Blood Star

Blood Star

Year: 2024

Runtime: 97 mins

Language: English

Director: Lawrence Jacomelli

Echo Score: 80
HorrorThriller

While driving alone through the desert, a young woman finds herself pursued by a ruthless and psychopathic sheriff. What begins as a chase quickly turns deadly, forcing her to rely on her wits and resourcefulness to survive. She must find a way to outsmart him and escape his dangerous game in this tense and suspenseful thriller.

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Timeline – Blood Star (2024)

Trace every key event in Blood Star (2024) with our detailed, chronological timeline. Perfect for unpacking nonlinear stories, spotting hidden connections, and understanding how each scene builds toward the film’s climax. Whether you're revisiting or decoding for the first time, this timeline gives you the full picture.

1

Night desert pursuit and gun handoff

A girl is chased along a desert road at night. A man hands her a pistol with a single bullet and she loads it, aiming at the oncoming car. The car crashes into her, starting a brutal, survival-filled sequence.

Night Desert road
2

Morning drive; sister’s plea

The next morning, Bobbi Torres drives her 1977 Ford Mustang along a desert highway while her sister Anna calls, urging her to leave her abusive boyfriend Rhett. The drive becomes a tense, personal rebellion against control. The call sets motive for the journey ahead.

Morning Desert highway
3

Remote gas station encounter

At a remote gas station, Bobbi meets a sheriff who offers her a soda, which she declines. Anna’s call returns with warnings that amplify Bobbi’s anger, foreshadowing the sheriff’s looming threat. The exchange heightens tension in a desolate setting.

Day Remote gas station
4

Shakedown on the highway

The sheriff ambushes Bobbi, shatters her car lights and tire, and takes her license while demanding payment. He also confiscates her phone, leaving her cut off and vulnerable. Returning to the gas station, she learns the ATM is broken and her card is declined.

Day Highway / gas station
5

Escape after a roadblock

Bobbi escapes on foot after the sheriff forces her car off the road and harasses her again. She runs into the desert, trying to outpace him as the chase resumes. The threat level stays high as she searches for a safe moment to turn the tables.

Day Desert highway
6

Diner entrapment and calls for help

At a diner, Bobbi steals change to call Rhett, who accuses her of an affair with the sheriff. She befriends a waitress named Amy, but the sheriff arrives and traps Bobbi inside. She calls 911 and then her sister, but the sheriff returns her belongings, leaving her disoriented.

Day Diner
7

Amy’s fate and sheriff’s tightening grip

Amy is fired for the money Bobbi stole, and the sheriff’s car appears, signaling the next phase of pursuit. The sheriff closes in, and the danger for Bobbi intensifies as she remains trapped and hunted.

Day Diner vicinity
8

Frame-up, murder, and scrapyard confrontation

The sheriff corners Bobbi and frames her for murder, manipulating a truck driver who is killed. She escapes in a car that overheats and ends up at a scrapyard, where she confronts Ed and realizes a deeper conspiracy. The web of crimes tightens around her.

Day Scrapyard
9

Revelations and captivity

In a scrapyard shed, Bobbi discovers a wall of drivers’ licenses, hinting at a string of victims. The sheriff reveals his crimes and the disturbing history of Ed, who is connected to his father. Bobbi is captured by Ed and bound, facing a disturbing psychological trap.

Night Scrapyard/workshop
10

Escape and weapon of last resort

The sheriff tortures Bobbi with a jawbone knife and taunts her with a perverse offer of freedom. She provokes him, seizes the weapon, and overpowers her captor to escape, leaving herself battered but determined.

Night Scrapyard/workshop
11

Desert standoff and final takedown

Bobbi stumbles onto a desert road where the sheriff pursues in a cruiser. After a tense exchange, she appears to shoot herself, but instead she stabs him with the jawbone knife and steals the cruiser. She drives through him once he runs out of bullets, ending the immediate threat.

Night Desert road
12

Garage finale and dawn

In a garage, Bobbi retrieves her tongue for reattachment and kills Ed with a wrecking bar. She collects all the drivers’ licenses as evidence, refuses Rhett’s call, and drives toward the city lights as dawn breaks, beginning a new life free from control.

Dawn Garage

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