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10 Things We Liked (and 3 We Didn’t) About Prime Video’s Dead Ringers Series
The horror of David Cronenberg’s 1988 Dead Ringers is still potent enough to get under your skin, but Prime Video’s six-episode Dead Ringers series starring Rachel Weisz as the Mantle twins—played by Jeremy Irons in the original film—offers a similarly potent yet significantly altered exploration of medical…
How Prime Video’s Dead Ringers Tells a New Kind of Horror Story
David Cronenberg’s 1988 film Dead Ringers set a new standard for twisted twin tales—but Prime Video’s new series adaptation, with Rachel Weisz playing sister versions of Drs. Elliot and Beverly Mantle, the brothers Jeremy Irons played in the movie, carves out its own disturbing place in the genre. Ahead of its…
After 35 Years, Dead Ringers Is Still Packed With Uncomfortable Chills
David Cronenberg’s name has become shorthand for skin-crawling body horror, and many of his films do lean into the extremely visceral. But while Dead Ringers tells a story rooted in the medical profession, its shocks are (mostly) more psychologically distressing than stomach-turning—with no potency lost 35 years after…
Dead Ringers on Amazon looks even more horrifying than the 1988 original
Mutant women? Tired. Pregnant women? Wired!
Rachel Weisz plays twin doctors in first look at ‘Dead Ringers’
What’s better than one Rachel Weisz performance? Two Rachel Weisz performances! And that’s what the teaser for Prime Video’s upcoming psychological thriller Dead Ringers promises us.
Dead Ringers is a modern take on David Cronenberg’s 1988 film of the same name. Weisz plays twin doctors Elliot and Beverly Mantle, whose tendency to share everything from lovers to drugs takes them down a strange path. The same can be said of their willingness to push the boundaries of medical ethics. As one of the Mantles says forebodingly in the trailer, “Radicalism always begins with something small.”
All six episodes of Dead Ringers premiere on Prime Video April 21.