Vampires: The Turning (2005)

Truly Dreadful Film

This is a tender, generous movie that likes its characters and presents them as real people, full of flaws and strengths.

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

There's a good story well hidden and never really used! The film is short and overly dependent on action and thematic photography; somehow, character and story development have been forgotten. What is left is muddled and superficial.Turn off your brain and watch—you will probably find that the time goes quickly enough, but unless you are the sort of person that finds soaps deep and meaningful, you are going to get no real satisfaction from this film.Watch only if you have nothing better to do and then only if someone else pays for the video rental.

The plot is simple: an American couple is in vacation in Thailand. Somehow they are attacked by the 'almighty' Chinese vampires, and the girl is kidnapped by the big boss of the vampires. This is OK till now. The girl's partner is left to search for her. And now the horror begins. He comes upon a strange group of semi-vampires or something (they only drank animal blood). These vampires are in conflict with the bad guy for about...800 years. However, with the help of the 'good vampires', the guy begins to search his girlfriend.Now the fight scenes begin, what a karate movie without fight? Another thing i have noticed is that the vampires are very ugly guys. I mean....a vampire is an old-fashion guy(he is alive since...for ever), he's got style. There are also modern vampires, but in this movie, the vampires are....weird. Like, come on, they ride a bike, they are all dressed in leather and they destroy everything in their way.The worst thing is that you can clearly see that this movie it is an low budget one. The script is boring and the actors aren't too talented. The music is pretty good, but the effects are not that great.To sum up the movie it is not that great, but if you have a free afternoon, watch it and tell me if i'm right or not.

Like the other person who commented, I was actually happily diverted by this film, and thought it was everything one could expect from a Thai Vampire Kickboxing flick.Actually, the cinematography seemed above B-movie-average much of time; great colors with a heavy concentration on keeping a sense of being in Thailand and in Bangkok. A couple of exceedingly cheesy missteps aside- spinning camera effect + Sex = the giggles - it was easy to get lost in.The Bad guy, Dom Hetrakul, was very good at being slinky and evil; he was also very hot.My only major casting complaint is with the woman playing Sang; she was lovely, but was a horrible actress where everyone else in this movie was at least Not That Bad, and her flat California accent sorta took away from that whole key "800 hundred year old Thai-princess-vampire" effect.But, the tone was just right for what type of movie it was, and everyone's reactions were nicely realistic. (If, say, you were caught trying to rescue your girlfriend from vampires in Thailand.) I would recommend this movie highly if you have a love of, say, Bloodsport and other 80s classics of cheesy kung-fu and semi-mystical Asia-based fun.

Man oh man, this was a piece of dog sh#t. I read a few reviews on here after seeing the case in the local video store, and thought to myself........ Ah this seems like a half decent movie.Vampires.Swords. Thailand.How can you go wrong? Right? No,no,no way f*cking wrong. Jesus, if only I could gouge out my eyes and not remember this film, I would be happy. The lead actor had THE whiniest, gayest voice ever.Man!It really was bad...."Amandaaaaaaaa....","I gotta save my girlfriend...." F*ck off! My buddy and I actually changed the Audio Track on the DVD to Portugese just so we didn't have to hear the guy's voice. Subtitles and all...and this IMPROVED the film. I'm serious, if your anything like me and wondered what this film was like..STOP WONDERING. I have the answer. WORST VAMPIRE MOVIE EVER! No good action, no good gore and only the smallest smattering of nudity. Just pure sh*t for 90 Mins. Don't rent this,buy it,think about it,or watch it at 3:00am. It just doesn't cut the cake......at all....in any way. F*ck this movie and watch All Anal 7: Real Deep Cover. You'd have a better time. I'm sure.