SISTERS
Directed by BRIAN DE PALMA
Screenplay by BRIAN DE PALMA and LOUISA ROSE
Sisters is being promoted as a routine shocker of the kind that has made its distributor, American-International, rich and infamous. But it is something moreĀand more interestingĀthan that. It is a homage by a gifted, if erratic, young director, Brian de Palma (Hi Mom, Greetings), to one of cinema's genuine masters, Alfred Hitchcock.
The theme is Hitchcockian: a demonstration of the way private sexual obsession has a way of spilling over into public, with murderous consequences (Vertigo). There are innocent bystanders...