Germany, United States · 2021
2h 1m
Director Peter Thorwarth
Starring Peri Baumeister, Carl Anton Koch, Kais Setti, Alexander Scheer
Genre Action, Horror, Thriller
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A group of terrorists hijack the overnight transatlantic flight that Nadja, a mysterious German widow, and her son are taking to the United States. But what the terrorists don’t know is that Nadja is hiding a monstrous condition, and will do anything to protect her son—they’ve locked themselves in a plane with a nightmare.
RogerEbert.com by Brian Tallerico
From the “how do you mess that up” school of filmmaking, Blood Red Sky takes a phenomenal concept that mixes genre hits like From Dusk Till Dawn, Snakes on a Plane, and Train to Busan and just blows it on poorly choreographed action, momentum-draining flashbacks, and an interminable runtime.
What could’ve been a fun chimera that someone Frankensteined together from two wildly different films instead becomes a low-flying slog that fails to sew its mismatched parts into a monster with a personality of its own.
Blood Red Sky could lose a few minutes, but overall, it's a ferocious and fun merging of vampires and hijackers.
There’s an efficiency that settles in and manifests itself through the problems and the problem solving. The viewer is in on it, because we “get” the genre conventions they’re playing around with, we know why X, Y or Z as a counter-measure will work.
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