The International Museum of Surgical Science and Stephanie Sack present a one-night-only screening of David Cronenberg’s Dead Ringers on Thursday, June 25, 2026, from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m., with doors opening at 6:30 p.m.

Experience David Cronenberg’s Dead Ringers in one of Chicago’s most unforgettable screening locations: the Hall of Immortals at the International Museum of Surgical Science. A master of body horror, psychological dread, and the messy relationship between flesh, identity, and technology, David Cronenberg has spent his career turning the human body into a site of transformation, terror, and desire.

With Dead Ringers, his 1988 masterpiece, Cronenberg created one of his most elegant and disturbing visions: a film where medicine, desire, and obsession collapse into one another with surgical precision. Co-presented by the International Museum of Surgical Science and local programmer Stephanie Sack, this ultra-rare Chicago presentation brings Dead Ringers to a setting that feels almost uncannily designed for the film. Surrounded by imposing statues honoring major figures in medical history, audiences will encounter Cronenberg’s work not simply as a screening, but as a site-specific experience where twentieth-century cinema and millennia of medical history collide. The evening invites only 50 lucky attendees to consider flesh as subject, mystery, and battleground, and to confront the long, complicated history of women’s bodies inside medical spaces: examined, interpreted, pathologized, desired, surveilled, and controlled. Inside the Hall of Immortals, Dead Ringers becomes more than a film about twin doctors unraveling. It becomes a confrontation with the legacies of medical power and the bodies that power has claimed to know. A rare film. A singular venue. One night only.

Dead Ringers at the International Museum of Surgical Science will be an unforgettable evening of scenery, cinema, and cervixes.

Tickets are available in advance for $15 general admission, $10 for students with code STUDENT, and $10 for IMSS members with code IMSSMEMBER. At-the-door tickets will be $20 general admission and $15 for students and IMSS members.