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Best Horror Movies: Robert Englund on Why Brian De Palma’s Horror Thriller ‘Sisters’ Has the ‘Best Split-Screen in the History of Cinema’


'Nightmare on Elm Street' star Robert Englund names 'Sisters,' 'Longlegs' and '20,000 Leagues Under the Sea' as his favorite horror films.

But I love a down-and-dirty 1972 film by a young Brian De Palma called “ Sisters.” It has some of the best split-screen in the history of cinema. But that movie was up for an Oscar against another film that freaked me out as a child: “20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.” My mother had the hots for James Mason, so we saw the premiere, and I was singing along with Kirk Douglas — and then all of a sudden, the giant squid with his beak came down into the Nautilus. Robert Englund is an actor who has starred in “A Nightmare on Elm Street,” available on 4K UHD Blu-ray on Oct. 15, and “Urban Legend.

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