Murder scene from "Sisters"

[Debutante24]

Why did they use "hooker red" nail polish for blood back then? 

[Horrorman5]

I, too, watched this on IFC.

[VNVNation2006]

Btw, this murder scene is CREEPY, and it didn't need to explicitly show the knife penetrating the guy. Hmmm...

[VNVNation2006]

This movie is only available on HuluPlus. Bastards.

[realnarc1o4]

Silly Negro! lol Relax, people, as I'm black or as TODAY's society would so otherwise "label" me: AFRO-American. LOL Still, he really WAS a silly negro, giving a STRANGE white girl a knife with the handle on HER side. :P

[peppersax]

Bernard Herrmann was SICK!!! (that's awesome BTW). This score is so F*CKING crazy. He threw in some of his ideas from "The Day the Earth Stood Still" and of course, PSYCHO. Although I love this score, I still prefer the dark PSYCHO better. But then, is there REALLY such a thing as a 'bad' BH score? HARDLY!!

[marixalilith]

i told you i dont like cake :)

[teenovels]

her eyes look black, or somthing, SCARY!

[unclealand]

When she slashed his mouth they should have done both sides of it and had him sputter "PLABBBIILLL" or something.

[tenebraerick]

I thought that ,too!!

[themirrorsofmymind]

"From the Brian De Palma Classic Also when the vid hits 2:00, It reminds me of Dario Argento's beginning in "Deep Red" , where the knife is thrown..."

I thought the same thing. And someone else suggested that "The central elevator slashing scene (in De Palma's "Dressed to Kill") is practically an homage to Argento's films"

[VicGrimes]

@themirrorsofmymind

The scene is an homage to the psycho shower scene. And the killer looks like the woman in family plot.

[wingingerd]

@themirrorsofmymind I also thought so. The description witnessed from the window also.

[Mokkari77]

On an old print interview on the DVD, DePalma said if he had a bigger budget he would have tried to get Sidney Potier to play the guy. Y'know mislead an audience by having a star who gets killed off early like Janet Leigh in PYSCHO.

[FrictionControl]

My uncle took me to see this when I was 9 or so. Fucked me up for life.

[Capcoor]

@FrictionControl What was he thinking?Your parents should have reamed him a new sphincter.

[Mriamsleeping]

LOL. I actually laughed throughout the entire scene. The way she stabbed him was sooooo funny(and fake) I found this amusing. It's not scary at all.

[mec441]

Crazy white bitches.. get you every time! LOL

[illuminatioracle]

right in the niggercock

[samsondog3]

and that yu stupid fuckz iz why yu neva truzt a bitch fall fo a bitch or fall fo a bitch

[egglady]

This scene is terrifying!! And Bernard Herrmann's music is just as scary as his music for the shower scene in Psycho.

[georgelee43211]

that was funny! birthdays are a celebration of life not death! lol.

[MrExley]

a really fucked up movie. thx for posting

[acidqueen69]

this is a movie Hitchcock would have made if he were mentally ill. I love it!

[111noir2000]

Great scene..REALLY a fearsome creepy movie and Margot kidder never looked better; the movie score is also an absolute winner, on my personal list w/ TERROR AT THE OPERA by Argento. Nice work.

[darqflix]

Thanks!!

[mikedrummonds]

Bernard Herrman's music score for this film is AWESOME! I know a million of my fellow film nerds are going to want to castrate me for saying it but in my opinion, his music score in "Sisters" is better than his music score for the movie "Psycho". Dont get me wrong, the "Psycho" music score is a masterpiece, but the music score for "Sisters" has more imediate power over the senses. It's sheer sound strikes through me like bolt of lightning.

[darqflix]

yeah but I still think "Psycho" is his best!

[l3kei]

I'm with you on that one. The score for Sisters is even more nerve racking, and it has this sort of psychedelic touch with the 70's synths effects that is just perfect.

[rickmillercomposer]

@mikedrummonds

Herrmann's music is very similar here to Psycho in that in Psycho, the high screeching strings remind of us a bird - Bates stuffs them as a hobby.

Here, the 'Nah-nah-nah-nah' is like a playground taunt - hinting that something happened in this girls youth to make her do this.

Two of few instances where Herrmann hinted through his music, and yet done so well!

[rickmillercomposer]

@mikedrummonds

@mikedrummonds

Herrmann's music is very similar here to Psycho in that in Psycho, the high screeching strings remind of us a bird - Bates stuffs them as a hobby.

Here, the 'Nah-nah-nah-nah' is like a playground taunt - hinting that something happened in this girls youth to make her do this.

Two of few instances where Herrmann hinted through his music, and yet done so well!

[nevadakubrick]

@mikedrummonds - not only do I agree about the score, but I think "Sisters" is a much better film than "Psycho" too. I think of it as one of those films that is held almost too sacredly by film buffs, as if its the pinaccle of cinematic horror and cant be topped. Hitchcock himself topped it a few years later with "The Birds", which is his true horror masterpiece. There were times that DePalma created a better Hitchcock film than Hitchcock did, and "Sisters" was one of them.

[chomsky88]

I wish DePalma would go back to making horror films--I always thought Carrie, Sisters and Dressed to Kill were his best efforts; not that The Untouchables wasn't great but his early stuff really got under your skin.

[tapeduk]

and I always use Comet on blood stains

[tapeduk]

the scene where she is sitting on the bed with her head twitching about has always freaked me out-Great Movie

[Blossom90sKid4ever]

bless Brian De Palma and his love for the "split screen" effect =]

[SlasherSaw]

The knife is not thrown the same way in Profondo Rosso...

[manai4]

Could someone upload the full version of this movie

[smp32]

This is one of Brian De Palmas greatest films...it is also a personal favourite of mine.

Thanks for the upload.

[darqflix]

thanks....It is one of mine, too

[jesusonXTC]

@smp32 scarface is the best

[mnbvcxz73]

Herrmann was so good. His style adapted perfectly to 70's movies like this even though he started in the early 40's.

[darqflix]

Here was a Genius!

[tenebraerick]

ya know, I never realized that...WOW..

I had a feeling it sounded different..thanks for pointing that out.

[chg657]

The "cute" score-like where the guy buys the cake at 1st & right before he gives it to Dominique-goes thru the whole movie in bits & pieces-until the final scene where the couch is sitting at the depot...Everything's FINE, & then it "slides" a little, until the full horror is realised..Herrmann was a GENIUS.

[chg657]

Bernard Herrmann's creepy score helps MAKE this movie...

[darqflix]

oh, Of course!  I have the soundtrack to "Psycho" on my IPod!

[celticsfan4lf]

so fake

[NEXTGENSKYN]

ofcourse its fake its a dam movie, think before you say something

[Jonnn79]

Shocking and cleverly done.

[darqflix]

gotta love DePalma!!

[rickzag]

che film stupendo...