Jen Soska
- Director
- Actress
- Writer
Identical twins, writers, directors, actors even stunt players, the
Soska sisters 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 performed 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
(Deadpool, Daken) 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.
Soska sisters 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 performed 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
(Deadpool, Daken) 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.