''The Twin'' is a 2022

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directed by Taneli Mustonen. The original screenplay is written by Taneli Mustonen and Aleksi Hyvärinen, who also produced the film. The film tells story about a mother, who has to confront the unbearable truth about her surviving twin son. The film stars

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and

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Plot

A woman named Rachel, her husband Anthony, and their son Elliot have moved to

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from

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in order to deal with the grief of losing Elliot's

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Nathan in a car accident. During an excursion Elliot discovers a wall purported to grant wishes and makes a secret wish. Shortly thereafter he begins talking to an invisible person. Rachel attends a welcome party held by the townspeople where she meets the town doctor and Helen, the latter of whom cryptically references Elliot's wish. Elliot begins to exhibit increasingly disturbing behaviors, including him claiming that he is Nathan. An attempt by Rachel to get the town doctor to treat Elliot ends with him insisting that she is sick and needs therapy. Desperate for answers Rachel reaches out to Helen, who tells her that the town is part of a satanic cult. Helen further remarks that her dead husband was possessed by an evil entity that showed up in photographs. At home, Rachel takes photographs of Elliot and brings them to the town to get developed. Later she and Elliot hold a séance of sorts that is interrupted by the townspeople and Anthony, who inform her that they want to use Elliot as part of a ritual. The following day, Rachel retrieves the photographs and is terrified when Elliot doesn't show up in any of the pictures. She takes them to Helen, who tells her that this is the demon taunting her. She convinces Rachel to take her to Elliot so she can try to save him, but upon meeting the boy Helen instead tells Rachel that she is sick. The two women are then surrounded by the townspeople. Rachel is sedated and forced to participate in a satanic ritual, after which she is again sedated. When she awakens, Rachel is locked in her room, but manages to escape after she hears Elliot call for help. Anthony chases Rachel into the forest, where he reveals that Elliot does not exist. Rachel was trying to leave Anthony and take Nathan with her when the accident occurred. Out of a sense of grief and anger, she imagined a second son as a

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. Eager to avoid leaving Rachel in an asylum, he went along with the delusion and moved her to Finland to start over. "Elliot" then flees, insisting that Anthony is trying to kill him. Rachel follows him to a

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, where Anthony again tries to appeal to his wife by "killing" Elliot by submerging him in the grain. This instead results in Rachel accidentally killing Anthony in an attempt to stop him. She then tries digging Elliot out of the grain, only to find nothing. A still-delusional Rachel later returns to New York. Despite visiting Nathan and Anthony's graves, she believes that they, along with Elliot, are still alive.

Cast

as Rachel *

as Anthony *

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as Helen * Tristan Ruggeri as Elliot and Nathan * Andres Dvinjaninov as Town Doctor

Production

On March 2, 2021, it was announced that

will star in a horror film for the Finnish production company Don Films. London-based sales agency Film Constellation handles world sales. The total budget of the film was €2.2 million, of which the

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's support consisted of approximately €390.000.

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began on March 18, 2021, in

and

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and concluded on April 28, 2021.

Release

The world premiere of the film was on March 24, 2022, at the

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film festival. In the United States, the film was streamed exclusively on Shudder starting May 6, 2022. The film has been very successful in

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: in

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, the film gathered more than 110,000 viewers on its premiere, and in both

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and

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, the film reached the Top 3 lists of the most watched.

Reception

Critical reception for the film has been mixed.

Notes

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Twin, The 2022 films English-language Finnish films 2020s Finnish films Films about twin brothers Films set in Finland Films shot in Estonia Films shot in Finland Finnish horror films 2020s English-language films 2020s psychological horror films Films directed by Taneli Mustonen Films scored by Panu Aaltio