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Vampires: The Turning  (2004)
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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.
Directors
Director Claim to Fame
Martin Jay Weiss Vampires: The Turning was his directorial debut... Nuff said. 
Cast
Actor Character Claim to Fame
Colin Egglesfield Connor Joshua Madden on "All My Children"; Augie Kirkpatrick on "Melrose Place"; Tommy Rizzoli on "Rizolli & Isles"; Evan Parks on "The Client List." 
Stephanie Chao Sang Was Cindy in Jack Frost 2: Revenge of the Mutant Killer Snowman; Jordan in Zig Zag; Angel #3 in Little Nicky; and Jasmine in Heat Vision and Jack
Roger Yuan Kiko 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 1
Patrick Bauchau Raines Was Scapine in A View to a Kill; Stephen Altman in Panic Room; Sydney on "The Pretender"; and Archon Raine on "Kindred: The Embraced." 
Dom Hetrakul Niran A regular star on Thai TV, he's been Aran in Bangkok Dangerous; Calob in The Marine 2; and Duyan Jurne in The Man with the Iron Fists 2
Meredith Monroe Amanda Andie McPhfee on "Dawson's Creek"; Greer in The Edge of Seventeen; Haley Hotchner on "Criminal Minds"; Sara Crane in Nowhere to Hide
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