Trackman (2007)
"Putevoy obkhodchik" (original title)

Director:

Igor Shavlak

Writers:

Valery Krechetov (screenplay), Viktor Sorokin (screenplay)

Stars:

Svetlana Metkina, Dmitriy Orlov, Aleksandr Vysokovskiy

Cast

Cast overview:
Svetlana Metkina	...	Katya
Dmitriy Orlov	...	Grom
Aleksandr Vysokovskiy	...	Pakhomov
Yuliya Mikhaylova	...	Olga
Tomas Motskus	...	Kostya
Oleg Kamenshchikov	...	Irkut
Aleksey Dmitriev	...	Trackman
Svetlana Gudkova	...	Elena
Igor Shavlak	...	Colonel

Storyline

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Plot Keywords:

eyeball | eye gouging | person on fire | ghost house underground | severed hand | 

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Genres:

Horror | Thriller

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Certificate:

Unrated

Details

Official Sites:

Official site

Country:

Russia

Language:

Russian

Release Date:

13 September 2007 (Russia)

Also Known As:

Rööpaseadja

Filming Locations:

Moscow, Russia

Company Credits

Production Co:

Importfilm

Technical Specs

Runtime:

80 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

User Reviews

Been there, seen this... a lot better

Trackman could as well be an American movie if you replace the Russian cliché actors with their Hollywood clichés. The whole thing is pretty much ripped from other movies and stretched to the limit. It starts in a pretty modern way where 2 bank robbers make their plan in a McDonalds, time switching to the later bank robbery and back. Although I liked the beginning of the movie it seemed a unnatural and like the director begging to be different. Anyway, we've seen this... although not in a horror movie. So what next... After the robbery fails they take hostages and hide... oh yeah .... in an old abandoned metro tunnel system under a junkyard. You can guess whats coming from that point. Now you got 4 gangsters and 3 hostages to go for a killer who lives down there and has a strange interest in his victims eyes. The whole thing makes absolutely no sense... so the typical comment of one gangster "Did you hear the tale of a mutated maniac living down here" is totally nullified with the ending which is trying to give an endless 80 slasher-minutes some meaning and fails miserably because it makes absolutely no sense with a killer having his eyeball-collection office installed down there. If the movie sticked to its slasher basics maybe it could have succeeded with the eerie atmosphere in the tunnels but still most of the time nothing is happening and the eeriness wears off after seeing dark empty tunnels with something moving far away for the 100th time. The kills are boring, the acting not too convincing and the back story seems too constructed trying to get out of its genre barriers but stumbling across its many plot holes. If you like dark empty tunnels and pickaxe-murders with wielding goggles mixed in with some real annoying modern editing and action-elements thrown in... go ahead. I guess the ending will ruin it even for you... the escape sequence on the motorcycle is beyond laughable.