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Dascha DauenhauerCast:
Peri Baumeister, Roland Møller, Dominic Purcell, Alexander Scheer, Graham McTavish, Rebecca Dyson-Smith, Leonie Brill, Gordon Brown, Kai Ivo Baulitz (more)VOD (1)
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Flying with her young son, a mysteriously ill woman is forced to unleash a dark secret when terrorists attempt to hijack their transatlantic flight. (Netflix)
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There have been few vampire genre movies lately, and I honestly can’t recall many titles from recent years. Blood Red Sky offers an interestingly developed plot. Personally, I would have enjoyed the film much more if I hadn’t spoiled the main twist from the trailers; I quietly envy those who haven’t. The first half was pretty good for me; the claustrophobic atmosphere in the plane had its genuine charm, the masks were great, and the fantastic music enhanced the experience. But the second half gradually started to falter, with the script not holding up as well as in the first part. The characters’ behavior was quite illogical, and the little loudmouthed kid drove me crazy. It was nice that the film tried to minimize digital effects; in this respect, thumbs up. It’s an ideal watch to fill a free afternoon. For me, it’s 6/10.
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Great work by the makeup artists, the lead actress with her sheer physicality tries her best, and you can never have enough claustrophobic thrillers inside planes, and I also found the storyline of how she came to her vampirism compelling. The problem is that from the “barbecue in the car” scene onwards, it gets dangerously close to full B-movie, where logic takes a holiday, with a horribly overacting main villain who mistakenly thought that the more he screamed, jerked his head like a pigeon and shouted, the more horrible he would be. Mistake. But he wasn't up to the nasty little brat, who was as likable as a freshly attached tick and had about as much acting talent as Okamura and Babiš.
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Blood Red Sky initially felt like the writers had run out of ideas and just threw together a plane hijacking with some pseudo-terrorists who happen to cross paths with a vampire. The saving grace here is that the movie manages to maintain tension and, surprisingly, it’s both entertaining and fairly well-executed.
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A decent German vampire movie from Netflix. Personally, I was expecting something better, but since the vampire movies of the last few years have been going more in the art direction, it would be unfair to shoot this one down with an average rating, even though I'm closer to 3 stars after watching it. On the plus side, it has an attractive airplane setting from which there is no escape, and the cramped atmosphere works well. The make-up effects are good, it has decent technical aspects, a fine pacing, and I like the idea of combining the hijacking of the plane by terrorists with vampires, that's quite original. The downside for me is the running time of two hours, 90 minutes would have been more than enough for a film of this calibre (which is also affected by the slower start). The gore, unfortunately, is almost missing (you don’t see any guts, limbs or severed heads), and there’s not enough blood for my taste (it's not even close to Army of the Dead), but I'll turn a blind eye, I wasn't bored. The film deserves the genre four stars from the absence of decent vampire movies at least in the last five years. Story 3/5, Action 4/5, Humor 0/5, Violence 3/5, Fun 4/5 Music 4/5, Visuals 4/5, Atmosphere 4/5, Suspense 3/5. 7/10.
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From the premise "terrorists and vampires on a plane" I was expecting crap, but Blood Red Sky was surprisingly good. Sure, it's bollocks at its core, but bollocks that’s fun, well shot, and that builds up into a surprisingly large-scale and intense massacre. This is how Snyder's Army of the Dead should have turned out. It could have had a few minutes less, there's really no reason for a B movie of this type to be almost two hours long, but never mind. For the inveterate complainers, I don't understand why they keep watching these movies at all.
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