Dead Ringers
Directed by David Cronenberg
- SoCalPete_February 7, 2026Dead Ringers slithers under your skin like cold surgical steel kissed with perfume. Jeremy Irons, in a performance that feels like two separate souls sharing one bloodstream, plays the Mantle twins—identical, inseparable, and rotting from the inside with a shared hunger that’s equal parts clinical and carnal. The film is a slow hemorrhage of crimson silk and stainless steel: gynecological instruments redesigned for nightmare anatomies, hotel suites that smell faintly of antiseptic and expensive cologne, and the kind of sex that leaves bruises shaped like questions. Cronenberg photographs desire as a medical emergency and medicine as foreplay, every frame polished to a sickening gloss yet soaked in the sour musk of obsession. By the end you can almost taste the copper in the air, feel the latex snap against wrist, and hear the soft, wet click of twin hearts finally deciding they’ve had enough of beating in unison. A masterpiece of elegant depravity that leaves you faintly nauseated and inexplicably aroused.
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Dead Ringers was released on September 23, 1988.
Dead Ringers was directed by David Cronenberg.
Dead Ringers has a runtime of 1h 55m.
Dead Ringers was produced by David Cronenberg, Marc Boyman.
The Mantle brothers are both doctors - both gynecologists - and identical twins. Mentally however, one of them is more confident than the other, and always manages to seduce the women he meets. When he's tired of his current partner, she is passed on to the other brother - without her knowing. Everything runs smoothly, until an actress visits their clinic, and the shy brother is the first to fall in love. Will they be able to 'share' her ?
The key characters in Dead Ringers are Beverly Mantle / Elliot Mantle (Jeremy Irons), Claire Niveau (Geneviève Bujold), Cary (Heidi von Palleske).
Dead Ringers is rated R.
Dead Ringers is a Drama, Horror, Thriller film.
Dead Ringers has an audience rating of 8.2 out of 10.
Dead Ringers had a budget of $13M.
Dead Ringers has made $8M at the box office.