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Possession
Why this pick
Its ferocious portrait of a relationship collapsing into obsession and grotesque physicality matches Dead Ringers’ operatic emotional intensity and unnervingly intimate atmosphere.
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MOVIE1988 1h 55m CAN
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Trouble Every Day
Why this pick
Claire Denis brings a similarly sensual yet alienating clinical gaze to desire, illness, and the body, sustaining dread through mood rather than conventional shocks.
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The Skin I Live In
Why this pick
A polished medical thriller whose elegant surfaces conceal identity violation and obsessive control; it shares Dead Ringers’ fascination with clinical power and bodily transformation.
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A Tale of Two Sisters
Why this pick
Its exquisitely controlled visual design and fraught sisterly bond create the same kind of intimate, destabilizing psychological horror without relying on overt exposition.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
Elliot and Beverly Mantle are identical twins and Gynecology who jointly operate a highly successful clinical practice in Toronto that specializes in the treatment of female fertility problems. Elliot, the more confident and cynical of the two, seduces women who come to the Mantle Clinic. When he tires of them, the women are passed on to the shy and passive Beverly, while the women remain unaware of the substitution.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Shirley Douglas
Laura
Nick Nichols
Leo
Lynne Cormack
Arlene
Damir Andrei
Birchall
David Hughes
Superintendent
Richard W. Farrell
Dean of Medicine
Warren Davis
Anatomy Class Supervisor
Marsha Moreau
Raffaella