Netflix officially has a hit on their hands with the “vampire vs. airplane hijackers” horror action thriller Blood Red Sky, a German production that is primarily in English. In fact, Blood Red Sky has become the streaming service’s most successful German content to date, as it will have been watched in more than 50 million households around the world by the end of next week. Blood Red Sky was just released on July 23rd, so it’s racking up the views quickly – and of the Netflix subscribers who have checked it out, 90% of them have stuck with the movie for its entire 2 hour runtime.
Blood Red Sky ranked on Netflix’s top 10 in 93 countries, reaching #1 in 57 of those countries, including the U.S., Brazil, Saudi Arabia, and the Philippines. It reached #2 in Germany.
Directed by Peter Thorwarth from a screenplay he wrote with Stefan Holtz, Blood Red Sky has the following synopsis:
Nadja and her ten-year-old son are on an overnight flight from Germany to New York when a group of terrorists violently take control of the plane and threaten the lives of the passengers. But the terrorists have no idea what they’re in for with Nadja on board – she has the power to protect her son and all the other passengers. But she faces an impossible choice – should she reveal her dark side and the inner monster she has kept hidden from her son for years in order to save him? The hunters become the hunted and everyone on the plane finds themselves in a perilous race against time – a fight for survival because there is one thing nobody knows: Nadja is the last vampire.
The cast includes Peri Baumeister, Kais Setti, Alexander Scheer, Graham McTavish, and Dominic Purcell – who, it must be noted, played Dracula in Blade: Trinity.
Blood Red Sky‘s success is a great win for Thorwarth, who had been trying to get the project into production since the screenplay was first written 16 years ago.