Dead Ringers 1988 123movies

Watch: Dead Ringers 1988 123movies, Full Movie Online – 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 ?.
Plot: Elliot, a successful gynecologist, works at the same practice as his identical twin, Beverly. Elliot is attracted to many of his patients and has affairs with them. When he inevitably loses interest, he will give the woman over to Beverly, the meeker of the two, without the woman knowing the difference. Beverly falls hard for one of the patients, Claire, but when she inadvertently deceives him, he slips into a state of madness.
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David Cronenberg reveals himself to be a total pseud. “Our identities blur together. We are one soul.” Give me a break

Sheer brilliance. Deep down, EVERYONE has a love/hate thing about identical twins. On the one side, they wish they had that kind of communion with someone, that sort of magical intimacy they share, having someone basically the exact same as themselves…yet that same one-of-a-kind companionship is scary as hell.

I haven’t seen, from my fellow Canadian, either ‘Scanners’ (1981) or ‘Naked Lunch’ (1991), so I can’t honestly say whether or not my assertion can be thus extended, but I dare ANYONE to find in horror a finer run than Cronenberg had, in ‘Videodrome’, ‘The Dead Zone’, ‘The Fly’…and this, ‘Dead Ringers’.

Deep meaning and stylish art by Cronenberg.
Elliot and Beverly Mantle (Jeremy Irons) are identical twins that are top-of-the-class and incredibly well known gynaecologists. They also treat themselves by swapping their identities around, so they can share each other’s work commitments and pleasures, like woman. But all of this comes back to destroy them emotionally and physically.

An intriguing and rather inventive premise director / co-writer David Cronenberg has come up with here. The worlds Cronenberg creates in his film’s are rather fascinating in looking at the human body and technology. This film is no exception. So you can’t really call this mainstream, as it’s not for everyone’s tastes. That’s why his films seem to have great impact in the realistic visuals and material context. It’s flowing with originality, good psychological elements, erotica and it holds such an artistic feel with its stunning visuals and elegance to show.

This thought-provoking drama is rather stimulating and quite downbeat. Though, it’s mostly a talkative film; the dialogue is dense on many levels that it’s truly captivating. It’s more the material context that tries to shock and explore in a subtle way rather than the horrific visuals and shocks that we come to expect from most of Cronenberg’s films. It doesn’t contain much graphic moments, only about one or two. The sub-plots are drawn up quite well with dabbling in sexual desires and pleasure, technology (instruments and tools of the trade), the twins physical bond, addiction and a rather modernistic world. It’s filled with sharp and intense sequences that are entrenched with an effective music score, as it overwhelmingly draws you in. This unsettling aurora builds into paranoia in the last half of the film and it ends rather disturbingly. The stylish production valves are incredibly glossy and professional. With beautifully crafted and slick cinematography. The gloomy colours that fill the screen hold great contrast in the moody and detail backdrop. From their fashionable home to their cold work office.

Jeremy Iron gives a tremendously charismatic performance playing both Elliot and Beverly Mantle. Elliot is Beverly’s backbone as he’s confident and arrogant. Beverly is the opposite as he’s more innocent and rather sweet. Beverly wants to break the bond that they share, but Elliot can’t let that happen. At first they weren’t that likable, but the further the film goes along we see their downfall and there spiral into madness. That’s when you start to feel for them and it gets rather emotionally charged. They also live and depend on each other, feeling what the other one feels and that’s mostly pain and gloom here. This happens when they start to depend on painkillers and Beverly believing his girlfriend is cheating on him. This portrait shows how fragile they really are and how we really depend and feel when love ones are in pain and sorrow. As we are effected in the same way too. Genevieve Bujold is splendid as Claire Niveau the movie star and Beverly’s love interest.

Maybe the film was a bit overlong, but this is a shockingly grim and efficient film that plays on many levels of the mind.

Slow-moving and thoroughly disturbing
A powerful and disturbing psychological horror film from prolific director David Cronenberg. Unlike Cronenberg’s earlier, more straightforward visceral offerings – such as THE FLY and SCANNERS (incidentally, the star of SCANNERS, Stephen Lack, makes an unwelcome cameo appearance), DEAD RINGERS plays it slowly, taking time to create realistic characters (thanks to some superb acting on behalf of the leads) and building up a horrifying story. This film really makes an impression on you and is chilling to the extreme. Jeremy Irons gives what I believe to be one of his finest performances in the dual roles of the twin brothers, conveying sadness, disgust, and insanity like no other. That he also convinces you that he’s two separate people is a mark of class.

Rather than in-your-face gore and stark terror (of which you might have come to expect from Cronenberg’s earlier ’80s offerings), there is an unsettling and disturbing story built up here of the two twins, and Jeremy Irons is simply magnificent in his role. Why he didn’t win any awards for it I will never know. The viewer really feels for the two doomed brothers and there are lots and lots of disturbing, mind-rending scenes included in the film, most of them involving the perversely shaped instruments that Irons has constructed in a fit of madness – yet another mark of Cronenberg’s twisted “body horror”.

It’s a difficult for me to review because in order to understand it, you have to see it. I can’t really describe the impact it has because of the psychological nature of the thing; it’s all very well reviewing cheap made-for-video trash but actual classics like this are a much harder nut to crack. All I can say is that it’s an excellent film and provokes many disturbing images in your mind. It’s not an easy film to watch either, there were moments where I felt like turning the video off due to the horror on show and the fact that the bastard Cronenberg makes us CARE for the people as he tortures them inside and out. There is little more that I can say, apart from if you want real, numbing horror then seek out this film as opposed to the latest Freddy or Jason offering which were doing the rounds at the time this was made. You’ll never forget DEAD RINGERS, and in spite of sounding melodramatic, it may will haunt you and give you sleepless nights (it disturbed me, that’s for sure)!

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 56 min (116 min)
Budget 13000000
Revenue 8038508
Status Released
Rated R
Genre Drama, Horror, Thriller
Director David Cronenberg
Writer David Cronenberg, Norman Snider, Bari Wood
Actors Jeremy Irons, Geneviève Bujold, Heidi von Palleske
Country Canada, United States
Awards 20 wins & 14 nominations
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Dolby
Aspect Ratio 1.33 : 1 (negative ratio), 1.66 : 1 (European theatrical ratio) (director specified), 1.78 : 1 (US theatrical ratio)
Camera Panavision Cameras and Lenses (uncredited)
Laboratory Medallion Film Laboratories, Toronto, Canada (processing) (as Medallion Film & Video Laboratories Co. Ltd.)
Film Length 3,176 m (Sweden)
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process Spherical
Printed Film Format 35 mm