I confess that my expectations for Trail of Blood were really low. The first 20 minutes or so were about as trite and formulaic they come: 5-6 kids out on a camping trip, scary-music set ups that turned out to be a friend walking up from behind. The campers were of course your stereotypical self-absorbed millennials. Really? Why was I watching this? But at about minute 30, things turned.... a turn to the bad for the young campers, and to the good for the viewer. Enter ex-Marine (Trevor Torseth), who in his first minute of screen time raised the average quality of the acting by about a third. It's not a spoiler to say that people die here. While much of the last 45 minutes of Trail of Blood are predictable, there are enough twists and unexpected flashes of brutality to raise it a notch or two above the typical Survive the Madman in the Woods flicks that are a dime a dozen. Trail of Blood is an example of what can be made on a small budget with decent direction, a solid performance in a key role and a good script,
Review of Trail of Blood
