Doppelganger (1993)

the real Mulholland Drive for girls and gays

sarah squirm

Drew Barrymore showers in blood, knees Danny Trejo in the balls, and transforms into a skinny legend cenobite in a spectacularly gooey, FX-filled climax that feels 100% like it belongs in a better movie made in the late ‘80s.

Kodiak

Me during the opening credits: Why does an erotic thriller need KNB effects? Me during the finale: Oh. A wild movie. An insane finale. Love this kind of mix of erotic thriller and horror.

FakeVoorhees

the connective tissue between Poison Ivy and Hellraiser that I didn’t know existed; hard to truly pin this one down, and maybe it’s best not to try, but it’s a similar kitchen-sink genre banger to something like Angel Heart where the horror elements begin subtly and by the…

Justin LaLiberty

O M G This movie has EVERYTHING. Young Drew Barrymore, in full erotic thriller mode, takes a blood shower. A '90s dude pulls off the dad taking his kids to Disneyland aesthetic: baggy jeans, plain tee, longish hair peeking from under baseball cap. A "retro" look…

Patrick Pryor

I was expecting a pretty straightforward, early-90’s psychological thriller. What I got was a murder melodrama turned metaphysical monster movie that builds into a body-horror gore extravaganza! Think Possession with the bonkers, special-effects climax of Society and…

SpOoky Lukey Video 👻📼🎃

Drew looks like a million bucks in Doppelgänger. The long hair, the dark lipstick, the white tights and little black dress…sooo early 90s. I know objectively this isn’t a great movie but I don’t care, I love it, and everyone that doesn’t is just wrong.

B E R T

"In every evil there is good...in Holly Gooding there is something worse. MUCH WORSE." What a sneaky little Doppelganger! A bizarro 90s thriller that takes some jarring detours into goopy practical FX and zany weirdery. Hokey and artsy with high dosages of nonsensical…

belial_carboni

Nutty slice of 90s excess that does NOT know when to end and it is all the better for it. Just keeps tacking on epilogues that go from a Psycho-style "explaining to the audience what happened" to a way outta left-field "eh we have some money left, anyone got a line on KNB?"…

Carlo Vanstiphout