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Review of Scissors

Scissors (1991)
6/10
Good premise, but padded execution
24 December 2024
Sharon Stone plays a traumatized woman who gets locked in a high-end apartment with the corpse of a man she's been dreaming would murder her. I read that writer/director Frank De Felitta (AUDREY ROSE and THE ENTITY) originally wrote this as an episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents. This film would have been stronger if it was a tight 60-minute story. The first and second acts could have easily been combined because this full-length movie version felt like it had a lot of filler on the front end. It's not until the final act, when she's locked in the apartment that the movie gets good, and that's where it's actually worth watching. Stone is good and makes for a sympathetic heroine. Steve Railsbakc (HELTER SKELTER) and Ronny Cox (ROPOCOP) also appear in the film, as does character actor Albert Popwell (DIRTY HARRY). Overall, it's nothing brilliant, but it's worth watching if you're in the mood for something that reminded me of a Lifetime Channel thriller.
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