Hermanas

Brian De Palma's "Sisters" was made more or less consciously as an homage to Alfred Hitchcock, but it has a life of its own and it's a neat little mystery picture. The opening is pure Hitchcock. The movie begins with events so commonplace they're almost trivial, and the horror of the situation is revealed only gradually. A lithe fashion model and a young newspaperman meet on a quiz show (it's called "Peeping Tom" and asks the question, what would you do if you were inadvertently made voyeur-for-a-day?). She wins a set of stainless steel cutlery, he wins dinner for two at a supper club, and they decide they like each other.

Though Sisters is an undeniably tight homage to Hitchcock from an obviously indebted De Palma, I am still inclined to place it at least a tier below the likes of Dressed to Kill and Body Double.