Bloodlust: Subspecies III
Year: 1993
Director: Ted Nicolaou
Written by: Ted Nicolaou
Threat: Vampire
Weapon of Choice: Fangs
Based upon: Nothing
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Bloodlust: Subspecies IIIYear: 1993 Director: Ted Nicolaou Written by: Ted Nicolaou Threat: Vampire Weapon of Choice: Fangs Based upon: Nothing IMDb page: |
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Other movies in this series:
Subspecies
Bloodstone: Subspecies II
Subspecies 4: Bloodstorm
Rish Outfield's reviews
Made at the same time as Subspecies 2, this ‘final' chapter of the "Subspecies Trilogy" is pretty good.
It wasn't quite as great as the second film, and the ending was downright unsatisfying, but it was still better than the original.
It picks up where the last one left off, with babe Michelle in the vampiric clutches of Radu and his shriveled, cackling mother, and the
forces of good (brave American dude, dopey Romanian inspector, and William Shatner's daughter) attempting to save her.
There were some great and legitimate moments of tension, mostly due to characterization, and that's always welcome. It was well-written,
although a lot slower-moving than the last one (I felt that the story was being stretched this time around, and that scenes were padded to
lengthen it). As scholars have told us, vampire stories of old associated blood-letting with sex, and I was reminded of that throughout
this film as the bitings and suckings were blatantly sexual. I enjoyed the witch "Mummy" again, and Radu's confrontation with her was
interesting and passionate. There were some moments when it was just . . . unbelievably violent (like, beyond the limits of normal
graphic-ness), and that may mean I'm getting old.
Often in movies, whether consciously or unconsciously, I look for a character to relate to . . . a character that is most like me. And I
found something interesting in Subspecies III: that character here, was Radu. Anders Hove should be proud of his performance here,
a pitiful, sad, and all-too-human performance. Whereas Radu was just a drooling, buck-toothed dolt in the first film, my heart really went
out to him in this one, and the best scenes are the ones where he is talking and feeling. The nicest of these moments was when Radu
proclaimed his eternal love for Michelle. I really believed it, and as I said, I related. And when Michelle responded, "And I will hate you
forever," it hurt to hear it. Kudos to Nicolaou for this great interaction and characterization.
Unfortunately, this movie is saddled with an awful ending. In the documentary at the end, everyone spoke of this as the last installment of
the "Subspecies" series (I guess there are two more after this one, but in ‘93 they didn't know that), but how can that be with an ending
like this one? It's really a shame they didn't tie up the loose ends or end this sucker with a bang.
I'd Recommend It To: Someone renting the second film, as it doesn't stand on its own.
Total Skulls: 14
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| Sequel setup | |
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| Rips off earlier film | ||
| Horror film showing on TV/in theater in movie | ||
| Future celebrity appears | ||
| Former celebrity appears | ||
| Bad title | ||
| Bad premise | ||
| Bad acting | ||
| Bad dialogue | ||
| Bad execution | ||
| MTV Editing | ||
| OTS | |
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| Girl unnecessarily gets naked | ||
| Wanton sex | ||
| Death associated with sex | |
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| Unfulfilled promise of nudity | ||
| Characters forget about threat | ||
| Secluded location | |
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| Power is cut | ||
| Phone lines are cut | ||
| Someone investigates a strange noise | ||
| Someone runs up stairs instead of going out front door | ||
| Camera is the killer | ||
| Victims cower in front of a window/door | ||
| Victim locks self in with killer | ||
| Victim running from killer inexplicably falls | ||
| Toilet stall scene | ||
| Shower/bath scene | ||
| Car stalls or won't start | ||
| Cat jumps out | ||
| Fake scare | ||
| Laughable scare | ||
| Stupid discovery of corpse | ||
| Dream sequence | ||
| Hallucination/Vision | ||
| No one believes only witness | |
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| Crazy, drunk, old man knows the truth | ||
| Warning goes unheeded | ||
| Music detracts from scene | ||
| Death in first five minutes | ||
| x years before/later | ||
| Flashback sequence | ||
| Dark and stormy night | ||
| Killer doesn't stay dead | |
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| Killer wears a mask | ||
| Killer is in closet | ||
| Killer is in car with victim | ||
| Villain is more sympathetic than heroes | ||
| Unscary villain/monster | ||
| Beheading | |
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| Blood fountain | |
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| Blood spatters - camera, wall, etc. | ||
| Poor death effect | ||
| Excessive gore | |
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| No one dies at all | ||
| Virgin survives | |
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| Geek/Nerd survives | ||
| Little kid lamely survives | ||
| Dog/Pet miraculously survives | ||
| Unresolved subplots | |
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| "It was all a dream" ending | ||
| Unbelievably happy ending | ||
| Unbelievably crappy ending | ||
| What the hell? |