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A film crew producing a rock music video gets
trapped in the snowy mountains when an avalanche
strands them. What they don't know is that a
deranged, murderous family is living in an old
factory next to the cabin where the film crew is
staying and they have no intention of letting
anyone leave the mountain alive.
Director Mats Helge has worked up quite the
reputation in Sweden with his cheesy 80s action
and horror flicks. Most of them were shot in
Sweden in English language and Blood Tracks is
no exception. Not too long ago I sat through
Mats Helge's other horror flick "The Forgotten
Wells" and after having seen Blood Tracks, I'm
now positive that him retiring as a director was
a very wise decision.
In this Hills Have Eyes rip-off we meet a bunch
of poodle rockers with very pale personalities
who are trying to shoot a scene for their latest
music video but get interrupted by an avalanche.
Soon enough, a deranged family shows up and
starts offing the rock band, and the film crew.
The acting is horrendous and there are way too
many characters in here to be able to root for
any of them.
Most of the movie is very, very dark so it's
quite hard to tell what's going on for most of
the time seeing as how the only light sources
seem to be flashlights and snow. Blood Tracks is
ultimately a very dull movie so what's surprising
is that when you count the kills, there's a total
of 18 people dying in it, seriously. The deaths
are all over so quick though that they take up
way too little of the movie's running time.
This really isn't a good slasher flick and it's
no surprise that there were no horror movies
made in the 90s in Sweden since they produced so
many abysmal ones in the 80s. Don't bother
checking this one out even though the body count
is surprisingly high.
We get a severed heads, a pretty decent impalement,
an axe in ones head, a couple of knife stabbings
and some more unimpressive deaths.
Incredibly cheesy poodle rock is what we get
here, accompanied by a horrific synth score
which is, to my best guess, supposed to set a
good atmosphere. Well it failed badly at that.
Thank god that Mats Helge only did two horror
movies since he clearly has no idea on how to
make a good one. Blood Tracks is a very poor
take on "The Hills Have Eyes" so skip this one.
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