Dead Ringers Review

Name: Dead Ringers Review
Item: Dead Ringers
Rating: 80
Author: screenqueeen

Review of Dead Ringers (1988) by screenqueeen: 👍 4/5

HOOPTOBER 7.0 DAY 3 28 DAYS REMAIN

Cronenberg extracts a cold, calculated creepiness from Irons. Together they make you witness to the intimate workings of Beverly and Elliot's arrangement of sharing their workload, their apartment, and their women. Whether or not Bev's accusations of Elliot forcing the work on him was true, his downward spiral is as monumental as the advancements he and his brother made in the field of gynecology. While the instruments Bev had made are clearly physical products of an unwell mind, what can we say about the artist who agreed to make them without any questions or objections?