Dead Ringers (1988)

IMDb plot summary: Twin gynecologists take full advantage of the fact that nobody can tell them apart, until their relationship begins to deteriorate over a woman.
Directed by David Cronenberg. Starring Jeremy Irons, Geneviève Bujold, Heidi von Palleske, and Barbara Gordon.

(Mild spoilers ahead.)

Well, this was unsettling. That shouldn't have been a surprise to me at all -- after all, it is Cronenberg -- but I particularly like how disturbing this is with very little of the gross-out body horror Cronenberg is known for. Its uncomfortableness is almost entirely psychological. These characters' downward spiral is so fascinating to watch from scene to scene. Jeremy Irons was very smart about how he played the two characters. There is nothing at all to set them apart from each other in their features, and the dialogue is not helpful when the brothers swap places so often, so it all comes down to the acting to figure out who is who from scene to scene, and Irons does this very effectively. The final 10 minutes of the movie or so are deeply, deeply sad. Easily my favorite Cronenberg I've seen thus far.

How it entered my Flickchart:
Dead Ringers > Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey
Dead Ringers > Date Night
Dead Ringers < Breaking Away
Dead Ringers < Grave of the Fireflies
Dead Ringers < My Name Is Bruce
Dead Ringers > Brooklyn
Dead Ringers > The Ten Commandments (1956)
Dead Ringers < Detroit
Dead Ringers > Gremlins
Dead Ringers < Galaxy Quest

Final spot: #651 out of 2906.