Double your pleasure, double your fun?

by Karl Madsen, Media Editor, Horror

“Can you feel it?”

“No.”

“But all the elements are there.”

“Then why can’t we feel it?”

“The project takes time.”

“But everyone else feels it.”

“I feel it.”

“Liar.”

“Seriously.”

“There, the way he tilts his head.”

“No. It’s in his eyes.”

“Well, maybe next time.”

If this exchange sounds creepy, imagine it with twins talking. Seconds Apart deals with the twins Seth (Gary Entin – Rest Stop: Don’t Look Back) and Jonah (Edmond Entin – Rest Stop: Don’t Look Back), and the games they play using their twin power. Unfortunately for them, their plans are disrupted by two events. First is the persistent Detective Lampkin (Orlando Jones – The Replacements), who has a story of his own, and the demons to go with it. Second is the appearance of new student Eve (Samantha Droke – The Secret Life of the American Teenager), who has unknowingly driven a wedge between Seth and Jonah.

Orlando Jones as Detective Lampkin

The twins in Seconds Apart draw attention to themselves when one of their experiments results in the mysterious suicides of several football players. While investigating their deaths, Detective Lampkin gets the feeling that the twins are involved, and that somehow they use a power associated with twins. Seth and Jonah’s twin power is their ability to manipulate people’s senses, what they are experiencing. Things were fine as long as they just creeped their fellow classmates out, but when people started dying, their antics couldn’t be ignored any further. But not only do they have Detective Lampkin breathing down their necks, but Eve has shown up and is creating an irreparable rift between the brothers. But only when their lives fall into complete disarray, do we see the extent of their powers.

The side plot in Seconds Apart appears to have little to do with the movie, but Detective Lampkin’s story and disfigurement give the twins a way to toy with him, and feeds into the end of the movie. But let’s face it, its twins, and the Entin boys can be creepy. Their ability to dress alike, choreograph their motions, and sound alike gives them their disturbing presence, and makes their breakdown even more disturbing.

Special Features:

Commentary with twin actors Gary and Edmund Entin, and Director Antonio Negret

Widescreen Presentation

English 5.1 and 2.0 Dolby Digital Audio

English and Spanish Subtitles

Karl’s Scores:

Acting – A

Setting – A-

Special Effects – B+

Creep Factor – B+

Tension – A-

What the Heck Moments – 3

Overall – A-

Gary and Edmund Entin with Samantha Droke

After Dark Originals has done it again and found a way to take a much used theme and put a twist on it to make you go “Oh my”. The use of twins is a well used, but effective vehicle, but the real draw for Seconds Apart is the inspired performance given by Orlando Jones. Known mainly for his comedic roles, and hawking 7-Up, Jones is riveting as the tortured soul looking for solace in his work. The movie is fairly predictable, but the twists keep you glued to the film. Unlike Jenny and Jamie in Eurotrip, Seth and Jonah aren’t the worst twins ever, but they are pretty bad.

ComicsOnline gives Seconds Apart 4 ½ programs out of 5.

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