"Sisters" was made before de Palma found his feet as a suspense director, though it still has Hitchcockian touches we know to expect, ie. a supposed "main" character being offed early on and the focus moving to another, and the disintegration of all our assumptions at the beginning to make us question what we've seen and end with a big question mark.
This is actually more a horror movie than a typical thriller. Like "Carrie" there is some really shocking graphic violence, horror effects, and a plot that involves elements of science fiction. We are not expected to believe what we see; in fact we wind up being made to question everything.
The plot is something to do with conjoined sisters who were separated and left in a state of precarious sanity. A man is killed and a woman witnesses the act - or did she? We are led to believe that the separated psycho twin may have performed the murder, but does she even exist?
This is a good horror/thriller, but I found my attention waiving a bit toward the end, right when the revelations are coming. I think something like this requires smarter editing and staging, which Hitchcock was a master of but de Palma had yet to master.
This is actually more a horror movie than a typical thriller. Like "Carrie" there is some really shocking graphic violence, horror effects, and a plot that involves elements of science fiction. We are not expected to believe what we see; in fact we wind up being made to question everything.
The plot is something to do with conjoined sisters who were separated and left in a state of precarious sanity. A man is killed and a woman witnesses the act - or did she? We are led to believe that the separated psycho twin may have performed the murder, but does she even exist?
This is a good horror/thriller, but I found my attention waiving a bit toward the end, right when the revelations are coming. I think something like this requires smarter editing and staging, which Hitchcock was a master of but de Palma had yet to master.