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Vampire films have been a constant presence since pretty much the birth of the medium, sometimes in wildly different forms; from Murnau's Nosferatu to Catherine Hardwicke's Twilight, with stuff like Let the Right One In or Lost Boys in between. Vampires have been shown as elegant or macabre, cultured or ground-dwelling, good or bad, or sometimes in between.
Netflix's Blood Red Sky offers a slightly different approach to vampire films. It follows Nadja (Peri Baumeister), a woman that is traveling with her son Elias (Carl Anton Koch) from Europe to New York, to receive treatment for an unspecified illness. However, during the trip, they have to face two opposing forces with a group of terrorists seizing control of the plane one one side, and the threat of a vampire on the other.
It's not that the film is wildly original, but compared to other vampire films, it feels like a bit of a fresh approach in various aspects. From the threat in an enclosed space to the "twist" of who ends up becoming a vampire. The film takes a tired premise and reinvigorates it in a film that ends up being fairly thrilling, tense, and overall enjoyable.
Most of the actors are not known, with the exception of Dominic Purcell (Prison Break), who plays the lead terrorist, and maybe Graham McTavish (The Hobbit trilogy) who plays a British officer who oversees the landing of the plane in the bookends of the film. Regardless, most of the performances are pretty solid, with the flashier role probably going to Alexander Scheer, who plays a sociopathic terrorist who becomes the main antagonist.
I think the film could've easily been 20 or 30 minutes shorter. As it is, you can feel a bit of strain in trying to stretch things. But despite that, I thought it was very energetic and entertaining, and I wouldn't mind recommending it to any fan of the genre. Let this "evil" spread.
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BLOOD RED SKY
(2021, Thorwarth)
A film about a virus
(2021, Thorwarth)
A film about a virus
"We are cursed. We cannot allow this evil to keep spreading. This evil cannot keep spreading!"
Vampire films have been a constant presence since pretty much the birth of the medium, sometimes in wildly different forms; from Murnau's Nosferatu to Catherine Hardwicke's Twilight, with stuff like Let the Right One In or Lost Boys in between. Vampires have been shown as elegant or macabre, cultured or ground-dwelling, good or bad, or sometimes in between.
Netflix's Blood Red Sky offers a slightly different approach to vampire films. It follows Nadja (Peri Baumeister), a woman that is traveling with her son Elias (Carl Anton Koch) from Europe to New York, to receive treatment for an unspecified illness. However, during the trip, they have to face two opposing forces with a group of terrorists seizing control of the plane one one side, and the threat of a vampire on the other.
It's not that the film is wildly original, but compared to other vampire films, it feels like a bit of a fresh approach in various aspects. From the threat in an enclosed space to the "twist" of who ends up becoming a vampire. The film takes a tired premise and reinvigorates it in a film that ends up being fairly thrilling, tense, and overall enjoyable.
Most of the actors are not known, with the exception of Dominic Purcell (Prison Break), who plays the lead terrorist, and maybe Graham McTavish (The Hobbit trilogy) who plays a British officer who oversees the landing of the plane in the bookends of the film. Regardless, most of the performances are pretty solid, with the flashier role probably going to Alexander Scheer, who plays a sociopathic terrorist who becomes the main antagonist.
I think the film could've easily been 20 or 30 minutes shorter. As it is, you can feel a bit of strain in trying to stretch things. But despite that, I thought it was very energetic and entertaining, and I wouldn't mind recommending it to any fan of the genre. Let this "evil" spread.
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