David Cronenberg is a director of great, unique vision, and Dead Ringers is seen as his most widely praised film in the mainstream (after The Fly). The film’s central theme is both compelling and disturbing (one personality split between two people), and the descent into prescription drug addiction and botched gynecological procedures (with Cronenberg’s trademark insect-like surgical instruments) will make the reader’s skin crawl... especially with the addition of visual components like film stills and photos, as this bleak, depressing, and tragic tale achieves a new level of presentation through print, as it provides a unique insight into the intimacy of brotherly relations that few films ever approach.

Frequently lauded as one of the world’s greatest and most influential directors, David Cronenberg has created works of cinematic art that have consistently earned him international critical accolades. His uniquely personal and deeply riveting body of work includes such films as Shivers, Videodrome, The Fly, Dead Ringers, Naked Lunch, Crash, A History of Violence, Eastern Promises, A Dangerous Method, Cosmopolis, and Maps to the Stars.

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Norman Snider of Toronto is a screenwriter, journalist, professor, and fiction writer. He wrote the screenplay for the film Casino Jack, starring Kevin Spacey the film premiered at the 2010 Toronto International Film Festival, and is available in full as the first book of the Exile Silver Screen Series. He has also published Smokescreen: One Man Against the Underworld and The Roaring 80s & Other Good Times.

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