Faux-semblants

Dead Ringers is not your typical horror movie. Besides a couple scenes that could qualify for horror there is not much going on as far as goes the horror. It's more a psychological drama/thriller where we get to watch Jeremy Irons playing identical twins, twins with some mental issues. It's not David Cronenberg's best but it's worth a watch. Certainly as it's from 1988 and making one person appear twice in the same shot wasn't the most obvious thing to do back then. The story itself is okay and keeps you interested. To me it could just have used a bit more horror scenes.

It's an interesting story of twin doctors played by Jeremy Irons. They do some impressive technical things to have him play 2 characters in the same scene. Everyone's performance was convincing as well. I think emotionally it fell a little flat for me. When the story starts to get a bit more out there and intense, I started to feel bored. I never felt like they connected the emotional dots to really justify a descent into madness. It's an okay movie but Cronenberg has done better.