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Polyglot

24Dec11

The only good part is when Margot Kidder stabs that dude in the neck.

ULA ZUHRA

25Dec11

exactly what I thought, although a good part among other good parts!

Nunca tímido de admitir que admira (y plagia a HItchcock) en gran parte de su filmografía, sobre todo en sus primeras películas, no hay ninguna duda de que ésta es una de sus más "hitchcockianas", en especial por la técnica. Aunque el tema de las personalidades múltiples también es un obvio guiño al director británico. Todavía no estoy seguro de que pasa durante los últimos 15 min. pero aún así creo que es genial.

Tigrane

26Sep11

Pure Hitchcock, from start to end.

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MarcH

30Jul11

I still don't entirely understand the 90 degree turn this movie makes about 4/5 of the way in, but I still love it. The Bernard Herrmann score seriously kicks ass.

Cynthia

20Jul11

i enjoyed the campiness of it. and goddamn am i glad to have a brother

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Uli³Cain

4Jul11

It's been probably 25 years since I saw it last, so it wasn't as scary, but still a good film and I can now appreciate the technique. It, though, could have used some polish.

Tristan P. Teshigahara

18May11

This is a mess of film, but somehow I can't stop myself from enjoying it.

DK

5Apr11

pure camp. was hoping for something a little more atmospheric.

Michael Gildea

2Apr11

I'll give Brian DePalma credit for the split screen usage and making the movie worth it by the time the credits roll. But Sisters is a shameless Alfred Hitchcock ripoff, plain and simple.

Patrick Phelan

6Dec10

i'm really glad that the still mubi uses to represent this film is from one of the split screen scenes.

McNulty

25Oct10

Split-screen shots are brilliant! Bernard Herrmann's score can get annoying and over-the-top compared to his other scores. Acting is typical B-Movie 70s. Margot Kidder's forced French accent was bad but not annoying because she's beautiful and we get to see her tits. Worth watching with friends during drunken Halloween parties!

Berjuan

22Aug10

At first I was like "nah" but then I was like "wow". A masterpiece made with less than a million.

mgglnt

28Mar10

who's crazier in this movie? I don't know! amazing plot twists and soundtrack.

ERIN ANADKAT

15Mar10

I have to admit that this is probably now my favorite De Palma film ever

EmilyMNK

21Feb10

I'm not a De Palma fan, but I really enjoyed this film. The plot wasn't that original, but the performances were well done and I loved how it was shot.

MondayKiller

14Feb10

The last scene (the ending) is one of the best and most humorous ending I've seen this year. And I have to agree that the split screen is nicely executed.

JediFonger

12Feb10

emulating Hitchcock except Hitchcock never showed excessive gore =P. & let's be honest here DePalma is no Hitchcock by any stretch of the imagination.

janderson

11Feb10

Split. Screen.

jethrodethro

30Jan10

Pretty ridiculous premise, but the split screen is really innovative and well used. Margot Kidder gives a decent performance, even the French Canadian accent!

marshalleo

13Jan10

Agreed, Seth. The split screen actually worked rather than diminish what was happening in the scene. In 500 days of Summer, there is a beautiful split as well.

Fernanda Buonafina

8Jan10

Sem sombra de dúvidas um dos piores sangues fake do cinema :)

Seth Farmer

2Jan10

absolute genius use of split-screen

At.Michael's

27Dec09

Just saw this... not bad at all. Very subtle humor in blocking and his TV world cutaways. Key referencing made by Mr. W Anderson here.

Howardpdx

14Dec09

Sisters is tightly structured, visceral, and suspenseful. It gets off to a slow start, but after the scene that I will only call “the incident”, the pacing speeds up considerably. Unfortunately, Sisters doesn’t slow down enough to resolve its subplots, which are left behind as it races through the last act. This movie is very similar to Images, which was released the previous year.

Jordan Dammit

12Dec09

my favorite part is when the woman at the asylum says "I GOT SICK BECAUSE SOMEONE CALLED ME ON THE TELEPHONE!!!"

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Mac

4Dec09

Carrie and Dressed to Kill are two of the sexiest movies of the 70s. No one talks about De Palma's firm grasp of the sensual. I find it to be one of the more intriguing aspects of his filmmaking talent.

Daniel S.

3Dec09

From the 70’s on, I followed Brian De Palma’s career with excitement. He didn’t have the (financial) success of his contemporaries Martin Scorsese or Francis Ford Coppola but developed his own themes throughout his entire filmography. I consider him as a very bright and gifted director and watch one or two of his movies each year, always with the same pleasure. Shot a few years before OBSESSION and BLOW OUT, SISTERS is the first De Palma movie that willfully calls Alfred Hitchcock’s paternal figure as reference. Bernard Herrmann’s musical score, a screenplay that puts together PSYCHO, REAR WINDOW and SPELLBOUND and the terrific ability to create tension in the audience’s mind are some of the elements reminding us of the British master. The use of the split-screen technique, more than suggestive sex scenes and the desire to handle the audience as a voyeur (cf. SISTERS’s first scene) are nevertheless hints of De Palma’s wish to be also considered as an auteur. Highly recommended.