An avalanche strands a glam rock band and their groupies in the Colorado Rockies during a video shoot. A family of mutants brutally hunts them down, but these Swedes and Brits trying to pass as Americans are too concerned with getting laid to notice until it is way too late.
The eighties really threw up all over this low budget Hills Have Eyes ripoff — and that’s not a bad thing, really. In fact, I found this forgotten slasher to be massively entertaining. Lazy writing, ambitious kill scenes, and original songs by forgotten glam rock band Easy Action (known as Solid Gold in the film) make Blood Tracks a memorable piece of true trash cinema.
Seriously though, the writing is just egregious. There is not a mote of survival instinct between this entire group of people. Fortunately, this gaggle of victims’ bad decisions lead to a sizable body count (18!) and a wide variety of creative dispatches. We’ve got eye removal, impalement, bisection, and dismemberment by shotgun, among others. Most of them look great, too. Or at least they would, if it weren’t for the fact that a good portion of this film is so dark it is difficult to see what is happening. The dim lighting does help hide the bad makeup on the mutants, though.
Bad lighting aside, Blood Tracks is still an 80s romp of the highest order. It’s a great group watch, especially if your group isn’t particularly sober. I’d give it three stars and a solid recommendation for fans of the art of garbage.
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