A woman with a mysterious illness is forced into action when a group of terrorists attempt to hijack a transatlantic overnight flight.

Director and co-writer (with Stefan Holtz) Peter Thorwarth’s plane-set horror movie delivers some thrills, but at over two hours is half an hour too long, and any great surprises are spoilt by the imagery used on Netflix to promote it.

I don’t think it’s a spoiler to reveal a certain major plot twist in this movie, and indeed it is hard to talk about the work without going there… so here goes. Nadja (Peri Baumeister) has been bitten by a vampire and is travelling to the United States with her young son Elias (Carl Anton Koch) for some treatment. Her vampire state is shown on the title card for the movie, though we don’t see this until nearly an hour in.

The reason she’s required to reveal her condition is because terrorists led by a scenery-chewing Dominic Purcell (Prison Break) take over the plane and she’s compelled to protect her son. Thus follows a far too long game of cat and mouse as each side temporarily gains the upper hand, but with the number of terrorists dropping steadily as another is killed by the Nosferatu-inspired vampire.

It’s proficiently made, but there’s nothing new here, and it becomes something of a Euro-pudding with all of Purcell’s dialogue delivered in English, while the others are speaking subtitled German. The movie is bookended with a scene set on the runway after the hijacking, and immediately brings to mind the opening of The Strain TV show and book, to add to the heavy Snakes on a Plane and Die Hard 2 references.

Verdict: Solid action horror B-movie fare, but far too long for this sort of nonsense. 6/10

Nick Joy