User Reviews

A passenger flight soon becomes a nightmare, a planned hijack, and something rather nasty sitting in one of the seats.

I wasn't expecting much, however it turned out to be a thoroughly enjoyable watch, partly thriller, partly horror, it's mildly gory, but not over the top. It gathers pace as it progresses, and will probably have a few surprises in store.

The Vampire genre seems to have been finished for some time, this definitely managed to breathe some new life into it. The mix of English and German worked very well also.

Peri Baumeister does a great job as Nadja, Alexander Scheer was good fun as the outrageous Eightball.

Not perfect, but on the whole it's a very good film, 7/10.

Like Non Stop with Leam Neeson, but with a 30 Days of Night like vampire heroin. Good atmosphere, photography, FX and gore. One of the better by Netflix movies and fun summer horror action. I enjoyed it!

No fault of the young actor playing the son. It is the fact every decision he made from playing with a ball in the airport to running into a cul-de-sac resulting in his mother getting shot was excruciatingly hard to accept that one could dislike a young character so much that you felt you wanted to stop watching but I admit I persevered and finished watching the film. God! The son was a nuisance to me throughout the film.

First there were snakes on a plane, then there were zombies on a plane, and now there are vampires on a flight. Doesn't they screen what passes through the gates at all?

I sat down to watch the 2021 movie "Blood Red Sky" as I stumbled upon it on Netflix, and I must admit that it sounded interesting and the movie's cover/poster definitely helped win me over.

And I will say that writers Stefan Holtz and Peter Thorwarth definitely managed to write an entertaining enough story.

While it started out fairly slow, it was a great setup, because the writers were excellent at setting the scene and carving out the characters, getting the audience to know the characters and have a connection with them. And then slow, feeding the audience tiny bits of what was going on and going to happen. So there wasn't a dull moment throughout the course of the movie.

The movie definitely has a good ensemble of actors and actresses to portray the various roles and characters in the movie. I am not familiar with actress Peri Baumeister, but she really performed quite well in this movie. Now, I am not a fan of actor Dominic Purcell in any way, but he seemed rather out of place in this movie, especially in comparison to all other actors around him. And I feel it was a shame that actor Graham McTavish wasn't given a larger role to play, because he could definitely had added a lot more to the movie.

Visually then "Blood Red Sky" is quite impressive. I especially liked the design of the vampires, and how they became more and more bestial as they lost more and more touch with their humanity. That was just phenomenal. And the special effects team definitely worked their craft well here.

"Blood Red Sky" turned out to be rather entertaining. And I am rating it a six out of ten stars. If you enjoy action-packed vampire movies, then you should give "Blood Red Sky" a chance.

The tag line for the movie states - 'A woman with a mysterious illness is forced into action when a group of terrorists attempt to hijack a transatlantic overnight flight'. A mysterious illness? Really? She's a vampire!! I wasn't quite expecting that from a picture that starts out with a terrorist airplane hijacking and at a certain point turns into a vampire flick. Not that I minded all that much, but it was definitely a strange transition. The woman (Peri Baumeister), traveling with her son Elias (Carl Anton Koch), turns out to be a 'good' vampire, meaning she has empathy for her fellow passengers and takes it to the bad guys on Transatlantic flight #473 from Rome to New York, who have in mind a withering suicide mission on the city. All of that gets waylaid as Najda's (Maumeister) first victim turns vampire after getting bitten, thereby starting a chain reaction eventually resulting in a plane load of rampaging ghouls.

There were a few odd departures from your usual vampire lore in this one. For example, when Nadja's first victim starts to turn, she manages to kill him with a knife to the heart instead of your traditional wooden stake. In another scene, she looks in a mirror to study her face, and she does see the reflection, which to my mind has always been a no-no. But this is not your father's vampire move.

The finale too, dispenses with one's expectations, as Elias, realizing that vampire mania is about to descend on mankind, escapes from authorities after being allowed to disembark from the plane. He's got the kill switch so to speak, a cell phone rigged to blow up the plane with mom aboard. I'd have to say it was pretty noble of the kid, seeing as how he made himself an orphan at the push of a button.

This movie is about thirty minutes too long. It gets to the point where you are just like, hurry up and end already. You definitely have to suspend a lot of disbelief with this one (vampires aside) but overall it's definitely action packed entertainment.

So Blood Red Sky, an intriguing movie after so long based on vampires. BRS is when Snakes on a Plane meets 30 Days of Nights. It's Hijackers vs Vampires vs Passengers vs The Kid, except it only sounds good, but the execution? Oh man, it's just awful. It's definitely an opportunity missed and I was wondering if someone else could just take this project and do it right. Trust me, this movie starts out well, but just goes haywire once the mother twist is revealed. The mother vampire goes all out to protect her sun from the hijackers except its the son who turns out to be the biggest illogical twist of them all. He's practically a human superhero who ends up saving everyone. The bravest and the smartest of 'em all turns out to be kid putting everyone else to shame. Somehow he always ends up doing the right thing at the right time and it just gets irritating. I couldn't understand the physics behind some of the actions. The airlock is open and the enemy is pulled out due to the air pressure, but the kid and his mom aren't. Wow. The vampire mother is walking around passengers bleeding, but she doesn't crave for their blood. This was one of the most flawed representations of a vampire. Although, the concept is good, but they could have easily pulled it off creatively. Poor script, poor screenplay and pathetic climax. The kid ends up ruining the entire experience. I wouldn't be surprised, if he grows up to be Blade because he's already half superhero.

An actual decent film from Netflix 👏🏼

An air hostage film mixed with a vampire sounds like a B movie🤔 but it's far from it

This is proper suspense and action and the mix of German and English language just adds to the suspense

The main character has a lot of sadness to her and played really well

Dominic Purcell is as good as always

Enjoy a proper film, no fuss, good story and a fair few scares and action.

Where do I begin with this movie....it had a lot of potential. I liked the direction it was going with the mother trying to keep her humanity and protect her son / the passengers on the plane while ensuring that the vampirism did not spread. But the characters just kept making stupid decisions after stupid decisions that went against any common sense just to suit the direction that the movie writers wanted the story to go to the point that it became painful to watch.

Firing a gun on a plane...lighting a fire in a car on a plane... shooting a hole in a window on a plane,(granted it was an accident but then it just magically stopped being a problem after losing cabin pressure), purposely shooting yourself up with vampire blood, asking evil vampires to bite you because you're a greedy rich person who doesn't want to die.

Also the random passenger who towards the end of the movie decided to stands up and says he was in the army and knows how to help the group defend themselves, yet at the start of the movie, was absolutely no where to be seen when the terrorists first took over. And the angry husband who's wife is trampled to death and who then managed to grab the gun off the army expert so he can exact revenge... what kind of soldier let's that happen.

Also what sane woman with a baby in her arms would enter a house and follow a massive blood trail down to a basement? Just very lazy story writing to point the story in the direction that the writers wanted it to go without incorporating any common sense, you literally have to watch this movie with your brain completely switched off.

On top of this, it was also ruined with just the stereotypical predictable characters, the rich guy who doesn't care about anyone else who you can predict will screw other people over to save himself, and the psycho idiot who will be drawn to power and who you know will want to become a vampire. And the son... the movie might have been more enjoyable if he had spoken and done way less.

Ignoring the fact that he was able to use a gun when it was probably the first time he had ever picked one up, I couldn't forgive the fact that he hesitates to shoot a terrorist who is about to kill his mother, despite her being a vampire which would make you assume that the son is mentally a lot tougher for his age having seen some messed up things because of her.

Finally, how can you handcuff someone who's missing a hand... The mother and her story was actually a very interesting take on vampires that I had never seen before, but all of the above ruined the story for me, I'd never watch it again.

Dominic Purcell was also wasted in this movie too, I'd have liked to have seen him with a more significant role.