Sella Turcica

A soldier returns from war to a family happy to see him. Soon they become not so happy and by the end even less happy. Over the course of a couple of days the soldiers health deteriorates until the point the family know something is very wrong, by which point it is too late.

I watch a lot of low budget horror movies so I'm used to seeing terrible acting and low production values and it never usually puts me off. The acting here isn't great but I have seen a hell of a lot worse. Also it was good to see Camille Keaton again even in such a small role.

The film quality itself is pretty good but the sound is very muffled. The make up FX and gore FX towards the end of the movie are very good as anyone familiar with the Toetag movies would expect. At the end the way the soldier begins acting I found very chilling and thought his performance was easily the best.

My only problem with this movie was that it is painfully slow. As the returning soldier gets more ill his monologues become very slow and I found myself keep checking the running time for the movie wondering how much longer it was going on for.

If you were a fan of death dream but were disappointed it didn't quite go for the jugular then you owe it to yourself to check this out. It's nowhere near as classy but still very enjoyable.

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.

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

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.

I usually write a review when the movie is either of exceptional standards or when it is an absolute crap, to put it mildly. Well for those who might be unfortunate enough to watch even 5 minutes of "this" ... will know which category it fits in. One could go to great lengths in describing how bad this is. But I'd rather save some time and simply advise anyone with the slightest sense of self respect and intelligence to save their time too and stay away from this ... atrocious joke. Horrific! Horrid! Ridiculously bad !!! IMDb has a ridiculous policy of 10 lines minimum in a review, thus, I must keep writing until it can actually be approved. Thats how bad this "video" is, that I feel sick just by writing about it. But I feel obliged to contradict those three imbeciles posting positive reviews, who are either somehow involved in the production of this joke or they are just sick morons with a twisted sense of humour who think it's funny posting a false positive review in order to make others watch this INSANELY BAD production. Hope the above should be enough to warn some folks, who might actually be interested in watching quality, instead of this ... god I cant refrain from using the word CRAP again in describing it. CRAP ! CRAP ! CRAP ! is what this is. There it goes, I said it. Nothing else needs to be said.