Seconds Apart

Yeah it has been a looong time since I posted but I've been hella busy with work and what not but I do love my blog and you guys who stumble upon it looking for 'zombie porn' cheers.

Anyway my review this week is 'Seconds Apart' another 'After Dark' original.

Seconds Apart

(2011)

Here we have two twins who are really twins despite the fact I can tell them apart but only just and they have a very creepy relationship together and that seems to be the theme of the movie, how twins how a gift and a link with each other.

So the movie starts with a high school party, bunch of jock types sat around the table talking about how certain girls pubic hair is cut, you know the normal things that normal teenage boys like to talk about. Suddenly one of them see's the twins and their video camera and the scene changes.

It goes from all laughter and joking to dead serious as they play a game of Russian roulette but still talk about the subject matter of girls pubic hair. One boy gets his brain blown out and without so much as a blink they carry on with the next game.

The twins are at home and had recorded the whole thing, even till the end of the movie I was never sure what it was they are always trying to find from their victims reactions or moments before they die. It's mentioned the whole way through as 'The prject' and they have about a million fucking tapes.

One hell of an awesome black cop with a passion for gum is on the crime scene and where as his partner thinks it's an open and closed 'just what kids do these days!' remark our man thinks there is something much sinister at work and goes into the school to find out why a bunch of promising young meathea- sportsmen would all off themselves and before the big game!

One girl Katie is very cagey and spills about the creepy twins and their 'gift' and how she was fooled into it before too and how they have a film on her also... Our cop gets a sicking feeling and interviews the two twins who give them shit all to work with but just makes our cop all the more suspect about them.

Not very pleased with how the cop is on to them they go to the priest who is the head of the school and grill him on who dobbed them in.

Now for a very gross scene that will make you wince as it's pretty dead on. The priest had come back from work in Africa after getting ill with what people will commonly know as 'Guine worm' a nasty parasite that just so happens to emerge in the priest just as they mention it.

These shits are bad news if they are broken and dead painful and watching the whole scene made me feel abit bluah..

Along the way one of the twins becomes very close with a girl called Eve and possibly they fall for one another and the other twin is pretty moody about the whole thing since now his brother is getting pussy and not wanting to play 'lets film freaky shit together' any more.

But first things first they decide to get rid of Katie for being a loose end. They are all in class and she starts to hear the voice of her dead father.. and then see's the priest teaching the class as him. The twins are holding hands because their magical powers can only activate when being slightly gay together apparently..

And they cause her to see things which aren't there and she kills herself.

I have no idea how they managed to video tape that as I sure as shit didn't see the camera.. but hey moving on.

The movie has two story lines, the twins and then Jonah the cop who lost his wife in a horrid fire and is still having nightmares and is very traumatised over it. His body is also covered in burns and from the moment you see him you know he's a burns victim, it's tastefully done and obvious enough to have you wondering about his paste from the moment we meet him.

He follows the twins around trying to get to the bottom of everything and see's them lure a pedo to his doom and he now knows something is going on, he goes to talk to the boys parents who are the most freaky and strange people you will ever see.

I don't know about you but I found them way odder then the killer hand holding twins...

He gets very little help out of them but he see's a picture with the mother and the new born twins and then goes home and does the old 'let goggle do my work for me' and find out about a centre for twins and the study of the bond they have together as now our detective is pretty sure the twins are doing something with their minds to the people who end up dead..

He goes to the centre and watches a few videos which include very very blond twins getting a man to headbut himself to death and causing other twins to freak out.

Yep they have a gift alright..

By now the cop is onto them and the two boys are having issues of their own.

The one with the girlfriend doesn't want anything to do with the 'project' any more and wishes to leave but his brother doesn't take it very well and puts something in his brothers diabetes needle that knocks him out. The next day his girlfriend says he should have staid the night which confuses him.. but then realises his brother shagged his girlfriend before he could!

So in the school field he beats the crap out of the still evil shit brother. I'm still disappointed no one cried out 'STOP HITTING YOURSELF' but hey this is why I do reviews and not movies right?

It all goes to shit from here...

The good twin goes nuts and cuts his finger off giving it to his girlfriend and then cuts his hair and cries alot, I bet he listen to My Chemical Romance while doing all of this in the mirror. He goes to his parents who are very shit at helping..

When the cop bursts in it's revealed that everything from when the two boys were young has been fake, how the one single twin can't hold onto the illusions on his own that the two have been pulling their own strings the whole time.

Their mother and father are grossly disfigured thanks to the twins as little boys getting them to knife each other in the face over the discovery that their kids are fucking evil and made the baby sitter eat a yummy high in fibre glass and milk cereal mix and they over heard them wanting to keep the boys separate.. the house the live in is decayed and beyond repair, all the nice stuff was in their heads.

And the brothers had been doing it for so long that they had forgotten their own twisted webs.

Soon the bad twin comes in and knocks the cop out and carries on fighting with his brother whose girlfriend bursts in and fires a gun badly and all over the place, a fire is started but I for the life of me can't remember how.. but I think it's legit.. anyway so the girl is now knocked out and the boys fall through the ceiling and land on the table together.

Jonah the most awesome character ever wakes up and see's there is a fire, hears the girls screaming and runs to her aid while dealing with flash backs and horrid memories of when he tries so hard to save his wife from the flames of his own tragic past.

He gets her out and the firemen are already there, bloody fast in America! and he passes out while the twins lay together holding hands and talking about that perfect feeling or moment that they were trying to get by doing their project as the house burns down around them...

This movie is actually pretty fucking awesome. I bought it when I watched THE TASK and saw the trailer for it. My partner hates horror movies because they say all horrors are cheap scares bad gore and just awful but they really enjoyed this one.

The characters are good, engaging, the plot is both easy to follow but also deep and intense and it's not 'OMG MIND POWERS!' but it's done really well like 'oh shit that could happen' feeling almost. The twins and the cop are amazing actors, in fact I couldn't fault anyone's acting and I doubt this movie was the most high budget as it is just an After Dark original right to DVD affair.

The gore is done well, the effects are good. It's a very immersing movie.

Plot: 4.5/5

Acting: 5/5

Gore: 4/5

Scares: 1/5

Overall enjoyment: 5/5

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