Radu (Anders Hove) won't let a simple thing like beheading keep him down. His minions reattach his body and he is risen before dawn, ready to kill his brother and his brother's freshly-vampired consort Michelle. But she escapes with the Bloodstone, and calls her sister to Bucharest. Also, the police get involved.
"Subspecies II" doesn't quite have the full power the original had. The lead actress has been replaced, which takes a bit out of the continuity (but at least the new chick -- Denise Duff -- is better looking). And the pace is somewhat slower. And the Bloodstone seems to have lost all its blood. But the film has some nice additions -- Kevin Blair, who has a bit of horror credentials under his belt. And Duff, unlike her predecessor, has little difficulty in being convinced into doing nude scenes, which really seemed a bigger aspect of the first.
Radu seems less menacing, not able to kill as many people or turn them into vampires or create new minions. And that's too bad, because he's a very interesting vampire creature. He also seems very susceptible to sunlight, much less so than Michelle. Is it because he's older? Typically, vampires get more powerful with age. But who knows? There's a good scene where Michelle is falsely believed dead, but beyond that nothing stands out in my mind. It's a decent sequel, and I'm eager to see part three (and maybe even four). So it didn't turn me off by any means. Pretty much entirely the work of one man, this is a film worth seeing if you liked the original.
"Subspecies II" doesn't quite have the full power the original had. The lead actress has been replaced, which takes a bit out of the continuity (but at least the new chick -- Denise Duff -- is better looking). And the pace is somewhat slower. And the Bloodstone seems to have lost all its blood. But the film has some nice additions -- Kevin Blair, who has a bit of horror credentials under his belt. And Duff, unlike her predecessor, has little difficulty in being convinced into doing nude scenes, which really seemed a bigger aspect of the first.
Radu seems less menacing, not able to kill as many people or turn them into vampires or create new minions. And that's too bad, because he's a very interesting vampire creature. He also seems very susceptible to sunlight, much less so than Michelle. Is it because he's older? Typically, vampires get more powerful with age. But who knows? There's a good scene where Michelle is falsely believed dead, but beyond that nothing stands out in my mind. It's a decent sequel, and I'm eager to see part three (and maybe even four). So it didn't turn me off by any means. Pretty much entirely the work of one man, this is a film worth seeing if you liked the original.