![]() ![]() But de-powering Nadja means she loses her sense of threat within moments of her introduction, as the hijackers instantly assume she’s a vampire and therefore susceptible to UV light. Thorwarth and co-writer Stefan Holtz were aware that putting a vampire in the midst of a hijacking comes with problems, as you don’t want that character to be too much for anyone to cope with. It’s also a slight problem that, frankly, Nadja’s vampiric form (bald, fanged) evokes one of Roald Dahl’s witches more than a frightening modern-day Nosferatu. It’s a competently made example for a lower-budget movie, but the welcome injection of supernatural horror doesn’t elevate things further. (There were no other suspects, to be fair, even if the one-sheet poster makes you think Nadja and the vampire will be separate characters.) The rest of Blood Red Sky is a fairly generic action movie in the tradition of Passenger 57 (1992)-which starred Blade!-or Non-Stop (2014). It’s perhaps a mild spoiler to read further, but Nadja is apparently shot and killed by a hijacker called ‘Eightball’ (Alexander Scheer) while trying to find a safe place to hide with her boy… only for us to realise she’s the vampire. Their plot involves faking the circumstances of what happened, by forcing a passenger of Middle Eastern descent, Farid (Kais Setti), to record a statement making it appear the plane was hijacked by terrorists preparing for a suicide attack. Unfortunately, their plane is hijacked by a group of men mid-flight, and everyone ordered to stay quiet until a ransom is paid. That’s right, it’s Die Hard-meets- From Dusk till Dawn-or ‘Stakes on a Plane’?-although the film swirling around in your imagination exceeds anything director Peter Thorwarth puts together.Ī widow called Nadja (Peri Baumeister) is travelling to the US with her precocious young son, Elias (Carl Anton Koch), in the hope of receiving life-saving treatment for her leukaemia. But it’s more the concept that sells this and makes you click ‘play’, as it concerns a plane hijacking where the criminals get more than they bargained for because one of the passengers is a vampire. Blood Red Sky is a German production (with a lot of English language to make it more accessible overseas), plus two familiar faces in actors Graham McTavish ( Outlander) and Dominic Purcell ( Prison Break). ![]() Netflix keep distributing high-concept movies with enough of a hook to draw you in, and I keep falling for it. ![]()
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