DVD Review: Subspecies 3
Subspecies 3 (1994)
Studio: Full Moon Ent.
DVD Release Date: April 15, 2008
Directed By: Ted Nicolaou
Cast: Anders Hove, Denise Duff, Melanie Shatner, Kevin Spirtas & Pamela Gordon
Review By: Annie Riordan
Michelle Morgan has been reluctantly spirited back to Castle Vladislas by the lovesick Radu and his icky Mummy. Radu is determined to make Michelle his devoted fledgling. Michelle demands that Radu give her a crash course in Vampire Survival 101. Mummy wants her baby boy back and plots to remove Michelle from the picture. But wait! Sister Becky and her buff boyfriend are determined to rescue Michelle with the help of a silly guerilla guy in cammie jammies! Can they scale the stone walls of the castle and save the day? Yeah, probably.
The Subspecies franchise continues strongly with this third installment. It’s silly and cheap but its nasty black diseased heart is still in the right place. Denise Duff is back, along with her hair, transforming herself into a sexy, blood-splattered temptress. Who can blame Radu for trying to give her a hickey on the castle ramparts? Mel Shatner and Kevin Spirtas get to share an awkward love scene that’s about as hot and arousing as watching the Bowling Championships on TV. Radu gets some funny one-liners for a change and dies yet another horrible death. But don’t worry! He’ll be back. He always is. Sadly, Bloodstorm: Subspecies 4 is a flaming bag of dogshit compared to the first three films, so maybe you should just accept Radu’s demise in this film and move on with your life.
Fans of the series will have great fun with this third film, but I urge you not to seek out the fourth one. There’s a good reason why the people who have end up referring to it as “SubFeces 4.”
Brutal As Hell Rating: 3 out of 5
