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Synopsis

NOTE: Sequel to Subspecies III: Bloodlust (1994).

Picking up where Subspecies III left off, Radu is a flaming corpseimpaled on a tree branch. He falls to the ground and lands in a pool ofwater near the bloodstone which he picks up and then runs into his castlebefore the morning sun can destroy him. After restoring himself, Radu goesto Bucharest to find Michelle. He contacts his other chylde, the vampireAsh [Jonathon Morris] [NOTE: reference is to Vampire Journals (1997)],and moves into Ash's casino/brothel.

Meanwhile, the car in which Michelle (who was placed in a bodybag byher sister and taken away) is riding meets with an accident. Everyone iskilled. Fortunately, Dr Anna Lazar [Ioana Abur] arrives at the accident scene and takesMichelle to the nearest hospital, the Vitalis Institute, where DrNicolescu [Mihai Dinvale] immediately diagnoses Michelle as a vampire.Nicolescu offers to help her, as he has designed a process wherebyvampires can be made to tolerate the sunlight and live without the cravingfor blood. He knows that it works because it is that process which issustaining him. Michelle argues that Radu will find her anyway. Nicolescuinsures Michelle that Radu cannot enter because this institute was once amonastery. He asks Michelle if Radu has the bloodstone, and she says yes.Once Nicolescu learns that Radu has the bloodstone, however, his effortsto cure Michelle turn into an effort to obtain the bloodstone. He beginsto plot a way to lure Radu to the hospital.

When Ash's protegee Serena [Floriela Grappini] asks Radu to help her kill Ash, Radurefuses ("It is forbidden to kill one's kin"). So, Serena goes to Ash andrequests that he kill Radu. Ash also refuses but suggests that they find ahuman to do it. Serena is to follow Radu to see if she can discover wherehe goes and who might be willing to kill him.

Nicolescu begins Michelle's treatment, which requires that all theblood be withdrawn from her, filtered, and replaced. As the treatmentbegins, Michelle starts to convulse and Radu senses where she is. He fliesto the hospital but is barred at the gate. Nicolescu admits Radu onlyafter Radu has allowed the doctor to taste from the bloodstone. Onceinside the gates, however, bright sunlamps are turned on Radu, his body issprinkled with holy water, and a spear is driven through his chest.Feeling her master's pain, Michelle escapes from the lab and goes to saveRadu.

Serena, who has been watching all along, sees in Dr Lazar a humanwith the necessary strength to kill Radu. The next day, the three doctorsgo looking for the tomb which is the entrance to the vampire underground.Lazar finds it, and she and Nicolescu go underground while Dr Lupu [Dan Astileanu] waitsoutside. (Unbeknown to them, Serena has given them a key that only worksfrom the outside. Her plan is for Lazar to kill Radu and then be unable toescape.) The two doctors make their way to Radu's resting place but, as theyare about to cut off his head, Radu wakes up and cuts off Nicolescu's headinstead. Radu holds Lazar captive and summons Michelle to drink from her.Michelle refuses and slices Radu's neck instead. Lazar finishes the job.They secure the bloodstone, burn Radu's body, take Radu's head out intothe sunlight, and try to escape the tomb. But Ash and Serena follow. Asthey attempt to drink from Lazar, her screams bring an old lady who opensthe tomb. They get a coffin and retrieve Michelle and the bloodstone.[Original Synopsis by BJ Kuehl.]