This 1991 horror film stars Anders Hove, Laura Tate, Michael Watson and Angus Scrimm. Hove (Critters 4) plays Romanian vampire, Radu who kills his father, Vladislav (Scrimm) and years later, he steals a bloodstone that will give him strength. He also tries to seduce 3 college tourists with help from his minions, but his half-brother, Stefan (Watson) tries to stop him with help from one of the girls, Michelle (Tate) whom Stefan falls for. Hove is great in this as well as the make-up effects & score. I recommend this good vampire/horror flick.

I bought the Subspecies trilogy in work after I noticed the front cover and thought it might be something i'd enjoy. It was. I expected to find it hammy, hilarious, cheesy and so bad that it's good and for this I was wrong. Is it hammy? Absolutely. BUT; the acting is fine enough, the locations are fantastic, the atmosphere in the film is great and it might just have one of the greatest movie vampires ever in the evil and grotesque Radu. I am SO glad I found this trilogy. I watched this movie twice in 2 days and know I will re-watch it again and again in the future. The story was cliché but fine enough; I really liked the characters and found Stefan and Michelle to both be absolutely charming. I also really liked the bad-ass old man.But it is Anders Hove as Radu who stole the show; every scene with him in was an absolute delight. He was grotesque, hammy to the extreme and bloody brilliant.

... and I freakin' love it. This movie, whatever flaws it has (and it has them in spades), has one thing going for it BIG TIME: Heart.This cheap piece-o-crud flick has so much heart, with every single actor giving it everything they've got (which isn't always a lot, but SOMETIMES it is!) I just have to ... well ... Ah jeez, I love this movie.What can ya do? You just can't NOT love a movie with this much heart going on in it. The guy who plays the bad guy is actually... quite awesome. I mean, he actually does a superb job here. The three college chicks are good too! I mean, these actors really seem to CARE about this garbage they're involved in! And, bless their hearts, it shows.This thing should have more fans, end of story. Watch it -- you'll be glad you did.

An effective enough vampire tale from Charles Band's Full Moon productions, this has the benefit of being shot on location in Romania, which gives it the kind of truly "stuck in the past", atmospheric feeling inherent to such European locales. Anders Hove plays the incredibly creepy main character Radu, an animal like vampire highly reminiscent of Max Schreck's Count Orlok, with striking long fingered hands. Radu has obtained the Bloodstone, an ancient relic that drips the blood of the saints, and he's addicted to drinking from this thing. Setting his sights on a trio of lovely young female students doing research on the local folklore, he's opposed by his half brother Stefan (Michael Watson), a much nicer vampire. Written by Jackson Barr and David Pabian, based on an idea by Band, and directed by Ted Nicolaou, this is very straight faced stuff and can be taken quite seriously, with a somber mood established right from the beginning. The local colour is extremely effective, with the music score (credited to five people!) giving the proceedings just the right touch. It's sometimes sinister, sometimes touching and romantic, yet does have an air of tragedy to it. The makeup effects by Greg Cannom are well done, and David Allen supplies the stop motion animated title characters. It's hard to feel much sympathy for the three girls - Mara (Irina Movila), Michele (Laura Mae Tate), and Lillian (Michelle McBride) - as they often act pretty senseless (then again, many horror movies would play out quite differently if they didn't have such characters). The actors are okay, for the most part; it's definitely the Danish actor Hove (recommended for this movie by co-star Watson, with whom he'd worked on the soap opera 'General Hospital') that takes centre stage, and he's quite good, giving his villain a real feral quality, not so much speaking his dialogue as hissing it. Genre icon Angus Scrimm, sporting a funny, ridiculous wig, is written out of the movie much too quickly; it would have been nice to see a little more of him. Incidentally, the amusing little title creatures, created out of Radu's blood, really don't have much to do in this story, not as much as naming the movie after them would seem to indicate. But this is still an entertaining enough low budget effort; Nicolaou and Hove would both return for all three sequels. Seven out of 10.