nathan-yeo The lead character lives her life the way she drives her bike, fast and furious loose and without rules. UNknown off in the corner a stalker awaits. he pulls her over Identifies himself as an officer. She figures she'll go out with him and has a bad date a horrible date. Shje lets her boyfriend take her out on the woods for a therapeutic bike-ride. And her comes the stalker. Before he cuffed her to a bed, this time he doesn't hold her captive, he just slaughters anyone in the woods who tries to help her and get her to safety. His derangement is proved when he captures her and gives her a bowl of spaghetti witch she wolves down, he thinks she's over on his side. Until she gets her strength back and she comes at him with his own knife. He's quick enough to get it away but there's still more people to kill before this movies over.

Coventry "Blood Trails" is truly a mixed bag and I honestly can't decide whether I should be harsh or mild in my user comment. On one hand, it's an admirably tense nowadays horror flick with brutal gore, lovely filming locations and identifiable main characters, but on the other hand it serves cliché after cliché as well as a banquet of stupid & illogical twists. I liked the realism of the character drawings. Anne and Michael are going through a severe relationship crises and decide to head out to their favorite holiday resort; a cabin surrounded by thick woods where they can practice their common hobby of mountain biking. But there's more. Brief flashbacks indicate that Anne had a one-night-stand with a rude cop, and when he suddenly appears on his mountain bike as well, a cruel & bloody chase through the woods begins. The first half hour of "Blood Trails" is really good, showing Anne struggling with her inner demons and the flashbacks gradually revealing what psycho her one night lover was. The film also features the extremely vile and presumably unique murder-by-bike sequence! Just in case you always wondered how you can slice someone's carotid artery using only a bike, this is your movie! Okay, so far we had amiable characters and impressive bloodshed, but unfortunately the movie then becomes pretty bad & irritating. How the deranged killer managed to exactly trace the couple, I'm still prepared to overlook, but Anne then makes so many stupid decisions that she almost deserves to die. Why didn't she at least try to wait wait for her rescuers atop the mountain, since they were just a couple of minutes away? Doesn't she realize she's the one acting like an escaped crazy woman when she meets the woodchoppers? Why stop and thoroughly study the road map when you can drive far away from the forest? The last twenty minutes are dreadfully boring, and a very shameless attempt to cash in on the success of torture-porn highlights like "Saw" and "Hostel", with the demented killer patiently explaining to Anne why exactly he's so looking forward to kill her. "Blood Trails" was shot and produced in Germany, but promoted for the international market. Director Robert Krause is a German as well, and this film is his long-feature debut after two acclaimed short movies. The make-up effects are quite impressive and definitely not intended for the eyes of squeamish, but a slightly more coherent narrative and more logical twists would still have been better.

Amy-Jane When I seen this movie in the video shop the story looked good it was choice between that and the film 'Stay' I personally wish i had rented that instead, anything would of been better than 'Blood Trails' I may as well of been watching a silent movie that's how poor the dialogue was there was barley any speaking between the characters at all. Most of the movie was based on Anne cycling through the woods screaming. Also they made a big mistake when Anne comes up from underneath the water the blood on her face has completely gone and the blood on her t-shirt had faded to pink. But when you see Anne again the blood is back on her face and some of the scene setting were that fake to a point that you could notice. Poorley directed I do not recommend this movie unless you want to see another movie of physco killer in the woods chasing the victim and killing people along the way.

jnnhighsmith I watched the movie without knowing anything about it and I was really surprised! The premise is simple and not very original, but it works really well. The beautiful and stunning locations, all the great mountain imagery is captured in powerful compositions. The acting is superb. Anne isn't your average horror movie victim. She is a strong woman with a dark side. Sometimes her actions follow the genre's clichés a little too much, but her character's core is original, especially for a horror-thriller. Even Chris, who seems to be more of a stereotypical villain in the first two thirds gets a more human and thereby even more frightening face in the last third.The movie is not action & horror overkill. Instead it offers a surprisingly dark and terrifying cat and mouse game with an especially intense finale. I can only recommend it!