An American muay-thai fighter in Thailand must join forces with a group of vampire hunters to track down and kill a vampire lord who has kidnapped his gilfriend.
There are vampires who have vowed never to drink human blood and then there are vampires who drink human blood and kill for pleasure. For centuries there is a bitter war between these two groups but all hell breaks loose when the wife of a kick boxer gets kidnapped by a bad vampire during the couple's vacationing.—[email protected]
In Thailand, the Americans Connor and his girlfriend Amanda quarrel in a Muay-Thai fight, and Amanda leaves Connor alone. She asks the direction of the hotel to a stranger, indeed the mean vampire Niran, and she is bitten and kidnapped by his gang of evil vampires in motorcycles. Connor joins to a clan of "good" vampires leaded by Sang, trying to save Amanda from the claws of Niran.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Prologue: For many centuries, phi song neng (vampire spirits who havevowed never to drink human blood) have lived among the villages of the FarEast. One day, over 800 years ago, a young, human warlord named Niran fell inlove with a beautiful song neng woman named Sang. Niran wanted Sang for hisown, so he killed her husband and son. In her pain and rage, Sang attackedNiran during a Songkran []New Year] solar eclipse, turning him into a vampire. From Niranhave come many jai tham (vampires who drink human blood and kill humans forpleasure). Only Sang can end the jai tham's nightly attacks on humans. Doingso, however, will end the entire bloodline and turn every vampire, song neng aswell as jai tham, into mere mortals again. Since the coming Songkran festivalwill feature the first solar eclipse in 800 years, Sang intends to kill herselfby exposing herself to the sun's rays at the end of the eclipse and, thus, wipeout all the vampires in Thailand.
Connor [Colin Egglesfield] and Amanda [Meredith Monroe] are vacationing in Thailand during this year's Songkranfestival. Connor, trained since childhood in Muay Thai (Thai boxing), takesAmanda to see a match. However, Amanda cannot take the brutality and goes backto their hotel alone. On the way, she gets lost in the Phang Nga market, and MrNice Guy [Dom Hetrakul] offers to show her the way to her hotel. He leads her on a short cutdown a deserted alley, then suddenly turns into the vampire Niran, drinking her bloodand carrying her off on a motorcycle. Connor tries to follow, but he is stoppedby another vampire, obviously intent on killing him. Just as the vampire isabout to succeed, a bald-headed man appears and chops off the vampire'shead. Connor begs for his help finding Amanda, but he warns Connor toleave Thailand immediately and threatens to kill Connor if he follows him. Ofcourse, Connor steathfully (i.e., ten steps behind) follows Kiko [Roger Yuan] home to KongSai House.
When the police refuse to consider Amanda missing until 48 hours havepassed, Connor goes back to Kong Sai House, only to find everyone asleep. Whilesnooping through the house, Connor is attacked by a female vampire [Stephanie Chao] (who turnsout to be Sang, but Connor doesn't know that yet). Connor gets away from her byjumping out a window. As Connor lands on the ground below, he is stopped by vampire slayer Raines [Patrick Bauchau] who insists on testing Connor's blood to see if heis infected. When Connor comes up clean, he begs Raines to help him findAmanda but, like Kiko, Raines warns him to leave Thailand. Amanda is as good asdead, he says. If she resists, the jai tham will bleed her dry; if not, they'llturn her, and then Raines will slay her (he gets $10,000 for every vampire hekills). Either way, Amanda should be considered dead to Connor.
Connor won't accept it and returns again to Kong Sai House. While there,he sees a photo of Niran in front of the Techno Games Arcade near the Phang Ngamarket. Figuring that Niran might have taken Amanda there, he snoops around. Hefinds Amanda being held in a cell with skeletons, carcasses, and other humansin various stages of being drained of their blood. Basically, he's stumbledinto the jai tham's pantry. Amanda and Connor escape but are attacked outsideby two jai tham on a motorcycle. One drives off with Amanda; the other staysto kill Connor. Just as Niran and the rest of the jai tham arrive to join thefun, Sang appears. Connor grabs a motorcycle and, with Sang riding behind him,they succeed in outrunning the jai tham.
Both Amanda and Connor are now faced with decisions. Amanda must decidewhether to allow Niran to turn her or to keep on drinking from her, whichcauses acute pain. Connor has to decide whether or not to join the song neng inhopes of winning the battle with the jai tham and helping Sang to kill herselfso that all vampires (including him) will be turned back into mortals. Thealternative, if Sang is not successful, is that Connor will remain a vampireuntil the next Songkran eclipse rolls around in 800 years and Sang can tryagain. Connor's decision is made doubly hard because he's got the hots forSang. Amanda decides to continue resisting, and Connor decides to become songneng. This requires being bitten by Sang and, apparently, having sex with her,too.
The day of the eclipse is upon them. The song neng have made a deal withthe slayers. Since Sang's embrace of the sun must take place in the samespot where the curse began 800 years ago (a couple blocks away), the song nenghave made a deal with Raines. Raines and his slayers will line the buildingsand walls that overlook the site, which looks like an archeological dig, inorder to kill any jai tham who try to stop Sang. Connor, Kiko, and the restof the song neng will help Sang get to the required spot. The eclipse starts at3:00, and they will have 17 minutes to do the job. All is set.
Suddenly, the sun is covered and the city falls dark. The slayers are inposition. Connor and the song neng move out from under the trees. The jai thamarrive on their motorcycles. In the melee that follows, Connor and Niran fallthrough a weak spot into a pit where they continue fighting. Time is runningout, and Kiko realizes that the slayers have double-crossed them. Suddenly, theslayers open fire, shooting everyone, song neng and jai tham. Only Connor andNiran remain protected in their hole. Connor manages to impale Niran, but whenhe surfaces from the pit, Connor finds only bodies. He shouts for Sang, butthere is no answer. Raines walks up, gloating over how much he will get for allthe vampire heads AND those in the future. If Sang ends the curse, he explains,there's no more vampires, and we're in the vampire hunting business.
Connor locates Sang as Raines turns his crossbow on her. Connor offers toshoot Sang so that she doesn't have to suffer. Raines hands his bow to Connor.Connor aims at Sang but suddenly swings his aim to Raines. Forcing Raines tocarry Sang to the designated spot, Connor gives her one last kiss before thesun reappears and Sang is toast. She explodes, taking Raines with her. Connorhurries back to the jai tham's pantry and rescues Amanda.
Epilog: Connor and Amanda are on an airplane flying back to the States.Amanda looks out the window, and her eyes appear to be totally black. Is she orisn't she? [Original synopsis by bj_kuehl]
