Well, God of Vampires was a nifty change of pace. It's an American movie with a mostly Asian American cast, with the vampires taken not from Central European folklore, but Chinese Mythology.
Frank Ng, played by Dharma Lim, is an assassin. Olympic level killer, taking down a warehouse full of drug runners in the precredits sequence, while talking to his brother's school about the boy's truancy. Killer with a heart of gold.
He take's an assignment that goes horribly wrong- the target turns out to be a Chinese vampire and in revenge for the attempt, the vampire goes after anyone Frank is in contact with- his informer, his agent, and his brother among them.
Carnage ensues.
God Of Vampires is pretty good- it's totally a low budget indie film, but it rises above the direct to video ghetto with passible acting, a good script, and pretty good direction.
While trying to find a poster for it- I snagged this image from Amazon- I encountered the backstory for the movie here, apparently it took them six years to finish the it... and you know what? It shows. Not the lag time in production, but the passion that cast and crew brought to the project. This is what keeps it from being just another vampire movie.
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