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Subspecies

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86% Tomatometer 7 Reviews 51% Popcornmeter 2,500+ Ratings
American coeds must be saved from a Transylvania vampire (Anders Hove) and his Mohawk-hairdo offspring.
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Matt Brunson Film Frenzy May 13, 2026
2.5/4
The decision to shoot this vampire flick in Transylvania provides a significant boost to one of the most popular franchise starters from Full Moon Features. Go to Full Review
Stefan Birgir Stefans sbs.is Sep 8, 2023
4/5
The film has some great effects (mixed with some bad green screening), it looks great, is highly enjoyable and should be classified with other alternative vampire flicks, like The Lost Boys (1987) and Near Dark (1987). Go to Full Review
C.H. Newell Father Son Holy Gore May 1, 2019
3/5
Rather than go for a tired vampire story, Nicolaou gives audiences an old school-feeling flick that carves out its own strange vampire niche in the horror genre. Go to Full Review
Felix Vasquez Jr. Cinema Crazed May 11, 2012
3/4
It's definitely a Full Moon gem. Go to Full Review
Emanuel Levy EmanuelLevy.Com Aug 21, 2005
3/5
Ken Hanke Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC) Aug 7, 2002
2/5
Watchable horror nonsense Go to Full Review
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Nick O @Nicki1985 Jun 3, 2025 This gothic Transylvanian trip is such a solid vampire flick. A truly shining moment in the history of Full Moon Entertainment! See more Landon J @Minxsykitty Apr 13, 2025 A great entry for the 80's horror cheese. Nothing special, nothing particularly bad. Veterans of the genre will again, understand this without even seeing it. See more R P @RT35320871 Jan 28, 2022 The Subspecies series is one of my favorite Full Moon Entertainment franchises. Who doesn't love a good vampire series (especially when the vampires don't sparkle. LOL)? Bran Castle in Romania is where they film Subspecies. (https://foreverfinalgirl.com/subspecies/) See more Oct 7, 2021 "The vampires killed the Turks." American post-graduate students studying abroad in southeastern Europe fight for survival after getting mixed up in a battle between two vampire brothers one of whom is very Nosferatu-inspired. The nearby town is full of people who are proud of their connection to Vlad Dracul, proud of the vampire legend, yet many don't appreciate outsiders poking around. Decent dialogue with cool practical effects (I want a finger daemon!), and good-looking sets and locations (especially the beautiful fortress). Filmed in Romania soon after the fall of communism, the students travel around in a Trabant. See more alex r @RT94440185 Nov 16, 2020 Terrible beyond belief, it was borderline torture to watch. Aside from the campy intro and half-assed decent setting, everything else was abysmal. See more Jan 5, 2019 Before I start bashing this movie, let me start with the actual Blu-ray 20th anniversary edition quality. It's terrible! It's not even 1080p, The picture quality is comparable to a DVD. The so-called special features aren't exactly all that special. Having six movie trailors do not count as special, certainly not in my book. And what's with that video Zone first subspecies. Not exactly special either. You would think that full moon would at least go the extra mile when it comes to special features especially if they're going to release it as a 20th anniversary Blu-ray. And that includes a better digital transfer. Now that I got that out of the way, let's get to this cheesy movie. And that's what it is a Cheesy low-budget movie with so-called special effects if that's what you want to call it. The evil vampire is obviously a cheap knockoff of the old silent movie Nosferatu. The movie, The acting, the story and the effects had me rolling my eyes so far back in my head I ended up with a headache. And I've seen plenty of low budget movies, like Flash Gordon and even Plan 9 from Outer Space. But at least those movies were so bad they were good. Subspecies went right past good and went right back to bad. How this movie got an 80% from Rotten Tomatoes is beyond me. But, then again, people have been known to rush to theaters to see other crap like Batman versus Superman, and don't even get me started on that! See more Read all reviews
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Movie Info

Synopsis American coeds must be saved from a Transylvania vampire (Anders Hove) and his Mohawk-hairdo offspring.
Director
Ted Nicolaou
Producer
Ion Ionescu
Screenwriter
Jackson Barr, David Pabian
Production Co
Full Moon Entertainment, Castel Film Studio
Rating
R
Genre
Horror, Fantasy
Original Language
English
Release Date (Streaming)
Nov 30, 2016
Runtime
1h 30m
Sound Mix
Surround
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