Colibel Terrible acting, screenplay and direction.

ThedevilChoose When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

AnhartLinkin This story has more twists and turns than a second-rate soap opera.

Voxitype Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.

BA_Harrison Bike messenger Anne (Rebecca Palmer) has a one-night-stand with psychotic cycle cop Chris (Ben Price), after which she leaves for a weekend of mountain biking with her unsuspecting boyfriend Michael (Tom Frederic). Opting to ignore signs prohibiting the use of a dangerous trail, the pair speed through the rugged countryside unaware that they are being stalked by Chris...Hardcore mountain bikers require some serious skills to avoid coming a cropper on perilous terrain, but the killer in this film takes the sport to a whole new level, not only making his bike fly, but also angling it in mid-air in order to tear out someone's throat with the chain. And he still lands safely back on two wheels. Tekkers!Such a ludicrous death might have been fun if it was executed in a tongue-in-cheek style, but it is played out in such a straight manner that it proves laughable for all the wrong reasons. Sadly, it's not the only thing about the film that beggars belief, the killer being able to locate and sneak up on his victims with surprising ease and Anne being amongst the most unlikeable and irritating of horror movie victims, repeatedly making dumb decisions that put her, and those she is with, in mortal danger.Director Robert Krause makes good use of his scenic setting, achieves a touch of genuine suspense towards the end of the film, and delivers some juicy gore, but the negatives far outweigh the positives. My advice: steer well clear of this one.

TdSmth5 In Blood Trails, Anne works as a courier on a bike. One night she hooks up with a cop but he turns out far more violent and ends up basically raping her. She doesn't tell anyone. Her loving boyfriend plans a mountain-biking trip for her. Anne has visions and feels her rapist is everywhere. When they run into a fellow cyclist she thinks it's him. The cyclist turns around and kills the boyfriend with his bike! Sure enough, it's the rapist. Anne escapes only to run into him repeatedly but he just stands there. Eventually he grabs her and takes her to his place where he has something sinister planned for her.Blood Trail is a pretty basic horror revenge movie but taking place in the woods and with the whole biking theme. The villain is your typical villain in god-mode. Despite the vastness of the forest, he always knows where Anne will end up. He's always a step ahead of her even she's racing on a bike and he's leisurely walking. When he reveals his plans to her I was hoping for some brilliant moment like in Martyrs, but it didn't happen. It's somewhat interesting but not what it could have been. The movie is very well directed but the director/writer isn't as good a writer as he is a director. In Hollywood fashion, this German production is nearly entirely devoid of dialog. The sounds/music are also excellent. Missing is more story.

Miss_Xray "crazy or deranged woman"? to the one that wrote that.. I mean its easy to think clear and rational when sitting watching a movie Wonder how crazy one would feel if someone just murdered your boyfriend in the woods.. not too calm n logical i can imagine. A situation like that would cause panic. and for the most part I think its not that illogical. I think this is a thrilling movie. Not bad at all. Not so often one sees bikes in a thriller/horror movie. And I don't think its that obvious ending at all. Cause in some movies they die in the end and in some they don't. And I didn't think the gore was unrealistic like I read somewhere.

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.