Blood Red Sky – ABC Film Challenge – Horror – B – Movie Review
Director: Peter Thorwarth
Writer: Peter Thorwarth (Screenplay)
Cast
- Peri Baumeister (The Saboteurs)
- Carl Anton Koch
- Alexander Scheer (Blood & Gold)
- Dominic Purcell (Blade Trinity)
- Graham McTavish (Rambo)
Plot: A woman with a mysterious illness is forced into action when a group of terrorists attempt to hijack a transatlantic overnight flight.
Runtime: 2 Hours 1 Minute
There may be spoilers in the rest of the review
Story: Blood Red Sky starts when a hijacked plane lands in Scotland. A young boy Elias (Koch) manages to escape where Col Drummond (McTavish) leads an investigation before boarding the plane.
Flashback to the original flight, we meet Elias’s mother Nadja (Baumeister) as we see the plane hijacked by Berg (Purcell) and his men. This sees them shoot Nadja unwittingly setting off a darker side to her personality. It has now become a battle for survival for passengers and hijackers alike.
Verdict on Blood Red Sky
Blood Red Sky is a horror thriller following an international flight that gets hijacked, only for that not to become the bigger threat. As one of the passengers has their own secret that gets revealed, leading to everything on board to be put in a fight for life.
This is a big bloody horror movie that could easily be compared to ‘Flight of the Living Dead’. Let’s face it is just vampires on a plane. However, by having the human hijackers cause everything to unfold, it adds an element of confusion to everything going on. There could have been an extreme little twist involved that does get avoided but, in the end, we get a fun big action horror movie. One that is filled with chaos from start to finish.
Final Thoughts – Blood Red Sky is a big blood-soaked vampire movie.