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Dead Ringers

The recent Rachel Weisz version for Prime Video had some wonderfully disturbing moments, but contained nothing so haunting as the scene in David Cronenberg’s 1988 original film in which Jeremy Irons’ lone-twin gynecologist decides it’s a great idea to use his self-designed, horrifyingly barbaric medical instruments on one of his patients. Making matters worse, he’s a) drugged out of his mind, and b) having a complete mental breakdown at the same time.


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