Blood Red Sky

MOVIE #1,129 • 🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿 • 08.29.23 And so we close out “Sky” September TWO FOR TUESDAYS with a German Netflix-core action vampire horror plane movie Blood Red Sky! If you were ever wondering what an Asylum movie would look like with a bigger budget, than this one’s for you folks. (And that’s mostly a compliment! s/o Flight 666) Also — and this is really neither here nor there — I felt like the movie poster gives too much away, though that was probably a Netflix thumbnail algorithm decision accident more than anything.

I don’t really have a ton to say about this. The plot is ridiculous but mostly fun (a ‘good’ vampire/mom needs to stop a bunch of capitalist terrorists from killing everyone because they want to get rich off shorting the stock market (!)/unleashing the vampire plague onto the world). It’s probably thirty minutes too long. It plays fast and loose with the rules of vampire lore as well as flight dynamics, though I’m hardly an expert on either. The vamps are more like 28 Days Later style zombs which was an interesting wrinkle, as is the aforementioned non-jihad terrorism angle (which feels like a plot for its own movie and not the minor detail that it is here). It’s totally fine.

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Blood Red Sky (also known as Transatlantic 473) is a 2021 British-German action horror thriller vampire film directed by Peter Thorwarth, who co-wrote the screenplay with Stefan Holtz. The film stars Peri Baumeister, Roland Møller, Chidi Ajufo, and Alexander Scheer. It was released on July 23, 2021.