''Sisters'' is a 2006 independent horror film directed by
Douglas Buck
Douglas Buck is an American film director.
Buck grew up on Long Island, in New York State. He later moved to New York City, where he began making films while working as an airport electrical engineer.
Buck started by making short films, inclu ...
. A
remake
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of the 1972
Brian De Palma
Brian Russell De Palma (born September 11, 1940) is an American film director and screenwriter. With a career spanning over 50 years, he is best known for his work in the suspense, crime and psychological thriller genres. De Palma was a leading ...
film of the
same name, it stars
Stephen Rea,
Lou Doillon
Lou Doillon (born 4 September 1982) is a French-English singer, actress and model.
Personal life
Doillon is the daughter of French writer/director Jacques Doillon and English actress/singer Jane Birkin. She has six brothers and sisters: Ka ...
, and
Chloë Sevigny in the leading roles, with
Dallas Roberts
Dallas Mark Roberts (born May 10, 1970) is an American actor. He is best known for his role as Milton Mamet in the third season of AMC's '' The Walking Dead'' (2012-2013), Eliot Delson on '' Unforgettable'', and Owen Cavanaugh on ''The Good Wif ...
and
JR Bourne
David Bourne (born April 8, 1970), known professionally as JR Bourne, is a Canadian actor. He portrayed Chris Argent on all six seasons of the MTV supernatural drama series ''Teen Wolf'' (2011–2017) and was part of the main cast in the final s ...
playing supporting characters.
Premise
The story centers on a news reporter (Sevigny) who, after witnessing a murder, becomes involved in a crime investigation surrounding a mysterious doctor (Rea) and one of his former patients, a young
French woman who was born with a
Conjoined twin
Conjoined twins – sometimes popularly referred to as Siamese twins – are twins joined ''in utero''. A very rare phenomenon, the occurrence is estimated to range from 1 in 49,000 births to 1 in 189,000 births, with a somewhat higher incidence ...
.
Cast
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Stephen Rea as Dr. Philip Lacan
*
Lou Doillon
Lou Doillon (born 4 September 1982) is a French-English singer, actress and model.
Personal life
Doillon is the daughter of French writer/director Jacques Doillon and English actress/singer Jane Birkin. She has six brothers and sisters: Ka ...
as Angelique/Annabel Tristiana
*
Chloë Sevigny as Grace Collier
*
Dallas Roberts
Dallas Mark Roberts (born May 10, 1970) is an American actor. He is best known for his role as Milton Mamet in the third season of AMC's '' The Walking Dead'' (2012-2013), Eliot Delson on '' Unforgettable'', and Owen Cavanaugh on ''The Good Wif ...
as Dylan Wallace
*
JR Bourne
David Bourne (born April 8, 1970), known professionally as JR Bourne, is a Canadian actor. He portrayed Chris Argent on all six seasons of the MTV supernatural drama series ''Teen Wolf'' (2011–2017) and was part of the main cast in the final s ...
as Larry Franklin
*
William B. Davis
William Bruce Davis (born January 13, 1938) is a Canadian actor, best known for his role as the Cigarette Smoking Man on ''The X-Files''. Besides appearing in many TV programs and movies, he founded his own acting school, the William Davis Ce ...
as Dr. Bryant
*
Gabrielle Rose as Dr. Mercedes Kent
* Talia Williams as Lily
*
Rachel Williams
Rachel Williams (born April 29, 1967) is an American model, TV presenter, and landscape designer.
Early life
Williams is the daughter of architect Tod Williams and Patricia Agnes Jones, a dancer. Her parents divorced when she was five years ...
as Eve
* Erica Van Briel as Sofia Tristiana
Production
During a screening of ''
New Rose Hotel
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Plot
The story is set in a futu ...
'' at the 1998
Venice Film Festival
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, producer
Edward R. Pressman announced his intention to remake ''
Sisters
A sister is a woman or a girl who shares one or more parents with another individual; a female sibling. The male counterpart is a brother. Although the term typically refers to a familial relationship, it is sometimes used endearingly to refer to ...
''.
[ ] Pressman said of the project:
There’s obviously been a post-''Scream
Scream may refer to:
*Screaming, a loud vocalization
Amusement rides
* Scream (Heide Park), a gyro drop tower in Soltau, Germany
* Scream! (ride), a tower ride at Six Flags Fiesta Texas and Six Flags New England
* Scream! (roller coaster), at ...
'' reaction in Hollywood to the horror film. ''Scream'' regenerated the form commercially, and whenever a film does that well it tends to create a gold rush. That’s why we’re seeing all these Alfred Hitchcock
Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock (13 August 1899 – 29 April 1980) was an English filmmaker. He is widely regarded as one of the most influential figures in the history of cinema. In a career spanning six decades, he directed over 50 featur ...
remakes at the moment like ''A Perfect Murder
''A Perfect Murder'' is a 1998 American crime thriller film directed by Andrew Davis and starring Michael Douglas, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Viggo Mortensen. It is a remake of Alfred Hitchcock's 1954 film '' Dial M for Murder'', though the characters ...
'', ''Rear Window
''Rear Window'' is a 1954 American mystery thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock and written by John Michael Hayes based on Cornell Woolrich's 1942 short story "It Had to Be Murder". Originally released by Paramount Pictures, the film st ...
'' and '' Psycho''. So why not remake a Hitchcock knock-off. which was what SISTERS was always being called.
The film was filmed in 2006 in
North Carolina
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as well as
Vancouver, British Columbia
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on an estimated budget of $5,000,000. It had a troubled release history, and was never given a theatrical release; it was eventually released on
DVD
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in the United States on March 11, 2008.
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2006 films
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American independent films
Horror film remakes
Films shot in North Carolina
Films shot in Vancouver
2000s English-language films
2000s American films
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