Sisters (1972)

Directed by

Brian De Palma

Genre

drama film, horror film, independent film, slasher film, exploitation film, mystery film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 32m

Rated

R

Rating

6.7 of 10 from 448 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A reporter witnesses a murder committed by a model. She investigates and uncovers a dark secret involving the model's separated conjoined twin.

tensesuspensefulunsettlingpsychologically intensevisually stylizeddisturbingtwistyeerie

What happens

Sisters (released as Blood Sisters in the United Kingdom) is a 1972 American neo-noir psychological horror film directed by Brian De Palma and starring Margot Kidder, Jennifer Salt, and Charles Durning. It follows Dominique Blanchion, the separated conjoined twin of a French Canadian model, Danielle Breton, who is suspected of having committed a brutal murder witnessed by Grace Collier, a newspaper reporter in Staten Island, New York City. Co-written by De Palma and Louisa Rose, the screenplay for the film was inspired by the Soviet conjoined twins Masha and Dasha Krivoshlyapova and features narrative and visual references to several films by Alfred Hitchcock. Filmed on location in Staten Island, the film prominently features split-screen compositions (also present in subsequent De Palma films such as Carrie), and was scored by frequent Hitchcock collaborator Bernard Herrmann. Released in the spring of 1973, Sisters was praised by critics, who noted its adept performances and use of homage. It was the first of a series of shocking thrillers for De Palma, and, in the years after its release, became a cult film. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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