Twinception: Body Horror in ‘Dead Ringers’ and ‘Double Lover’

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The depiction of twins in cinema is often horrifying-and no, I’m not talking about the 1988 movie starring Danny Devito and Arnold Schwarzenegger.

“Come play with us,” whisper the Grady twins in The Shining, a ghostly apparition designed to terrify the young Danny Torrance. In Brian De Palma’s early slasher…

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