Vampires: The Turning
2005 film
Vampires: The Turning is a 2005 martial arts vampire film directed by Marty Weiss and starring Colin Egglesfield, Stephanie Chao and Patrick Bauchau. It is the third and final installment of the Vampires film series, although John Carpenter who directed the first film and produced the second film had no involvement with this film, and is unrelated to the previous two films. Like the second film, this film was released on direct-to-video on May 3, 2005.
Plot
Connor (Colin Egglesfield) and Amanda (Meredith Monroe) are vacationing in Thailand during that year's Songkran festival. Connor, trained since childhood in Muay Thai (Thai boxing), takes Amanda to see a match. However, Amanda cannot take the brutality and goes back to their hotel alone.
On the way, she gets lost in the Phang Nga market, and Mr Nice Guy (Dom Hetrakul) offers to show her the way to her hotel. He leads her on a short cut down a deserted alley, then turns into the vampire Niran, drinking her blood and carrying her off on a motorcycle. Connor tries to follow, but he is stopped by another vampire, obviously intent on killing him. Just as the vampire is about to succeed, a bald-headed man appears and chops off the vampire's head.
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