Sisters

Sisters is an American feature film of the psycho-thriller and slasher genres. It was directed by Brian DePalma with a screenplay written by De Palma and Louisa Rose. It was produced by American International Pictures and was first screened at Filmex on November 18th, 1972. It opened theatrically in the United States on March 26th, 1973.

Notes & Trivia

 * Sisters (1972) and Sisters (1973) both redirect to this page.


 * There are a total of eight credited cast members in this film.


 * Associate producer Lynn Pressman-Raymond is credited as Lynn Pressman in this film. She is the mother of producer Edward R. Pressman.


 * Actor William Finley is credited as Bill Finley in this film.


 * This is the first work in the horror genre for actress Margot Kidder. She will go on to play college student and murder victim Barbara Coard in the 1974 holiday slasher Black Christmas as well as a fictionalized version of Kathy Lutz in the 1979 film The Amityville Horror.


 * Composer Bernard Herrmann is best known for his legendary score on the 1960 Alfred Hitchcock thriller Psycho.


 * Actress Jennifer Salt plays a character with the last name of Collier in this film. Salt's co-star Margot Kidder will go on to play a character named Barbara Collier in Rob Zombie's Halloween II in 2009.


 * Actor Charles Durning will go on play detective John Clifford in the 1979 psycho-thriller When a Stranger Calls, which actually shares a few themes with Margot Kidder's Black Christmas in the form of the "The call is coming from inside the house" motif.


 * Actor Barnard Hughes will go on to play Grandpa Emerson in the 1987 film The Lost Boys.


 * Actors Margot Kidder and Jennifer Salt were roommates in Southern California in the early 1970s while they were struggling performers.