After Dark Originals 'Seconds Apart' and 'Fertile Ground'
Monday, 23 May 2011 14:49
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Seconds Apart (After Dark Original)
Seth and Jonah are murderous twins who share an evil kinship. Damned from the moment of their births, the brothers possess a gruesome talent for telekinesis – a power they use in the most horrific ways imaginable. As their fellow students meet gory fates, the local law enforcement begins to suspect the twins’ connection to some depraved murders. What started as a jealous rage escalates into a supernatural showdown – pitting brother against brother, evil against evil.
Fertile Ground (After Dark Original)
Emily and Nate Weaver leave the city for the rural comfort of Nate’s ancestral home in the country. Once there, Emily is plagued by horrifying visions and haunted by the ghosts inhabiting their isolated new home. When Nate’s behavior undergoes a strange and fearful metamorphosis, Emily fears she might be the latest target in a murderous tradition.
Fertile Ground (After Dark Originals)
 30 New from $4.20 28 Used from $2.15 as of 06/19/2013 19:16 MST details Technical Details Add To Baby Registry Add To Wedding Registry Add To Wishlist Tell A Friend All Customer Reviews All Offers | Actor: Leisha Hailey Actor: Gale Harold Actor: Chelcie Ross Actor: JoNell Kennedy Actor: Stephanie Brown AspectRatio: 1.85:1 AudienceRating: R (Restricted) Binding: DVD Brand: Lions Gate Creator: Adam Gierasch Creator: Courtney Solomon Creator: James Portolese Creator: Karri O'Reilly Creator: Lucy Mukerjee Creator: Moshe Diamant Creator: Jace Anderson Director: Adam Gierasch EAN: 0031398135630 EANList: Format: AC-3 Format: Color Format: Dolby Format: NTSC Format: Subtitled Format: Widescreen IsEligibleForTradeIn: 1 ItemDimensions: Label: Lions Gate Languages: ListPrice: Manufacturer: Lions Gate MPN: LGED30185D NumberOfDiscs: 1 PackageDimensions: PackageQuantity: 1 PartNumber: LGED30185D PictureFormat: Widescreen ProductGroup: DVD ProductTypeName: ABIS_DVD Publisher: Lions Gate RegionCode: 1 ReleaseDate: 2011-05-24 RunningTime: 95 SKU: B-005-10-S-V-05-2186 Studio: Lions Gate Title: Fertile Ground (After Dark Originals) TradeInValue: UPC: 031398135630 UPCList: |
Product Description Emily and Nate Weaver leave the city for the rural comfort of Nate’s ancestral home in the country. Once there, Emily is plagued by horrifying visions and haunted by the ghosts inhabiting their isolated new home. When Nate’s behavior undergoes a strange and fearful metamorphosis, Emily fears she might be the latest target in a murderous tradition. Amazon.com This sharp, well-crafted entry in the Lionsgate After Dark Originals horror series is a pretty timeless haunted-house movie that sets up a premise and builds with workmanlike tension that's neatly effective in gathering dread and throwing out scares. Nate and Emily are a young New York couple who after experiencing a miscarriage move to an old farmhouse upstate in an effort to heal Emily's psychic trauma and give Nate a place to concentrate on his work as a painter. The place is hardly rundown, but it has a creepy aura that immediately starts to manifest in subtle ways, betraying past events that happened there--none of them very pleasant. An old chest in the attic reveals portrait photographs that display eerie resemblances to Nate and Emily. Various other clues, including newspaper clippings, ancient artifacts, and research done by the absentminded town archivist, also reveal a history of violence that has dogged the house and its previous inhabitants for the past 100-plus years. There's even a decades-old skeleton uncovered in the front yard when the drain-rooter guys send their video camera snake down a clogged sewer pipe. Concurrent with these discoveries, Emily finds out she's pregnant again, an unexpected development that it seems might have something to do with the house itself and the history of mystery that has touched everyone who lived there. The film is divided into chapters that are sometimes a little facile in spelling out the goings on, with headings such as "Starting Over," "Strange Happenings," and "Revelations." There's a touch of the fake-dramatic and an overly ominous portent that hovers over some of the proceedings, but the production design is terrific, the cinematography and editing skillful, and the acting squarely on caliber for the overall tone. Things do get kind of overwrought as the climax approaches: the perfectly cued thunder and lightning builds to an absolute paroxysm of horrific booming and flashing that's timed to the inevitable bouts of screaming. But Fertile Ground is an efficient and satisfying little thriller with just the right touch of natural and supernatural frights and an ending that's pretty genuinely creepy. --Ted Fry | |
Seconds Apart (After Dark Originals)
 26 New from $6.78 27 Used from $3.21 as of 06/19/2013 19:16 MST details Technical Details Add To Baby Registry Add To Wedding Registry Add To Wishlist Tell A Friend All Customer Reviews All Offers | Actor: Orlando Jones Actor: Edmund Entin Actor: Gary Entin Actor: Samantha Droke Actor: Morgana Shaw AspectRatio: 1.85:1 AudienceRating: R (Restricted) Binding: DVD Brand: Lions Gate Creator: Bobby Ranghelov Creator: Courtney Solomon Creator: Damian Shannon Creator: Eryl Cochran Woodlief Creator: Franklin A. Vallette Creator: Gregory M. Walker Creator: George Richards Director: Antonio Negret EAN: 0031398135661 EANList: Format: AC-3 Format: Closed-captioned Format: Color Format: Dolby Format: NTSC Format: Subtitled Format: Widescreen IsEligibleForTradeIn: 1 ItemDimensions: Label: Lions Gate Languages: ListPrice: Manufacturer: Lions Gate MPN: LGED30188D NumberOfDiscs: 1 PackageDimensions: PackageQuantity: 1 PartNumber: LGED30188D PictureFormat: Widescreen ProductGroup: DVD ProductTypeName: ABIS_DVD Publisher: Lions Gate RegionCode: 1 ReleaseDate: 2011-05-24 RunningTime: 89 SKU: D82937 Studio: Lions Gate Title: Seconds Apart (After Dark Originals) TradeInValue: UPC: 031398135661 UPCList: |
Product Description Seth and Jonah are murderous twins who share an evil kinship. Damned from the moment of their births, the brothers possess a gruesome talent for telekinesis – a power they use in the most horrific ways imaginable. As their fellow students meet gory fates, the local law enforcement begins to suspect the twins’ connection to some depraved murders. What started as a jealous rage escalates into a supernatural showdown – pitting brother against brother, evil against evil. Amazon.com Surely twins will someday get their own musical comedies, or sweet indie romances, or gritty cop procedurals. But for now, when it comes to movies, twins are destined for creepy horror. Seconds Apart understands this very well, and its unnerving teenage brothers fit neatly into a long line of cinematic Gemini whose unhealthy connection with each other is stronger than any they have with the outside world. At first glance, Jonah and Seth (played by real-life twins Edmund and Gary Entin) appear more suited to a teen boy band than a horror picture, but in fact they are embarked on a lifelong experiment: use their shared telekinetic powers in order to feel something, anything, of what other people feel. The results can be murder. Seconds Apart gets off to an effectively unexpected start (a fraternity-party drinking game turns into Russian roulette, for reasons we can't immediately see), and locks into a moody groove from there. Unlike many low-budget horror offerings, it doesn't go for a quick-cut style; rather, director Antonio Negret aims for a more classical form, with a muted color palette and a somber tone. Sometimes the results are a little too close to a slickly dressed TV commercial for comfort, but much of it works pretty well, and the Entin twins are eerily good (Samantha Droke also does better-than-required work as a schoolmate who manages to draw something human from one of the brothers). The detective on the case is ably played by Orlando Jones, but his personal trauma gets a little tiresome, and drags the movie away from its main source of creepiness. Keep expectations low, and this one provides satisfactory chills--a double dose, you might say. --Robert Horton | |
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After Dark Originals 'Seconds Apart' and 'Fertile Ground'
Seconds Apart (After Dark Original) Seth and Jonah are murderous twins who share an evil kinship. Damned from the moment of their births, the brothers possess a gruesome talent for telekinesis – a...
Seconds Apart (After Dark Original) Seth and Jonah are murderous twins who share an evil kinship. Damned from the moment of their births, the brothers possess a gruesome talent for telekinesis – a...
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