Sisters (released in the UK as Blood Sisters) is a 1973 independent film directed by Brian de Palma. It is a psychological thriller starring Margot Kidder as a French-Canadian model who is shadowed by her psychotic former Siamese twin, and Jennifer Salt as a feminist reporter who witnesses a murder and investigates the sisters with the aid of a private eye (played by Charles Durning).
De Palma was inspired by reading an article about the Soviet S...
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Sisters (released in the UK as Blood Sisters) is a 1973 independent film directed by Brian de Palma. It is a psychological thriller starring Margot Kidder as a French-Canadian model who is shadowed by her psychotic former Siamese twin, and Jennifer Salt as a feminist reporter who witnesses a murder and investigates the sisters with the aid of a private eye (played by Charles Durning).
De Palma was inspired by reading an article about the Soviet Siamese twins Masha and Dasha. The film is heavily influenced by Alfred Hitchcock, and de Palma even persuaded Hitchcock's semi-retired composer, Bernard Herrmann, to write the score. The film also uses unusual point of view shots and split screen effects to show two events happening similtaneously.
The film was remade in 2006 under the same title, Sisters, with Lou Doillon, Stephen Rea, and Chloë Sevigny in the leading roles.
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