Every little detour the story takes is worth it (from a character perspective) but it bloats the overall film and adds unnecessary breaks in the momentum of the story. There are 1.5 movies in this movie! Every element is good.
BLOOD RED SKY VAMPIRE MOVIE
That goes to show that Thorwarth & Holtz put a lot of thought into their script, constantly looking to serve you one high-stakes moment after another but, sadly, it’s too much of a good thing.įor a movie with as simple a setup as “terrorists on plane must fight vampire on plane”, there’s just too much movie here. On top of that, the movie really squeezes its setting dry of all possible setpieces. Thrown in the mix, however, are flashbacks explaining Nadja‘s vampiric origins, infighting among the terrorists, and “hostage negotiations” at the local airport where the plane landed in the opening of the film.
When everything else is stripped away and the movie messes around inside that limited sandbox, it’s entertainment at 20,000 feet.
It’s really cooking when it narrows in on its three basic elements: Hijacked Plane, Ruthless Terrorists, and Vampire Mom. When the chips are down and Nadja is left with no other choice, she comes out vangs blazing, ripping and gulping her way through the plane like a lion set loose on an all-you-can-drink buffet of bad guy blood.īlood Red Sky is at it’s best when it embraces the B-Movie at its core. That isn’t to say that the movie is without its vampiric fun. No one barrelling along at 100mph wants to slow down to take in the scenery, they want to burn gas, haul ass, and leave the bad guys choking on their dust. Those detours are informative and flesh out her character but they’re a lot like installing roadblocks on a freeway. Sprinkled in there are little detours into the past where Nadja (the mysterious vampire passenger, played by Peri Baumeister) was turned into a vampire herself, and changed forever. Surprise! She’s a blood-sucking creature of the night 🦇 What’s a criminal gang without a psychotic loose cannon, right? Despite Eightball really harshing the buzz of his fellow murders, the hijacking is going surprisingly well…until a innocent (and mysteriously ill) passenger begins tearing open the throats of the hijackers. Among them are a handful of musclebound baddies and the unpredictably sadistic Eightball, played by Alexander Scheer. Last night, a group of mercenaries hijacked an overnight flight from Frankfurt to New York. The crew led by Berg (Dominic Purcell) are clearly experts and they quickly take control of the plane. “ comes out vangs blazing, ripping and gulping her way through the plane like a lion set loose on an all-you-can-drink buffet of bad guy blood.” Of course, things are not what they seem… To the authorities surrounding the plane, the situation is simple: The Muslim man piloting the plane hijacked it midair and is currently holding the passengers hostage for some undetermined reason. In the present day, a plane makes an emergency landing after a distress signal alerts the airfield to an ongoing terrorist attack. Directed by Peter Thorwarth ( Der letzte Bulle), from a screenplay co-written with Stefan Holtz ( Kiss Me Kismet), this “ Die Hard on a plane but with a vampire” stars Peri Baumeister ( Unsere Zeit ist jetzt), Dominic Purcell ( Blade: Trinity), Alexander Scheer ( Gundermann), and Kais Setti ( Dogs of Berlin).
A simple plane hijacking goes awry for a group of money-hungry baddies in Blood Red Sky when they realize they are trapped on board with a real-life vampire.
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