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Well, our robbers had a fine plan escaping the bank except for the killer being in the abandoned metro system. Now they have to survive, managing 2 hostages, 1 cop and maybe treachery inside the team.

It was not as bad as I thought. Clearly, Igor Shavlak has a good team to work with and the movie has a peculiar feeling (image and sound speaking). It's a technical demo explaining that Russian directors can do as well as American ones.

Too bad they forgot something to make the story interesting. Despite its short playtime (1 h 20 min), there is no really anything going on. The killer is not inventive and not manipulative (though the place suggested a nice "cat & mice" game) enough. The movie has a really good scene at the end when the last two survivors are followed by the killer and finally interact. It should have been this all along the movie to be really enjoyable.

If "old nightmares have a new face" as it is written on the poster, it sure reminds other movies: Silent Hill, Jeepers Creepers, Descent. Not a bad basis to work on but as I said before it lacks the originality.

With a good plot though, I'm sure that Scavlak and his team can make a fine movie to watch.

Thieves remove money and three hostages from a Russian bank, take it to a labyrinthine underground subway system of tunnels where their mastermind is supposed to be waiting since he understands where the exit is. What the three bank robbers don't expect is a psycho wielding a pickax with a penchant for removing eyeballs as keepsakes! The film highlights Grom(Dmitri Orlov)as the most level-headed humane figure among the thieves who soon becomes leader of their motley frightened group hoping to set some sort of trap for the killer, but his problem is that only the "trackman" understands his way around the underground maze. Kostya(Tomas Motskus)and his partner were responsible for this seemingly perfect plan of snatch-grab-hide-and-escape not knowing that there would be a major set-back awaiting them in the tunnels. Kostya and his pal had planned on keeping the loot for themselves which, in a wicked twist of fate, is spoiled thanks to their choice of location.

The killer wears an eerie pair of goggles over a ski-mask, heavy overcoat and pants, carrying not only his trusty pick-ax but an eye-removing device as well(..one of those nasty kind of creations obviously designed and made by his own mind and hands). Director Igor Shavlak often shoots the trackman in ominous ways and really exploits the dread of our characters' situation thanks in part to the choice of location. The ancient abandoned underground subway tunnels make an ideal choice for an atmospheric hunting ground for a killer, and the perilous situation our characters find themselves in works in the film's favor. The idea that the killer knows the method of travel and escape in the tunnels as the others attempt various ways to escape heightens the suspense even though slasher fans have seen this all before. Director Shavlak mostly pulls his punches, not really elaborating on the attacks with great detail, disguising the pick-ax violence(..and eyeball extracting)through cunning camera-movements and editing. What is a constant, a certain success, is that the location, claustrophobic and unsettling, where light is privilege the characters often lack and their cold breath is always visible, works it's hold over you..you would certainly not want to be caught in this environment with a killer who knows where every nook and cranny is of the place. Unlike a great number of films in the slasher genre, the identity of the killer is of no great importance to the plot as a whole. He's a warped and dangerous psychopath who constantly threatens those he pursues. Guns are used in ways which shape the outcome of certain characters' lives thanks to a killer who hides and moves well in the dark patches of the place with fear often separating them. One robber, who decides that there's no way in hell the killer would get his trophy, slashes his own eyes with a blade. We do witness an eyeball being pried away from the socket, but it's rather brief. I think the novelty of this being a Russian slasher might catch on with fans of the genre, while others will find it just another average entry in the ever-growing cycle of films regarding a serial killer chasing his prey.

A group of bank robbers take some hostages after a heist and hightail it to an abandoned underground subway station. After being double crossed by one of their members, the group finds themselves lost in the underground tunnels. To make matters worse there is a killer on the loose in the tunnels known as the Trackman (Aleksey Dmitriev) who stalks and kills our hapless group. With goggles and a pick Ax in hand, the Trackman goes to work and the group falls one by one. This Russian horror film has an impressive looking villain in the Trackman and some of the deaths by pick ax have some fun to them. Director Igor Shavlak keeps Trackman in the shadows and manages to build suspense in short blasts. Unfortunately the screenplay and the poor dubbing get in the way too many times and sink the film every time it gets going. One of the actresses dubbing one of the characters is whining the entire time and is annoying as hell. There isn't any real explanation for the Trackman being down there or what the bank robbers were trying to accomplish by going underground after the robbery. A cool killer, who belonged in a better movie.

This is a Russian entry from the Ghost House Underground collection translated as TRACKMAN. A bank heist is planed at McDonalds using condiments. The robbery itself isn't perfect; good enough though to getaway with money, but bad enough to need hostages. The criminals with hostages in tow take refuge in abandoned underground subway tunnels below a junkyard. Things otherwise is going as planned until they realize they are trapped in the tunnels with no way out and they are not alone. The tunnels are home to a demented serial killer that has an affinity for his victim's eyeballs.

Most of the movie is underground making for most of the anxiety and fear. Two very nice looking hostages are played by Yuliya Mikhailova and Svetlana Metkina; and the Trackman is played by Aleksei Dmitriyev. The movie's director Igor Shavlak also has a role.

In Russia, a group of bank robbers rob a bank and take three tellers hostage. They escape through a series of underground tunnels, but what they don't know is that the tunnels are home to a maniacal serial killer who enjoys taking the eyes of his victims. Now the robbers and their hostages must work together in order to make it out of the tunnels alive.

This isn't one of the best Ghost House Underground movies to be released, but it's not the worst. It lacks originality, development and storyline, but it does accomplish the gore factor extremely well. The movie was made in Russia so the English is dubbed, which I always have a problem with because I get a headache when they don't say what's being said, but overall it was a highly forgettable film.

A splendid movie, in which a couple of Russians end up in a abandoned subway system beneath the streets of Moscow. Before you know it, a freak (mentally and physically challenged one) is poking their eyeballs out with an eyeball.... poking....thingy... Even though they're all armed to the teeth, almost all of them, somehow managed to die. In the end Grom(some Russian fellow) and Katja(Some Russian bimbo) Surprisingly managed to kill the mentally and physically challenged freak and escape on a motor bike. A THRILLING conclusion to a great, twisted, filled with metaphor and eyeballs masterpiece of a movie. A MUST SEE!(if you happen to have an unpoked set of eyes) P.S. I think it would have been a tiny bit better if the guy shoved the eyeballs in his rectum while making the following sound: "Hargh!" Thank you and good night. Sincerely,

The eyeball