
Blessed with Venom
John Wayne Parr, the Australian Muay Thai fighter known as "The Gunslinger," narrates his own career from training camp to championship ring. The film follows him back to Loomingkwan camp in Nonthaburi, Thailand, where he learned the sport, and includes rare access inside Bangkok's Lumpinee stadium before its official reopening. Old fight footage pulled from Thai broadcasts, the Contender reality series, and Australian bouts sits alongside sit-down interviews with fighters including Yodsanklai, Lamsongkan, Saenchai, and Songchai, who talk through specific fights and what it took to win or lose them. There's no outside narrator framing the story; it runs as Parr's own account of two decades spent fighting in a sport that started as a foreign import and became his career. The film had a brief two-week theatrical run in Australian cinemas before its wider release. It stays close to the gym and the ring rather than widening into Muay Thai's broader cultural history, treating Parr's personal record as the through-line.