Sisters [VHS]
by Brian De Palma
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Actor: Charles Durning, Jennifer Salt, Lisle Wilson, Margot Kidder, William FinleyDirector: Brian De Palma
Cinematographer: Gregory Sandor
Writer: Brian De Palma
Editor: Paul Hirsch
Producer: Edward R. Pressman
Producer: Lynn Pressman
Producer: Robert Rohdie
Writer: Louisa Rose
Edition: VHS Tape
Audio: English (Original Language), Analog; French (Original Language)
Format: Color, Letterboxed, NTSC, Widescreen
Running Time: 93 minutes
Release Date: 2000-09-19
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Publisher: Homevision
Studio: Homevision
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Movie Review: Twisted Sisters
Summary: 4 Stars
Certainly worth watching, and has some very riveting moments. As very low budget horror films go, it's pretty decent, but it hasn't aged particularly well as a film. Margot Kidder's performance is the best part of the film. I find the homage to Hitchcok wearing at times, and if you compare this to Hitch's contemporary film, Frenzy, De Palma is clearly very much the apprentice. Even so, there's more than enough creepiness to go around here and it's fun to watch, which is a lot more than you can say for many other films.
Summary of Sisters [VHS]
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).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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