ricktr
There were some good and bad things about this movie. The good were really good and the bad were mostly awful. I'll start with the good. GOOD- Actors- I don't have all the names, so I'll just refer to their roles. The guy who played Brad was excellent. The sister and mother were pretty good. FX- The special effects were excellent. Photography- Professional. Plot- Mostly good except for certain things (see below)BAD- (Here is where the **SPOILERS** come in) The Sound- The sound seemed muffed or something. I could barely understand what the actors were saying. I kept rewinding it to try to catch the words, but I still missed a lot of it. Actors- The guy with the weird hair was not a good actor. Very wooden and robotic.The two girls were a little better. Now I come to the main thing that ruined the movie, the big-lipped "Freestyle". He was the most annoying thing in the whole movie. Every time things started getting good, he'd show up and throw off the whole mood. I also got tired of seeing him slobber all over the blond girl. Why do these movies always insist on showing an ugly black guy with a cute blond girlfriend? Why don't they have an ugly white guy with a cute black girlfriend? Talk about racist. The Dance- The dance the sister did was terrible. I don't know if it was supposed to be bad on purpose, but it sure was. The Ending- When everything started going bad, they try to call the doctor and get the answering machine. Then they give up. Why didn't they call 911? The ending would have been better to show the police and ambulance showing up after everything happened. Suggestions for the future- No more "Freestyle" or guy with weird hair. Work on the plot before filming. Better sound or clearer pronunciation. Keep the actor who plays Brad. Keep the FX team.
Endgame-953-297845
If there were negative scores, this pile of crap would qualify.Obviously some shills have padded the reviews here because absolutely no one could give this movie a rating of more than 1. IMDb should simply remove this movie from the database. Or, if that's not possible, remove the shill reviews lest someone actually think this garbage has value in any way.Claims the budget is $20K. That's about $19,999 more than it was worth.Quite possibly the worst movie I've ever seen. Inane plot (to the extent that there is any plot whatsoever). Atrocious acting (it's as if they found some people on the street and asked them if they wanted to be in a movie). Phenomenally bad production values. There is nothing--absolutely nothing--good here. Waste of time, effort and someone's $20K.
channel-kdk12
Sergeant Brad Roback is coming home from Iraq in a wheelchair. With no memory of the attack, or what occurred afterward, and with the loss of function in his legs, it is natural that Brad is confused and dazed. But something more is wrong with Brad. He looks half-dead, with red sunken eyes and a ghastly pallor. He cannot eat; his body oozes black fluid, the stench from which is like the stench of death. As Brad deteriorates, his family gathered round to support him but unable to reach him, the full toll of war is seen. Sella Turcica is a brutal, brilliant statement about the terrors of war. With excellent acting that brings home the heart-breaking horror of what is happening, highly effective makeup and special effects, and a story that will fester i your brain, Sella Turcica is one of the best anti-war horror films we've ever seen.
musicminds247
Progression: the action or process of progressing.That is a word that will probably appear several times throughout this review and you may be asking yourself "why is a review for a horror movie starting out with the Webster's dictionary definition for the word progression?" There is a reason my friend, bare with me and please read on.TOETAG INC. landed on the horror scene with the August Underground series, forever cementing their mark in horror history. After the AU series, TOETAG released their first cinematic feature THE REDSIN TOWER, showing fans and critics alike that there was more to this company than just faux snuff films and hyper realistic, ultra gross out FX trickery.With their next feature, MURDER COLLECTION VOL.1, TOETAG began to show more depth in their arsenal of what they can do. It was similar, in a sense, to the AUGUST UNDERGROUND series in that it was shot primarily on video, it was "real" death caught on camera and it employed ultra real makeup effects that are too much for many to handle, but it was still quite different from what had came prior in how it was executed (pardon the pun). It was a progression, a step forward in filmmaking.Next up, TOETAG released MASKHEAD, furthering displaying a departure from their earlier faux snuff film ventures and returning to more of the cinematic approach that we saw with THE REDSIN TOWER. Teaming with Scott Swan (Masters of Horror: Cigarette Burns), TOETAG showed with MASKHEAD that there were new avenues about to be traveled down; it showed that the doors were about to knocked down. This was yet another progression, another step forward in where TOETAG were taking us, a progressive journey that would take us to their latest film, SELLA TURCICA.SELLA TURCICA tells the story of Sgt. Brad Roback (Damien Maruscak), who returns home from the war in Afghanistan where he suffered a mysterious accident that leaves even him unsure of exactly what happened. The accident rendered him paralyzed from the waist down and his whole demeanor somewhat different than when he left. Brad's family is also unaware of the details surrounding Brad's accident and the severity of the condition it has left him in. Once Brad is finally back home, they immediately notice that something is wrong with Brad but over the next twenty-six hours his condition rapidly deteriorates, spiraling into a horrific climax for Brad and his family that you won't soon forget! Check out the rest of the review here: http://www.beyondtherealms.com/Sella_Turcica_Review.html