Seconds Apart - Horror Spot DVD Review

Seconds Apart - Horror Spot DVD Review
By Jose

Plot:

Seth and Jonah are twins with a dangerous ability: telepathy. Things start to spiral out of their control as their classmates end up dying in twisted and bizarre ways. The police suspect them. But, jealousy begins to divide them and soon they can no longer trust each other. Leading up to a horrific battle against themselves.
Cast:

Edmund Entin (Jonah), Gary Entin (Seth), Orlando Jones (Detective Lampkin), Samantha Droke (Eve)

Review:

The film starts out with a bang and grabs your attention for the better part of the first half. A tragedy occurs during the film's opening credits and Detective Lampkin (Jones, in a surprisingly good performance) is assigned to the case to get to the bottom of what happened. Why would such popular students, who also made up the majority of the school's football team, participate in such a dangerous game? Why would the game keep on going even after the first death? Lampkin suspects foul play and starts interrogating some of the other students. But we already know that foul play was involved when we see the twins video taping the Russian roulette gone wrong.

After interviewing a couple of students Lampkin sets his sights to the twins with a video camera. Twins have become known for being evil in horror movies and this one is no exception. We can tell from the moment we meet Seth (Gary) and Jonah (Edmund) Trimble that something isn't quite right with them. They are practically expressionless, cold, calculated and extremely manipulative. Even their own parents (Herthum, Shaw) seem to live in their own little, creepy, spaced-out paradise.


From that point on, Detective Lampkin (who has his own back story that plays a part in the film. His wife burned in a freak fire which partially burned him and traumatized him aswell) obsesses with the twins and doesn't even bother to suspect anybody else. His guts tells him these kids are bad and he sticks with it regardless. Seems a bit farfetched considering he doesn’t go after anyone else and seems to hound and harass the twin brothers. Even though we know they are evil, the story doesn’t allow them to be grouped as suspects. The twins psychically manipulate other students to killing themselves, yet no evidence clearly says “hey it was them”. It all mainly looked like suicides. But still the detective goes after them relentlessly.


Since every movie needs some conflict, enter Eve (Droke), a new student at the school the twins attend. She creates a rift between the two boys which allows us to get to the conclusion of the movie, which was a very fitting and satisfying end. The twins turn on each other. Eroding their connection and that starts to peel away the truth. Parents were scarred and butchered by younger versions of the twins and the twins created this perfect world around them. As the twins fight the house burns down. Lampkin risks his life saving Eve from suffering the same fate as his wife. But dies after saving her. The twins seems to fall and crash down onto a burning table soon engulfed in flames. But after the movie ends we see a quick glimpse of them together. Which leads me to believe that the movie was just another psychic mind screw from the twin on us the viewers. Making us see the movie the way they wanted to and the ending they gave us. Or it could be me looking into it too much. Never know right?


Final Thoughts:

Fine performances all around, above average camera work and good production values.
Overall, starts out great, lags in the middle and picks up again at the end. Decent thriller movie. I felt It needed a bit more horror and maybe a bit more polishing of the story.

Ratings: 2.5 out of 5