Dead Ringers
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Oct 1, 2026
Matthew JacksonHOST
Yeah.
Gretchen Felker-MartinGUEST
And maybe Cronenberg's Dead Ringers.
Matthew JacksonHOST
Ah, Dead Ringers.
Matthew JacksonHOST
The, the, the best, the, the best craft achievement in Cronenberg's entire career is Dead Ringers.
Matthew JacksonHOST
It's such a beautiful movie.
Gretchen Felker-MartinGUEST
Completely agree.
Emma ColeGUEST
It's great.
Emma ColeGUEST
And like John Malkovich as Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is almost as good as Jeremy Irons playing twins in Dead Ringers.
Emma ColeGUEST
And I was shocked at how much I thought he could totally just be two different people.
Emma ColeGUEST
And one of them isn't really... like a creepily sexily, you know, very, I should not be attracted to this weirdo kind of a guy.
Jacob LuxHOST
If you never watch another Cronenberg film, you must watch this.
Jacob LuxHOST
Two years later in 1988, Cronenberg released the Horny Surgeon Twins flick Dead Ringers, starring Jeremy Irons as the aforementioned Horny Twins.
Jacob LuxHOST
The film is based on the novel Twins by Barry Wood and Jack Gieseland, which tells the real-life tale of gynecologist twins Stuart and Cyril Marcus.
Jacob LuxHOST
This movie explores the ideas of drug abuse, paranoid delusions, and seduction, all favored topics of director Cronenberg.
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BriannaGUEST
Did I already talk about the twin one?
Jacob LuxHOST
Just lightly, yeah.
Jacob LuxHOST
Dead Ringers.
Jacob LuxHOST
I like that you like it, but don't recall what it's called.
Henrique CoutoHOST
September 23rd, 1988.
Henrique CoutoHOST
Dead Ringers opens in U.S. theaters, and David Cronenberg turns identical twins into one identity splitting straight down the middle.
Henrique CoutoHOST
Jeremy Irons plays Beverly and Elliot Mantle, brilliant gynecologists whose resemblance lets them share patience, credit, and women without informing anyone involved.
Henrique CoutoHOST
Elliot is controlling.
Henrique CoutoHOST
Cronenberg finds horror in medical instruments, which is nothing new for him, addiction, and the fear that the person who understands you best may prevent you from becoming separate.
Henrique CoutoHOST
Irons makes the brothers distinct until the film... dashes that certainty away.
Henrique CoutoHOST
Dead Ringers earned about 8.8 million dollars domestically, with an estimated budget of around 10 or 11 million dollars.
Henrique CoutoHOST
So the theatrical run was modest, as has happened with a lot of Cronenberg's strange choices and fascinating films, but it's absolutely worth your time because, well, if you don't mind your films being a little squishy...
Pyrion FlaxHOST
it, the year before a f- a Jeremy Irons film came out, it really reminded me of the costume in that.
Pyrion FlaxHOST
It's called Dead Ringers.
BenHOST
Ooh, that rings a bell.
Pyrion FlaxHOST
If you look it up, it's a David Cronenberg film, and the surgeons in that wear all red.
Pyrion FlaxHOST
So anyway, yeah, completely, uh, nothing to do with this episode, but I like talking about weird old movies.
BenHOST
Yeah.
Pyrion FlaxHOST
I bet Booth has seen Dead Ringers.
BenHOST
Oh, absolutely.
Daisy KoenigGUEST
I am a graphic designer and illustrator from Charleston, South Carolina.
Daisy KoenigGUEST
And I think the prop of Cronenberg's that I'd like to own would be any of the tools from Dead Ringers.
Daisy KoenigGUEST
And I would pay, I want to say any amount of money.
Daisy KoenigGUEST
I'd probably, in my brain, in my sound mind and sound body, I would pay up to $2,500 for one.
John ReedHOST
Martinelli did Naked Lunch from 1991.
John ReedHOST
And, oh, Pat, one of your favorite movies, Dead Ringers.
John ReedHOST
Joy.
John ReedHOST
Yeah.
JohnHOST
those are just my multiple watches.
JohnHOST
There was also Dead Ringers and Brain Damage, which are also movies I really liked.
speaker_4UNKNOWN
Yeah.
JohnHOST
And then if you weren't a horror fan or if you were a horror fan that had time to watch other movies with all of those bangers going on, you could have seen Rain Man, Die Hard, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Beetlejuice, Big, Coming to America, A Fish Called Wanda, Bull Durham, Working Girl, The Last Temptation of Christ, and Dangerous Liaisons.
Matt ColgateHOST
It's full of steely greys and... unromantically pictured urban architecture and blank courtrooms and normal looking people and and it's it's a it's a very clear it's got you know the font at the beginning is is really nice oh yeah
Dan WhiteHOST
considering your deed what you're dealing with it's the it's it's it's you know it's like cronenberg's it's like dead ringers or something yeah not to invite cronenberg endlessly but You know the way that Dead Ringers has this kind of sheen of sort of steely professionalism running through it.
Dan WhiteHOST
And so does Crash.
Dan WhiteHOST
He goes through this period where he's sort of beginning to try and present in a certain way.
Daniel WatersGUEST
And you know, there's, there's two movies, two movies that have great scenes of the stiff lead actor running lines with Genev- Genevieve Bujold as an actress.
Daniel WatersGUEST
Earthquake and Dead Ringers, so.
Larry KaraszewskiGUEST
Oh my God.
Jen JohansHOST
[laughs]
Larry KaraszewskiGUEST
I forgot about Dead Ringers.
Larry KaraszewskiGUEST
Yes.
Larry KaraszewskiGUEST
That, that, those are-
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