Flight7500 is a 2014 American supernatural horror film directed by Takashi Shimizu and starring Leslie Bibb, Jerry Ferrara, Ryan Kwanten, and Amy Smart. It revolves around a supernatural force on a plane. The film is loosely based on the Helios Airways Flight 522 incident that took place in 2005. The film was released in the United States on April 12, 2016, by CBS Films and Lionsgate,[3] after being released theatrically in Asia.
Vista Pacific Airlines flight 7500, a Boeing 747-300, departs from Los Angeles to Tokyo Haneda. Passengers onboard include a group of two vacationing couples, Lyn and Jack, and Brad and Pia, who have secretly broken up; a thief named Jake; a suspicious businessman traveling with a strange wooden box, Lance Morrell; a young woman named Raquel; newlyweds Rick and Liz; and the goth Jacinta. Air hostesses Laura and Suzy welcome the passengers on board, and Suzy questions Laura about her secret relationship with the married captain, Pete.
A few hours into the flight, the plane hits turbulence that soon passes. Lance has a panic attack and begins to bleed profusely from his mouth. When Lance suddenly dies, Captain Pete continues to Japan, moving the first-class passengers into Economy class and keeping Lance's body in the closed-off first class.
While dispensing drinks, Laura notices plastic water bottles collapsing and quickly warns everyone to fasten their seatbelts, as the cabin pressure drops. Oxygen masks are dispensed above the seats, but at least one does not work. The co-pilot falls unconscious. A thick smoke fills the cabin floor. After the cabin pressure returns to normal and the smoke disappears, Laura finds Raquel unconscious in the toilet and revives her with an oxygen tank. Meanwhile, the plane's radio has stopped working and Captain Pete cannot contact Tokyo air traffic controllers.
Jake goes to first-class to steal the Rolex from Lance's body when the body suddenly moves. He does not notice; when he pulls back the cloth covering the body, he is petrified by something off-screen. Suzy finds out that Jake, and Lance's body, have both disappeared. When Laura notices an F-16 fighter jet flying beside their plane and calls the cockpit to inform Pete, he replies that no fighter jets are present. Brad's in-flight TV show distorts and shows an image of Lance, while Liz is startled by a reflection of Lance on her laptop screen. Raquel returns to the washroom to do a pregnancy test and is relieved it turned out negative. However, smoke begins to fill the toilet and a hand grabs her and pulls her into the floor.
Laura searches Lance's checked luggage, entering the cargo hold through a small hatch. A hand emerges and drags Laura away. As Suzy waits for Laura by the hatch, another hand grabs at her. Suzy runs into first class, while a cloud of smoke follows her. The smoke quickly clears and Brad, Pia, Rick, Liz, and Jacinta rush to find out what is wrong. As Suzy walks towards them, one of the overhead compartments opens and she disappears into it. While the others rush towards the cockpit, Jacinta hears her own words and hesitantly walks towards an unknown figure which appears before her and hugs it.
The others discover Captain Pete and the co-pilot dead in their seats. They eventually, alone or with another, find their own corpses slumped in their seats. The entertainment screen in the cabin suddenly shows a breaking news story that Flight 7500 suffered a catastrophic decompression, and communication had been lost. The F-16 fighter jet that Laura saw earlier was sent to investigate the plane but found no sign of life on board, and the Boeing 747-300 is now a ghost plane. It is revealed that all passengers and crew on the jumbo jet are dead in the turbulence, due to the effects of hypoxic hypoxia and that everyone who has disappeared was taken after they let go of the one thing that had been tying them to the world. Brad and Pia accept their death and reconcile as the plane runs out of fuel and crashes into the ocean. Sometime after, Liz awakens to find the plane empty. She hears a strange noise coming from one of the waste bins, a discolored hand appears, and Liz ducks out of frame.
Flight 7500 departs Los Angeles International Airport bound for Tokyo. As the plane climbs higher, the passengers experience what appears to be a supernatural force in the cabin.I am wondering if anyone knows if this movie is based on a true story. I would really like to know!
I'm not entirely sure if Flight 7500 is based on a true story, but it does seem to be inspired by real life events. The plot of the film revolves around a group of passengers who experience some weird and unexplainable occurrences during a flight from Los Angeles to Tokyo. There have been a few reports of similar strange occurrences on flights, but nothing has been proven. Personally, I think the film is more about exploring the human psyche and how people react to the unexpected and unexplainable.
The 7500 flight from Los Angeles to Tokyo sets off as normal with honeymooners, tourists, backpackers and the usual assortment of characters that you get on flights. Nothing seems out of the ordinary on the flight as everyone settles in for the ten hour flight before hitting light turbulence after less than an hour. Although things seem normal at first, a passenger unexpectedly dies from unknown causes but the pilot agrees with the ground crew to continue as planned.
Soon afterwards more mysterious happenings occur, including the disappearance of people, even the dead body, passing F16 Fighter Jets and a mist filling various sections of the plane at random intervals. Can they make it to Tokyo safely?
You have a choice. You can open the cockpit door and admit the terrorists who hold a knife to the throat of your loved one, or you can keep the door locked to secure the safety of the plane thereby putting the passengers at risk. Which would you choose? The plane is just reaching cruising altitude on a routine flight from Berlin to Paris when this question arises.
Next to arrive are the flight attendants who begin their pre-flight preparations. Part of their routine is to take meal orders from the pilots. Michael orders a sandwich and water, Tobias orders only water. Last to enter the plane are the passengers to find their seats and stow their carryons. Three of the passengers are terrorists: one in a suit, one wearing jeans and a tee shirt and the third, young Vedat (Omir Meniar) in kakis and a collared shirt.
After a struggle, the other two are pushed away and the door is relocked. Michael suffers multiple stab wounds from a piece of jagged glass wrapped in duct tape the terrorist had fashioned as a weapon able to pass through security.
The new flight plan initiated by the first terrorists is to crash the jet into the nearest large city. He is thrilled at the idea, his dream come true, while Vedat begins to have second thoughts about dying at his young age for a cause he begins to question. The international flight controller is continuing his request that the plane land for refueling in Hanover, Germany. Will the plane land safely in Hanover, a city of over a half million residents, or will it crash into it?
Life and death mean more in this movie than in other thrillers, and when characters are killed, there are moments to ponder what that means. Does anyone really deserve to die, even villains? (Movie opens with quote from Gandhi: "An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.")
Tobias steps up to face a very difficult challenge, makes extremely difficult decisions under pressure. But he was forced into this position and didn't exactly choose to be a hero. Film doesn't get into specifics, but terrorist villains are radicalized Muslims, while heroes are Western characters who are White or present as White, and the story is told almost entirely from their perspective.
Stabbing, with lots of blood. Gory, bloody wounds shown. Character shot. Characters die. Fighting, wrestling, grappling. Bashing with fire extinguisher. Kicking person in face. Someone gets smashed in a doorway.
Parents need to know that 7500 is a thriller about an airplane hijacking that stars Joseph Gordon-Levitt as a pilot. Violence is intense, with lots of stabbing, fighting, struggling, kicking, and grappling, plus bloody wounds and lots of blood. Characters die, and one is shot. Characters are bashed with fire extinguishers, kicked in the head, and smashed with doors. Language is strong, with uses of "f--k," "s--t," "c--t," and more. There's some flirting and a kiss. The movie is very tense and gripping but also shocking and unsettling. Death means something here, and it's an experience that mature viewers won't soon forget. To stay in the loop on more movies like this, you can sign up for weekly Family Movie Night emails.
In 7500, American co-pilot Tobias (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) takes his seat in the cockpit of a flight out of Berlin. Flight attendant Gkce (Aylin Tezel) sneaks in for a quick chat about their daughter and kindergarten. She tries to be discreet, since they've agreed to keep their relationship secret while working. The captain, Michael (Carlo Kitzlinger), arrives, and the pre-flight check is mostly normal. But not long after takeoff, a group of glass knife-wielding terrorists hijacks the plane. One gets into the cockpit, wounding both Michael and Tobias, but Tobias knocks his attacker unconscious. Other terrorists start threatening hostages, one after the other, in order to gain access to the cockpit. Unfortunately for Tobias, Gkce becomes one of the hostages. Can Tobias keep his wits about him and safely land the plane?
This white-knuckle thriller uses constricted space and realistic details to generate intense suspense, but at the same time, it never forgets the sobering, tragic seriousness of the situation. A strong feature debut by director/co-writer Patrick Vollrath, 7500 is, incredibly, set entirely inside the cockpit and focused entirely on Gordon-Levitt, who gives an exhaustively impressive physical and emotional performance. The movie begins with no bombast or fanfare: The pilots just go through their ordinary routine. But this everyday tone helps establish that a hijacking isn't popcorn-movie fare, and that we shouldn't expect giddy, enjoyable thrills.
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