Meet The Twisted Twins, at BIFF

Jen and I finished our fantastic whirlwind tour of Australia, thanks to the amazing people of Monster Pictures, with a screening at the Brisbane International Film Festival! There we popped into an alley, I flashed my La Senza pinks (I guess always wear black with a skirt that fabulous), made sure we could cuss, and got to the real meat and potatoes of AMERICAN MARY.

                  

Please enjoy this interview. It's chalk full of twinny goodness and has some peaks at scenes in the film that you probably have not seen as of yet. MROW!!

-Sylv

The Twisted Twins Down Under Fucking Rad Interview!

"Canadian identical twins Jen and Sylvia Soska stepped onto the horror film scene in 2009 with their debut feature film, ‘Dead Hooker In A Trunk’. Now the girls are in Australia to celebrate the release of their follow-up, ‘American Mary’, at the Brisbane International Film Festival. 

After the success of their debut, the Soska sisters took their collaboration to the next level and incorporated their company, Twisted Twins Productions. 

“Every time we try and do something normal it ends up really fucked up. Like 'Dead Hooker In A Trunk' was supposed to be like a fun road trip movie, and 'American Mary' is a romantic comedy, and everyone always looks at me like 'what are you talking about?' I think I might actually be fucked in the brain,” Sylvia explains. 

Jen continues: “I attribute a lot of that to growing up reading Stephen King novels — our mum was very clever in the way that she said if we read the book we'd be able to see the movie. So as a result, in elementary school, we would be reading these incredibly high-level Stephen King novels with our little thesauruses next to us — instead of, you know, Hop On Pop and Dr. Seuss and all of the normal, like, Lord Of The Flies shit that normal kids read. We were reading Stephen King and that just became natural for us, and I guess we were always sort of attracted to the dark side.” 

Their debut feature came about somewhat fortuitously, and was basically the result of not suiting the confined expectations of film school. So when it seemed as though film school just wasn't for them, they took the initiative to make things happen themselves. 

“We decided in the theme of Jason Eisener that we were going to make a faux trailer,” explains Jen “and the school, foolishly enough, had a list of things that you weren't aloud to put in your film, and it was very bullshit, censorship-ey. 

“It was like you can't use harsh language, no extreme violence, no gore, and they also had a few things like necrophilia and bestiality. So we decided 'we're going to do our own trailer on our own time, with our own resources, and we're going to put everything in that fucking list in it, 'cause fuck them!'”"

READ THE WHOLE FUCKING RAD INTERVIEW HERE!

-Sylv