SHORT TAKES

SHORT TAKES

SISTERS (AIP) — The niftiest product out of A. I. P. since Boxcar Bertha, Sisters takes the best plot elements from Rear Window and Psycho, while Brian de Palma succeeds in tripping up Hitchcock with a directorial style which works as straight thriller and flirts with outrageous self-parody, the most extraordinary since �Beyond the Valley of the Dolls.� It�s about Siamese twins, one good, one evil, and a Jane Fonda type liberal reporter who watches some dude get murdered from her apartment across the courtyard (he writes �HELP!� on the window in his own blood); then this weirdo Aryan with thick glasses comes in and cleans up the whole mess with Janitor In A Drum just before the cops arrive, and this is only the beginning. Nothing will be able to touch this one at the drive-ins this summer, believe me.