Michael_Elliott 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.

williamc14 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.

NaTaLyA_OzZy 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!

bamptonj 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!