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Scissors (1991)
Director: Frank De Felitta
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
An identikit psycho thriller sadly in need of a bit of sex, gore or something to liven up a plot that employs every predictable twist, cliché and red herring in the book. Stone is a woman haunted by a repressed childhood trauma involving - you guessed it - scissors. Cox is her sympathetic but sexually frustrated shrink, and Railsback her smitten neighbour. Railsback's embittered, wheelchair-bound brother and his spurned ex-lover (Phillips) are the obvious bad guys, which means that it's someone else trying to drive her mad. Pretty daft, but perversely enjoyable in a ludicrously overheated kind of way.Author: NF
Cast & crew
Director: Frank De Felitta
Producer: Mel Pearl, Hal W Polaire
Cast: Sharon Stone, Steve Railsback, Ronny Cox, Michelle Phillips full cast
Genre(s): Thrillers
Duration: 105 mins
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