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Rabid had its World Premiere at the 20th Annual Fright Fest in London on its closing night. It would go on to play film festivals throughout Europe leading up to the 101 Films October 7, 2019, Blu-ray release. The North American Premiere would happen October 15 in LA at Screamfest following the announcement that Shout! Factory would be releasing the film theatrically and on VOD December 13, 2019.

Jen and Sylvia Soska are passionate about raising awareness for blood donation causes, and curate a new blood donation PSA anthology for Women in Horror Month every year. As of 2019, they will have been making their Massive Blood Drive PSAs for ten years. As a celebration for their tenth year, the Soskas teamed with Terror Threads with a design that would have partial proceeds split between Canadian Blood Services and the Red Cross.

As of 2018, the Soskas are co-writing and directing Rabid, a remake of David Cronenberg’s 1977 film of the same name, starring Laura Vandervoort and former professional wrestler CM Punk. The film is set for a theatrical release in 2019. Avid fans of David Cronenberg’s work, the Soskas set out to make a film that would please their Canadian idol. The sisters hired cast and crew from Cronenberg’s previous films as well as a team with a huge resume of creating iconic horror. They would team again with Masters FX having Steve Kostanski coming on board to be their head creature designer on the piece. A film that focuses on the fashion world, it was with costume designer Morganne Tree Newson and Roger Gingerich of Canadian Fashion week to create the prolific designs seen in the film. Lauro Lash Chartrand was the stunt coordinator for the high action sequences throughout the film.

In 2018, Jen and Sylvia have teamed with Daniel Way and Rob Dumo as writers for an original graphic novel entitled Kill-Crazy Nymphos Attack!, featuring the sisters’ likenesses in two characters called The Sister Sisters.

The twins were also the hosts of both seasons of the Blumhouse-produced Hellevator on GSN. They appear as themselves in horror documentaries as well as Eli Roth’s History of Horror which aired October 2018.

Jen and Sylvia have also worked as writers for Marvel Comics, writing a story featuring Night Nurse for Marvel’s Secret Wars Journal #5 in 2015, then a short story called The Ripley with the Guardians of the Galaxy, and a Deadpool story for the first annual Avengers Halloween Special in 2018. In January 2019, the Soska Sisters started writing Black Widow for Marvel with illustrator, Flaviano, where they took Nat on one of her darkest storylines after her death in a series called ‘Seeing Red.’

Seeking to make themselves marketable for better roles, Jen and Sylvia briefly attended film school and created Dead Hooker in a Trunk as a final project. Dead Hooker in a Trunk was directed, produced, written by and starred the twins. The film was shot for $2,500 and released by IFC. It received an overall rating of 80% from critics at Rotten Tomatoes (4 fresh and 1 rotten review). The twins starred in the film as twin sisters – Badass (Sylvia) and Geek (Jen). Highly inspired by Robert Rodriguez’s Rebel Without A Crew, the Soskas sought out El Mariachi star Carlos Gallardo to play God in a cameo.

The film went on to win at Fantastic Fest: Jury Special Award, at Screamfest: Best Makeup & FX, Best Cinematography, Best Actress, Best Director(s), and Best Picture, at Shudderfest: Best Makeup & FX, Best Script, Best Actress, Best Director(s), Best Picture, at Toronto After Dark: Best Cinematography for Brian Pearson, Best Anti-Hero for Mary Mason, Best Director(s), Most Disturbing Film, Best Actress, Best Canadian Feature, at La Samain du Cinema Fantastique: Best Director(s), at BloodGuts Awards 2012: Best Supporting Actress, Best Director(s), and at the Klymkiw Accolades For Cinema In 2012: Best Horror Film, Best Supporting Actress, Best Production Design/Art Direction, Best Costume Design, at Horror Central 2013: Fan’s Choice Best Screenplay, Fan’s Choice Best Film, at the Rue Morgue 2013 in Review: Most Original Concept, Best New Killer, and at the Fright Meter Awards: Best Screenplay, and Best Actress.

An absurdist dark satire with horrific violence, Dead Hooker in a Trunk originated as a faux trailer after the sisters were motivated by revenge when the film school they were attending cut the budget for their final project. Disappointed, but not backing down, the sisters wrote, directed, produced, starred in, did the stunts for, location managed, etc. for the final project using a list of items too controversial for school projects as a blue print. They added bestiality and necrophilia for good measure. The reaction was so massive that the Soskas decided to max out their credit cards to turn the trailer into a feature. This was during the writers’ strike of 2007.

Jen Soska and Sylvia Soska (born April 29, 1983), also known as The Soska Sisters or The Twisted Twins, are Canadian twin sisters who work together as film directors, producers and screenwriters. They are known for directing often violent and visceral horror movies such as Dead Hooker in a Trunk, See No Evil 2 and American Mary.