Subspecies: Feeling Miserable
SUBSPECIES JOURNAL EPISODE 14   Troubles everywhere... OCT 20 -- Sat -- A day off from shooting, but I have to go to Bucuresti to deal with the festival music. A trip I hate to make on the carsickness route, but there's no other choice. 8 AM we hit the road to meet Tibi ... Continue Reading

Subspecies Journal: Episode 13
SUBSPECIES JOURNAL EPISODE 13 The rest of the cast arrives. . . OCT 17 -- Wed -- It's a slow day getting started. The lights have to be moved up the stairways of Prejmer into the monks' cell rooms. We start with some exteriors: loading Lillian's body into the truck. Bringing the ... Continue Reading

They’re Back! Puppet Master, Subspecies, Full Moon Logo shirts, on hot chicks
By Fan Request and popular demand, we have relaunched some of our most beloved shirts! Full Moon is Reintroducing Subspecies, Puppet Master and the Full Moon Logo T-Shirts! AND they are available in ALL sizes again! S - M - L - XL - XXL -XXXL Click HERE to see all ... Continue Reading

Shirts Coming Back By Popular Demand: Puppet Master, Subspecies, Full Moon Logo
Very soon, we'll be relaunching some of our most beloved shirts! Three Classic Full Moon T-shirts! By Fan Request and popular demand, Full Moon is Reintroducing Subspecies, Puppet Master and the Full Moon Logo T-Shirts! SUBSPECIES! PUPPET MASTER! and the FULL MOON LOGO! Check out Fullmoondirect.com for ordering details soon. ... Continue Reading

Monster Mania & Anders Hove! The Vampire Radu of Subspecies
Subspecies fans!  This weekend, March 9-11, the Monster-Mania Convention is taking over the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Cherry Hill, NJ.  Among the special guests who will appear there is none other than Anders Hove, better known as the villainous vampire Radu from Subspecies 1-4.  This will be Anders Hove's first ... Continue Reading

Subspecies: Ceausescu’s Revenge
SUBSPECIES JOURNAL EPISODE 12   Food poisoning – the gift that keeps giving. . .   OCT 14 -- Sun -- Wake up late, eat breakfast, meet with Ivan, who's playing Karl, rehearse with Karl and the girls, take a walk into the woods with Laura.  We follow the sound of rushing water, hoping ... Continue Reading

Subspecies: Drunk as Skunks
SUBSPECIES JOURNAL EPISODE 11   We celebrate the end of the first week of shooting. . . OCT 13 -- Saturday   Early call to go to Feldioara to shoot the girls driving past the ruins on the hilltop.  The art department, or production screwed up, and some pre-Ceausescu anti-government grafitti that was supposed to ... Continue Reading

Subspecies: Big Trouble in Little Romania
SUBSPECIES JOURNAL EPISODE 10 A new Romanian curse word and beer instead of water. . . OCT 12 -- Friday -- The crew arrives at the location a half hour late (and the location is only 5 kilometers from the hotel), which causes me to have a minor temper tantrum. We'll never ... Continue Reading

Subspecies: Primitive Conditions
SUBSPECIES JOURNAL EPISODE 9 Day 2 of principal photography.  A funeral, a new cast member, and stolen shoes. . .   OCT. 11 -- Thursday -- Purcureni to shoot the montage of the girls' exploring the village, and the funeral that crosses their path.  The trucks are supposed to follow us, because I ... Continue Reading

Subspecies: Our Disastrous First Day of Principal Photography
SUBSPECIES JOURNAL EPISODE 8 Our disastrous first day of principal photography. . . . OCT 10 -- first day of principal photography, train station, Sinaia.  Drive to Sinaia in Ion's car. He gets lost on the way down the mountain, taking a shortcut to avoid going through Brasov, ends up going through Brasov ... Continue Reading

Subspecies: Needs More Old Ladies
Spending the first night in the eerily empty Hotel Alpin in the bear and bore filled mountains of Transylvania. OCT 9 -- Last night, I woke up to three sounds:  wild pigs that sounded big as dinosaurs having some major dispute outside my window; rain; and Laura, leaving her room and ... Continue Reading

Subspecies: Production Screwups Abound
After weeks of preproduction, the SUBSPECIES team heads into the mountains for the first days of shooting.  Production screwups abound. OCT 8 -- My call to Becky didn't go through yesterday, so I wake up at 6AM, cold-shower, wake up Adrian the hotel manager at 7, to put in the call ... Continue Reading

In Romania, a Script without Ink is like a German Car Made of Cardboard.
The final days of preproduction. The cast assembles.  A driving lesson in a cardboard car. OCT 7 --  Leisurely Sunday morning.  Print up 3 more copies of script on computer because we don't have a xerox machine. Charlie didn't send us the printer ribbon we requested, so the copies are so light ... Continue Reading

Subspecies: International Filmmaking vs. Potatoes
  Welcome back to the world of international filmmaking and the daily struggles of trying to prepare Subspecies without the benefit of maps or GPS devices or even printer ribbons.  At least I have my cast beginning to assemble, though they are still suffering from the initial shock of realizing this ... Continue Reading

Subspecies Sexy Starlets, Virgins, and Angry Fathers
Subspecies Sexy Starlets, Virgins, and Angry Fathers Welcome back to the private musings of an idealistic director adrift in the Twilight Zone of post-Communist Romania.  As the days of pre-production count down to the first day of shooting I’m still without hot water at Ceausescu’s summer compound, actresses Laura Tate and ... Continue Reading

Hi Subspecies Fans, Welcome Back to the Land of Misery
Hi Subspecies fans. If the first installment of my journal didn’t scare you off, welcome back to the land of misery. Continuing from where we parted last week, these were the next two days of pre-production, including my sad little birthday dinner. . . OCT 2 -- screen test day. We've got ... Continue Reading

Welcome to My Chronicle of Woes.
Dear Full Moon friends and family, Welcome to my chronicle of woes.  When I traveled to Bucharest, Romania in 1990, months after the revolution that toppled dictator Nicolae Ceaucescu, to scout locations for SUBSPECIES, I knew the minute I arrived that I had entered the Twilight Zone.  But meeting costume designer ... Continue Reading

Biography of TED NICOLAOU
Writer-director Ted Nicolaou began his career in entertainment as a singer-songwriter in the seminal Austin hippie band “Ramon & Ramon and the Four Daddyo’s.”  He sang his way through film school under the mentorship of Rod Whitaker, the shadowy novelist also known as Trevanian, writing and directing the Student Academy ... Continue Reading