An interesting premise: vampirism as a medical condition.
Despite all the early 2000s nonsense of "Twilight" and its clones, it's unusual for a vampire to be the protagonist in a film, but you really do end up sympathizing with the stricken woman and her son. Seeing her reluctance as she is forced to embrace her "condition" in order to fight a group of terrorists (who REALLY picked the wrong plane to hijack) keeps this from being just another run-of-the-mill monster movie.
A nice touch was the series of flashbacks in which we see the incident when the woman was first turned into a vampire, her discovery and adaptation to her new life, and her ultimately futile and unsatisfying vengeance.
The last half hour or so very much declines in quality, unfortunately, and devolves into not so much a vampire movie as one about zombies of the "28 Days Later" or "World War Z" variety, as all of the passengers are quickly "turned." Although getting the plane on the ground (in daylight, fortunately) was necessary to give her son and his protector a way out of the situation, a quicker resolution would have been made for a tighter story arc: the last few minutes are a bit tedious, as we wait for the terror-response team to finally encounter the planeload of monsters just prior to a fairly ridiculous end.
The film could have been better executed (and probably will be, when or if it is remade by an American studio with better-known actors) but "Blood Red Sky" is still above the average for never-heard-of-it Netflix movies, and well worth a look.
Despite all the early 2000s nonsense of "Twilight" and its clones, it's unusual for a vampire to be the protagonist in a film, but you really do end up sympathizing with the stricken woman and her son. Seeing her reluctance as she is forced to embrace her "condition" in order to fight a group of terrorists (who REALLY picked the wrong plane to hijack) keeps this from being just another run-of-the-mill monster movie.
A nice touch was the series of flashbacks in which we see the incident when the woman was first turned into a vampire, her discovery and adaptation to her new life, and her ultimately futile and unsatisfying vengeance.
The last half hour or so very much declines in quality, unfortunately, and devolves into not so much a vampire movie as one about zombies of the "28 Days Later" or "World War Z" variety, as all of the passengers are quickly "turned." Although getting the plane on the ground (in daylight, fortunately) was necessary to give her son and his protector a way out of the situation, a quicker resolution would have been made for a tighter story arc: the last few minutes are a bit tedious, as we wait for the terror-response team to finally encounter the planeload of monsters just prior to a fairly ridiculous end.
The film could have been better executed (and probably will be, when or if it is remade by an American studio with better-known actors) but "Blood Red Sky" is still above the average for never-heard-of-it Netflix movies, and well worth a look.