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Subspecies is a series of four horror movies directed by Ted Nicolau, produced by [[FullMoonFeatures Full Moon]] and starring Anders Hove as vampire Radu Vladislas.

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Subspecies is a series of four horror movies directed by Ted Nicolau, produced by [[FullMoonFeatures Full Moon]] Creator/FullMoonFeatures and starring Anders Hove as vampire Radu Vladislas.



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* FertileBlood: The titular imps are tiny demon looking homunculi spawned from the blood of the vampire Radu.
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* TrivialTitle: The series is named after a small race of creatures who barely factor into the movies.
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* SuddenSequelDeathSyndrome: [[spoiler: Stefan]] in ''Bloodstone'', [[spoiler: Radu's mother]] in ''Bloodlust'', [[spoiler: Becky, Mel, Lt. Marin (sort of) & ''Radu'']] in ''Bloodstorm''.

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* SuddenSequelDeathSyndrome: [[spoiler: Stefan]] in ''Bloodstone'', [[spoiler: Radu's mother]] in ''Bloodlust'', [[spoiler: Becky, Mel, Random Victim Girl, Lt. Marin (sort of) & ''Radu'']] in ''Bloodstorm''.
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* BreakingAndBloodsucking: In the original, Radu breaks into the girls' room to feed on Lilian's cut arm and he drains her over a few nights.
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Subspecies is a series of four horror movies directed by Ted Nicolau, produced by FullMoonPictures and starring Anders Hove as vampire Radu Vladislas.

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Subspecies is a series of four horror movies directed by Ted Nicolau, produced by FullMoonPictures [[FullMoonFeatures Full Moon]] and starring Anders Hove as vampire Radu Vladislas.
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All one has to do is set Vampire Diaries after Subspecies 4


* BackFromTheDead: Ash, villain of ''The Vampire Journals'', is killed off pretty decisively at the end of that film. He returns with no explanation to be Radu's [[TheDragon Dragon]] in ''Bloodstorm''.
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* {{Expy}}: Maria, the leading girl in ''Bloodstorm'' seems to be one for ''BuffyTheVampireSlayer''.

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* {{Expy}}: Maria, the leading girl in ''Bloodstorm'' seems to be one for ''BuffyTheVampireSlayer''.''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer''.
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* ImmediateSequel: All of the sequels
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* HybridMonster: Radu is some kind of half-vampire, half-hag thing.
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* TranshumanTreachery: Mara and Lillian in the first movie after they're turned into vampires. They become completely subservient to Radu and help capture Michelle to become his latest servant, even pinning her down on the bed and laughing as he prepares to bite her. [[spoiler: Michelle, after she's turned, flip flops on this trope through the series.]]
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* CreepyLongFingers: Radu.
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** Non-evil vampires can walk in sunlight such as Stefan, it also why he looks the most human unlike Radu who follows the path of evil and looks deformed. [[spoiler: Michelle is sorta half in half. As she drinks blood from humans, she shuned by the sunlight but isn't really evil since its more of a survival thing and half the time is mostly forced on her.]]
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* TheArtifact: The titular Subspecies... do next to nothing in the series. They're really only there because Full Moon productions always have at least one stop-motion element (usually [[TheMerch so they can sell models and action figures of them]]).


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* BackFromTheDead: Ash, villain of ''The Vampire Journals'', is killed off pretty decisively at the end of that film. He returns with no explanation to be Radu's [[TheDragon Dragon]] in ''Bloodstorm''.
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* NotQuiteDead: Radu is seemingly killed several times, only to somehow survive. In the last [[spoiler: they decapitate him (again) but take his head far away from his body and stick it on a post in the sunlight, which seems to do the trick.]]

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* TheyJustDidntCare: ''Bloodstorm'' ''runs'' on this.



* TheUnfavourite: Radu. By ''both'' parents.

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* TheUnfavourite: Radu. By ''both'' parents.parents.
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* {{Dhampyr}}: Both Stefan and Radu; Stefan is half-human, while Radu is the result of his father being magically seduced by a hag (of the D&D nonhuman variety).


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* LooksLikeOrlok: Radu, increasingly so with each movie.

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* ContrivedCoincidence: In ''Bloodstone'', the theater Michelle hides in has a glass coffin backstage. Why? Is this theater a hostel for vampires?
* DownerEnding: [[spoiler: Michelle will sure live forever, but she's a vampire so she will have to quell her killer instincts, her sister and friends are dead, she is vulnerable to sunlight and she's all alone in a foreign country with nary a way of going back to the US]].



* TheyJustDidntCare: ''Bloodstorm'' ''runs'' on this.



* TheUnfavourite: Radu.

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* TheUnfavourite: Radu. By ''both'' parents.

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* BadassDecay: Not that he was that much of a badass to begin with, but Radu becomes more and more ridiculous as the movies go on.



* Expy: Maria, the leading girl in ''Bloodstorm'' seems to be one for ''BuffyTheVampireSlayer''.

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* Expy: {{Expy}}: Maria, the leading girl in ''Bloodstorm'' seems to be one for ''BuffyTheVampireSlayer''.



* {{Sequelitis}}: Maybe not ''Bloodstone'' or ''Bloodlust'', but ''Bloodstorm'' definitely fits the bill.
* SuddenSequelDeathSyndrome: [[spoiler: Stefan]] in ''Bloodstone'', [[spoiler: Radu's mother]] in ''Bloodlust'', [[spoiler: Becky, Mel, Det. Mari & ''Radu'']] in ''Bloodstorm''.

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* {{Sequelitis}}: Maybe not ''Bloodstone'' or ''Bloodlust'', but ''Bloodstorm'' definitely fits the bill.
* SuddenSequelDeathSyndrome: [[spoiler: Stefan]] in ''Bloodstone'', [[spoiler: Radu's mother]] in ''Bloodlust'', [[spoiler: Becky, Mel, Det. Mari Lt. Marin (sort of) & ''Radu'']] in ''Bloodstorm''.



* TheUnfavourite: Radu.
* WhatAnIdiot: Bob The CIA Guy ([[NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer Seriously]]) doesn't know ''anything'' about vampires, and it ends up [[spoiler: getting him killed in the most hilarious way]].

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* TheUnfavourite: Radu.
* WhatAnIdiot: Bob The CIA Guy ([[NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer Seriously]]) doesn't know ''anything'' about vampires, and it ends up [[spoiler: getting him killed in the most hilarious way]].
Radu.
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* TooDumbToLive: Michelle, Det. Mari and Radu.

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* TooDumbToLive: Michelle, Det. Mari Lt. Marin and Radu.
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* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Bob from ''Bloodlust'' is one for the custodian from the first movie.

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* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Bob from ''Bloodlust'' ''Bloodstone'' is one for the custodian from the first movie.
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* [[BackForTheDead Back For The Undead]]: [[spoiler: Det. Mari]] comes back as a vampire in ''Bloodstorm'' after apparently having been killed in ''Bloodlust''

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* [[BackForTheDead Back For The Undead]]: [[spoiler: Det. Mari]] Lt. Marin]] comes back as a vampire in ''Bloodstorm'' after apparently having been killed in ''Bloodlust''
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* WhatAnIdiot: Bob The CIA Guy ([[IAmNotMakingThisUpDisclaimer Seriously]]) doesn't know ''anything'' about vampires, and it ends up [[spoiler: getting him killed in the most hilarious way]].

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* WhatAnIdiot: Bob The CIA Guy ([[IAmNotMakingThisUpDisclaimer ([[NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer Seriously]]) doesn't know ''anything'' about vampires, and it ends up [[spoiler: getting him killed in the most hilarious way]].
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* Sequelitis: Maybe not ''Bloodstone'' or ''Bloodlust'', but ''Bloodstorm'' definitely fits the bill.

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* Sequelitis: {{Sequelitis}}: Maybe not ''Bloodstone'' or ''Bloodlust'', but ''Bloodstorm'' definitely fits the bill.
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* [[BackForTheDead Back For The Undead: [[spoiler: Det. Mari]] comes back as a vampire in ''Bloodstorm'' after apparently having been killed in ''Bloodlust''

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* [[BackForTheDead Back For The Undead: Undead]]: [[spoiler: Det. Mari]] comes back as a vampire in ''Bloodstorm'' after apparently having been killed in ''Bloodlust''

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* DullSurprise: Radu.



* MacGuffin: The Blood Stone, even in the sequel ''named after it''.



* NeutralWoman: Michelle is mostly this in the sequels. She ''does'' [[spoiler: kill Radu]] in ''Bloodstone'', but as for the rest of the time...
* OnceAFilm: Radu kills a family member of his and a man helping the main character(s) dies in each of the first three movies.

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* NeutralWoman: NeutralFemale: Michelle is mostly this in the sequels. She ''does'' [[spoiler: kill Radu]] in ''Bloodstone'', but as for the rest of the time...
* OnceAFilm: OnceAnEpisode: Radu kills a family member of his and a man helping the main character(s) dies in each of the first three movies.
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* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMommas: Radu. [[spoiler: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] ]] in ''Bloodlust'' when he [[spoiler: kills her to prove his love for Michelle]].

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* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMommas: EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: Radu. [[spoiler: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] ]] in ''Bloodlust'' when he [[spoiler: kills her to prove his love for Michelle]].

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* [[BackForTheDead Back For The Undead: [[spoiler: Det. Mari]] comes back as a vampire in ''Bloodstorm'' after apparently having been killed in ''Bloodlust''
* BadassDecay: Not that he was that much of a badass to begin with, but Radu becomes more and more ridiculous as the movies go on.
* BloodyHilarious: Radu seems to think [[spoiler: his killing of Stefan]] is this in ''Bloodstone''. [[spoiler: Bob The CIA Guy and Radu himself's deaths]] in ''Bloodlust'' fit the bill better.
* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMommas: Radu. [[spoiler: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] ]] in ''Bloodlust'' when he [[spoiler: kills her to prove his love for Michelle]].



* LoveMakesYouDumb: Radu, oh so very much.



* OnceAMovie: Radu kills a family member of his and a man helping the main character(s) dies in each of the first three movies.

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* OnceAMovie: NeutralWoman: Michelle is mostly this in the sequels. She ''does'' [[spoiler: kill Radu]] in ''Bloodstone'', but as for the rest of the time...
* OnceAFilm:
Radu kills a family member of his and a man helping the main character(s) dies in each of the first three movies.



* SuddenSequelDeathSyndrome: [[spoiler: Stefan]] in ''Bloodstone'', [[spoiler: Radu's mother]] in ''Bloodlust'', [[spoiler: Becky, Mel & ''Radu'']] in ''Bloodstorm''.
* TooDumbToLive: Michelle and Radu.

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* SuddenSequelDeathSyndrome: [[spoiler: Stefan]] in ''Bloodstone'', [[spoiler: Radu's mother]] in ''Bloodlust'', [[spoiler: Becky, Mel Mel, Det. Mari & ''Radu'']] in ''Bloodstorm''.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Bob from ''Bloodlust'' is one for the custodian from the first movie.
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TooDumbToLive: Michelle Michelle, Det. Mari and Radu.Radu.
* TheUnfavourite: Radu.
* WhatAnIdiot: Bob The CIA Guy ([[IAmNotMakingThisUpDisclaimer Seriously]]) doesn't know ''anything'' about vampires, and it ends up [[spoiler: getting him killed in the most hilarious way]].

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* OurVampiresAreDifferent: In the first movie, the vampires walk in plain sunlight
* TheOtherDarrin: Michelle is played by Laura Tate in the first film and by Denice Duff in the following movies.

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* ArtifactTitle: The 'Subspecies' title in ''Bloodstorm'', the only movie ''not'' to have the little creatures.
* Expy: Maria, the leading girl in ''Bloodstorm'' seems to be one for ''BuffyTheVampireSlayer''.
* NegativeContinuity: The vampires' ability to walk in the sunlight appears only in the first movie.
* OnceAMovie: Radu kills a family member of his and a man helping the main character(s) dies in each of the first three movies.
* OurVampiresAreDifferent: In the first movie, the vampires walk in plain sunlight
sunlight.
* TheOtherDarrin: Michelle is played by Laura Tate in the first film and by Denice Duff in the following movies.movies.
* Sequelitis: Maybe not ''Bloodstone'' or ''Bloodlust'', but ''Bloodstorm'' definitely fits the bill.
* SuddenSequelDeathSyndrome: [[spoiler: Stefan]] in ''Bloodstone'', [[spoiler: Radu's mother]] in ''Bloodlust'', [[spoiler: Becky, Mel & ''Radu'']] in ''Bloodstorm''.
* TooDumbToLive: Michelle and Radu.
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Subspecies is a series of four horror movies directed by Ted Nicolau, produced by FullMoonPictures and starring Anders Hove as vampire Radu Vladislas.

The series consists of

* ''Subspecies (1991)''
* ''Bloodstone: Subspecies II (1993)''
* ''Bloodlust: Subspecies III (1994)''
* ''Bloodstorm: Subspecies IV (1998)''

It had a spinoff, made in 1997, called ''The Vampire Journals''.

The story involves young Michelle, who came to Romania with her friend Lilian to study its folklore and ends up involved in a war between ancient vampires for the possession of the Blood Stone, a stone which drips the blood of saints.

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* OurVampiresAreDifferent: In the first movie, the vampires walk in plain sunlight
* TheOtherDarrin: Michelle is played by Laura Tate in the first film and by Denice Duff in the following movies.

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