1972 · horror · thriller
Sisters (1972)
Directed by Brian De Palma1h 33m1972
Inquisitive journalist Grace Collier is horrified when she witnesses her neighbor, fashion model Danielle Breton, violently murder a man. Panicking, she calls the police. But when the detective arrives at the scene and finds nothing amiss, Grace is forced to take matters into her own hands. Her first move is to recruit private investigator Joseph Larch, who helps her to uncover a secret about Danielle's past that has them both seeing double.
Our read: Sisters (1972) (1972) reads as a heavy, steady, inventive horror · thriller entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Heavy, steady, measured horror / thriller, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold.
- heavy
- intense
- inventive
- bleak
- cold
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