I was surprised that the new Dead Ringers, a six-episode miniseries running on Amazon Prime, was able to find a way forward from the 1988 horror classic. And even more surprised that it was actually good.

The engine driving David Cronenberg’s original film was body horror trained on the female reproductive system from a voyeuristic male point of view (codependent twin doctors both played by Jeremy Irons), culminating in a grisly gynecological exam using shiny instruments of torture designed for gory invasive probing.

There’s plenty of gore in this version too, with a maximum use of blood red not only in the actual copious spilling of bodily fluids, but in clothing and the overall color scheme. The new state-of-the-art birthing center, which realizes the ambitions of the Mantle twins, Beverly and Elliot (Rachel Weisz), to revolutionize the reproductive industry — including the ways fertility, pregnancy, birthing, and aftercare are handled — features the same ghastly red scrubs worn by medical personnel in the original film.