Seconds Apart Review

• 3rd Jun 2011

Seth and Jonah Trimble (Gary Entin and Edmund Entin respectively, Rest Stop) are identical twins. Evil identical twins, who use their powers of telekinesis to knock off fellow students. When several jocks shoot themselves in a twisted game of Russian Roulette, Detective Lampkin (Orlando Jones, Bedazzled) a man haunted by the gruesome death of his wife, investigates and it’s not long before his suspicion is focused on the twins and their supernatural abilities.

The film is well shot and well acted, Gary and Edmund Entin give a particularly sinister performance as the creepy twins and there is a respectable twist at the end, but this is where praise for Seconds Apart ends. The concept of evil twins is hardly original and this film fails to bring anything new to the table, which meant it didn’t make for a particularly engaging film. There were many gruesome scenes in this film, from self-mutilation to a scene where a baby-sitter chows down on broken glass as though it were cornflakes, but these scenes still failed to inject any drama into proceedings. The story was not particularly strong and it was often a little puzzling as to why an experienced Detective would be so quick to leap to the conclusion that the string of deaths were caused by supernatural means, weird dreams aside.

If this had been the premise for an episode of The X Files then it may have worked, but as a film it didn’t. This film is not awful by any means, but its lazy horror that uses all the usual tricks. At 86 minutes this is a reasonably short film, but it felt as though it was dragging on forever and was very slow in places, generally speaking this is not what you want from a film, the viewer shouldn’t feel relief that the film is finally coming to a close! Not horrendous, not great, this reviewer is hard pushed to find a more fitting phrase than “meh”.

Lindsay Emerson