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Subspecies 4: Bloodstorm (1998) (V) More at IMDbPro »

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

Picking up where Subspecies III left off, Radu is a flaming corpse impaled on a tree branch. He falls to the ground and lands in a pool of water near the bloodstone which he picks up and then runs into his castle before the morning sun can destroy him. After restoring himself, Radu goes to Bucharest to find Michelle. He contacts his other chylde, the vampire Ash [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 by her sister and taken away) is riding meets with an accident. Everyone is killed. Fortunately, Dr Anna Lazar [Ioana Abur] arrives at the accident scene and takes Michelle to the nearest hospital, the Vitalis Institute, where Dr Nicolescu [Mihai Dinvale] immediately diagnoses Michelle as a vampire. Nicolescu offers to help her, as he has designed a process whereby vampires can be made to tolerate the sunlight and live without the craving for blood. He knows that it works because it is that process which is sustaining him. Michelle argues that Radu will find her anyway. Nicolescu insures Michelle that Radu cannot enter because this institute was once a monastery. He asks Michelle if Radu has the bloodstone, and she says yes. Once Nicolescu learns that Radu has the bloodstone, however, his efforts to cure Michelle turn into an effort to obtain the bloodstone. He begins to plot a way to lure Radu to the hospital.

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

Nicolescu begins Michelle's treatment, which requires that all the blood be withdrawn from her, filtered, and replaced.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

Serena, who has been watching all along, sees in Dr Lazar a human with the necessary strength to kill Radu. The next day, the three doctors go 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] waits outside. (Unbeknown to them, Serena has given them a key that only works from the outside. Her plan is for Lazar to kill Radu and then be unable to escape.) The two doctors make their way to Radu's resting place but, as they are about to cut off his head, Radu wakes up and cuts off Nicolescu's head instead. 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 into the sunlight, and try to escape the tomb. But Ash and Serena follow. As they attempt to drink from Lazar, her screams bring an old lady who opens the tomb. They get a coffin and retrieve Michelle and the bloodstone. [Original Synopsis by BJ Kuehl.]