'Bloodlust: Subspecies III' (1994) - Ted Nicolaou.

Maestro, Ted Nicolaou's tragic vampire opus becomes ever more twisted in 'Bloodlust: Subspecies III'. Only recently undead, Michelle's (Denice Duff) dismal fate is now grimly entwined with her deathly pale, murderously besotted vampire master, Radu. The cruel, calculating, sibling slaying wretch is now the incumbent monarch of forbidding Vladislas castle. Corrupted by loneliness, jealousy, and a thirst for power, Radu's obsession over, Michelle's sublime beauty and the mythic Bloodstone fuelling his bloodlust. Acting as one demented, Radu conspires viciously to make, Michelle willingly share his eternal damnation. Courageously resisting his vile, necromantic advances, Michelle's rejection merely increases, Radu's grim resolve to possess her absolutely! 

The anguished, weakening, increasingly pale, Michelle inevitably succumbs to her primal need to feed. Bullied into rejecting all familial ties, she unhappily surrenders to Radu, reluctantly becoming his resentfully blood-drinking, charnel house-dwelling consort. Her plucky sister, Becky (Melanie Shatner) and her handsome companion, Mel's (Kevin Spirtas) tenacious attempts to free Michelle from the crepuscular confines of doomy Vladislas castle are nothing short of heroic! Escalating to a memorably bloody melee, the fulminating evils of demonic, Radu and his maniacal sorceress mother (Pamela Strong) are not easily bested. 

Maintaining Subspecies stylish eerie Gothic motifs, visually gifted director, Nicolaou injects a little extra vampire venom into his hallucinatory, blood-curdled bacchanal of profane vampire lust, malevolent sorcery, and thrilling melodrama. Dramatically set against the stunning, medieval majesty of doomy Vladislas castle, Radu's tormenting quest to secure, Michelle's love descends madly into a relentless cavalcade of savage subterranean set horrors!...as for this especially craven plasma prizing princeling, The Bloodstone is thicker than water!

Not only is 'Bloodlust: Subspecies III' yet another fabulously fright-packed Full Moon phantasmagoria, but proof rhesus positive that, Nicolaou's sanguineous Subspecies series is now the reigning apex predator of Gothic horror. The malign, Radu being the pallid crowned prince of DTV vampire villainy! The malign, Radu being the pallid crowned prince of DTV vampire villainy! No longer shall this grim-faced, long-fingered fratricidal fiend be confined to the shadowy, mildewed catacombs of Vladislas Castle, Radu deserves to be immortalized as one of Gothic Horror's most grisly icons. Radu, you are simply tomb much vampire for the daylight world to ignore!