2/5 Typical horror schlock that force feeds us the same old scenarios
  by Rockafella (Riverside, CA United States)
The creators of this movie are honestly insulting our intelligence. After half way through this movie I couldn't take anymore. I place this movie in the same waste basket as the new version of the Hitcher and Wolf Creek. It has the same elements. The usual car that doesn't start, the chances for the victims to escape that aren't taken for some odd reason, the retarded people that walk right up to the criminals so they can kill them. To top it all off, it has the girl run out of gas after she starts the truck. As though they want us to believe that the workers in the woods didn't notice that fact that they wouldn't have had enough gas to made it back themselves! Enough. I will not be insulted. At least give an effort to think of the things people just aren't going to do, and situations that aren't going to happen.

1/5 Horrendously boring
  by Mr Takeaway
This movie is set in an alternate universe where apperently forest workers, policemen and women are incapable of any communication save screaming or gesturing. They also lack the capability of making rational decisions. I think the movie would have been more believable if the heroine was an escaped mute mental patient.

The plot does not contain one twist and constantly repeats. The direction is incredibly slow. Combine with zero dialogue, and you'll feel the need to fast forward. Extra points for the stupid tilted shots trying to get a "sinister" feel. Also, the overuse of closeups in all situations makes it impossible to get any physical context.

Another reviewer alluded to the use (root problem) of symbolism in the film. I must admit it didn't even cross my mind while watching, since it was impossible to take the film that seriously.

Extremely boring on all levels. Avoid at all costs.

2/5 Meh...not that great
  by PalisadesDefence (Oshawa, ON, Canada)
First of all, I have to say that the only reason this got two stars is because I thought the premise was very interesting (althought not well executed) and the cinematogrophy (that is defintely spelled wrong) was fantastic. Other than that, was boring....almost fast forwarded to the end, but was worried that maybe I would miss something profound.....no such luck. Was very disappointed...

5/5 HORROR/THRILLER AT IT'S BEST!
  by John D. Seneca (PLAQUEMINE, LOUISIANA)
THIS IS ONE OF THE BEST DIRECT-TO-DVD MOVIES THAT I'VE SEEN IN QUITE SOME TIME! WELL WORTHY OF THEATRICAL EXHIBITION AND A LOT BETTER THAN MOST OF THE MOVIES RELEASED THEATRICALLY!
IF YOU LIKE MOVIES ABOUT OBSESSED SERIAL KILLERS..THEN CHECK THIS ONE OUT!
I THOROUGHLY ENJOYED IT AND FANS OF THE SLASHER GENRE SHOULD ENJOY IT AS WELL!!

2/5 Training Wheels
  by Mark Eremite (Seoul, South Korea)
Shot in a harsh mini-DV format with an oversaturation of colors, "Blood Trails" is, aesthetically, a visually arresting pic. Its raw lens is focused mainly on a bike messenger named Anne, whose relationship with her boyfriend, Michael, is on the rocks. In a weak moment, she agrees to a one-night stand with a steady-eyed bicycle cop (Chris), and immediately regrets it, as Chris gets a little ... weird. Rueful and ashamed, she tries, the next day, to patch things up with Michael via a nice, quiet bike ride in the woods.

The daytrip turns out to be neither nice nor quiet. Chris has followed them into the mountainside forests and demands complete possession of Anne, which starts with him dispatching of Michael in a ludicrous and altogether laughable fashion. The "horror" that follows Anne for the rest of this tepid film is, we are meant to realize, the repercusions of her single, adulterous mistake.

The problem is that Anne, like most Slasher Pic Sirens, continues to make mistakes in her attempts to find safety and freedom. In fact, of the many, many, many horror/killer films I've seen, Anne has got to be, hands-down, the absolute stupidest heroine I have ever had the misfortune to watch. I wondered, as the film progressed, how any clear-thinking director could expect an audience to find Anne sympathetic, her actions understandable, or her position terrifying.

Not that our villain is any more relatable. In addition to possessing a humbling silence common for most malicious men, Chris is also, apparantly, an expert tracker with something like superhuman strength and agility. Neither he nor Anne seem very real until the final scene. This last burst of full-flowered action is a welcome change of pace, but it is also short and truncated. One gets the impression that almost the entire movie was made on the basis of this inspired conclusion.

Almost. It was also (rather obviously) built upon an allegory of self-discovery and sexuality, and this is why -- I believe -- the film fails so fully. Instead of trying to tell an engaging story of escape and fear, our director and writer (Robert Krause) has lifted a maudlin metaphor out of the cheesiest of self-help books for women and has tried to give it animus and color. Anne, you see, is running from herself. Chris, you see, is her unlikely mentor, here to teach her all about the grisly corners of the human soul. This is why her actions are all so inane -- they are no more or less ridiculous than the rationalizations we use for the most common of human decisions (staying with the abusive spouse, smoking that cigarette, drinking and driving). In this case, Anne is running not from Chris, but from what she likes about Chris. Her fear is not that Chris will kill her, but that he WON'T. Don't you get it? It's all one. Big. Symbol.

It's also one big trainwreck of a film, deeper meanings notwithstanding. Metaphors and allegories are NO substitute for a good story, I don't care how profound or true the underlying message is. Krause has got the pacing down. He knows how to knit together a scene with crisp and crass chromatics. He even frames his moments rather well. But if a runner is going nowhere, pacing doesn't matter. If there is nothing interesting to see, color makes no difference. And if your Big Message is transmitted by symbols that are hollow and mundane, no amount of clever framing will make them seem anything other than dull.