Dead Ringers

1. Dead Ringers Two Jeremy Irons doing anything would be scary: his turn in 1988’s Dead Ringers as good gynaecologist, bad gynaecologist is truly terrifying. Irons plays identical twin doctors Beverly and Eliot Mantle with dizzying ease and effect: you give up looking for the special effects, because you forget there are any. Genevieve Bujold’s …

Dead Ringers Written by David Cronenberg and Norman Snider Directed by David Cronenberg Canada/USA, 1988 Director David Cronenberg has no trouble shying away from perversity.  Often referred to as the  Canadian pioneer of the psycho-sexual “body horror” genre, Cronenberg utilizes visceral special effects such as in The Fly remake, Videodrome and Scanners, while giving us …