Night Trails (Luces de la Noche)

Starring:Ana Ofelia MurguÃa, Fernando Balzaretti, Pedro Weber 'Chatanuga', Max Kerlow, Dobrina Liubomirova, Helena Rojo, DemiÃ¡n Bichir, Luis Felipe Tovar, Guillermo Gil, HÃ©ctor Bonilla, Leticia Huijara, Manuel Ojeda, Ana Bertha EspÃn
Director: Sergio MuÃ±oz GÃ¼emes
Studio: Desert Mountain
Product Type: DVD

Description

Guilty for a drunken one-night stand with a stranger, Anne proposes a romantic escape to the mountains with her boyfriend Michael. The fresh air and scenic beauty do wonders for the couple as they sail down the bike trails of the exotic mountain range...until the stranger from that night reappears...killing Michael and beginning his deadly pursuit.

Customer Reviews:

Meh...not that great.......2007-05-14

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...

HORROR/THRILLER AT IT'S BEST!.......2007-04-23

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!!

Training Wheels.......2007-04-03

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.

Ride, Scream, Kill, Repeat.......2007-04-01

Blood Trails; the story of a woman who - in guilt - gets away from life with boyfriend - who she just cheated on - to attempt to make things better. Too bad for her, her guilt isn't the only thing that follows her into the woods.

I feel Blood Trails had a lot more potential than it showcased. With what it did show, I didn't particularly enjoy. It was a repeated showcase. After we see the set-up of the cheating, the break-up, the getting back together, and the getting to the cabin woods - we have our leading lady witness a murder, ride on her bike, scream a lot, witness another murder (of a random man in the woods), ride on her bike, scream a lot, witness yet another mother of another random man in the woods, actually get the chance to confront the murderer as to why he's following her, then start riding on her bike and screaming some more.

I understand that we are led to believe that the chick is helpless and distraught after seeing so much grisly going on. But why not go the helpless gal route, and turn around and go the way you came and find your way to safety instead of riding around and screaming? It became tiring after a while, and eventually bored me to closing my eyes a few times. Only to open them at the sound of chick riding and screaming again.

There are some little shining moments in this mess, though. The visuals are pretty great. The colors and landscapes all were full and very mood setting. Rebecca Palmer, the lead, finally stopped getting on my nerves when it came to the conclusion in the cabin, and especially when it came to the final shot of the movie. Our resident madman, Tom Frederic, was the only actor to stay strong throughout the entire film. His facial expressions and his eyes did most of the work for him, and that was okay. And there's a nifty "that would never happen in real life" kind of kill that I wish was capitalized a little more.

In the end ... well, that's all I really enjoyed about Blood Trails, was the end. And I mean the end by the last 15 minutes or so. It could have been just a 20 minute short film and it would have been amazing.

A total waste of time and money.......2007-03-19

Very bad acting, unreal scenario already seen again and again.
Save your money and time and try something else.

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Mr. Skin please add this to your website, pleeease

Night Trails (Luces de la Noche)
Starring: Ana Ofelia Murguía , Fernando Balzaretti , Pedro Weber 'Chatanuga' , Max Kerlow , and Dobrina Liubomirova
Director: Sergio Muñoz Güemes
Manufacturer: Desert Mountain
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Description

A first love is never forgotten...but can the romance of the past be re-ignited in desperate and uncertain circumstances? A recently retired judge finds a photo of the girl he loved in his youth. Overwhelmed by romantic nostalgia, he begins a search that leads him to confront a sordid past of political corruption, passion and violence.

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Mr. Skin please add this to your website, pleeease.......2006-06-10

This was an excellent portrayl of a middle-aged man's flashbacks and longing for his first love. I am sure that this premise is quite unique for the tangibles he encounters makes him remember that sheer passion he experienced with his first love. Although one has numerous relationships over the course of a lifetime, it is the first one that had a thrilling uniqueness, the kind that sends butterflies in your stomach. There is an abundance of passionate sex and tasteful nudity, which in the case of this film, enhances it.

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Release Date: 2006-09-01

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