The original has been described as “cold and creepy” “uniquely disturbing” and “unnerving but also enthralling”. It electrified some and appalled others, with its meditation on obsession and its depiction of human disintegration. Now David Cronenberg’s 1988 cult classic, Dead Ringers, has been turned into a blow-your-socks-off six-part Prime Video series, and it’s about to become a classic in its own right.
Elliot and Beverly Mantle are two extraordinarily talented British obstetricians living in New York, both working at the same hospital. They’re also bonkers, rich, co-dependent, sometimes cruel, naughty, absolutely gorgeous, identical twins – and both played by the beguiling Rachel Weisz.
