1988 · horror · drama
Dead Ringers
Directed by David Cronenberg1h 55m1988
Elliot, a successful gynecologist, works at the same practice as his identical twin, Beverly. Elliot is attracted to many of his patients and has affairs with them. When he inevitably loses interest, he will give the woman over to Beverly, the meeker of the two, without the woman knowing the difference. Beverly falls hard for one of the patients, Claire, but when she inadvertently deceives him, he slips into a state of madness.
Our read: Dead Ringers (1988) reads as a heavy, measured, surreal horror · drama entry — extreme in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Heavy, measured, extreme horror / drama, surreal in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold.
- heavy
- measured
- extreme
- inventive
- bleak
- cold
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