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  • After 35 Years, Dead Ringers Is Still Packed With Uncomfortable Chills

    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 its initial release.