23 of 26 people found this review helpful. Having not seen Dead Ringers for at least 15 years until I revisited it for this column, I mainly remembered the creepy symbiosis between the brothers, the creepier use of specially designed gynecological instruments, and that it was maybe the single lousiest date movie ever made. The "Instruments for Operating on Mutant Women" seen in Dead Ringers were an inspiration for Balsmeyer & Everett's opening title sequence. The Radio 4 Listener's Guide to Love Island. He just thinks so much about everything, and is so smart and funny about it.

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Dead Ringers presents a more realistic World Cup anthem. Check out some of the IMDb editors' favorites movies and shows to round out your Watchlist.Keep track of everything you watch; tell your friends. Dead Ringers, too, contains the prodding, probing and examining of a body within the first five minutes, with a woman having her genitals examined at a doctor’s practice. David Cronenberg directed and co-wrote the screenplay with Norman Snider.Their script was based on the lives of Stewart and Cyril Marcus and on the novel Twins by Bari Wood and Jack Geasland, a "highly fictionalized" version of the Marcus' story.

Your recently viewed items and featured recommendations If you want it to go backwards, you pull it back towards you. Gynecology denies sexuality which dangerously resurfaces, and science avoids the artistic and theatrical which reappear, not just in the quite beautifully ritualized operating scenes, but also in Claire’s work as an actress (Elliot at one point watches a makeup artist create false wounds on her face) and in Beverly’s surgical instruments, which he has made by a sculptor who later steals the designs and exhibits them in an art gallery.Whether taken literally as a story about twins, or more metaphorically as a parable about the modern divided self, Dead Ringers is a fascinating and disturbing exploration of the physician’s identity and the frightening capacity for distortion and impairment inherent in such a demanding role.Media Home Entertainment, Heron Communications, Inc.

Dead Ringers is a 1988 Canadian-American psychological thriller film starring Jeremy Irons in a dual role as identical twin gynecologists. Each colour shape was shot separately, winding the film back in the camera for the overlaps.

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Randy: We went up to this medical library on upper Fifth Avenue that has a historical book section and we found all these books from the 1500s about monsters and medical procedures. So two rolls of film passed through the camera simultaneously: the matte roll and the unexposed colour film. The function of a film title sequence is, at its most basic level, to set a mood or tone for the movie in some way.

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He goes back, his bid for independent identity a failure, and the film ends on a shot of the two, dead, in an embrace echoing the Renaissance anatomical illustrations of in utero twins which illuminate the film’s opening credits. This is a self-assured and wonderful adaptation of the novel Twins by Bari Wood (The Killing Gift (1975)) and Jack Geasland with the masterful Jeremy Irons (Die Hard: With a Vengeance (1995)) in a remarkable double role. So Elliot begins taking drugs as well, and when Claire returns and Beverly goes back to her, Elliot breaks down completely.The rest of the film traces Beverly’s failed attempt to become a separate individual. When a new patient, glamorous actress Claire Niveau, challenges their eerie bond, they descend into a whirlpool of sexual confusion, drugs, and madness.