A
young woman named Ana (Iona Abur) finds Michelle (Denice Duff) on the side of
the road and brings her to see Dr. Niculescu (Mihai Dinvale). As he tries to study Michelle’s condition,
Radu (Anders Hove) awakens and begins his search for her. Meanwhile, the good (bad) doctor is actually
using her blood to turn himself into a bloodsucker and plans to finagle the precious bloodstone out of Radu's possession.
The
all-around quality is down a notch or two from the other movies. Say what you will about the previous
installments, they at least had a modicum of atmosphere. There are moments here that look like they
came out of one of those cheap-o Wishmaster sequels. The make-up on Radu isn’t very good either (at
some points he looks like The Grim Reaper from Bill and Ted’s Bogus Journey) and
the other vampires look almost laughable in their pancake make-up and goofy
wigs. The shadow effects of Radu
traveling return to their low budget roots but aren’t nearly as effective as
the stuff we saw in Part 2.
Overall,
this is even worse than Bloodlust. The
pacing is slower than that film (if you can believe it), and what good bits
there are (like a cop eating a rat) are few and far between. There is a little bit more skin than usual,
but not enough to bump it up to a * ½ rating.
The
film’s biggest crime is that it wastes the talents of Denice
Duff. She spends most of her time either
sleeping or lying down in a hospital bed. (She must've had the same agent Eric Stoltz had when he made Anaconda.) It’s enough to make you wonder if the poor woman got bedsores during
filming. She does get a few
opportunities to vamp it up a bit in the third act, but by then it’s too little
too late.
AKA: Subspecies:
The Awakening.
this one was alright
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