Subspecies Week - Night 4 - Ted Nicolaou

Kevin Lane's Spill Your Guts

Welcome to Subspecies Week on Kevin Lane's Spill Your Guts!

A new episode every day until Thursday, June 1st exploring Ted Nicolaou's iconic saga with the creator and stars.

Our guest today is the not only the writer and director of the Subspecies series but also one of the genres greatest gonzo filmmakers. He has an extensive history in the genre beginning as the location sound recordist on Tobe Hooper’s seminal classic “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre” and an editor for longtime creative collaborator Charles Band on Empire and Full Moon classics like “Tourist Trap”, “Ghoulies”, “Trancers”, Stuart Gordon’s “Robot Jox” and “Crash and Burn”.

In 1986 he wrote and directed the whacky and entirely fun cult classic “TerrorVision” and it was clear to Charles Band that he had found himself a real deal genre maestro.

That filmmaker was Ted Nicolaou and his next film after “TerrorVision” was the original “Subspecies”.

As Ted tells it, the original “Subspecies” shoot in Romania was more or less a nightmare. Ted would once again prove his vision and endurance when not only did he survive the ordeal that was shooting the film, he created one of Full Moon’s biggest hits. The rest is Subspecies history and we’re going to uncover all of it here. From the original film to the back to back shot sequels filmed in 1993 when Full Moon was shining it’s brightest to the 4th film for a transitioning and somewhat troubled Full Moon to fan favorite spin off “Vampire Journals”, Ted is the creative vision behind it all.

Spill your guts is proud to present a conversation with the man behind the bloodstone, Ted Nicolaou.

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