The Tracks

The Tracks is a 2019 American independent slasher film and an adaption of the urban legend "Bunny Man". The film follows a group of teenagers who set out to investigate the legend, following a chain of murders which occurred in the early to mid 70's. The film takes place in October of 1999.

Plot Summary
On the night of October 19th, 1970, in the small town of Burke, Virginia, a young couple named Marcia and Roger drive out to a rural road where they plan to have sex. While doing so, an unseen assailant smashes out the driver's side window, pulling Roger from the vehicle. As the person murders Roger with a hatchet, Marcia climbs out of the car and sees the person is wearing an old Easter Bunny mask. The figure chases Marcia through a field, before catching up to her and killing her as well.

Marcia is revealed to be the daughter of Sheriff Alan Ward, who leads a group of men to apprehend Douglas P. Grifon, a mental patient who had escaped during a bus crash three days prior; Grifon is revealed to have murdered his own family on Easter Sunday. They discover numerous skinned animal carcasses hanging in the woods and around the abandoned train station where Grifon has been hiding out. Grifon suddenly appears in his scrubs and mask, wielding a hatchet. He attacks Ward, who shoots him with a revolver. Grifon crawls onto the railroad tracks, where he is presumably struck by a train, although no body is ever found.

Twenty nine years following the incident, a group of students: Travis, his girlfriend Jen, and their friends Megan, Luke, and Seth are riding through rural Virginia, making a documentary on haunted locations. The five friends enter Burke, Virginia, and speak with the locals about the Bunny Man murders, with Douglas P. Grifon being the responsible party. Travis later interviews Sheriff Lee Ward, who is Alan's grandson. He warns them to stay away from the bridge late at night, as weird things happen when the Sun goes down. The group ride out to the bridge, where they learn it is on a closed road. The only time there is any sort of movement on the road is for the train that passes through late at night.

While the group consume drugs and alcohol, Megan and Luke sneak into the woods to have sex against a tree. Luke walks away to relieve himself, leaving Megan alone. As he is doing so, he is struck on the head with a hatchet, killing him. The figure is revealed to be someone dressed as Grifon, who goes to attack Megan. Megan believes it is only her boyfriend playing a prank on her, until the person attacks her. He pursues her through the woods and she accidentally falls down a hole, breaking her leg. The next morning, Jen discovers Megan and Luke are missing and goes into the woods with Travis and Seth to search for them.

When they do not find anything, the group searches in town for their friends and alerts Sheriff Ward, who believes they might have been attacked by animals. He rallies up some men to search in the woods for them, where they discover Luke's skinned carcass dangling from a tree limb; one of Ward's deputies discovers the hole Megan had fallen into, but only find blood and scratches in the walls of the hole. Ward promises to locate Megan and figure out who the murderer is, fearing that Grifon survived and has returned.

The remaining group get a motel room for the evening, with Jen wanting to go back and search for Megan, although Travis and Seth believe it is not a good idea. Jen decides to go on anyways without them; she drives out to the bridge, where she discovers rabbit carcasses hanging in the trees. Armed with only a flashlight and walking stick, Jen descends into the woods to look for her friend. Travis and Seth alert Sheriff Ward, who drives with them out to the bridge in his squad car. Suddenly, Ward becomes menacing towards the boys and orders them out of the vehicle.

He holds them at gunpoint, before going around to the back of his struck and putting on his Bunny mask, revealing that he is Grifon's son and avenger. He pulls out the bloody hatchet and orders Seth to kneel down, before bludgeoning him to death with the blunt end of the hatchet. Travis attempts to fight back, with his fate being left ambiguous. Meanwhile, Jen discovers the abandoned train station. She discovers Megan tied up and gagged in an office, along with pictures of missing women, who are the Bunny Man's victims.

Ward appears and attacks Jen and Megan, chopping through the desk and chasing them around the building. Jen hides Megan, before luring Ward away; he attacks her, but she fights back by shoving a piece of glass in his eye. Ward, enraged, begins to chop at Jen with his hatchet, but is shot by Travis, who is revealed to be alive. Ward becomes distracted by the gunfire, allowing Jen enough time to push him off the platform and into the path of the train, killing him.