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Sisters

Sisters (1973)

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Critic Reviews: 4
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A reporter gets more than she bargained for when she tries to prove that a murder has occurred in Brian De Palma's disturbing thriller. Danielle (Margot Kidder) meets Phillip (Lisle Wilson) on a "Peeping Tom"-themed game show and, dodging her ex-husband Emil (William Finley), takes him back to her apartment. But Danielle has a separated Siamese twin sister, Dominique, who is not pleased about the overnight guest. Journalist neighbor Grace (Jennifer Salt) sees Phillip slaughtered by one of them

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Drama, Horror, Mystery & Suspense, Classics

Brian DePalma, Louisa Rose

Oct 3, 2000

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A dead end -- the mark of a superficial stylist unable to take anything seriously, including his own work.

September 24, 2007 Full Review Source: Chicago Reader
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There is much early evidence of [De Palma's] rampant misogyny, his increasingly blatant stealings from Hitchcock, and most unforgivable of all, his clear distaste for the people he creates.

February 9, 2006 Full Review Source: Time Out
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Just the thing to see on one of those nights when you want to go to the movies for the old-fashioned fun of it.

May 9, 2005 Full Review Source: New York Times
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De Palma directs with a nice feeling for the incongruous.

October 23, 2004 Full Review Source: Chicago Sun-Times
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De Palma's operation is one of (film history) memory reconstruction and transference

September 25, 2009 Full Review Source: CinePassion
CinePassion

A spooky and thematically rich thriller, one that explores the psyche (with an evils-of-racism subtext) without drifting into heavy-handedness.

September 8, 2009 Full Review Source: Film and Felt
Film and Felt

A bland, lifeless affair full of idiotic and irritatingly stupid logical gaps.

March 11, 2007 Full Review Source: CinemaBlend.com | Comment (1)
CinemaBlend.com

Sisters is pretty close to being director Brian De Palma's signature film.

September 20, 2006 Full Review Source: Horror.com
Horror.com

De Palma's first foray into Hitchcock territory is a diabolical delight.

August 31, 2005
Fantastica Daily

An undeniably tight homage to Hitchcock, but I'm still inclined to place it at least a tier below the likes of Dressed to Kill and Body Double.

April 20, 2005 Full Review Source: Slant Magazine
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Audience Reviews for Sisters

If you are looking for an morally cheap and trashy film without a proper story to tell or without any good acting around then this might be your cup of tea, otherwise i advise to stay away from this nasty exploitation film.
Sisters is a film clearly aimed to shock audiences with it's subject matter. It is like a worst kind of episode of Tales from the Crypt, but only made into feature film. Director Brian De Palma is capable artist who can make and has made some fantastic films but there is also many missfires in his filmography and this is one of them.
I have nothing against slasher or pure horror films. I actually do like those kind of films very much if they are made well, but i can tell you that Sisters is not a well made film. With it's unnecessary split screens and lifeless directing Palma cannot bring his film into life. All he is interested in here is blood, tits and murders. This is just bad filmmaking and that's it. Even the music by Bernard Hermann is badly dated with it's bad use of moog. My advice for you is to avoid De Palma's Sisters.
May 10, 2009
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Certain aspects of this thriller were tailor made for me: convoluted backstory with an element of supreme weirdness, blood splatter during a murder sequence, and camera angles and cinematography vacant from 70's cinema. DePalma is undoubtedly a genius when it comes to building suspense, but the bitter truth is that Sisters just doesn't contain a juicy enough payoff. Sure, Siamese twins are a goldmine of psychological drama, but in the off kilter way it was used, nothing comes out of this hour and a half ride through the apparent ravaged mind of none other than Margot Kidder. (Just try watching this without thinking about Lois Lane.) The fact that reporter Grace Collier (Salt) is trying to unearth the tragic circumstances of a surgery gone awry would have worked if not for her involvement in a strange hypnosis performed by Kidder's ex-husband, supposedly to exorcise her demons after she murders her date (not a spoiler). Between Kidder's raging French Canadian accent, Salt's flimsy acting, and a strange turn for legend Charles Durning, it could have had its moments. It was the last twenty minutes, where everything is mysteriously explained in a flashback that is actually a dream that is actually just stupid. Good to see another DePalma, but not his best work.
June 16, 2011
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    1. Emil Breton: To Danielle before police arrive. Put on some makeup. It must look as though nothing has happened.
    – Submitted by Lori D (22 months ago)

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