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Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9780780022355
Format: Color, Letterboxed, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0780022351
Label: Homevision
Manufacturer: Homevision
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Homevision
Release Date: September 19, 2000
Running Time: 93 minutes
Studio: Homevision
Theatrical Release Date: March 27, 1973
Sales Rank: 1742
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Creepy slasher flick featuring Margot Kidder (Superman) as a psychotic twin with a brand new set of knives. Now with its own cult following, Sisters was the film that put director Brian De Palma (Carrie, The Fury, Dressed to Kill) on the map. A reporter witnesses the murder of a young man inside a neighboring apartment. When the body doesn't turn up, the reporter does some digging of her own and winds up immersed in the secret lives of famous Siamese twins. Replete with gore, excellent use of split-screen photography, and cameos from Olympia Dukakis (Moonstruck, Steel Magnolias) and Charles Durning (The Sting, The Hudsucker Proxy), De Palma's first tribute to Hitchcock also features a spine tingling score from Bernard Herrmann (Psycho, Vertigo).
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Sisters is not Brian De Palma's first film, but in many ways it is the first Brian De Palma film, or at least the first to reveal (and revel in) his affinity with Hitchcock. A pre-Superman Margot Kidder struggles with a French-Canadian accent as an aspiring actress whose one-night stand leads to a homicidal morning-after. Jennifer Salt is a reporter with more moxie than tact or skill who sees the killing from her apartment window across the way. When the police fail to turn up any evidence of the crime, Salt investigates with a private eye (the hilariously relentless Charles Durning), uncovering the secret story of a pair of Siamese twins and a weaselly, stalker doctor. It's a mystery simmering in a stew of voyeurism, guilt, sex, and obsession. De Palma borrows from Rear Window, Psycho, and Vertigo (as well as Roman Polanski's Repulsion), and composer Bernard Herrmann quotes from his own Hitchcock scores (notably Psycho) for the unsettling music, but the result is more original than you might imagine. Laced with dark humor, inventive technique, and impressive technical precision (the split-screen sequences are breathtakingly effective), De Palma flexes his cinematic muscles with thrilling results, right down to the mordantly wry conclusion. De Palma graduated to big-budget thrillers, but this modest little production remains one of his sharpest, slyest, most engrossing films. Long available only in pallid video transfers, the Home Vision/Criterion letterboxed restoration is bright, clear, and beautiful. --Sean Axmaker
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Awesome thriller.
Will remind Hitchcock.
Losely based on some true facts.
Has some intense scenes mid-way when it its all clear to the viewers.
Terrific start. End may not be the best.
A Must watch, buy if you can view thriller again and again.
In the end, a quality work. The way the story unfolds itself is one of the best I have ever seen.
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This is a great film! Although the acting is a bit rough for a few characters I found myself drawn into the story line. We have Danielle Breton (Margot Kidder) has a one-night stand with a black TV-game show player. The morning after, he is killed by Danielle's psycho twin sister, Dominique Blanchion. But Grace Collier (Jennifer Salt), an aspiring journalist, sees everything from her flat across the street. Things get even uglier when the journalist starts following Danielle and his strange ex-husband, ... Read More
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In 1973, after spending the last few years making great independant films like "Murder a La Mod", "The Wedding Party", "Greetings", and "Hi, Mom!", Brian Depalma was put on the map as the new Master Of Suspense with his first 'mainstream' film, "Sisters", a very demented, deranged, twisted, psychological horror film that rivals even the best of todays top thrillers. He uses themes that would continue throughout his career in this film: The doppleganger, split personalities, multiple personality disorder(s), ... Read More
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Watching the 'Special Features' section on Siamese Twins on the DVD, they make it look like the director wanted to pay homage to Siamese Twins in general. However, this film is far from it. If you always thought of Siamese Twins as sort of freaky/weird, then heres your chance to think of them as functionally delusional and hysterically dysfunctional as well. In this case, this works for the movie, but in real life does a disservice to the noble, yet troubled life plaguing many real life Siamese Twins.
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"Sisters"(1973) - written/directed by Brain DePalma, terrifying but at times funny and always very effective thriller/horror about a murder committed by a beautiful model Danielle Breton - or was it her once-conjoined twin sister Dominique? Or was there any murder at all? Reporter Grace Collier is absolutely sure it was because she saw it by her own eyes from the apartment across the street and she calls to the police at once. Police officers find no evidence whatsoever and Grace decides to investigate the murder ... Read More
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