Double Dose of Hitchcockian Suspense Awaits You in the Trailer for Splitting Image
Those damn identical twins! They’re worse than albinos in the movies. At least with the albinos you know right away they’re going to be evil. But with evil twins you’re not entirely sure which is good and which is bad, and the bad one always wants to trade places.
Described as a Hitchcockian thriller, Splitting Image stars The Cabin in the Woods’ Anna Hutchison as Emma, a woman who is happily engaged to a man with an identical twin brother with a dark past and a horrifying secret that threatens her very life. Aaron and Austin Arnold plays the identical looking men, one of which she’d much rather not have in her life.
Synopsis:
Having grown up an orphan and raised by her grandmother, Veronica has worked for everything that she has and takes pride in the simple life she’s created for herself. She’s always wanted a perfect marriage but ended up with a track record of failed relationships. When she strikes up a romance with the wealthy Ted, a guy she grew up admiring from afar at school, and says yes to marrying him, she thinks she’s finally found her soulmate and is immediately brought into a much more luxurious world than she’s used to. That world also includes Ted’s seductive twin brother, Frank, whose affections for her go beyond family admiration.
While Ted took his inheritance and launched a successful global technology business, Frank took the opposite approach and traveled the country, leaving a trail of run-ins with the law and one-night stands. Now, back in town and living in his family’s old home, Frank’s long buried jealousy of everything his brother has, including Veronica, comes to the surface. Suffering from blackouts and manic episodes related to a traumatizing event when he was younger, Frank quickly becomes a danger for anyone to be around. Soon Veronica realizes that coming between the twin brothers is more dangerous that she imagined as she discovers their darkest secrets.
Director Nick Everhart (The Penny Dreadful Picture Show) shot the shoestring budget chiller in 14 days from a script he co-wrote with John Doolan.
Splitting Image opens in Los Angeles this weekend and hopes to expand to other locations in the coming weeks. For those of us not in the LA area, for the time being we’ll just have to settle for the trailer.
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