PREVIEW: Blood Red Sky (15 TBC)

WHO’S IN IT?

Peri Baumeister (Wetlands), Carl Anton Koch (film debut), Chidi Ajufo (The Gentlemen), Graham McTavish (Colombiana), Roland Møller (Land of Mine), Dominic Purcell (Blade: Trinity), Alexander Scheer (Gundermann), Rebecca Dyson-Smith (Dragon Kingdom), Leonie Brill (Pornorama), Gordon Brown (Only God Forgives), Roy McCrerey (Who Do You Love), Kais Setti (Oray)

WHO’S BEHIND THE CAMERA?

Peter Thorwarth (Not My Day), director, writer; Stefan Holtz (Der Letzte Bulle), writer; Christian Becker (The Wave) and Benjamin Munz (Tape_13), producers; Dascha Dauenhauer (Jibril), composer; Yoshi Heimrath (The Best of All Worlds), cinematographer; Knut Hake (Isi & Ossi), editor

WHAT’S IT ABOUT?

Nadja (Baumeister), a woman with a mysterious illness, boards an overnight transatlantic flight with her young son Elias (Koch). However, when terrorists hijack the plane and hold the passengers hostage, Nadja must become the supernatural creature she’s been trying to suppress in order to save her son…

IN ONE SENTENCE, WHY SHOULD YOU BE EXCITED?

Fasten your seatbelts for this unexpected hybrid of hijacking thriller and blood-sucking creature feature, which is the mash-up of United 93 and Let The Right One In that you never knew you needed.

WHEN’S IT OUT?

FRIDAY 23RD JULY 2021

WHERE CAN I FIND IT?

STREAMING EXCLUSIVELY ON NETFLIX

 

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