub-species themselves and the concept of the bloodstone), but I suppose as the old cliché' goes if it ain't broke don't fix it. The scenery was quite nice and there was a couple of decent surprises tossed in the plot. The acting was sub-par with the exception of Anders Hove (Radu) who made for a rather terrifying looking vampire. Despite being billed as the star of the flick, Angus Scrimm provides nothing more than a short and fairly meaningless cameo. I'll be checking out the sequels soon. Overall, 6/10.

sydneyswesternsuburbs Director Ted Nicolaou who also created the other three parts of this classic series, Bloodstone: Subspecies 2 1993, Bloodlust: Subspecies 3 1994 and Subspecies 4: Bloodstorm 1998 has created another gem in Subspecies.It stars Anders Hove who was also in the other three parts of this classic series, Bloodstone: Subspecies 2, Bloodlust: Subspecies 3 and Subspecies 4: Bloodstorm.Also starring is Angus Scrimm who was also in other classic flicks, Phantasm 2 1988, The Never Dead 1979 and was the narrator in Wishmaster 1997.It also stars Irina Movila.I enjoyed the Gothic atmosphere, animation and the look of the vampire.If you enjoyed this as much as I did then check out other classic vampire flicks, 30 Days of Night 2007, Blade 2 2002, Blood for Dracula 1974, Daughters of Darkness 1971, Daybreakers 2009, Dracula 1992, Dracula 2000 2000, Desert Vampires 2001, Fright Night 1985, From Dusk Till Dawn 1996, From Dusk Till Dawn 2: Texas Blood Money 1999, Frostbiten 2006, Dracula 1958, The Living Dead Girl 1982, Near Dark 1987, Night Watch 2004, Perfect Creature 2006, Underworld 2003, Underworld: Evolution 2006, Vampire Circus 1972, Vampires 1998, The Lost Boys 1987, Suck 2009, Underworld: Awakening 2012, Livid 2011, What We Do in the Shadows 2014, We Are the Night 2010, Afflicted 2013 and Van Helsing 2004.

sexy_slayer This is one of the best and moodiest Vampire Tales ever! I love this movie really. The character are great, even the locations and the story. Indeed the Picture isn't a big budget production, but it is absolutely worth seeing.OK there are some faults (especially the Names of the Castle and the Locations) in this movie, but such mistakes are typically and are almost in every Horror Movie.The scenery fits perfect to the story and is close to reality,I can say that honest, because I visit them once when I was in Romania in my Vacations.In my opinion this is the Best Part of the Subspecies Series.