Here is a movie that has the feel of early 70's horror films. It's very gritty, it's very dark and in some parts gross. Yet it's a VERY slow movie so you have to be patient with it.It's about a girl who Cheats on her bf with basically a stranger. Then a couple days later, her and her bf take a trip to the mountains to do some bike riding and the stranger she cheated on with her bf is there and he kills her bf. So she has to survive in the wild while running from the killer.This idea is somewhat original and the mountain setting is beautiful and refreshing for the genre. The music is perfect for the movie and it really sets the mood. However, the ending is abrupt and the pacing of this film is very slow. At some points of the movie I was making myself watch it and since this is a very slow film with a not so good ending I can't give this more than 6 out of 10.

just want to echo what so many others have said about this awful film. just had the misfortune to catch it on the Horror Channel. To say that the heroine does stupid things is an understatement - others have listed them.what really annoys me are the writers. every single cliché in this film i have seen a hundred times before in other similar fare. do the writers of these films copy each other deliberately or don't they realize they are just repeating what we have all seen before.cant they use their brains to come up with something even slightly original - even if they are going to copy the basic premise of unstoppable bad guy after the heroine.as another reviewer said - you can guess everything that is going to happen - right down to the inevitable 'twist' ending - gosh - never saw that coming - much.my advice is to avoid at all costs - please - for the sake of your sanity

Blood Trails starts as the relationship between lovers Anne (Rebecca Palmer) & Michael (Tom Frederic) is on the rocks, in one last effort to salvage the relationship they decide to head out to Whistler Mountain Range where they have a cabin & can go mountain biking. One of the reasons why Anne & Michael's relationship is on brink is because Anne had a one night stand with a guy named Chris (Ben Price) who claimed to be a cop but is in fact a brutal & sadistic serial killer who has followed Anne & Michael out to the isolated mountain range with the intention of killing them both, can they survive as they use their mountain biking skills to try & find help as Chrissets about his work...This German production was co-written & directed by Robert Krause & one has to say that Blood Trails is a rather dull, clichéd & frustrating horror slasher come thriller that has a few positives which are lost amongst the negatives. The script is largely to blame for the films major failings, Anne as a character is really awful & she's one of those dumb horror film heroines who do the most bizarre, unnatural & stupid things. When faced with a brutal killer who has killed two people in front of her Anne decides to ignore the 4x4 Jeep & casually ride her bike away back into the woods instead of getting in the Jeep, running the killer over & heading for safety where she can find proper help. Anne blindly rides along & ends up riding off a cliff & into a river, why? Then she hits a large tree in the middle of her way which knocks her out, again why? Couldn't she like just stop & climb over the tree? Then there's the scene in which she phones for help & the operator tells her to stay where she is so they can track her mobile phone so what does she do? That's right she leaves. Brilliant. Then there's the notion that in broad daylight Anne can sit against a large wooden cross & not notice that her dead boyfriend is nailed to it for about five minutes. Right. The list goes on. Then there's Chris the killer who can just magically appear anywhere he wants & can instantly find Anne wherever she is in the mountain range. What were those two cops at the end doing there? How did Chris kill them? They had their guns pointed at him for God's sake. Why didn't either of those two forest workers not say anything? Surely if you see a scared, bloodied & upset woman you would at least ask her if she was OK, right? They don't even talk to each other & it's just a totally bizarre sequence that makes zero sense. The film takes itself extremely seriously but there's not much to it, the mountain biking aspect doesn't amount to anything & the character's are really empty & soulless, there's barely any dialogue & at nearly 90 odd minutes the film drags badly at times with seemingly endless shots of Anne walking, running or riding through the woods which become pretty tedious pretty quickly.There's not that much actual gore here, there's some blood splatter a ridiculous scene involving a slashed throat & a mutilated body is briefly seen. I actually thought the majority of Blood Trails looked terrific, there's some cool camera angles & some strong colour schemes & lighting that showcase some of the isolated wilderness to great effect & the 2:35:1 widescreen image is used to good effect & the film has an expansive feel but it's off-set by the annoying hand-held shaky camcorder moments & quick editing which gets annoying. It's debatable whether Blood Trails is a horror film or a thriller, it doesn't seem to know what it wants to be & ends up short changing us in both departments.Shot in Austria & Germany the production values are really nice & the film has some style about it but the script is poor, the pace is slow & the kills, character's & narrative are weak. There's only about five people in the entire film, a couple seem dubbed (badly too) while leading lady Rebecca Palmer puts in a decent performance with questionable material.Blood Trails is a mix of standard horror slasher & thriller which doesn't really satisfy on either account, in fact despite some nice visuals Blood Trails is pretty forgettable.

This is a terrific watch. You will get the idea of what goes on from other comments so I won't repeat all that. A little muddled for the first 20 minutes or so, once the fun starts the movie takes off. The tension is breathtaking and at times the director winds his audience up so tightly that my nerves were jangling. If you enjoy movies like "High Tension" and "The Descent" or "Them" you will love this gem. The lead actress is English,Rebecca Palmer, who for some reason was asked to play Anne as an American. Any way she played it would have been great and she is the film. A really demanding role physically as well as artistically and she was really and truly up for it and delivers brilliantly. An added bonus is that she is attractive and displays a very pleasing rear aspect. (Sadly it remains wrapped). Buy it or rent it, you won't regret it.