The output rate of Charles Band’s Full Moon Entertainment is genuinely something to behold.
They are well known for their Puppet Master films (15 and counting), but they also produced a long running low budget series starting in 1991 with Subspecies.
The entire series (barring the spin-off Vampire Journals) has now arrived on the Arrow streaming channel, so after a bit of deliberation, I decided to dive in.
Director Ted Nicolaou takes us to the heart of the vampire lore as three teenage girls visit Transylvania and become unknowing pawns in a battle between two vamp brothers.
Subspecies knows how absurd it is, but leans into the camp and has Anders Hove really going the extra mile as the villainous Radu.
At a brisk 83 minutes, it doesn’t really slow up and also features a fun cameo from The Tall Man himself, the late Angus Scrimm.
Subspecies is a perfect watch if you just want something easy to watch on a weekend.
Now do I bother with the sequels?
Subspecies is now streaming on Arrow.
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