I’m not really motivated to watch a real kung fu movie right now, so I’ll go with Vampires: The Turning. It’s set in Thailand, and features a fair amount of muay thai, and some kung fu at the end.

Connor (Colin Egglesfield) and Amanda are an American couple vacationing in Thailand. They have a fight, and Amanda stalks off. She’s kidnapped by Niran (Dom Hetrakul), a vampire who leads a biker gang. Connor sees Amanda being driven off, but is stopped from chasing her by another vampire. He fights back, but his Muay Thai skills are no match for the undead. He’s saved by Kiko (Roger Yuan), who walks around the streets of whichever Thai city this is carrying a big sword.

Later Connor follows Kiko back to his headquarters, where he finds out that Kiko is a member of a good vampire gang. This gang is headed by Sang (Stephanie Chao), who 800 years ago started the “curse” by biting Niran in a fit of righteous curse. Now she wants to expose herself to sunlight at the end of an eclipse to end the curse, and she’s made an alliance with a group of vampire slayers to help her. (These slayers are the one connection the movie has to John Carpenter’s Vampires, to which this is a putative sequel.)

This movie was shot in the most boring parts of Thailand. I’ve seen some interesting movies shot in Thailand recently, but there were times I thought this might have been shot in California. Only humorous misspellings on the English signs dissuaded me. (“Sighteeing,” for example.) The only really unique element is the idea that Sang can end “the curse,” but I’m not sure what the curse was. They say she was a vampire that didn’t drink human blood, then she turned Niran during an eclipse, and he and his spawn bit a bunch of other people. Okay, so? Some of those people who turned were bad, but some of them seemed to be good too. Kiko, for example. Where is the curse that started with the eclipse? I really didn’t get that.