In Brian De Palma’s early slasher film Sisters, psychological breakdowns ensue between Siamese twins who “the older they become, the more precarious is their psychological balance.” But, with the erotic thriller genre often going a step, or measured leap, further than other genres, this idea of twinship has been interrogated more sharply. “Come play with us,” whisper the Grady twins in The Shining, a ghostly apparition designed to terrify the young Danny Torrance. Dead Sexy: A Fortnightly Column on Erotic Thrillers The depiction of twins in cinema is often horrifying-and no, I’m not talking about the 1988 movie starring Danny Devito and Arnold Schwarzenegger.
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