Special
Features: Director
Brain De Palma�s 1973 VILLAGE VOICE essay, "Murder by Moog:
Scoring the Chill," on working with composer Bernard Herrmann
� A 1973 interview with De Palma on the making of SISTERS � Rare
Study of Siamese Twins in the Soviet, the 1966 LIFE magazine article
that inspired De Palma � Excerpts from the original press book,
including ads and posters � Hundreds of production, publicity,
and behind-the-scenes stillsr
Sisters
is an early Brian De Palma thriller that anticipates where he
would go with much of his career. It grabs a variety of the genre
conventions from various Hitchcock films (Psycho and Rear Windows
being a couple of the more obvious examples), and then twists
them just enough to make it his own. Most of this movie did work
for me, but the film would have been greatly helped out with a
few stars in the key roles (especially the Grace Collier role).
Obviously at this point in his career that wasn't even an option.
Check this out to see where the maker of classics like Dressed
to Kill, Scarface and Blow Out got his true style rolling.