Blood Red Sky is a pretty interesting horror action film directed by Peter Thorwarth, who also cowrote the script alongside Stefan Holtz. It concerns a mother who is soon revealed to be a vampire on her way to America for treatment. The flight gets interrupted when the flight is hijacked, and the mother is unable to control her unnatural urges.
The cast includes Peri Baumeister, Alexander Scheer, Kais Setti, and Dominic Purcell.
Baumeister plays a widow who appears to have leukemia; however, her affliction is even less common and more horrifying. She and her son board a plane where she is going to a treatment facility that could apparently treat her bloodthirsty condition. Her hopes get derailed when the plane gets hijacked. Her curse may be the only weapon she has to protect her son and other passengers.
This is one of the better horror films I have seen recently. It is from a German production company, so that is kind of interesting. Purcell was only cast member I recognized from the television series Prison Break.
Anyway, the visual effects were pretty good. The transformation that Baumeister undergoes was quite impressive.
It’s a pretty gruesome piece of work, but there seemed to be some restraint exercised.
Scheer also deserves a specific shout-out for his performance as one of the hijackers known as Eightball. He seemed to get into his role and was genuinely disturbing.
There are moments between the mother and child that are quite heartbreaking and well-performed. The young actor, Carl Koch, gets a little too shrill at times, but he does a pretty good job overall.
It’s a strange, chaotic script, but it turned out to be a pretty compelling and suspenseful film. If one enjoys vampires mixed with hijacked airplanes, this is a film to not ignore.
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