Film Review – Perfect Sisters

If one absolutely requires a film that features teenage girls conspiring to kill an adult, why not seek out Peter Jackson’s “Heavenly Creatures,” a darkly imaginative odyssey into the minds of murders, emphasizing the madness and obsession of such a toxic pairing. “Perfect Sisters” endeavors to capture the same sense of juvenile desperation, only here the execution is frightfully amateurish and the subjects are insufferable, contributing to an exhaustively sloppy picture that strives to illuminate the steps of ruin for two siblings tired of their deadbeat mother’s ways. Cruelly, director Stanley M. Brooks crafts a glorified basic cable movie, complete with stiff staging, obvious performances, and clunky screenwriting that turns absolute horror into unintentional comedy. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com