My review was written in May 1986 after a Cannes Film Festival Market screening.
"Blood Tracks" is a gory horror film that although it was made last year belongs rightfully in the cycle of teen slasher features from five years ago. Prospects are modest in international markets.
Silly premise has a rock group amed Solid Gold (played by Swedish band Easy Action) on location in the Colorado mountains (actually filmed in Sweden) to shoot a music video. A large contingent of attractive femme models isalong, to provide th usual scantily clad decoration (even though it's cold and strictly snowsville, with frequent avalanches to boot).
While the troupe is holed up in a snug mountain cabin, workmen disturb the peace of a barbarian clan of savages living underneath an abandoned factory nearby. A prolog sequence shows how an ultraviolent domestic quarrel some 10 years earlier ended up with daddy dead and mom and the kids trekking to the remote spot where they're living and murdering primitively today.
When the rock entourage youngsters are not engaged in sex they're wandering out in the snow (this being a cornball horror picture after all) to be attacked by the primitives.
"Blood Tracks" emphasizes some grisly makeup effects, particularly one in which a girl suddenly is split in two from head to toe. Several sex and nude scenes are included, the silliest of which has blonde Mary (Karina Lee) making love to a musician out in a car when they're buried by an avalanche; when rescued she scrambles across the snow naked much to the merriment of the rescuers.
Cast is hampered by the use of post-synchronized English dialog, but the youngsters are good looking and that apparently is all that is required in this genre.
"Blood Tracks" is a gory horror film that although it was made last year belongs rightfully in the cycle of teen slasher features from five years ago. Prospects are modest in international markets.
Silly premise has a rock group amed Solid Gold (played by Swedish band Easy Action) on location in the Colorado mountains (actually filmed in Sweden) to shoot a music video. A large contingent of attractive femme models isalong, to provide th usual scantily clad decoration (even though it's cold and strictly snowsville, with frequent avalanches to boot).
While the troupe is holed up in a snug mountain cabin, workmen disturb the peace of a barbarian clan of savages living underneath an abandoned factory nearby. A prolog sequence shows how an ultraviolent domestic quarrel some 10 years earlier ended up with daddy dead and mom and the kids trekking to the remote spot where they're living and murdering primitively today.
When the rock entourage youngsters are not engaged in sex they're wandering out in the snow (this being a cornball horror picture after all) to be attacked by the primitives.
"Blood Tracks" emphasizes some grisly makeup effects, particularly one in which a girl suddenly is split in two from head to toe. Several sex and nude scenes are included, the silliest of which has blonde Mary (Karina Lee) making love to a musician out in a car when they're buried by an avalanche; when rescued she scrambles across the snow naked much to the merriment of the rescuers.
Cast is hampered by the use of post-synchronized English dialog, but the youngsters are good looking and that apparently is all that is required in this genre.