Not only must she fight to save herself, and her son, she’s also battling with her own morality to protect the passengers on the plane. This conflict of Nadja’s choices drives the plot forward and adds that begrudging acceptance of the darkness she’s been fighting against for years. Her young son Elias serves as her moral compass and Koch does a great job partnering with Baumeister. With Nadja’s back up against the wall, she’s forced into an impossible situation.īaumeister does a fantastic job of conveying physical pain that visually borders between a look of constant nausea, and writhing with uncontrollable hunger. With the introduction of the plane being hijacked by terrorists, you feel a sense of empathy for this antihero. This Hail Mary option is portrayed as a long time coming if she can just resist her urges through the flight from Germany to New York. Now, an American doctor is offering a potential cure. That tension is wholly felt through the character of Nadja, a woman who’s been battling her urges as a Vampire since she was first turned when her son was just a baby. The film does conjure up similar parallels in tension and suspense of Into The Night (a post-apocalyptic series from Belgium) given both plot locations are set primarily aboard a plane in mid-flight. Netflix has had some BRILLIANT international films and series as of late, with Blood Red Sky attempting to follow in the footsteps of some of its predecessors. The plan is simple, but the execution is rarely ever that smooth and chaos ensues. In a desperate act to protect her son, and get the plane back on track, Nadja must give in to her baser Vampire instincts and eliminate the threats. Now, imagine being on a plane with not only a Vampire, but terrorists also, and you have your plot for Blood Red Sky. The German-made Netflix original movie is directed by Peter Thorwarth, starring Peri Baumeister (Nadja), Carl Anton Koch (Elias), Kais Setti (Farid), Dominic Purcell (Berg), Alexander Scheer (Eightball), Chidi Ajufo (Curtiz Hightower), Roland Møller (Karl), and Kai Ivo Baulitz (Bastian Buchner).īlood Red Sky details the journey of a mother and her son as they attempt to fly to New York in search of a cure for her Vampirism. Airplanes are quite frightening when you step back and think about them-machines capable of defying gravity, all while ferrying passengers in a cramped hull to locations that are thousands of miles apart.
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