Identical twins, writers, directors, actors even stunt players, the Soska sister's have always loved twisted film. Even at an early age, they devoured Stephen King novels, one after another as fast as they could read - and snuck into the over 18 sections at video stores, to critique the bloody images on the backs VHS horror movies and in gore magazines. They both entered the film industry, acting and doing background work - and were soon unsatisfied with stereotypical roles that were commonly offered to identical twins. To expand their horizons, they trained in martial arts in hopes to pick-up stunt roles and briefly attended a film school that included an intensive stunt program. For one of the school's final film projects, their prepared short film had it's funding misappropriated and their short was pulled from the program. Undeterred, they decided to go ahead with it anyway, getting a new cast and crew and paying for it out of their own pockets. The title of that project was 'Dead Hooker In A Trunk'. 'Dead Hooker In A Trunk' - their debut film, which the twins wrote, directed, produced, starred in, and preformed the stunts. Using Robert Rodriguez's book, Rebel Without A Crew - a bible for how film-making could be done on a modest budget, armed only with creativity and ambition. Even following the spirit of El Mariachi, the twins' story reached the original El Mariachi, actor Carlos Gallardo - who not only gave the ladies advice, but appeared in the film - as God. The completed film - embraced by horror fans, film festivals, and critics - became an underground sensation, called "a hidden gem in indie film-making" and "a cult classic in the waiting", and won multiple awards: Pollygrind's Favorite Feature, Best Screenplay, City of Death's Best Director Award, and Cinefantasy's Audience Favorite Prize. In 2008 the twins incorporated, Twisted Twins Productions -- to create their own label for many future projects to come, including their highly anticipated second feature, American Mary, an analogy of their own struggles in the film industry. American Mary has gone on to win numerous praise and awards. The film has gone on to become a cult classic and the various costumes of the lead character Mary Mason a Halloween and horror convention favorite for cos-players. The Soska Sisters have gone on to be very outspoken about equal rights across the board including but not limited to gender equality and equal rights for the LGBT community. They're actively involved in promoting blood donation and create a new PSA for it every February. And they are only just getting started. 2014 was a big year with the Soska Sisters bringing a new life to See No Evil 2 where they resurrect the WWE Studios franchise with WWE Superstar Glenn "Kane" Jacobs reprising his role as Jacob Goodnight and scream queens Danielle Harris and Katharine Isabelle appear together for the first time. As well, the Twins will be one of the all star director line up for ABCs of Death 2 in a segment that will shock and be destined for cult status. Their segment, T is for Torture Porn, has since been banned in Germany. In 2015, the twins did a genre jump, teaming again with Lionsgate and WWE Studios, with a action revenge thriller called Vendetta to star, Dean Cain, Paul 'Big Show' Wight, and Michael Eklund. The high action, ultra gory nature of the film proved that the sisters are not one trick ponies as they expand their sensibilities to this Justin Shady written, men's prison revenge flick. Avid comic book fans, the Soska Sisters have teamed up with Daniel Way to create their own very graphic novel entitled Kill-Crazy Nymphos Attack! with artist Rob Dumo & cover artist Dave Johnson which is a pitch black satire on patriarchal society and women's roles within it. The very graphic novel is set with a 2017 release date. September 16th, 2015, also marks the release of Jen & Sylvia Soska's first collaboration with Marvel comics with their Night Nurse story line 'The Risk of Infection' featured in Secret Wars Journal #5. The Soska twins have been long time fans of Marvel Comics and been quite vocal in their interests to tackle the adaptation of one of their stories for the big screen with them at the helm as directors. In April it was announced that the twins would be teaming with Marvel again, this time writing 'The Ripley' as a Guardians of the Galaxy story featured in Guardians of Infinity #8. The mediums that the twins take on ever expanding, the Soska Sisters are the hosts of the survival horror game-show called Hellevator that premiered October 21 2015 on GSN. The show is a creation from Blumhouse, GSN, Matador, and Lionsgate. The show just enjoyed it's second season and received even more attention when it was made available on VOD through Netflix and Hulu proving that evil twins continue to have a rich history with elevators and scaring people. In February 2016, the directing duo of Jen and Sylvia Soska came on board to direct a remake of David Cronenberg's 1977 zombie thriller Rabid. John Vidette's Somerville House Releasing entered into a joint venture with Paul Lalonde and Michael Walker to produce a feature film and original TV series based on the 1977 Canadian horror film. December 11, 2016 will mark the twins' company, Twisted Twins Productions' 8 year anniversary which will have them with 4 feature films, 2 graphic novels, a series of blood donation PSAs, and a television show. Not too shabby for a pair of twins from Canada who set their sites on shaking up the entertainment industry playing by their own rules and leaving a hefty cinematic body count in their wake.
Is identical twin sister to Jen Soska , who has been her working partner since the girls started to work.
Blood types is AB positive. Blood donation awareness is very important to the Twisted Twins as they make a PSA to promote donation every February during Women In Horror Recognition Month (starting in 2010).
Is a huge fan of Robert Rodriguez and Carlos Gallardo s El Mariachi. The first hand account of making their no budget feature is what inspired the twins to make their own no budget feature, Dead Hooker in a Trunk..
Being avid fans of what Carlos Gallardo has brought to the world of independent filmmaking, the twins cast him appropriately in the cameo role as God in the film which Gallardo happily accepted.
Was born Thursday, April 29th, 1983 at 4:58 am. Her twin, Jen, was born nineteen minutes later - taking more time because she was born almost half the size of her sister. Both girls were born on their mothers birthday.
Is an extensively trained mixed martial artist. Before starting work as a director, Jen and Sylvia retired from acting to pursue stunt work with their training. Both girls are avid supporters of actors performing their own stunts where applicable.
Sylvia collects tarantulas, having wanted to be an arachnologist from an early age. She keeps giant species in her collection in hopes of beating the record of 11 inches in leg span which is held by captive-bred tarantulas. 13 inch tarantulas have been recorded in the wild, but never captivity.
Was an Honor Roll Student through all her years of school, as was her twin sister.
Her first language is Hungarian.
When incorporating Twisted Twins Productions on December 11, in 2008, the twins had to choose different titles. Sylvia became President whereas Jen became Chairman of the company.
Daughter of Agnes Soska and Marius Soska.
[on Poltergeist (1982) ]: I was about nine years old and I watched,it on TV with my mom and sister. I remember the mother slipping back,into this pit of reanimated corpses and it scared the shit out of me.
This could have been a bad memory, but it was actually the first time I,learned what was actually going on behind the scenes in horror,filmmaking because my mom decided to explain it very logically to me -,everything on the screen was a result of very talented artists working,to make it terrifying.
I feel very naked with this new story (American Mary (2012) ) -,which is silly because very little of the script is literal from our,lives, but I feel after watching this movie, you will know everything,about us.
We had a final project for film school where we got to make short films.
We joked a lot on set that God wanted us to make this movie. There were,so many things that we got away with that it feels like a higher power,was watching us. I remember just digging a hole in a park with what,looked like a dead body and police came by just to have a look. If you,are holding a camera, people give you a certain level of lenience.
[which twin is older] Me! But I sort of cheated, I guess. I am nineteen,minutes older, and came out at seven pounds. Jen was only about three.
Apparently, I tried to eat her in the womb. Womb combat - point Sylv.
His whole life, people treat him a certain way and make up their mind,about him before getting to know him. Same is true for a girl that,looks like Katie and people who have gotten body modifications or other,cosmetic surgery - we wanted to disillusion that way of perceiving,people.
Every time we try and do something normal it ends up really fucked up.
I was ready to fight. I was always ready to fight.
Creativity can bridge any gap between initial concept and something that,will make all the people involved happy.
