History Film / BloodRedSky

* ScaryBlackMan: One of the terrorists hijacking the plane is a black man named Curtiz. [[spoiler:He looks even scarier after Eightball attacks and turns Curtiz into a vampire]].

* WesternTerrorists: The hijackers all seem to be either American or European, and all of them (except for [[ScaryBlackMan Curtiz]]) are white.

* SecurityBlanket: At the airbase, Elias is inseparable from a teddy bear. [[spoiler:It happens to be concealing the detonator.]]

* ShootTheDog: Nadja's first victim is a chihuahua whose blood she needs to recharge and fight her first hijacker. Later on, she, Farid, and Bastian lock the rest of the passengers out of the cockpit [[spoiler:as vampires slaughter them all because if they let them in, they can't close the door again]].

* TechnicallyLivingVampire: It's subtly implied that the vampires in this movie may all be living, breathing creatures with a pulse, instead of being undead reanimated corpses. It also seems that only people who survive being bitten by a vampire (like Nadja was) will turn into vampires; as Nadja's husband was killed and drained of blood, but he never rose up as a vampire himself.

** Vampirism also seems to be portrayed less supernaturally and more scientifically as TheVirus, with Nadja regularly taking medication to suppress it, vampires "burning up" in the sun portrayed as a severe sunburn caused by exposure to UV light, their reflections appearing in mirrors just fine (which allows Nadja to see how inhuman her infection has made her look), and the infection is transmitted through biting.
** It's not known for certain whether the vampires in this film are undead, as they seem to be more alive. It's also never discussed if vampires are immortal or live longer than normal humans, and aside from the aforementioned SuperStrength and HealingFactor, they do not really display any other superhuman or supernatural abilities.

* TechnicallyLivingVampire: It's subtly implied that the vampires in this movie are all living, breathing creatures instead of being undead corpses. It also seems that only people who survive being bitten by a vampire (like Nadja was) will turn into vampires, as Nadja's husband was killed and drained of blood but never rose up as a vampire himself.

* TragicMonster: Nadja is a widowed single mother who was infected with vampirism after being bitten by another vampire that also killed her husband, forcing her to raise their son alone while trying to suppress the symptoms and transformation through medication. Her initial goal in the beginning is to fly to New York in hopes of being cured by a doctor there. [[spoiler:[[ShootTheShaggyDog Not only does she ultimately fail]], but she also ends up dying after she had finished turning into a fully FeralVampire, [[DeathOfPersonality losing all of her human emotions and memories too]].]]

* TheVirus: Rather than an explicitly supernatural curse, vampirism is depicted as some sort of mutagenic infection that turns people into ferociously bloodthirsty monsters, transmitted through bite wounds or exchange of body fluids. After Eightball injects himself with Nadja's infected blood to turn himself, he immediately starts attacking and infecting anyone around him, and soon multiple new vampires are filling up the plane.

* TheVirus: Rather than an explicitly supernatural curse, vampirism is depicted as some sort of mutagenic infection that turns people into mindlessly bloodthirsty monsters, transmitted through bite wounds or exchange of body fluids. After Eightball injects himself with Nadja's infected blood to turn himself, he immediately starts attacking and infecting anyone around him, and soon multiple new vampires are filling up the plane.

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Bordering on DownerEnding. Everyone on the plane except Elias and Farid have either been killed or turned into vampires, and Nadja loses her humanity to the point that she no longer recognizes Elias, who is forced to kill her by blowing up the plane. On the positive side, there is no indication that any vampires survived, so the infection will not spread any further, and Colonel Drummond is finally convinced of Farid's innocence. Farid also keeps his promise to Nadja to take care of Elias after her death.]]

* TheToothHurts: A flashback shows Nadja removing the fangs growing over her normal teeth with pliers, after she angrily hissed at her baby son and scared him.

* TragicMonster: Nadja is a widowed single mother who was infected with vampirism after being bitten by another vampire that also killed her husband, forcing her to raise their son alone while trying to suppress the symptoms and transformation through medication. Her initial goal in the beginning is to fly to New York in hopes of being cured by a doctor there. [[spoiler:[[ShootTheShaggyDog Not only does she ultimately fail]], but she also ends up dying after she had finished turning into a fully FeralVampire, [[DeathOfPersonality losing all of her human emotions and memories too]].]]
* TranshumanTreachery: When [[spoiler: the Scottish investor]] is badly injured and the doctor on board tells him she can't perform the necessary surgery until they land, meaning he may die, he decides to try an EmergencyTransformation and open the cargo bay doors and ask the newly vampirized Eightball to bite and turn him. [[spoiler:Eightball just takes one look at him, slashes him to finish him off, and leaves him to be eaten by the vampires he turns later.]]

''Blood Red Sky'' (aka ''Transatlantic 473'') is a 2021 British-German action-horror film directed by David Thorwald, written by Thorwald and Stefan Holtz, and starring Peri Baumeister, Roland Møller, Creator/GrahamMcTavish, and Creator/DominicPurcell. It premiered on Creator/{{Netflix}} on July 23, 2021.

* EverybodysDeadDave: [[spoiler:Everyone that boarded the plane except for Elias and Farid become vampires or snacks for them. And then everyone except for the two are ''certainly'' dead when the plane explodes.]]

''Blood Red Sky'' (aka ''Transatlantic 473'') is a 2021 German-American action/horror film directed by David Thorwald, written by Thorwald and Stefan Holtz, and starring Peri Baumeister, Roland Møller, Creator/GrahamMcTavish, and Creator/DominicPurcell. It premiered on Creator/{{Netflix}} on July 23, 2021.

* AllForNothing: [[spoiler:Nadja's efforts to travel to America and cure her vampirism are ultimately fruitless, as the movie ends with her being fully transformed into a mindless FeralVampire who cannot recognize her own son as anything except food, thus forcing Elias to kill her.]]

* FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire: Nadja is just a widowed single mom who really doesn't want to become a vampire, regularly taking medication to suppress the bloodthirst and halt the transformation for as long as possible. She also functions as a VegetarianVampire by only drinking the bare minimum amount of blood (presumably derived from raw animal meat) that she needs to stay nourished. But after getting shot by Eightball, she kills and feeds on a helpless small dog to recover, then moves onto humans (though she tries her best to only eat [[AssholeVictim the terrorist hijackers]]). [[spoiler:As she feeds on more blood, doing this ensures that her vampiric transformation accelerates until she is no longer mentally human, even eagerly running after her own son to hunt him in the ending.]]

** One of the fall guys can't read Arabic, and so is [[MakeAnExampleOfThem shot by Berg when Farid tries to get clever]].

* AllForNothing: [[spoiler:Nadja's efforts to travel to America and cure her vampirism are ultimately fruitless, as the movie ends with her vampiric transformation fully complete, forcing Elias to kill her.]]

* TheVirus: Rather than an explicitly supernatural curse, vampirism is depicted as some sort of mutagenic infection that turns people into mindlessly bloodthirsty monsters, transmitted through bite wounds or exchange of body fluids. After Eightball injects himself with Nadja's infected blood to turn himself, he immediately starts attacking and infecting other people on the plane.

* HeroicWillpower: Most vampires devolve into bloodthirsty, barely cognizant monsters not long after turning. Nadja, out of love for her son, retains her sanity and is able to fight off her urges, [[spoiler:though they do eventually get the better of her]].

* MilitariesAreUseless: Colonel Drummond (the British officer in charge of the counterterrorist operation regarding the hijacked airliner that landed in the RAF base) sends out a special forces team to infiltrate the plane at night, [[spoiler:having no clue that all the hijackers and most of the crew/passengers are already dead, and that the remaining people in the plane are all vampires now. [[RedshirtArmy All the soldiers in the plane quickly get overwhelmed and massacred]] by the horde of hungry vampires.]]

* TheToothHurts: A flashback shows Nadja removing the fangs growing over her normal teeth with pliers.

* ScaryBlackMan: One of the terrorists hijacking the plane is a black man named Curtiz. [[spoiler:He looks even scarier after Eightball attacks and turns Curtiz into a vampire]].
* SchmuckBait: The hijacking is started by one of them starting a ruckus to draw out the sky marshals, who move to subdue the unruly passenger.

** It's not known for certain whether the vampires in this film are undead, as they seem to be more like TechnicallyLivingVampires. It's also never discussed if vampires are immortal or live longer than normal humans, and aside from the aforementioned SuperStrength and HealingFactor, they do not really display any other superhuman or supernatural abilities.

* OurVampiresAreDifferent: They are FeralVampires who [[LooksLikeOrlok look like Orlok]]. They don't look or act very human, and are more like wild predatory animals that are always hungry for blood. They have a HealingFactor that allows them to survive getting shot, but are vulnerable to sunlight and direct wounds to the heart. Vampirism also seems to be portrayed scientifically as TheVirus, with Nadja taking a medication to suppress it, vampires "burning up" in the sun portrayed as a severe sunburn caused by exposure to UV light, their reflections appearing in mirrors just fine (which allows Nadja to see how inhuman her infection has made her look), and bites spreading the infection.

* OurVampiresAreDifferent: They [[LooksLikeOrlok look like Orlok]] and have a HealingFactor that allows them to survive getting shot, but are vulnerable to sunlight and direct wounds to the heart. Vampirism also seems to be portrayed scientifically as TheVirus, with Nadja taking a medication to suppress it, vampires "burning up" in the sun portrayed as a severe sunburn caused by exposure to UV light, their reflections appearing in mirrors just fine (which allows Nadja to see how inhuman her infection has made her look), and bites spreading the infection.

* WesternTerrorists: The hijacking crew, except for Hightower, is all European with one speaking Czech.

* BeautyToBeast: Nadja was a fairly attractive woman when she was human. By the start of the film, her infection has already caused her hair to fall out. Her transformation speeds up considerably after she gets shot, and by the middle of the film, the other passengers are reacting to her with horror.

* BittersweetEnding: Bordering on DownerEnding. [[spoiler:Everyone on the plane except Elias and Farid are dead or vampires and Nadja loses her humanity to the point that she no longer recognises Elias, who is forced to kill her by blowing up the plane. On the positive side, there is no indication that any vampires survived, so the infection will not spread any further, and Colonel Drummond is finally convinced of Farid's innocence.]]

* DeathOfAChild: Other than Elias, there is at least one other child onboard the plane, a little girl of similar age that Berg threatens to shoot if Nadja won't open the cockpit door. [[spoiler: She gets turned into a vampire when they're set loose in the plane, and is ultimately killed when it later explodes.]]

* FeralVampires: People who get turned into vampires lose all sense of humanity and go into a mindless bloodlust. Nadja was only able to stop it with medication, [[spoiler:and when she loses access to that, she too loses her mind]].

* TheVirus: Nadja's bites turn others into vampires, who in turn can infect others. Multiple infected people are soon crawling around inside the plane when she can't keep a lid on who she and they infect.

** [[spoiler:Bill Morris, the arrogant and self serving Scottish stockbroker who is crushed by a drinks trolley and subsequently killed by the vampires after he releases them from the hold in the hope they will turn him]].
** [[spoiler:When Nadja needs a lot of fresh blood to fight her way through the vampires to save her son, she kills the pilot who was in league with the terrorists, [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness after verifying Farid can land the plane by himself]].]]
** The stockbroker grabs an oxygen mask off the old German lady, only to get severe internal injuries when a food trolley careens down the aisle into him as the plane dives to a lower altitude.

The trailer can be viewed [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8M_1eyrBtQ here.]]