Movie review: Blood Red Sky

Her transatlantic flight hijacked by terrorists, a mother with a strange illness springs into action to protect her son, exposing her true self in the process and potentially endangering all of humanity.

Peri Baumeister (Nadja), Carl Koch (Elias), Alexander Scheer (Eightball), Kais Setti (Farid), Dominic Purcell (Berg), Graham McTavish (Drummond), Kai Baulitz (Buchner), Roland Moller (Karl), Chici Ajufo (Curtiz).

Blood Red Sky begins at the end before rolling to a flashback and starting over. Here the story jumps right to Nadja to try and give us a sense of her mysterious illness. From there, the hijacking plot takes over for a while before the two are combined into a vampire horror flick with an airplane twist. The film winds back around to what we thought was the ending, adds a twist, and finishes fairly well.

Acting was interesting. Baumeister was completely unlikeable at first, but got much better. Koch was pretty good and brought good depth to the story. Setti was okay, while Purcell was type-cast nicely once again and delivered his usual. McTavish, Baulitz, and the remainder of the cast were decent.

Camera work, sets, and backgrounds felt realistic other than some wide open spaces on the airplane. Effects were handled nicely and fit well. Dialogue was okay with reasonable depth. Sound and soundtrack are fairly lethargic.

In the end, Blood Red Sky sticking vampires on an airplane to create a horror flick is an interesting and fairly unique approach which was managed well. Horror fans, vampire fans, and even plane disaster fans should enjoy this one at least somewhat.

With a fair amount of blood, gore, violence, disturbing images, foul language, some more blood and violence, save this one for older teens and above.

Released: 2021
Reviewed: 8.24.21
Star rating: 3 out of 5
Genre: Horror, Vampires, Action, Thriller, German

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