- SoCalPete_7 februari 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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Dubbelgångare was released on 23 september 1988.
Dubbelgångare was directed by David Cronenberg.
Dubbelgångare has a runtime of 1h 55m.
Dubbelgångare was produced by Marc Boyman, David Cronenberg.
Bröderna Mantle är enäggstvillingar och framgångsrika gynekologer. Den ene av dem har dock ett mycket bättre självförtroende och lyckas alltid förföra de kvinnor han möter. Men när han tröttnar på dem, låter han sin bror överta dem, dock utan deras vetskap.
The key characters in Dubbelgångare are Beverly Mantle / Elliot Mantle (Jeremy Irons), Claire Niveau (Geneviève Bujold), Cary (Heidi von Palleske).
Dubbelgångare is rated 15.
Dubbelgångare is a Drama, Skräck, Thriller film.
Dubbelgångare has an audience rating of 8.2 out of 10.
Dubbelgångare had a budget of 13 mn US$.
Dubbelgångare has made 8 mn US$ at the box office.