gavin6942 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.

Jonthan22 Having seen and enjoyed the original, I saw this on late night TV and was excited because I didn't realise there was a sequel to Subspecies. (I have now seen them all)Although I enjoyed this movie (and Anders Hove was great as Radu as usual), I have two major gripes with it that bother me too much to see it as an equal to the original.1) Stefan. Now I'm not debating that Radu was definitely the better character of the two (more conflicted, better actor etc) but I liked Stefan, the noble do gooder Vamp. And I liked the whole idea of the warring Vampire Brothers fighting over their birth right! And if I thought killing him off was a huge mistake, it wasn't nearly as bad as how they did it. It just seemed so.....bleh! Thats about all I can say really, just a total Anti-climax to the originals ending and a complete cop out (I know they could not get Michael Watson back for the sequel, but they could have recast him and let him day a little while into the movie, or even come up with ANYTHING but the death scene they eventually came up with. Bad bad writing.2) Michelle's Sister. She just bothered me throughout, I found myself wanting her to get killed by the end, just to get her off my screen, didn't like the actress or the character.In all though, the plot was pretty decent and even though the actress who played Michelle was changed (and grew her hair in record time) the film still maintained a level of enjoyability that kept me watching till the end. Like before the sets and locations were beautiful and the musical score was good. Anders Hove is a great actor in this role, it seems tailor made for him.A good film, let down by one bad plot line and one bad actress.5/10

BloodTheTelepathicDog Subspecies 2 picks up right where the first one ended, with Michelle(portrayed by the far more appealing Denice Duff) fleeing from a resurrected Radu. In Denice's possession is the Bloodstone, an ancient relic that contains the blood of saints, that Radu is determined to retrieve.This doesn't suffer from the typical sequel downfalls, as director Ted Nicolaou keeps the set creepy and paces the film marvelously. Anders Hove, as cinema's most accurate vampire, albeit Max Schreck, is the only returning cast member from the original. Laura Tate does not reprise her role as Michelle, leaving the character to a far more capable and attractive Denice Duff.As Denice struggles with her new found lifestyle, she calls her sister, portrayed by William Shatner's daughter Melanie, to help her. Obviously not thinking about her sister's safety, Denice delivers her to near certain death. Helping Melanie are US embassy stud Kevin Blair and oddball professor Michael Denish. Kevin portrays the skeptic, but is enamored with Melanie, so tags along.I have seen all of the Subspecies films and this one is my second favorite, right behind the original. VIOLENCE: $$$ (Denice struggles with feeding on a grungy rockstar wannabe while Radu indulges. There is moderate vampire mayhem here but the gore in the original was superior).NUDITY: $$ (Denice takes the patented horror film shower scene which Ted plays more for characterization than for skin. He shows the tortured woman weeping under the showerhead and doesn't use the gratuitous angle).STORY: $$$$ (The screenplay is rather solid despite Denice's characters lack of regard for her sister's safety. The story emphasis is on Denice, as we must watch and see if she can resist Radu and if Radu can control his "fledgling").ACTING: $$$$$ (Exceptional acting, supplied chiefly by Denice Duff. Ms. Duff has the unrivaled ability to capture every emotion in the human emotional handbag. Her work far exceeds Laura Tate's boring portrayal of Michelle in the original. Denice Duff should offer acting lessons to all those A-List sorry excuses for actresses that the tabloids love so much! Anders Hove was better in the original; much more fiendish than he is here).

Volstag As with most movies of this type (i.e. B-grade horror), my hope is to find one that is unintentionally hilarious, every step of the way. One that promotes constant riffing from me and my friends. Picking a good "bad movie" appears to be more difficult than picking a good "good" movie (if that makes any sense). Unfortunately, "Bloodstone: Subspecies II" [B:S2] is neither bad enough to be good, nor good enough to be good.This might sound weird, but B:S2 was written, directed and acted by folks with a modicum of intelligence. I will also begrudgingly admit there's a small degree of artistic talent exhibited as well. The best bad movies are made by people who have no business making movies (for an example of what I'm talking about, rent "Troll 2" or "The Keeper of Time" -- those movies are priceless. Nay, they're National Treasures).Don't get me wrong, this movie is bad. But it's not bad enough. The brand of "bad" portrayed in this movie is the slow, plodding, monotonous variety -- not the "insanely stupid bad" that I crave. It's for the same reasons that it's not "good" either. The pacing is too slow for a B-grade horror (IMO). It starts on a strong note, and then slowly dwindles into nothingness -- until its brief resurrection near the very end. I believe this came about due to Mr. Nicolaou's attempt at "creepy/moody atmospherics". There's very limited dialogue, and what little there is makes no attempt at driving the story. Most of the movie centers around Michelle Morgan (Denice Duff) shambling around Bucharest looking scared and sedated. I also got the strong impression that Mr. Nicolaou wanted to make the most of his "on location" shoot, by shoe-horning every piece of gothic architecture he could find into the movie. Another thing we found weird was the "Bloodstone" itself. Ostensibly it's the centerpiece of the story, even though they never mention, or discuss it, for a good 2/3rds of the movie. Huh? Apparently the Bloodstone can dispense the "blood of the saints" for a vampire to suckle on. Okay, so what? They never really describe why it's so important to Radu. Does it make him into a super vampire? No. Does it give him extra powers? No. What the heck does it do?I've wasted enough time discussing this.Good movie score: 5/10. Bad movie score: 6/10. In short: mediocre... no matter how you look at it.