Review – Dead Ringers

Contemporary with this film’s original theatrical release, one critic commented that it would do for trips to the gynecologist what Psycho did for showers. That may be apt. Director David Cronenberg gives full vent to his misogynist streak in this tale of twin gynecologist brothers torn apart (in one scene literally) by an actress. It’s a shame that as a rule horror movies don’t draw much critical acclaim, because Jeremy Irons deserved recognition for his portrayal of both the evil twin and the even more evil twin, frequently via traveling mats in which he actually carries on a conversation with himself. The eerie part is that you can almost always tell which of the two he’s playing, even in the absence of other clues, merely by subtle changes in his mannerisms. Worth seeing