- Blood Trails
Infobox_Film
name=Blood Trails
caption=You Can't Outride Death
director=Robert Krause
producer=Oliver Simon
writer=Robert Krause Florian Puchert
starring=Rebecca Palmer Ben Price Tom Frederic
music=Ben Bartlett
cinematography=
editing=Richard Krause Wolfgang Bohm
distributor=Lions Gate Entertainment
released=2007
runtime= 87 minutes
language=English
budget=
amg_id =
imdb_id=0805185|"Blood Trails" is a
horror film , released in 2007 byLions Gate Entertainment and starringRebecca Palmer ,Ben Price andTom Frederic . It was directed byRobert Krause and won the Dawn by Dead Horror Festival Audience Award in 2006.Plot
While the film is in the general
slasher film category, it is an attempt at a realistic portrayal rather than theGrand Guignol style of most of this type. The protagonist, Anne, played by Palmer, is abicycle messenger who accompanies her somewhat estranged boyfriend on amountain biking holiday in the distant reaches of the "huge"Whistler Mountains (location never specified, but the movie was shot inGermany ), where the two decide to cycle down a trail which had been closed to biking, and thus deserted. The pair are surreptitiously followed, however, by another mountain biker; a charmingpsychopath with whom Anne had, unknown to her boyfriend, had a recentone night stand which had become "brutal", as she confessed it to him. The psychopath, intrigued by Anne's strength and courage (he states that she is the "only one to have survived the first night"), now views her as his property and proceeds to quickly dispatch anyone who attempts to stand in the way of his enjoying her slow and painful death; the resourcefulness and courage shown in her efforts at evading him make up the rest of the movie. Aside from the psychopath, who by definition must act aberrantly, the portrayals in the movie are naturalistic rather than the stylized performances of most slasher films. The film features extended cycling scenes which are particularly realistic.External links
* [http://www.bloodtrails.com/ Blood Trails Official Site]
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