3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
highly recomendable for vampire film fans, December 21, 1998
By A Customer
This review is from: Subspecies 4-Bloodstorm [VHS] (VHS Tape)
I have been waiting for this movie to come out for a couple of years. I have seen it and all the others and I must say that this really is the best Subspecies film out there. Nicolaou really has created his own little vampire universe with these movies. Radu is back once again to regain Michelle, his relunctant consort. This time she is under the care of a doctor who's not all that he seems. the lines between good and bad are not as defined in this one, making it a more brilliant piece of filmmaking. if you are familiar with the previous Subspecies films or just want to watch a great one, chose this movie.
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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
The fourth in the series but not the best!, December 20, 2001
This review is from: Subspecies 4-Bloodstorm [VHS] (VHS Tape)
In this third sequel to Full Moon Pictures Subspecies series,Radu Vladilas returns once again to seek revenge on his beloved Michelle.After escaping Radu's foul castle lair,Michelle has last hope for salvation as the last of her humanity slips away.After being brought to a clinic(hospital)in Bucharest by a woman named Ana,Michelle is promised relief from her thrist for blood.Doctor Necluscu and Ana Liza must now protect Michelle from the most powerful vampire master of all time,Radu Vladilas.
This is a really cool vampire film from the 90's but there is something missing.Oh,yes the great effects and music.
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
What happened to the Radu I loved??, July 8, 2004
This review is from: Subspecies 4-Bloodstorm [VHS] (VHS Tape)
If you have not watched Subspecies One, Two, and Three yet, go pick those up first. Whatever you do, don't let this be your first introduction to Radu.
Bloodstorm:Subspecies 4 starts out wrong and goes downhill from there. I absolutely loved the first three movies, so I don't know what happened here for the writers and directers to wander so far off Radu's well loved trail of blood.
Where Bloodlust left off, Radu had fallen over the stone wall chasing the Bloodstone that Becky had tossed away, and wound out impaled on a dead tree and burning in the sunlight. Bloodstorm picks up with Radu still burning, but the limb breaks and dumps him into a pool of water just as the sun sets, so Radu can grab up the Bloodstone and run into the castle.
We also left Michele wrapped in a body bag by her sister Becky, in order that she could flee the castle with her and Mel. Here we pick up with a car wreck, and the only one left "alive" is Michele, who is picked up by a pretty blonde doctor named Anna and taken to a hospital.
Cheesier even still, we meet two new vampires in this installment; Dr. Nicolescu, an evil doctor-vampire with a horrible bowl haircut, and Ash, a minion of Radu's who has been looking after his holdings in Bucharest. And speaking of hairdos, Ash looks like a pasty, older Peter Frampton.
The Dr. Nicolescu vampire wants Radu's bloodstone so that he can live without drinking blood any longer, whereas Ash and his fledgling Serena simply want to keep their home.
Everyone is against Radu in this movie, as usually they are, but the additional characters are horrid and the plotline is dumber and cheesier than even I can stomach. Also missing is much of the scenery from Romania that we were treated to in the first movies, and the "liveliness" is gone, replaced a fouled attempt at going gothic instead of leaving the horror to Radu.
I was very disappointed in this last installment of the Subspecies series, but who knows? Perhaps Radu could come back again, and make up for the mess he left with Bloodstorm. If you are a rabid fan of the series like I am, then you will want your copy of Bloodstorm, otherwise just watch the first three.
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