 DVD schlock wrote that the film series " manage to give an edge of bad @-@ <unk> to its vampires " , and that " each entertains in its own right and furthers the Subspecies tale one more step beyond the last one ... until finally being beaten over the head by a shovel with the stinky Vampire Journals " . In a review by LaserDisc , it was felt that one consistency through the series was Radu , whose villainy is " effectively embodied " by Anders Hove . LaserDisc also believed that the sequels sustained the entertainment value through their intelligent use of eroticism , gore and on @-@ location setting . 
