Doppelganger, aka Doppelganger:
The Evil Within (1993) is a straight-to-vid horror thriller staring
Drew Barrymore as a girl who moves from New York to LA after the
brutal murder of her mother, which she is suspected of. She rents
a room from wannabe writer George Newbern. He learns of her belief
that she has a doppelganger, an evil alter ego that killed her
mother and is after her. Her shrink follows her to LA, and there
is a brother who was accused of killing his father, or was it
the brother's doppelganger that killed the father? Or was it Drew?
Or Drew's doppelganger? Or was it the shrink, who pretended to
be everyone's doppelganger because he had the hots for Barrymore?
Or maybe I was the Doppelganger ...
This is one of the more muddled films I have sat
through lately. The film is too convoluted to care much about,
and the properties of a doppelganger seemed to get redefined after
each day of shooting, when they looked at the footage.
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