T.T. Sindrom

First, I would like to tell something to foreign watchers. I have never watched scarier splatter trash horror film ever. Must be mentality ruined perception of the film, or just the title to those people above .

Try to watch it alone. Sickest idea is that you must realize what is t.t. syndrome? So if you answer me, you can write your recension without my negations.. This movie is a pure horror movie, but many Serbian films got a note of some sick melancholy in their core.

They used innocence of baby and destroyed it through pathology they used to described. Murky piece of hell in the corridors of ex-infrastructures of Turkish empire on the territory of Serbia and psychotic atmosphere of worst nightmares.

If you have ever wondered why in childbirth scenes we are never shown the actual umbilical cord this film is the answer. Save yourself the trip to the cinema and visit a meat market, kindly ask to be allowed to see meat get chopped and deboned you'll get the same feeling- plain disgust. The only impact the film will have on you is that you might consider becoming a vegetarian. Oh, and a 'shocking-plot give-away killer's scrapbook' and 'buckets of blood' and lines like "I'll be right back" will just make you shake your head and laugh.

The scariest thing in the entire film is the state of public restrooms in Yugoslavia's capital (they put Trainspotting's "worst toilet in Scotland" to shame.

The acting is actually good, the script semi-original and you might ask what went wrong- well, you can't identify with the victims because the characters simply -never - develop. It's scary when you see one splattered brain and a trail of blood but when brains are everywhere and blood is overflowing toilets that's when you head for the door.

I give it 2 out of 10 for the 3 funny lines it has, 1 cool scene at the end and a very cool leather jacket.

O.K. Before I watched this movie, my expectations weren´t high at all. I expected some cheezy awful mess of an attempt to make a good horror picture in Balkan (?!?). After watching it, I wasn´t thrilled in any way, of course, but still, I wasn´t disapointed either. It was a cheap serbian splatter horror that I could actually watch without much laughter. The premise, of course, is absolutely absurd. There are a few guys (and 2 girls) trapped in a turkish toilet in Belgrade and a psychotic killer is on the loose (yes, you´ve heard me correctly, the movie actually takes place in the toilet). And this absurdity took my attention. By the end I guessed the killer more than easily, but the director maked sure that we receive a few more surprises. Zecevic understands that he´s making a splatter picture, so he´s not trying to be serious in any way (just like more famous likes of Braindead, Luther the Geek or The Last House on the Left) and he adds a few ridicolous laughs. The acting is more than good, maybe a little too good and sometimes it ruins caricaturical atmosphere. What I dislike most in this movie is some kind of an experimental horror editing, which failed big time. They even added some amateur camera shots, but this is not The Blair Witch Project or Man Bites Dog. So, T.T.Syndhrome is by no means a great movie, but still a very brave effort of director Zecevic to direct something that has never been directed before in Serbia - a real splatter horror. Congratulations to Dejan.

I'm searching online for last hour and I find only negative reviews. I gave fair chance to negative argumentation and I absolutely disagree with all those reviews that underrate this movie. I saw it on the big screen when it was released and I left theater under strong impressions. 15 years later after watching it again on my computer I still have the same opinion. This is a great movie. Of course, it is not a masterpiece of cinematography, but which slasher horror is... This movie is important as first real Serbian horror. Many domestic movies have horror elements, but this is first completely horror movie. And within slasher horror genre it is excellent. Good story, strong acting, original ambient, and the overall atmosphere is perfect for this kind of film. To this day no movies came even close to this one, except maybe "A Serbian Film" (2010).

8/10

First off, this isn't first Serbian horror, but a first Serbian SPLATTER/GORE horror movie. Yes, this is cheaply done and VERY trashy, and such aesthetics makes the atmosphere just perfect. The movie is brutal, but such brutality is rather atmospheric and pathological, not really a shock-value thing as splatter movies are almost always about. Of course, there are plenty of graphic violence scenes going on.

The plot is about a group of people being trapped in an old, quite forgotten public bath in Belgrade and being hunted by a serial killer there. Of course, that doesn't sound spectacular in any way, but the main story which goes behind is about mysterious psycho-pathologic disease named TT Syndrome. It's rather difficult to define what the disease really is (it seems totally fictional, although I'm not 100% sure), although it's certain that it's some kind of autism which displays through the social isolationism and psychopathic, violent behavior. There is also some kind of paranormal, mystic frame connected with the disease's mystery and the events in the movie. That adds a perfect arty trash value to the movie.

The atmosphere is very gloomy, thanks the raw, near DIY production and filthy ambiance (most of the movie is happening in a toilet and the sewer underground). Most of trash points come from the acting, which is cheesy, but fairly solid anyway. Background music and sound effects are also trashy, very dramatic, with some bizarre charm.

The only real minus of the movie could be that it's pretty obvious who the killer is, from the beginnings. That perhaps killed some tension and the drama, but then again, shock wasn't the point of this movie but rather a whole experience of it's atmosphere. The movie is by no way pretentious or deadly serious, there's also a small dose of entertaining humor going on.

Overall, this movie is trash, but it gets beyond camp only thing. It's a amateurish masterpiece, if you can appreciate and understand it's ugliness. Definitely not recommended for fans of highly produced commercial horror.