When a woman stabs her abusive husband, she flees the scene with her four kids, setting up home in an abandoned factory in the mountains where no one can find them. Forty years later, a hair metal band (played by godawful Swedish glam rockers Easy Action) and their film crew (director, cameraman and assorted scantily clad female extras) choose the factory as the backdrop for a music video, upsetting the now completely deranged and homicidal family still lurking within.
Swedish/American co-production Blood Tracks had the potential to be a totally rockin', nice'n'cheezy stalk and slash gorefest -- The Hills Have Eyes with headbanging -- but a godawful script, terrible acting, and poorly lit death scenes put paid to that. The first half of the film is incredibly dull with far too much chit-chat and little action; the violence is far more plentiful in the second half, with a decapitation, immolation, assorted impalements, and a shotgun blast to the wrist, but it's all so dark you'll probably wind up with eye strain to go with the headache from the lousy music.
3/10. Metal and horror were made to go together, but this movie does it's utmost to convince otherwise.
Swedish/American co-production Blood Tracks had the potential to be a totally rockin', nice'n'cheezy stalk and slash gorefest -- The Hills Have Eyes with headbanging -- but a godawful script, terrible acting, and poorly lit death scenes put paid to that. The first half of the film is incredibly dull with far too much chit-chat and little action; the violence is far more plentiful in the second half, with a decapitation, immolation, assorted impalements, and a shotgun blast to the wrist, but it's all so dark you'll probably wind up with eye strain to go with the headache from the lousy music.
3/10. Metal and horror were made to go together, but this movie does it's utmost to convince otherwise.