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I first saw "Scissors" some ten years ago, and I had kept some memories of it when I saw it again on tv. It fulfilled my expectations, as I remembered it as rather interesting, though somewhat far-fetched.

Several reviewers have wondered about the necessity of showing Sharon Stone's beautiful bare breasts. I think it signifies that, though she reacts frigidly to men's advances, her sexuality is nevertheless present and no longer repressed when she is alone. Most writers rightly stress the excellency of the impersonation of Sharon Stone, on her (delayed)way to stardom. However I should like to point out that Steve Railsback, a very underrated actor, is quite remarkable too in the dual role of the neighboring twins. I think the film is worth a 8.

In Scissors, Sharon Stone builds a very believable picture of a young woman whose mental health begins to shatter while trapped in a penthouse apartment of her shrink. The role is difficult and Stone pulls it off wonderfully. I think this is the one movie in which she really gets to display her talent as an actress. It is truly amazing that this little gem has never got more attention - as a thriller, it's almost in the same series as the old Hitchcock movies...

This film was made in 1991, and it is sort of odd. Sharon Stone however, looks great (she is more understated, young and fresh). Steve Railsback ("Helter Skelter", and the more recent "Ed Gein") is strange and menacing.

The film itself has some odd cinematography and sets, including the apartment where Stone is abducted. Sort of a cold, Los Angeles modern look to it. It was marketed as suspense/horror. Probably more suspense/mystery.

Ronny Cox as Stone's psychotherapist and Michelle Phillips as his politician wife, so there is a message somewhere lost in the script. It is not the worst, and Stone looks beautiful, so it's worth a shot. 6/10

Possible Spoilers I saw this movie several years after "Basic Instinct" came out, and this movie, although it has its flaws is interesting. It is intriguing to watch Ms Stone play a sweet, shy child woman as opposed to a sexy killer as in Basic Instinct. The apartment she is trapped in is very curious and weird, the setting keeps you wondering what will happen next. The script could have been better and the plot should have been "filled out" a bit, but overall this is a very strange and intriguing flick that stays with you. This movie is currently showing a lot on showtime, usually late at night, I would say that this flick is the perfect "late night" flick to catch on the cable.

During most of this film, Sharon Stone is trapped in a weird, large room and we, the viewers, are trapped along with her, forced to witness her slow descent into madness. She portrays it fairly well, but this whole effort just isn't a particularly enjoyable one. And when we reach the finale, expecting some sound psychological explanations, we get only generalities and trivialities (you guessed it:the key secret is another - SPOILER! - Childhood Trauma!). Didn't the director watch "Marnie" and learn his lesson? (*1/2)

Scissors is a tense psychological thriller where a disturbed woman (Sharon Stone) is trapped in an apartment by an unseen intruder in an attempt to drive her crazy. This film relied heaveily on Stone's dramatic acting and honestly she created a very believable and sympathetic character. She had to carry this film by herself basically and she pulled it off well.

During the opening credits, creepy music plays. It sounds like a giant music box with an orchestra, giving the impression of a children's story, but with an evil twist.

Angie buys the scissors, a style used to cut fabric (but which can also be used for more sinister purposes). Then she visits Mr. Kramer's thrift shop to buy a doll that needs repairing. She doesn't make a living fixing up dolls, because she needs to get jobs through a temporary agency as well, and she says dolls are only a hobby. Quite a hobby--there are so many in her bedroom it looks eerie, and she says she doesn't have room to sleep there. It is never explained how she can afford an apartment in a nice building, though rich parents are mentioned--by someone who doubts they are real.

When she gets back to her building, Angie is greeted by the security guard. A lot of good he does: Angie gets on the elevator and is nearly raped. She stabs the attacker with her scissors, but he leaves with them--and her purse, which has her apartment keys.

Angie goes to her neighbors, who she has never really gotten to know. Alex Morgan is a soap opera actor and really nice. His identical twin brother Cole is a portrait artist and confined to a wheelchair. He seems weird, and so are his paintings, which border on pornography. At one point, Cole confesses that Angie leaves her blinds open.

Throughout the movie, Angie is having difficulty coping with her recent attack. She is already in therapy. Again, someone like her should not be able to afford this. Dr. Carter can do hypnosis and seems like he would be very expensive. Yet Angie sees him a lot and makes very little progress. She is frustrated that he believes she makes up a lot of things.

One day Angie gets a job interview in a building that is mostly under construction. A sign in the elevator directs her to the top floor apartment apparently belonging to the developer. Angie goes in and finds herself trapped inside with no way to communicate (she can't even be heard yelling through the windows, and the two dog walkers who can see her ignore her). That's not all. There's a dead man with what appears to be her scissors in his back, a creepy talking doll, and a bird who keeps saying, "You killed him!" Sharon Stone shows what she is capable of. Angie shows a wide range of emotions, though someone like her wouldn't be expected to experience pure joy or excitement. Not that she couldn't have, but the writers chose to make her mostly troubled.

Steve Railsback does a very good job as well. I didn't realize the brothers were twins, because to me they didn't even look alike. For one thing, Alex wears glasses. But it is Cole that really shows Railsback's talent.

Ronny Cox also does very well as the therapist. And you have to like the folksy Mr. Kramer, who is only in a couple of scenes. And Midnight, Angie's cat, is so sweet and playful!

This isn't really my kind of movie. But it has an interesting mystery and a very strange ending. It's not too violent but almost always slightly on the eerie side. At least the weird music gets replaced with pleasant music in the romantic scenes. I won't say who, but there are several couples and one slightly naughty bedroom scene. Having seen this on broadcast TV, I don't really know how explicit the movie gets.

It's a good thriller for those who like that sort of thing.

You can already tell from the rating I gave this movie that it's excellent. The reason why it's so good is because you have to consider the genre of the movie (in this case a thriller).

This thriller is seriously worth your time and is one of those masterpieces that are overshadowed by lesser thrillers with lots of marketing dollars & hype to make up for the lack of great content.

Don't underestimate this movie and don't underestimate Sharon Stone. I'll guarantee you'll see her in a different light after. She is truly a gifted actress and in this movie you'll come to appreciate her talents. This movie has all the ingredients of a stone cold thriller so don't rob yourself of this experience. I'm not gonna say anything about the plot all I can say is watch it!

This is a very unknown Sharon Stone movie before she became kind of iconic with BASIC INSTICT. Stone is a trammed girl who locks alone in his apartment collecting scissors and making weird dolls. At the opening, she is attacked by a stranger who attempts to rape her in a elevator but her neighbor saves her. He becomes very interested on her but she just't don't keep him attention. Searching for a job she goes to a good looking, futuristic apartment and suddenly she got lock in there.

There are suspense to feed you even if we have seen this before in films like REPULSION or GASLIGHT. Stone is very good in her role and all the last part in the apartment is very atmospheric and intriguing. The direction is really good and tries to innovate in a very good way. This movie is hard to find so if you find it for any chance try it.

After a young woman (Sharon Stone) is attacked in the elevator she meets her neighbors for the first time. One of them has a secret, the other has a crush on her. Her analyst tries to help her over the attack, but when she is invited to a mysterious apartment things get worse and worse.

Not even Ronny Cox could save this film. While Cox is an incredible actor and an amazing presence, this film has a few too many annoying aspects and tends to run a bit long. Sure, there is some suspense, and you need time to build that suspense, but there is a line that divides suspense and boredom, and I think the director may have crossed that line.

There are things to like about the film (besides Cox). The quirky characters, the menacing music... much of the architecture even makes of a good background. I do not happen to be a big fan of Sharon Stone (although Netflix seems to think so, because it has suggested her films more than once now). Some say this is among her best roles. Maybe, I do not know. A good editor good fix this one up nicely.

****SPOILERS**** When Angie Anderson, Sharon Stone, was attacked in the elevator of her apartment building by this red bearded and scuzzy looking man all her fears of men as well as her childhood started to resurface with shocking clarity. It was in fact the pretty and very attractive Angie's first experience with a man sexuality that screwed up her head in her not having any normal relationships, sexual or otherwise, with members of the opposite sex. It's Alex Morgan, Steve Railsbeck, Angie's next door neighbor who took the time to help her out in this crisis that had Angie eventually fall in love with him. This had Alex's live-in twin and wheelchair bound brother Cole, also played by Steve Railsbeck, develop a deep resentment of Alex since he was having his eye as a peeping Tom on Angie since she moved into her apartment.

It's when Angie sought help from her psychiatrist Dr. Stephen Carter, Ronnie Cox, that by trying to help her overcome her phobias about men as well as her recent attempted rape experience he brought out things about her past, or childhood, that started taking over her life in her for so long suppressing them. This lead Angie to slowly lose control and becoming paranoid in both her private as well as public life. This paranoia lead her, after getting an invite, to the Bailey Building where she sought, I would assume, to get a job there as Mr. Bailey's private secretary. It's there that Angie found herself locked in with what seemed like real-estate developer Mr. Bailey found stabbed to death, with a scissor, lying in the bedroom! With his pet black bird Jimmy accusing Angie, over and over, that she's the one who killed him!.

****SPOILERS*** Almost the entire second half of the movie has to do with Angie locked in the Bailey Building with Alex desperately trying to save her. It's then that Alex's twin brother, the evil twin, Cole shows his true colors as well as his ability to walk,It's a Miracle! It's a Miracle! he screams, and clobbers him and leave him unconscious as he then joyfully takes off to celebrate his getting even with his twin brother to the nearest ginmill in order to get himself smashed. That in his twin brother Alex ending up getting the better things in life, like Angie, compared to failed artist Cole getting the sh*t end of the stick. It's at the very end of the movie with Angie by now almost completely insane that the truth comes out to who's behind this plan in driving her off her rocker. And it didn't have anything to do with her at all but the real-estate developer Mr. Bailey. And he, Bailey's killer, had a big surprise coming himself when he tried to pin Bailey's murder on Angie that ended blowing up in his face!

This movie starts off slow, the main woman in the film is violently attacked in the elevator by a man with scissors, I think it was actually rape. She is taken in by twin brothers after the incident, the handicapped brother is very moody, while the older brother is helpful. Well, she gets an invitation to go to a strange apartment some place. When she was in, she find no one in the apartment, but when she tries to get out, the door knob falls out. Little things start going on, and every time she falls asleep, things happen, like doors open and stuff. Probably the best scene is when she finds her attacker from the elevator in the bed room with a scissor in his back, with a bird flying around, saying that she killed him. At the end, we find that she was placed in this apartment by her "trusted" psychologist, in an attempt to drive her mad. When the psychologist and his wife, or is it associate, enters the apartment, she has enough smarts to walk out and trap them in there. She walks outside and is picked up by the nice twin brother that she ran into earlier in the movie.

The ending is satisfying, the pace is a little too slow, but it's generally a good movie in my opinion.

The atmosphere created in SCISSORS is quite intense, despite it's tele-movie leanings. It definitely seems an overlooked horror-thriller that leaves images lingering in mind, literally for years.

If you liked "The Look-alike" I am sure you'll love this even more!

It wasn't the greatest movie... infact it was downright BIZARRE! The first hour I hated it, the second hour I was hooked. The special effects are amazing. There isn't many, but there is an actor who plays two roles (as identical twins) and there are two scenes where the brothers are attacking eachother, man, it looks real! Better then other "twin stuff" you see in other movies or tv. Even friends which was 10 years after this movie didn't do their twin scenes with Pheobe and Ursula half as good. Anywho, it was pretty freaky, although I think they could have done a little more to make it worse!!! And there is a scene where Sharon Stone is nude... for no reason. That was kinda dumb. Watch this movie for something different... WAY different. I don't think this has been done before! Out of 10 I say 6.5 for taking a long time to get into the film!

Angie Anderson (Sharon Stone) gets attacked by a masked man in her apartment elevator. She stabs him with her scissors but he promises to return. She is helped by her neighbors identical twins Alex and Cole Morgan (Steve Railsback). She collects dolls and makes clothes. Psychiatrist Dr. Stephan Carter (Ronny Cox) treats her. She's 26 and sexually frigid. She becomes beset by paranoia and fear. Ann (Michelle Phillips) is the doctor's wife.

The music, the acting and the story is all trying to make an old overwrought sexual-psycho thriller horror. Sharon Stone is playing against type especially considering her later roles. She never fit this shy scared girl even when she was younger. It's really problematic. She is forced to overact. There is no good acting in this by anyone. The music gets kind of annoying which makes the horror thriller not scary at all. There are some weird nightmarish turns. However it comes off laughable to me. It's like the movie takes a detour into the Twilight Zone.

Scissors (1991) Starring Sharon Stone, Steve Railsback, Ronny Cox, Michelle Phillips, Vicki Frederick, Lary Moss, Austin Kelly Before Basic Instinct, there was "Scissors". Released in 1991, this obscure thriller stars Sharon Stone as the victimized patient of a crazed therapist who drives her to murder. Slight similarities to "Basic Instinct" which was not too far off have been detected. The choice of weapon in Instinct was an icepick, in this film it is a pair of scissors as the title suggests. Sharon Stone delivers a good performance, even though she is in a bad film with very little popularity. Everyone's heard of Basic Instinct but who's ever heard of Scissors ? Sharon plays a weak, traumatized woman whose past was painful. Her father abused her sexually and her mother killed him with a pair of scissors right in front of her eyes. Consequently, she grows into an emotionally and mentally unstable, sexually repressed and frightened person. The hard-up young woman seeks counseling with a therapist who turns out to be the real murderer in a vein similar to Hannibal Lecter only without the cannibalism. The mood is intense and dark and Sharon Stone has several "Mad Scenes" including one in which after murder, a black bird reminds her vocally of the deed. Sometimes, the film is hard to follow as several characters act as if they are the real brains behind the evil. In the end, Sharon Stone finally gets the guts to confront the therapist and locks him up in a building for good. Stone is far from the character she would portray the following year in Basic Instinct. Here, she is shy, unassuming and does not display any nudity and instead wears colorful late 80's buttoned-up clothes. As the movie ends, a variation on the duet from the opera Lakme plays and Sharon Stone rides off in a cab with the only man who truly cared for her. OK. So this no Basic Instinct. This movie falls short on a lot of things. Basic Instinct launched Sharon Stone's career and made her famous. This movie was experimental and Sharon Stone had not yet achieved the status of star. It can be said that this movie is for specialized interests. It's a film for fans of Miss Stone who don't mind what character she plays and in what kind of movie. For thriller fans, however bad the thriller can be or however hackneyed. An early 90's film, it really attests to its time. At one point, Stone looks like Madonna. The eerie and shocking feel of the movie was very typical of the 90's. The 90's would see other such thrillers involving crazed murderers such as Silence Of The Lambs, Misery, The Hand That Rocks The Cradle, and Sleeping With The Enemy. Add this lesser thriller into your collection.

Sharon Stone plays a disturbed woman who is a virgin and then attacked in an elevator and meets her neighbors played by Steve Railsback as twin brothers. The last part of the film has Stone trapped in an apartment and is slowly driven insane. Definitely a "B" movie with shoddy lighting and several different story lines going on at the same time with really none of them meaning anything. They're just thrown in to try and fool us. The one thing that was impressive was the special effects showing Steve Railsback as twin brothers in the same scene. Its fairly well done. Stone does the best she can with the material thats given her but you cannot blame the director solely. Stone just wasn't that good in certain scenes and at times it becomes downright silly. Vicki Frederick from "All The Marbles" has a role and Clint Eastwoods buddy Albert Popwell (Or Powell) has a part as a cop. Stone bares her impressive breasts for no reason at all which was enough to convince me early on that this was going to be silly and contrived.

If a film could be rated just for ideas, then perhaps i would rate higher than a five. For me, the ratings are all about the overall entertainment value that watching a movie provides... and this film did provide some entertainment! It's definitely a thriller rather than a horror. And in some ways a very simplistic thriller at that. Every character has two dimensions, or sides to their personality. Angie is schizophrenic, there, simple, two sides to a personality. The man across the hall is possibly undecided about whether he wants Angie, or wants to get back with his ex. Another two sides! His ex and his twin brother (another two!) play one role in front of him, and another when with each other! Two's company to be sure! And the list goes on.

The possible calculations of all these two's, allow the movie to traverse its twists and turns without too much friction... it's a thriller, and we don't want to know "who done it?" till the end, right?? So we learn a little about Schizo-Angie's world, and very little it is at that, and then see her plunged into a carefully designed, even designer, nut-ball apartment of hell. And believe me, what goes on would be enough to send anyone schizo, let alone someone already suffering problems! The acting is passable... Stephen Railback does well playing both twin brothers, Ronny Cox plays the same character he always does... oooh, he can look mean when he wants to! And Sharon Stone has her usual moments of smouldering sexuality, determined beauty, and vulnerable perfection which make her performance and her 20-something virginal character acceptable! However, I did spot one rather interesting fish impression... I wonder if she's thought of developing that into a mermaid role or something!!

The complexity of the situation Angie finds herself in is what really makes the film. With thrillers, or horrors, we viewers do need to ask "just how will she get out of that!" And for this low key, low budget film, they certainly made sure we asked the question!

"And what was the point of the scissors?" you ask... well, scissors have points!!

Thriller-author Frank De Felitta expanded Joyce Selznick's story and also directed this low-budget, warmed-over Hitchcock wannabe, its plot originally meant for a TV series. Hysterical, virginal 26-year-old woman (Sharon Stone, pre-"Basic Instinct"), in therapy for her frigidity, is attacked in her apartment elevator by a man with a red beard. Her neighbor, a polite television actor who wears suits, comes to her aid and finds her attractive, but his handicapped twin brother harbors a psychotic side. This is merely the first-half of the plot. The second-half involving Stone in a locked room with no exit is practically a different movie altogether. Quite a comedown for De Felitta, who displays no talent whatsoever for character development or in mounting sequences for suspense--only in stirring his plot with red herrings. This must have been an embarrassment for budding starlet Stone, who has vacant eyes and an artificial-sounding voice. * from ****

Warning Possible Spoiler! This movie was so bad I finally took the time to register just so I could complain about it. It looked dismally cheap and the only thing frightening was how sordid the Sharon Stone character was to watch. While Basic Instinct showed a smart, funny & ok violent exhibitionist, here the character was a mentally ill woman constantly being infantilized and shown with her legs spread & breasts falling out of her clothes. Add to that the completely absurd plot -- how does a semi-employed shizophrenic afford a deluxe apartment and a private psychiatrist? While the suspense was probably supposed to be which male character trapped her in an apartment, the only thing worth caring about was who was finally going to feed her poor cat.

Sharon Stone is nearly raped in the elevator of her apartment building, but manages to escape, leading to conflict with twin brothers both played by Steve Railsback.

I'm usually pretty lenient with movies, but Scissors is awful. I really, really didn't like this movie. Sharon Stone's performance is awful, just mind-bogglingly bad. Ronny Cox is just as bad, unusual for two pretty good actors.

The direction is confusing. I never figured out what the movie was trying to convey, it just seemed to be several random encounters after the other. Editing is terrible. A nails-on-a-chalkboard soundtrack is the icing on this horrible cake.

The sole bright spot is Steve Railsback, who turns in a good performance as the two brothers. He gets the 2 stars for this dreck.

Avoid this like the plague. Bad, bad, bad.

*Plot analyzed*

Scissors (1991) attempts to showcase Sharon Stone's "acting ability", but as we learn, as in her other films as well, she has very little of it. She is horrendous here. It starts out well and basic, with some 1990's color and nods to Dario Argento (Italian film director) and Brian De Palma.

Angie Anderson (Sharon Stone), a 26 year old virgin with mental problems and an excessive addiction to scissors and doll collecting, nearly gets raped in her apartment elevator. The doorman must be the most useless ever, as there's TV cameras and he's reading a book but doesn't see a thing. Why he never got fired, I don't know. Angie Anderson (Sharon Stone) fights off the attacker with the help of her new "scissors". Enter Steve Railsback, who plays two roles, Alex Morgan and Cole Morgan, Alex Morgan who helps her, and his brother Cole Morgan, who hates her.

Later, for no apparent reason, Angie Anderson (Sharon Stone), gets locked in some odd apartment that looks like it was decorated by the late Abominable Dr. Phibes. It gets convoluted from there and very idiotic. Don't be misled, this isn't a horror film at all, it's more of a thriller, lacking any "thrills" or sense.

It's probably best to watch this without your brain.

Scissors (1991)

* 1/2 (out of 4)

Angie (Sharon Stone) is walking into her building's elevator when she is attacked by a man. She's able to fight him off with some red scissors that she had just bought. When she gets to her floor her neighbor Alex (Steve Railsback) comes to help. She also meets his crippled brother Cole (Railsback) but he gives her a bad feeling. The trauma of the attack keeps bothering Angie who tries to talk it out with her therapist (Ronny Cox) but something just isn't adding up for her.

SCISSORS has a very active and aggressive screenplay that covers the stuff that I mentioned in my summery but it has a lot of other things going on as well. That includes an entire subplot dealing with Angie suffering from various sexual issues that has caused her to be a virgin at the age of 26. This film really has a lot going on for it but when it's all said and done it's basically a "B" movie with interesting ideas that never really comes to life.

The first hour of this movie has various tones lifted from Roman Polanski's REPULSION but sadly it's all done in such a way where there's no suspense or tension. The Polanski film is really borrowed from during the final act, which I won't spoil but this is where the movie really crashes and burns. I understand what director Frank De Felitta was going for but everything is just so flat and boring that the film just never works and in fact it really falls apart at the end. Again, I'm not going to spoil the twist but it just doesn't work.

Stone turns in a good performance but her character just isn't written well enough to where it can fully come to life. I thought Railsback was very good in the role of the good brother and he certainly stole the film whenever he was on screen. Cox is good in his brief role but sadly none of the performances are able to overcome the rather bland direction and a story that just keeps going and going to the point where you just grow tired of it.