High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Vampire Assassin is a 2005 direct-to-dvd film directed, written by, and starring martial artist Ron Hall.When protagonist Derek Washington (Hall) was just a child, he witnessed his father's murder. Because of this, he became very afraid of blood. However, when a sting operation to find a counterfeiter named Gustoff Slovak (Mel Novak) goes wrong, Derek is forced to face his fear: blood.