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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 more-and more interesting-than 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...
...central incident-a perhaps too ghastly knifing-reminds us of the famous shower-bath murder in Psycho, as does a splendid, spooky score by that film's masterful composer, Bernard Herrmann. More important than these specific references to glories past, however, is the Hitchcockian discipline De Palma brings to his storytelling, the delicate balance between humor and horror with which he permits it to unfold, the suspenseful way he lets the audience in on the plot's secret before his characters tumble...
...Palma, Calif...