Proof, if it were ever needed, that low budget needn’t mean a paucity of ideas or invention, Seconds Apart is an engrossing chiller about murderous identical twins. Befitting its subject matter, the production creates a series of bleached-out, symmetrical tableaux making it, paradoxically, both old-fashioned and vaguely futuristic.

Orlando and Edmund Entin are superb as Seth and Jonah, who mix telepathy and an unhealthy dollop of voyeurism to film their elabor­ate murders à la Peeping Tom. Detective Lampkin is the embitt­erered, hard-drinking cop on their case, and it’s a credit to Orlando Jones (Magnolia/Evol­ution) that he builds a credible and sympathetic performance from such a broadly drawn and wholly unoriginal character.