One of the most intriguing aspects of the film is how it combines familiar elements from different types of genre fare into something cohesive and compelling. She is desperate to get to New York to find a cure for her condition, and she works hard to keep her vampiric urges under control…until a group of hijackers take over the plane.įrom here, Blood Red Sky turns into a work of action horror that keeps the viewers on their toes and weaves in previously established character work in satisfying ways.
They are flying to New York to meet a doctor who can cure what Elias calls Nadja’s “bad blood.” Even if you managed to avoid the fang-heavy trailer, it becomes clear very early on that Nadja’s illness is vampirism: she stays indoors until the sun goes down and drinks blood as medicine. He’s not talking, though, and the viewer is left to piece together the supposed terrorist attack that the military is trying to prevent.Īs Elias gazes off in shock during his interview, the film picks up the narrative from the moment when he and his mother, Nadja (Peri Baumeister), first arrive at the airport in Germany. After this puzzling pronouncement, the little boy, Elias (Carl Anton Koch), is interviewed to try to determine what really happened on the flight. The man in the cockpit, Farid (Kais Setti), tells Colonel Drummond (Graham McTavish) that he needs to get off the plane safely and then blow it up. A little boy scampers off the plane as soon as it lands, but the military personnel keep everyone else onboard. A commercial jet makes an emergency landing at a Scottish military base. It may draw from obvious influences, but it is its own movie, standing alone as a suspenseful, moving, and surprising film from start to finish.īlood Red Sky, written by Stefan Holtz and Peter Thorwarth (who also directed), opens on a tense scene that adds a layer of sickening dread to the entire rest of the film. However, proving why I hate doing those comparisons, that description doesn’t really do justice to Blood Red Sky. When Netflix dropped the trailer for their newest horror thriller Blood Red Sky, genre fans were justifiably excited by the prospect of “Vamps on a Plane.” I’m not a big fan of reviewing a film by comparing it to other films, but with so much going on in Blood Red Sky, it’s hard not to describe it as a mash-up of Die Hard and 30 Days of Night with touches of The Thing and, yes, Snakes on a Plane.
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