Doppelganger (1993)
Drew Barrymore plays a young woman who after being implicated in a murder flees New York and moves to Los Angeles where she rents a room from a writer. They begin an affair and then things start to get weird.
The idea of Barrymore's split personality or maybe a supernatural evil half gives the film an ambiguity which helps maintain the tension level until we reach the amazing finale. A finale which is a wonderfully gloopy Hellraiser inspired practical FX fest courtesy of Howard Berger and Greg Nicotero and is refreshing in the extreme.
The only thing that really hampers Doppelganger is that tv movie style sheen that so many direct to video movies were lumbered with in the eighties and early nineties. Other than that this remains very entertaining thirty years on.
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