Taglines: 2008. The future has never looked more dangerous.
Split Second movie storyline. In the year 2008, global warming and heavy rainfall has left large areas of London flooded. Rookie police officer Dick Durkin is assigned to partner with Harley Stone, a burnt-out and highly cynical veteran homicide detective who, according to his commanding officer, survives on “anxiety, coffee and chocolate” after being unable to prevent the murder of his partner by a serial killer several years previously.
Now however, the murders have begun again and Stone and Durkin are assigned the case. After investigating the scenes of several killings, they appear no closer to identifying the killer, with their only clues being that the murders seem to be linked to the lunar cycle, and that the killer has multiple recombinant DNA strands, having absorbed the DNA of the victims.
Finally, after Stone’s girlfriend Michelle is kidnapped, the detectives track the killer deep into the flooded and disused London Underground system and discover the truth: the killer is not human. It’s a horrific and possibly demonic form of life that is fast, savage, bloodthirsty and fixated upon killing Stone just as it previously killed his partner. In fact, as the movie progresses, each killing and “appearance” of the monster is an attempt to lure Stone closer and closer.
Split Second is a 1992 American-British science fiction horror film[5] directed by Tony Maylam and Ian Sharp. Rutger Hauer stars as a burnt-out police detective obsessively hunting down the mysterious serial killer that killed his partner several years prior. The film also features Kim Cattrall, Alastair Neil Duncan, Pete Postlethwaite, Ian Dury, and Alun Armstrong.
Split Second (1992)
Directed by: Tony Maylam, Ian Sharp
Starring: Rutger Hauer, Kim Cattrall, Alastair Duncan, Michael J. Pollard, Alun Armstrong, Pete Postlethwaite, Roberta Eaton, Sara Stockbridge, Dave Duffy
Screenplay by: Gary Scott Thompson
Production Design by: Chris Edwards
Cinematography by: Clive Tickner
Film Editing by: Dan Rae
Costume Design by: Antoinette Gregory
Art Direction by: Ian Bailie, Humphrey Bangham
Music by: Francis Haines, Stephen W. Parsons
MPAA Rating: R for gore and language.
Distributed by: InterStar
Release Date: May 1, 1992
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