All feature able and stylish yet unobtrusive direction by Ted Nicolaou, who also directed FM's "Vampire Journals" (and actually reads his fan e-mail =)..

The series concerns the fortunes of a strikingly cadaverous and charismatic nosferat named Radu Vladislas, and of Michelle Morgan, the American girl he initiates into the mysteries of the undead. A thousand years old, the last survivor of a 9th-Century aristocratic family (having killed all the others off himself), Radu is a revelation: not just another formula bloodsucker drawn from one of the typical templates, but a complete character, understandable and even pitiable, played with ferocious energy and deep compassion by the gifted Anders Hove. Hove's Radu combines the appearance and sinister air of Max Schreck's classic Count Orlock (and even more closely, of Klaus Kinski in the exquisite 1979 remake) with a heartbreaking loneliness and poignancy which remind one of Charles Laughton's pathetic and touching Quasimodo, and a wicked relish that is his alone. The result is a true vampire fan's vampire, a creation that deserves immortality.

As for Michelle, her portrayal by Denise Duff is simply wonderful, and deserves much more praise than it seems to get. A brave and strong-willed woman, Michelle fights her developing vampirism and the vampire who made her with single-minded intensity, but even when she yields, yields with an intelligence and grace of spirit that is downright inspiring: determined that if she cannot regain her mortal life she will keep as much humanity as possible in her vampire life. She's the one who ends up in possession of the Bloodstone - with which a vampire can survive without human blood - and she deserves it. (Besides, she answers her fan mail, too. =)

You can read my reviews of these films posted to the Internet Movie Database:

Subspecies
Bloodstone: Subspecies II
Bloodlust: Subspecies III
Subspecies IV: Bloodstorm

and of Vampire Journals

Or you might enjoy my extended, personal (read: drooling fangirl) reviews:
Subspecies
Bloodstone: Subspecies II
Bloodlust: Subspecies III
Subspecies IV: Bloodstorm

See my handmade "Bloodstone Rosaries" for Radu and Michelle.
Here's my Incomplete History of the Blade of Laertes.
My (also incomplete) collection of Radu action figures.

(Film images borrowed from Full Moon Technomancer, with loving gratitude.)

Some Subspecies links:

Full Moon Direct, the brand new website!

Full Moon Fiend's Guide to the FM Universe, a super fan page!
(...see pix of the unproduced 12" Radu figure! *sob*)
Denise Duff's own homepage--buy "Song of the Vampire" from her directly and have your copy personally autographed.
Radu's Bloodbath - excellent fan site! =)--
--and the greatest engagement ring ever!
Film reviews by Mother Dark

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