Excellent, Without a doubt!!

An action-packed slog

A Brilliant Conflict

I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

Well, here's a slasher film that comes from Sweden for a change - but don't expect it to be less dumb than any of its American counterparts. BLOOD TRACKS is a pretty lively film, with a huge death count, and lots of sex and cheap gore effects to appeal to the exploitation crowd. It has its failings - much of the climax takes place in the dark, stupidly, so that you can't see a damn thing, although this may be a fault of the print (along with the awful pan and scan job here in the UK) - but no more so than any other low budget horror yarn from the period. As well as this it's short, has a fast pacing and an interesting isolated setting in the form of the spooky mountains, which I always like the use of in a horror film (whether it be THE ABOMINABLE SNOWMAN or THE WEREWOLF AND THE YETI!).The cast members are even more dumb than usual, with a group of people wandering around an old building at night and deciding to split up to search for a missing companion - yeah, that's clever. The female cast members are all vain and unlikable, and so are most of the men for that matter. It doesn't help that the truly hideous fashions and hairstyles have also dated badly since the time in which this was made. The dialogue sounds cheesy and overdubbed, although I do commend the film-makers for getting maximum use out of a piece of stock footage of an avalanche.The murders - despite being noticeably cut here in the UK - are all varied and kept interesting, as well as being short and to the point - there's little of that stalk-and-slash nonsense here. Characters are impaled, axed, burnt, shot, and fall foul of deadly traps. Of course, it's all done in the nastiest way possible. You can't feel too sorry for the truly stupid cast members, though, who decide to have sex in their log cabin while a family of murderers lurk around outside and occasionally peek through windows. Speaking of the bad guys, you almost feel sorry for them towards the end of the film! For some reason their faces have been dipped in oatmeal by the look of it. Although cheap and cheesy, I did get a kick out of BLOOD TRACKS, due to it being a straightforward celebration of death with minimal dialogue and lots of violent action.

This rates alongside "Terror on Tour" and "Hard Rock Zombies" as one of the all-time worst heavy metal horror pictures made in the early to mid 80's. This time we've got a horrendous heavy metal hair band called Solid Gold -- they're a typically ghastly bunch of primping, posturing, totally charmless and colorless poser dorks with lots of eyeshadow, tight leather pants, and hideously poofy, billowy, overpermed coiffures -- who along with an entourage which includes a pompous a**hole director, a handful of ugly, scrawny, bitchy groupie slut girlfriends, and assorted nerdy crew members go to a remote snowy mountainside woodland area to shoot a music video. These dolts run across a family of grimy, hirsute, grotesquely malformed spotty-faced inbred savage cannibal creeps living in a dilapidated, booby trap-ridden abandoned factory who naturally proceed to systematically butcher the jerky interlopers who've disrupted their peaceful, albeit primitive cut off from the rest of civilization isolated existence.Mats Helge and Anna Wolf's by-the-numbers hackneyed script clearly rips off both "Raw Meat" and "The Hills Have Eyes," but sorely lacks the depth and substance that made those two superior fright features such potently effective chillers. Instead the luckless viewer has to contend with grossly unappealing characters, folks who do such idiotic things as stupidly poke around dark areas by themselves so they can be easy prey for the cannibals, awful dialogue ("I'm gonna freeze my t**s off!"), drab direction which miserably fails to bring any style or vigor to the generic body count premise, stiff acting from an insipid no-name cast, bland cinematography, zero tension or suspense, an objectionable "have sex and die" theme ("Hey, you ever do it in the snow?"), a dreadfully dated and thuddingly redundant head-bangin' score, slack pacing, and an irritatingly open-ended conclusion. Only some decent gore make-up, the fact that several groupie sluts take their clothes off, the gorgeous Swedish countryside, and a fairly lively burst of frantic last reel carnage offers a little relief from the overall shoddiness of this stupendously lackluster clinker.

I found this title about a year ago in a charity shop for 50p, I though at the time this looked interesting, how wrong was I.For a Slasher flick this is really poor, and fails on every possible level such as Acting? Crap!! FX? Shite!! Story? Poop!! Setting? Excrement!! A clear rip off to "The Hills Have Eyes" which is far more superior. In fairness to this stank Swedish meatball of a flick I do believe that I may have screened the CUT version as most of the gore seemed snipped, either that or it was edited using pruning shears, which for all I know may have been the case. I would however be interested in re-screening an UNCUT version if there is one. Hey, I'm sure it would still gobble cock but at least there might be a little gore to break up the monotony of porn flick acting and home movie FX.All in all I'd say stay well clear of this travesty.

Wanna be rock-stars with cannibalistic intentions? The only thing this movie features is a couple of teenagers that wanna make name and fame in the rock business. To do this they go out in the mountains to record a video-clip. The only thing the screenwriter knew to write was how to let them whinge and nag for about 90 minutes about actually how cold the snow is. The cannibal part he forgot. This movie features all over plot line mistakes –holes and many more next to the bad acting and poor dialog. I fear while writing the scenario the writer's brain was numbed by the cold and probably the booze he had to try and keep warm. Maybe they should have provided the actors with the needed booze to boost up their performances and acting-skills. Nevertheless I have one statement to make, when you have a hangover, skip the medicine box just put on this movie! Boring all over and a serious tranquilizer.Dario/