USA, 1990
83m
35mm film, colour, 1.85:1
Ultra Stereo, English
An American horror film directed by Ted Nicolaou.
Plot Summary
Vampire Radu returns home to the town of Prejnar in Transylvania, after years in exile. He makes off with the “bloodstone,” said to contain blood from all the saints and murders his father. Later, two American students arrive to visit their Romanian friend and Radu becomes attracted to one of them. But his brother Stefan decides to side with the mortals.
Credits
Crew
Directed by: Ted Nicolaou
© MCMXC [1990] Full Moon Entertainment
Full Moon Entertainment presents
Executive Producer: Charles Band
Produced by: Ion Ionescu
Screenplay by: Jackson Barr, David Pabian
Based on an Original Idea by: Charles Band
Director of Photography: Vlad Paunescu
Edited by: Bert Glatstein, William Young
Film Editors: Carol Oblath, Andy Horvitch
Music Composed by: Richard Kosinski, Michael Portis, John Zeretzka, Stuart Brotman
Sound Engineer: Tiberiu Borcoman
Costume Designer: Oana Tofan
Make-up Artist: Dana Busoiu
Special Effects – Romanian Crew: Razvan Calvocorescu
Special Makeup Effects by: Greg Cannom
Subspecies Puppets Created by: David Allen Productions
Mechanical Supervisor: Mark A. Rappaport
Visual Effects Director: David Allen
Art Director: Lucian Nicolau
Casting by: Robert MacDonald, Perry Bullington
Cast
Michael Watson (Stefan)
Laura Tate (Michele)
Anders Hove (Radu)
Michelle McBride (Lillian)
Irina Movila (Mara)
Ivan Rado (Karl)
Angus Scrimm (The “King”/King Vladislav)
Mara Gigore (Rosa)
Adrian Vâlcu (Ion)
Lili Dumitrescu (old crone)
Ion Besoiu (doctor)
Alternative Titles
Les Créatures de la Nuit – Canada (French)
Creatures of the Night – France
Las criaturas del mal – Mexico
Diener des Bösen – Germany
Luta de Vampiros – Portugal
Podgatunek – Poland
Podvrsta – Bosnia and Herzegovina (Croatian), Croatia, Serbia
Subespecies: criaturas de la noche – Mexico (DVD)
Subspecies – A Geração Vamp – Brazil
Subspecies – Das Original – Germany (DVD)
Subspecies – In the Twilight – Germany (DVD)
Vampiri – Italy
I Vampiri – Italy (DVD)
Vampyrernas kamp – Sweden (television), Denmark (video)
Vampyyrien taistelu – Finland
Подвиды – Russia
Links
Sequels
Bloodstone: Subspecies II (1993)
Bloodlust: Subspecies III (1994)
Subspecies: The Awakening (1998)
Subspecies V: Blood Rise (2023)
Extracts included in
Carnage Collection: Vampire Bloodlust (2023)
Frankenstein Reborn! (1998)
Full Moon Fantasy (1993)
Monsters Gone Wild! (2004)
Planet Patrol (1999)
Talisman (1998)
The Twelve Slays of Christmas: 2023 Edition (2023)
The Twelve Slays of Christmas (2022)
References
Periodicals
- Foreign Sales, Italian Movie Trade vol.15 no.6/7 (June/July 1990) p.11
- National Screen no.1 (1993) p.16, 18 – credits, synopsis
- Variety 14 October 1991 – credits, synopsis, review
Books
- Dracula in the Dark: The Dracula Film Adaptations by James Craig Holte p.90 – note
- Horror and Science Fiction Films IV by Donald C. Willis p.485
- Horror Films of the 1990s by John Kenneth Muir pp.187-188
- The Stop-motion Filmography by Neil Pettigrew pp.671-673
