Horror / Thriller
R, 93 min
Directed by Ken Russell
So... apparently Bram Stoker wrote something other than Dracula, see? And, well, Ken Russell filmed a version that is much like most Ken Russell movies: w/ weird dream sequences featuring bare breasted nuns and/or knights w/ gigantic metal codpieces, a peculiar absence of day players and a tone that suggests tongue in cheek... but whose cheek, y'know? Essentially it's a story of two British sisters running a rooming house whose parents had mysteriously vanished some time earlier. One current resident is an amateur archeologist excavating Roman ruins who discovers evidence of a snake worshipping cult. There's a mishmash of stuff including Hugh Grant as a neighbouring upper class twit and Amanda Donohoe as Lady Sylvia March who has a predilection for Snakes and Ladders (and thigh high boots). It's good goofy fun.
Replacement status: have VHS copy. Might be a (cheap) DVD version.
Dead Ringers (1988)
Drama / Thriller
Rated R, 116 min
Directed by David Cronenberg
Jeremy Irons as identical twin gynecologists. One is sensitive and bookish, one is gregarious and a bit of a hound... and both fall for Genevieve Bujold, who plays an actress with particularly intriguing reproductive junk under the hood. The brothers' identities become a little confused, both purposefully and accidentally and things spiral waaaaay out of control. It's Cronenberg so it's a paragon of body-conscious creepiness.
Replacement status: not replaced. Will get DVD eventually.
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