Vampir: Aimatiri Epistrofi [Greek]
Vampires - Painajainen Thaimaassa [Finnish]
Vampires 3: Il Segreto di Sang [Italian]
Vampires 3: La Dernière Éclipse du Soleil [French]
Vampires: Le Dernière Éclipse du Soleil [French]
Vampiri: Întoarcerea [Romanian]
Vampiros 3 [Spanish]
Vampiros 3: El Retorno [Spanish]
Vampiros: A Conversão [Portuguese]
Vampiros: El Fin [Spanish]
Vampiros: El Retorno [Spanish]
Vampiros: O Regresso [Portuguese]
Vámpírok: A Fordulópont [Hungarian]
Tagline(s):
From the One... Came the Many
Nomination Year: 2024
SYNOPSIS:
A kick-boxing American tourist gets dumped by his girlfriend in Thailand. On the way back to the hotel, she gets lost and follows a local vampire into dark alley and gets turned. He tries to rescue her, embroiling himself in a war between feuding clans of vampires. There's a whole backstory about the good vampires and the bad vampires and the vampire hunters and an 800-year-old curse. The important thing is that this is a martial arts vampire movie. Except there's not actually that much martial arts. The vampires spend more time chasing each other around on dirt bikes than they do martial arts fighting. So I guess this is really a dirt bike vampire movie? Anyway, there are a bunch of vampire dirt bike chases and a couple vampire martial arts fights and an epic final battle which is way less epic than some of the dirt bike chases. But, to be fair, that one dirt bike chase was really epic.
Greg Pearson
Smithee Award Nominations
Deus Ex Machina
Swordsman from Nowhere
Our hero meets one of the bad vampires in an alley (though he doesn't know it at first). Initially, he (literally) kicks the vamp's ass...but then the gloves come off. The baddie vamps out fully and reveals his full power. Suddenly, it's obvious Our Hero is going to die because he's clearly outmatched. There Is No Escape! Then--GLARK!--decapitated! By some mystery swordsman nobody knows was there.
"WHAT?!"
Those Cats Had Expert Timing...
The hero (human) and heroine (good vampire) are being chased by bad vampires. Their timing is excellent.
The Master Monk in Bulletproof Monk,
Huang in John Wick 3: Parabellum, and
Duba Tegin in the live-action Mulan.
But he got his start in American Kickboxer
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