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DVD Release Date
• R1: Oct 3, 2000
Budget $500,000
MPAA Rating
R
Running Time
1 hour, 32 minutes
Country USA
Studio American International Pictures
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Other Titles
• Sisters
• Blood Sisters (1973)
• Schwestern des Bösen (1973)
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Genre: Mystery, Thriller, Horror, Suspense, Mental Institution, Detectives, Murder, Psychos, Psychodrama, Mental Illness, Disturbing, Satire, Psychic
Tagline: What the Devil hath joined together let no man cut asunder.
Plot: Director Brian De Palma made a name for himself with this twisty shocker starring Margot Kidder, pre-SUPERMAN, as Danielle, a French-Canadian model who may be covering up a murder to protect her recently separated homicidal Siamese twin. Plucky female reporter Grace Collier (Jennifer Salt) witnessed the killing from her apartment window but can't convince some clueless cops to investigate, so she hires a private detective (Charles Durning) to help her solve the case. Eventually she winds up at a mysterious sanitarium in the clutches of Danielle's creepy psychiatrist husband, Emil (William Finley), and begins to unravel the shocking truth. Scary, funny, clever, and firmly in the Hitchcock tradition, SISTERS set the tone for many of De Palma’s future works, including DRESSED TO KILL and RAISING CAIN. Bernard Herrmann’s score even sounds like the one he wrote for PSYCHO--only creepier and with weird electronic effects added. De Palma’s innovative use of split-screen techniques to heighten suspense is all his own, though, as is a memorably twisted black-and-white hallucination sequence. Olympia Dukakis can be seen briefly as an employee in a bakery. SISTERS was filmed on Staten Island, New
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 De Palma had made a few forgettable films before making this, a decent horror film that made the whole industry stand up and take notice.-- (eSplatter.com)
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