Round Table Talk with WWE Studios at NYCC

"me in the roundtable interview with the cast of see no evil 2. featuring kane and hornswoggle and the cast."

-Sylv

Diabolique Talks to the Twisted Twins at NYCC

"One of the most exciting opportunities that the 2013 New York Comic Con had for Diabolique was the chance to check out the upcoming horror slate from WWE Studios. The studio was revamping their theatrical release slate to revive See No Evil into a bonafide franchise and reboot the Leprechaun franchise back into serious horror. Of course, one of the most discussed aspects of See No Evil 2 was that the film was to be the studio debut of American Mary directors Jen and Sylvia Soska, a/k/a “The Twisted Twins.” Friends of the magazine and just bubbly in their demented demeanor, Diabolique sat in to our roundtable discussion with the Twins, hot off of principal photography on their newest effort. You can check out the New York Comic Con roundtable below!"

-Sylv

GamerFitNation Talks to Glenn Jacobs at NYCC

"GamerFitnation interviews Kane from the WWE about See No Evil 2, where the wrestler will be revived once again as Jacob Goodnight in the horror sequel. Kane chats with Antwand 'BlackBible' Pearman on his thoughts on the movie, the wrestling passed, and the horror genre in general. Find out all you need to know about See No Evil 2, right here on GamerFitnation."

-Sylv

Tyler Doupe Talks to the Twisted Twins

"An interview with the Twisted Twins regarding their latest feature American Mary as well as upcoming projects."

-Sylv

Gamer Hub Talks to the Twisted Twins at NYCC

"The Twisted Twins, Jen and Sylvia Soska, discuss See No Evil 2 and Canadian insane asylums in this exclusive interview."

-Sylv

ReW & WhO Talk See No Evil 2 at NYCC

Jen and me talking gaming, WWE, and See No Evil 2.




Michael Luisi talking the direction of WWE Studios and their upcoming films.




Glenn 'Kane' Jacobs talking WWE & Thor.

-Sylv

Rue Morgue Chats Up The Twisted Twins

Jen and me chatting with the incredibly rad Rue Morgue in this fourth and final installment, please enjoy!

-Sylv

Part Three of the Rue Morgue Podcast with the Twisted Twins

SPOILERS!!!

"Part Three of Jen & Sylvia Soska's interview with Stuart F. Andrews from the Rue Morgue Podcast discussing their latest feature, AMERICAN MARY."

-Sylv

The Twisted Twins on Jennifer Blanc-Biehn's Scared Stiff

AMERICAN MARY Directors The Soska Sisters – Scared Stiff (#101)

"Hello Horror fans! I’m Jennifer Blanc-Biehn - welcome to my new show, SCARED STIFF, on theStream.tv! For our kickoff episode, I was so excited to welcome the smart, sexy, sassy directors of AMERICAN MARY and DEAD HOOKER IN A TRUNK, The Soska Sisters (Jen & Sylvia Soska, aka “The Twisted Twins”). 

It was a freewheeling discussion covering the gamut from body modification to practical gore effects, fan worship, forked animal penises, and their uniquely ribald approach to casting. We also fielded a fistful of great questions from you, the fans. If you haven’t seen AMERICAN MARY, it tells the tale of a young surgical student (Katharine Isabelle of GINGER SNAPS) who gets sucked into the underground world of body modification for quick cash. 

The film also stars Antonio Cupo, Tristan Risk, and Twan Holliday. AMERICAN MARY has been hailed by FANGORIA as “a modern horror masterpiece” - I totally agree! If you haven’t seen AMERICAN MARY, you can watch it right here on theStream.tv! 

Follow the link below, click the banner at the top of the page, and watch AMERICAN MARY on your computer or iPad! http://thestream.tv/scared-stiff What did you think of my first show? Follow us on Twitter (@ScareMeStiff) and Facebook (facebook.com/ScaredStiffShow) and spill your guts!"

WATCH IT HERE.

-Sylv

HorrorTalk TV Talks to Katie & The Twins

                    

“Welcome back to our web-based TV show featuring the latest news, trailers and interviews from the horror genre. Apologies for the delay, but we had to hold back slightly so we could bring you some of the material contained in the show.  

In this episode: *Sharon Richard Kerrigan, producer of the up-and-coming ‘zombie apocalypse in a toilet’ movie Stalled. *At Birmingham’s MCM Expo the director, producer and star of The Casebook of Eddie Brewer talk about their paranormal horror film. *Ilan and Sharon join the hottest directors working in horror, the Soska sisters, plus the beautiful actress Katharine Isabelle on the American Mary UK tour. *We take a look at the first official trailer for Dead of the Nite, starring Tony Todd, a film we featured in the very first episode of the show. There are also trailers for the completely insane John Dies at the End and Manborg. *Plus a chance to win American Mary on Blu-ray and DVD. On with the show!  

Hope you’ve enjoyed this slice of HorrorTalk TV and as usual if you have any feedback, good or bad, hit us up by email and let us know.” 

-Sylv

Glasgow American Mary Screening Q & A

                   

"A test of some new set up of the audio and lights in the GFT.. still getting the balance right."

- Sylv

Talking to Mary(s)

You are under heavy prosthetic makeup in the film. Did you find it constrictive are was it freeing as an actress? 

TR: Not in the least. I found it unsettling to pass by certain reflective surfaces and see someone else’s face. In theatre I have done a lot of mask work and I love creating strange characters in my burlesque, so this was kind of a wet dream for me to play something so extreme. I think at this point it may be more of a challenge to do a film with my own face since there would be so much more to be aware of. On a strangely narcissistic note, while I know everyone will adore Beatrice, it’s a little daunting to wonder if when faced with my own features if I can still win people over in my next project... (full interview)
 

I feel you are the moral center of the film, representing the road that leads to ruin. What can you tell me about Ruby Realgirl’s motivation for her decision? 

PL: I think Ruby feels her decisions are a natural creative extension of herself.  Do I think there’s a deeper reason she wants to desexualize herself? Some sort of past trauma?  Yes. Maybe it’s her own convoluted way of taking her power back, like Mary does in the film. (full interview)

On to American Mary – how did you find each other to make this film? Katharine, what drew you to it? 

KI: They… 

JS: I wrote it for her!  That’s a big rule as a director: never write for an actor because you don’t know if you’ll end up being disappointed… Maybe they’re not available, or when you meet them maybe they’re not the people that you were hoping they were… but Katie was WAY worse than what we’d imagined. 

KI: Huge letdown! 

JS: No, she’s like the Fassbender to our Steve McQueen. Katie’s our special one. 

SS: We were such big fans from Ginger and we watched everything and when you see the movie this is going to sound cruel, but this is something I’ve always wanted to see Katie do. I was so lucky that not only was she what I hoped she would be from watching all her movies, but she was even better. She only had three takes to do anything – we had 15 days, a lesser actress would have fucked this movie up so bad but she was just brilliant in it! I can’t say enough good things about her. 

KI: I like those answers. (full interview)

Sylvia Soska: At the time we were trying to sell our first film, Dead Hooker in a Trunk and nothing was happening, we were incredibly broke from that experience, we were going down to LA being very green and had no idea really what we were doing and we were meeting some real industry monsters.

Jen Soska: That hasn’t changed much.

Sylvia Soska: No not too much.

Then we had ailing family members who were in the hospital all the time and I was talking to a friend and he was like ‘You should focus on your next project, what other scripts do you have?’ and I had nothing!

So I thought ‘Nope, I’m going to lie’ and I made up a sentence for every movie that I thought I could write in two weeks.

Jen Soska: It’s really a life lesson, when in doubt, lie. (full interview)

SS: They saw how much of a fan-girl I was and I carry a modification hook in my purse… 

(Sylvia produces a hook from her bag) 

SS: When my balls drop – not Superman style, because I’m too much of a pussy! – I want to do the shoulder suspension, not only because I want to know what that transcendence is like, but if I did it then a lot of people will be like “Well, if that little chick can do it…”

JS: Street cred!

SS: Stop pretending it’s a big freakish thing, it’s kind of cool.

KI: I don’t know. I’d get 3D implants. I don’t know enough about it to know where you could do it though. I would want some shoulder/arm ones.

SS: You could do that. (full interview)

FLASH BANG's interview with Katie & the Twins 

             

              

Brutal As Hell: (trying and failing to casually get notes out) I’ve got notes.

(Laughter)

Jen Soska: “Ladies, why are you such cunting fucks?”

BAH: Wha- when did you see this sheet?

(More laughter. Go me.)

BAH: Hello Katharine Isabelle, hello… (attempts to guess – Sylvia whispers her name) Sylvia Soska! Okay, right, I wouldn’t have known that at all, obviously – I mean, I would have known. Ahem.

(More laughs. I’m on a roll.)

BAH: And Jen Soska. Hello.

JS: Hello Ben.

BAH: So first of all, how is life on the road treating you?

Sylvia Soska: We’re like a band. It’s a good thing we like each other, because we could have killed each other by now.

JS: We’re pretty much Led Zeppelin right now.

Katharine Isabelle: Yeah, we’re pretty much Led Zeppelin. (full interview)

FLICKS AND THE CITY interview Katie & the Twins
        

Katharine, do you feel you play a feminist heroine in the film?

Katharine: I absolutely do. I’ve done a few horror movies and it’s absolutely refreshing. The character of Mary on paper has no redeemable qualities. She’s not that pleasant, she’s not that kind, she has no friends, she has no family. She’s very narcissistic and self-absorbed, and that was refreshing in itself. I tried my best to make the character likeable without sweetening anything, without dumping any radical rigid feminist plotlines and themes! (laughs) I think it was the most true-to-life character that I’ve ever had the opportunity to portray because all the time in film women are, like Sylvia said earlier, those sort of easy bake kind of cookie images, like the slut, the tease, the good girl next door. And to have a character that was so multi-dimensional, that didn’t have any particular redeeming qualities, but was still likeable, was still strong, was still interesting and stood up for herself and gave not one fuck about anyone else, or what anyone else thought, or what anyone else expected of her, is something that I think we need to see more of in film and in society in general. (full interview)

Sylvie is more categorical: “We’re undatable, and after this movie, we’re even more undatable.” When American Mary showed at the market in Cannes, she recalls, “a gentleman started hitting on me. He said, ‘What are you doing here?’ I said, ‘I’m here for the movie, which I made with my sister.’ He said, ‘I hope it’s good.’ The movie plays, he looks at me, grabs his coat and speed-walks out. There you go.” (full interview)

SayWhatNews: In the horror film, ‘American Mary’ you played Billy Barker - a weathered and detached entrepreneur in the adult entertainment business. How did you prepare for this role?

Antonio: I showed up. Haha…. no seriously, Billy Barker was an idea I had of someone who is trying to hold on.. disgruntled, unsatisfied and a soft souled hard-ass. We all have many personalities that we don’t always tap into. I had to dig up some stuff that I didn’t know was available deep down but in the end Billy’s attributes are a part of who I am in some way. But all that gets locked in some character storage locker of your soul and you move on. (full interview)

- Sylv

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

Katie Chats to the Twisted Twins

           


 KATIE CHATS with Directors/Actors JEN SOSKA & SYLVIA SOSKA about their film, “AMERICAN MARY” at the TORONTO AFTER DARK FILM FESTIVAL at the BLOOR (HOT DOCS) CINEMA in TORONTO, Ontario. 10/12

-Sylv

Katie Chats to American Mary Star, Antonio Cupo

      

KATIE CHATS with Actor ANTONIO CUPO about his role in the film, "AMERICAN MARY" at the TORONTO AFTER DARK FILM FESTIVAL at the BLOOR (HOT DOCS) CINEMA in TORONTO, Ontario. 10/12

-Sylv

Premiere Scene Talks American Mary on Fright Fest Red Carpet

               

"At day 5 of Film 4 FrightFest the eagerly anticipated American Mary receives it's UK premiere and Premiere Scene's Nicola Johnston and Anthony Bueno were there to interview cast and crew on the inspirations behind the film. Writer / directors Jen Soska and Sylvia Soska and actors Katherine Isabelle and John Emmet Tracy share with us how horror channels our fascination of things we don't understand, an insight into body modification and the sisters provide some useful advice for future filmmakers."

-Sylv

Film 4 Fright Fest the 13th Round Up

Full Film 4 Fright Fest the 13th Round Up - click here for the rad video featuring all the horror folks that made up this year's Fright Fest for a bloody good time! Rad video courtesy of Film Best.

-Sylv

Twisted Twins Trivia with Ghost and the Twins!

Like they corpses sharing the same unmarked grave, is the horror show equivalent to how we feel about this man. Sorry, Beetlejuice, but our Ghost is our ghost with the most. If you're late to the bloggery, we met Ghost last year at TIFF and have been ghoul friends ever since.



We actually never wanted to leave, and Ghost was kind enough to hang with a pair of completely insane twins. He even took us to the airport where because I'm so hardcore, I didn't get all sad like a bitch (I did tho). Here is a segment from our time together that was previously unreleased for your viewing pleasure!



Thank you for watching, thank you to Ghost for being fucking fangtastic, thank you to everyone who reads this blog. Too much love for that radness!!

~Sylv

Twisted Twins rock on in The Province

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY!!!

It's a very festive time for all with that whole Christmas thing going full speed ahead since the day after our much beloved Halloween season came to an end. And today is a VERY special day. Three years ago, on December 11th, we incorporated our company, Twisted Twins Productions.

We've come a loooong bloody way to get to where we are and we have to thank from the very bottoms of our Twisted little hearts the friends, family, friends who have become family, fans, crew, and cast that we've had the esteemed pleasure of having in our lives. We are incredibly humbled to be doing what we love and cannot thank you all enough for the kindness, support, and belief you've had in us and our work.

And we promise we're just getting started...

And what better way to celebrate this gore~geous day than from the set of our new beast, AMERICAN MARY. Glen Schaefer of the Province was kind enough to come visit us on set. He's one of the few to have been on location of our newest film that we've been extremely tight lipped about.

Please enjoy the FULL STORY right here!

And check out the on set video RIGHT HERE!

If you're a fellow Vancouver-ite, go grab yourself a copy!!

And thank you all~!! We fuckin' LOVE you and cannot wait to share AMERICAN MARY with the world.

Bloody Best!
Jen and Sylv