Blood Red Sky-- My take on the movie with spoilers!

 

PLOT SUMMARY: A woman is travelling with her son on a plane when it gets hijacked. Unknown to the terrorists, the woman has an ailment that may just take them all down.

Think about travelling and you will automatically start stressing about the preparations that need to be made rather than the destination you are headed to.

The questions that pop into your mind are usually about whether the flight timings will be convenient, will try flight even be on time? Is the luggage the right weight allowed on board?

There are plenty of other stressful questions to ask and it doesn't help that there are movies out there that focus on hijacking, reptiles on a plane and even supernatural entities taking over planes.

Well, here's a brand new horror to consider when you are travelling by air...vampires!

Blood Red Sky is a thrilling movie all the way and keeps the interest going until the very last scene.

The movie begins with a boy being taken from an alleged hijacked plane and being questioned as he receives medical care.

The military is called and the colonel speaks to a man sitting on the pilot's seat of the plane that has landed. The man's name is Farid and so the colonel is certain that this man is the hijacker.

The boy thinks of the past events that led to this present and we see him travelling with his mother Nadja to New York for her treatment.

Nadja has her doctor on video call who shows her the facilities and assures her she is going to recover. We are made to believe she has leukaemia.

At the airport, she excuses herself and goes to the bathroom to inject herself while her son Elias struggles with the luggage. Farid comes to his rescue and the two form a quick friendship.

Nadja injects herself and gets uneasy and practically struggles to walk out to search for her son.

They eventually board the plane and we see the air hostess gossiping and flirting with the pilots. The new recruit is a male steward who flirts with the pilots too. We meet a passenger who is too interested in stocks and watching the backs of stewardesses.

The plane takes off and after just a few minutes, the hijackers put their plan in motion. The pilot and the new steward are involved too.

They quickly dispose of the three air marshals which are just as disturbing to watch. It's just too easy to for the hijackers as they hold one at gunpoint to ask for the identity of the others.

The steward, whose name is Eightball, comes out all bloodied and waving a gun like a maniac prompting the other passengers to freak out.

The hijacking is announced and so is the plan to not travel to New York. Nadja grows immensely nervous and when Eightball comes near her, she starts sniffing his shirt hungrily.

This is a major hint at where this movie is going and what Nadja truly is. Elias is getting nervous too, watching his mother and plans to hide in the cargo hold. Nadja tells her son to stay put and not piss off the hijackers but of course, Elias thinks he knows better and makes a run for the hold while the hijackers are distracted.

Nadja follows him and tries to protect her son from the hijackers who are alerted by the passengers trying to make an obvious getaway.

Eightball comes over and immediately shoots Nadja as she mumbled excuses.

Now Nadja is on the poster of the movie so we know nothing is happening to her. In a flashback, we witness Nadja travelling with her husband and newborn on a snowy winter night when their car breaks down. Her husband goes to get help and when he doesn't return after a long time, Nadja takes the same route all the way to a house where she finds her husband dead in a basement with his blood sucked out. Another man attacks her and as she tries to close the door on him, he bites her hand. The man eventually perishes when the sun rises but the damage is done.

We see Nadja wake up and understand she was bitten by a vampire and is now one herself. The treatment she was going for involved getting all her vampire blood out and being given fresh blood.

She peeks through the curtain, sees the hijacking is still in full effect. She escapes into the cargo hold and sees the dogs in cages. Those poor dogs were someone's pets and now they're going to be a vampire's meal. Nadja sees the two dogs and feeds on the smallest dog first. She does away with her hair and dentures and as she's feeding, she's found out by a hijacker and has no choice but to kill him and drink his blood. This makes her eyes nice and purple and her fangs sharper. She's turned into a proper vampire.

She now wants to find her son and also feed on more hijackers. Elias is sad and nervous but he isn't as distraught. No doubt he believes his mother is alive.

Farid feels bad for Elias but before he can talk to him, he's whisked away by the hijackers who want him to send a message in Arabic. Farid is disgusted to know the hijackers' plan and shocked as the other passengers who speak Arabic are killed in front of him.

He is taken back to the seats and he takes his place with Elias. The hijackers place bombs around the plane and suit up so they can parachute out.

Nadja makes an appearance and Elias is happy to see her and Farid is shocked. She takes Elias and goes into the cockpit.

At the cargo hold, Eightball sees the dead dog and the other dog whom Nadja has left to take the blame. They see the other hijacker dead and suspect something else has happened.

Nadja and Farid ask the other passengers if they know anyone can fly the plane. Of course, there is. He's an engineer and he helps Nadja divert the plane back to New York.

The passenger obsessed with the stock exchange gets pinned by a food trolley. Is there a doctor on the plane? Of course, there is.

This plane is full of people with specialities.

The hijackers sense something is up and head upstairs to see Nadja alive and well and turn the tables on them. She's become the hijacker now.

The leader of the hijackers tells Nadja to open the door. She doesn't. He brings a random passenger and kills him. Nadja doesn't care. Eightball brings in a little girl and Nadja goes berserk. She opens the door but doesn't let in the hijacker. She attacks him and drinks his blood. Now Eightball knows exactly what he's dealing with. He's shocked but also a little in awe.

Elias is terrified and doesn't like what his mother is becoming. Nadja stabs the leader before he turns into a vampire. Eightball runs away but Nadja gives him chase.

It is revealed in flashbacks that Nadja did return to the house where she was bitten and finds an older man who was apparently the father of the man who bit her. He tells her about evil being insider her and how she needs to get rid of it. She doesn't care for his lectures and kills him, then steals medicines from his fridge that are supposed to be suppressants, the very same medicines she has been taking.

The hijackers go back into the hold, Nadja's syringes are broken.

Nadja comes to attack Eightball who extracts her blood. Elias comes in with the leader's gun and shoots a window before Nadja can be staked. The plane depressurises but the hijackers manage to regain control.

Eightball hides in a car and Nadja comes over to attack him but the car is bulletproof. She uses a metal rod to hit the windshield until she makes a hole. Then she pours gasoline through when she sees Eightball inject himself with her blood and start to transform. She lights a match and walks away before the job is done.

The other hijackers unwittingly release Eightball who attacks and drinks their blood.

Nadja comes upstairs and Farid convinces the other passengers she wants to help. She goes back I to the cockpit and forces the corrupt pilot to do as they say but he informs them that there isn't fuel to go to New York anymore because they keep redirecting the plane over and over.

The other passengers try to keep the hold locked but one of the passengers, the one into stocks, finds out he's dying and decides he wants to continue buying and selling shares no matter what. He opens the hold door so Eightball can transform him into a vampire stockbroker. But Eightball cuts his ambitions short and simply kills the passenger.

Eightball begins the task to attack and converting more people. Nadja is informed that the plane will most likely explode and they have to land soon.

Farid is bitten too but Nadja cuts off his hand before the vampire infection spreads. He happily complies, not wanting to be a supernatural being who never gets to sunbathe.

Blood Red Sky Ending Explained with spoilers

Nadja realizes that the population of vampires is growing quickly and decides to make the ultimate sacrifice of getting the bomb detonator and killing herself along with the other vampire passengers so that they don't multiply.

But Elias doesn't want her to sacrifice herself and instead goes to retrieve it himself only to be surrounded by vampires.

Nadja asks Farid to become Elias' godfather before she feeds on the pilot so she can become a stronger vampire.

She then goes after Eightball who attacks her and drains her of blood.

Farid has taken hold of the plane and manages to turn the plane so that the sun hits Eightball who burns and falls down.

Weak, Nadja is barely alive when Elias comes and feeds her his blood but she moves away quickly, growling, not wanting to taste her son's blood in case she grew a liking to it and fed on him.

The plane lands and the events from the first scene continue. No one believes the little kid and drugs him. Farid pleads with the colonel and swears the plane is full of vampires. The Colonel doesn't believe in him.

The sun goes down and Farid is nervous because the vampires are going to get out.

A couple of guards are sent in and they become an easy meal for the vampires. Farid is taken into custody whole Elias, who is in the ambulance, sees what is happening and fears for his godfather. He jumps out and runs to the plane.

Nadja is there too, happily feeding on one of the soldiers. She looks even more like a vampire now and Elias realizes his mother is too far gone to hide behind wigs and dentures. He takes the detonator out of his pocket and detonates the bomb. The authorities clearly didn't pat him down when they took him in. Sure the detonator is a mobile phone but they don't take a look at it at all.

The plane blasts along with Nadja and Elias is thrown back. Farid stops the car and he along with the guards reach the plane. The Colonel asks the guards to release Farid from handcuffs so he can hug his godson.

The end.

Scare scale: 4/5