| Dead Ringers (1988),
				Director: David Cronenberg, rated R for language, 
						violence 
						Two bodies. 
						Two minds. One soul. Separation can be a terrifying 
						thing. 
				
				  Starring: 
				Jeremy Irons, Geneviève Bujold, Heidi von Palleske, Barbara 
				Gordon, Shirley Douglas, Stephen Lack, Nick Nichols, Lynne 
				Cormack, Damir Andrei, Miriam Newhouse 
				DML Rating: 
				★★★★★★★☆☆☆ 
				- good 
				"I've often thought 
				that there should be beauty contests for the insides of 
				bodies." - 
				Dr. Elliot Mantle 
				Why watch this? 
				Twisted. Horrifying. and oddly beautiful in many ways. 
				Plot Summary: 
				Identical twin gynecologists, one confident and social (Elliot), 
				the other shy and reserved (Beverly), live together, share a 
				practice and often blur the lines of their identities, even with 
				romantic partners. A woman enters their lives, actress Claire 
				Niveau, and inadvertently ignites a psychological crisis, 
				causing a disruption in their codependent relationship. This 
				unique bond and the ensuing turmoil lead the twins down a path 
				of escalating drug use, paranoia, and mental deterioration. Dad's Preview: 
				The originator of the film sub-genre called body horror, 
				director David Cronenberg, crafted this film early in his 
				career. It plays out the strange relationship that sometimes 
				exists between twins, then ramps it up by giving them a medical 
				profession that allow them to be placed at the very center of 
				female vulnerability. This probably is not a favorite film for 
				most women and there are more than a couple of scenes that I 
				cringed during. This certainly qualifies this as a horror movie. 
				That said, the cinematography really succeeds at creating a 
				creepy, suffocating mood, as the brothers use people (and a lot 
				of drugs), then tighten their grips on each other, a mutual 
				lover and their unsuspecting patients. Yikes. 
						 Morgan 
						Creek Prod., Telefilm Cinema, Mantle Clinic II; 20th 
						Century-Fox
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