elshikh4
It got all the writer-directing-his-story kind of bad syndromes ! You may forgive (Avi Nesher) only because he wanted to create a very special horror/thriller movie, and strangely.. He did ! Like (Poltergeist - 1982) it had a German expression in its title. Like (Breakfast at Tiffany's - 1961) it got 2 strangers in unsettled love. Like (Vertigo - 1958) and (Sisters - 1973) it presents evil alter ego or mysterious half. It's so obvious how Mr. Nesher is one cinema-freak. But the sad result here was making his own movie freakily enough !Frankly, it looked like a soft core masquerading as horror, and sometimes it looked like cheap indie trash. Well.. Surely it was both in someway ! Yet the main stupidity remains in how the whole thing got solved at the end, I think in any plebiscite you'd get the same findings : no body on earth understood it ! I have a theory myself that Drew Barrymore's character is whether a schizophrenic alien or Siamese twins from outer space !! It was unbelievable mishmash of : mystery, average acting, very ancient stuff (blood in the shower, ..) so tricks (dreams sequences), tons of sex, and profuse gore. Not bad for a low budget horror where anything goes, but did it entertain you as it mainly and only wants ? As for me : I liked the most the music by (Jan A.P. Kaczmarek) as the highest element for sure, it seemed larger than the whole thing like something (Elmer Bernstein) or (Jerry Goldsmith) would create or surprisingly better. And no doubt or whatsoever I liked also : Drew Barrymore (and who can't?!).(Drew) was half of the show and nearly all of its joy. I think (Avi Nesher) left no style to produce sex from her, dishing her out in dashing erotic ways, exploding her sexually on the screen in your best wet dreams, despite that she was only 17 years old and some months at the moment ! Look at her picks up her purse from the ground by bending over to bare her legs and part of her panty, so the camera enjoys filming her from the lovely behind angle, and as a mad reaction to an excited street worker (who loved what he saw) she kicks him in the groins saying "I'm not a piece of meat". While apparently, for this very film's makers, she was. As the next scene we watch her showering nude, with a first shot showing her naked legs wet !Anyhow, she was straying after a serious drug problem at this unbalanced phase of her career, and this film just defines that finely. So that's why she always in several interviews expresses her absolute hatred for it.. I think it's rather absolute hatred for herself at that time. However we're the winners all the way.. Right ? As seeing Barrymore bends over, in good or lousy movie, is a real joy apart !But earnestly, heed making (Sally Kellerman)'s character as former nun who's working now as the head of sex phone office and the only one who knows what Doppelganger means, and making (George Newbern)'s character as a former writer of short stories who's working now as scriptwriter of low horror movies.. It makes you ask : is it a satire ? A look at a world that lacks : scientific knowledge, religiousness, and real art, that needs for just sex, violence, and cheap horror ? Well.. It could be a fair looking from the movie at itself ! You may feel it clearly when it presents a scriptwriter whom transforms Breakfast at Tiffany's into sleazy horror.. It could be self-sarcasm with inner-apology ?! (or good intentions to present what's higher, that had gone wrong ?!) (Avi Nesher) wanted a different kind of movie, and he actually did it. Despite how boring, easy, lame, lazy, and too unintelligible it was, it "historically" made its mark as an original horror concept. Deficient? Yes, but also with a climax that's scary as hell. And don't forget it's the sultriest (and goofiest) Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde ever. Really there is something bold in it; to make something totally new, with a finale allows some never-made sequels. However its ambition wasn't fulfilled as it should be, as the only fully fulfilled things here were : Kaczmarek's super music, and Drew Barrymore's sweet body ! Like the movie's own twist my review also got one as I believe (Doppelganger) made it to be a trashy classic (Yes, some trash can be classic too) with certain personality that's forever : horrific, sexy, deficient, incomprehensible. To live longer than its common age as a low horror movie. So (Avi Nesher) eventually gained immortality even in the wrong way and by the wrong reputation !
BreanneB
Drew Barrymore was excellent in this film. This role is the type of role you don't normally see Drew play. Her typical role is as a woman looking for love. The storyline is also great.When Holly is implicated in her mother's murder she moves to L.A. She moves in with a guy who becomes her lover. But her brother who is in a mental prison hospital for what they believe is murder is almost killed she is wrongfully accused. It is then revealed to her lover that she has Multiple Personality Disorder. After that another woman becomes paranoid when she's around her. In the end though, they find out the truth.
treyparkeratemyhamster
I liked it! The plot was weird, Drew Barrymore and DC making out was awkward for both of them. Drews acting was dodgy in places but this could be down to her life at the time. Dennis Christopher as the shrink was pretty cool, and as always he does his best - i'm a major Dennis fan anyway, that's why i bought the DVD.I didn't get the ending! that weird animatronic red skeleton thing looked just like it was out of filmschool, which is OK i guess but it could have been more. ....and the whole thing with the knife- if it was that uncomfortable why didn't they just get rid of it? It was very confusing as to when it was the Doppelganger weird thing or when it was DC-or was it Dennis all the time? Because the Doppelganger made out with Dennis and Patrick. In the scenes with Patrick if it was Dennis as the Doppelganger then I think Patrick would notice.The music was OK but obtrusive in places, the whole orchestral score seemed to be revolving around a theme but this theme was overdone.A big mix of lots of blood and gratuitus shots of Drew nude. All in all a bit of a GPM-Guilty Pleasure Movie. Don't read too much into it, don't look for secret messages and a fantastic script because you wont find it. There are some diamond moments and goofs galore- WATCH IT AND JUST HAVE A BIT OF FUN WITH IT!
poem
I got the DVD very cheap and I'm a total Drewbie, and thats probably the only constellation where this movie could ever interest anyone.An early Drew movie, she's looking great, and she gets a quite lot of really cute scenes of her, like a shower scene, a sexy dance scene, quite a number of sexy outfits etc. She does never show the friendly charm we know from her more recent movies.The movie itself is pretty average or sub-average, and much more looking like being made for the TV than one for the cinema. There is no real horror or tension built up and the dialogs are often cheesy.The most interesting part is probably the end because I honestly don't understand it. But maybe there is nothing to understand about it anyway. But at least you don't get the end you would be expecting, and it also comes much sooner than one would have expected.Overall I think this movie is exclusively for Drewbies.
