Jennifer is living a good life; Working a great job at a big PR agency, is settled down with Alan, a man for whom she really cares, and just found out that she's pregnant with his baby as well. Things couldn't really be any better, but one day it all changes when there's someone who brutally starts killing men, and who looks exactly like Jennifer. After getting hassled by the police a few times, she eventually finds out from her parents that she was adopted, and that she has a twin sister named Norah out there somewhere. Norah is Jennifers evil twin who had to go through a terrible upbringing while Jennifer instead got the good life, and now Norah wants a taste of that...
From German director Wolfgang Büld (Penetration Angst, Lovesick: Sick Love) comes Twisted Sisters, which is basically a thriller with a few horror elements baked into it, with the horror elements being over-the-top death scenes, and on top of that, a bucket of gore, or two. I can't really say that it has an original story, featuring an evil twin and all, but for most parts, it works as an all right thriller that delivers a little suspense along with some gruesome death scenes. While the story never really draws you in that much, it still works ok with its fast pace which made the movie go by pretty fast, and therefore, it managed to stay entertaining enough and wasn't a drag to having to sit through.
Actress Fiona Horsey seems comfortable enough with her characters (she's playing both sisters of course) and maybe that's because she worked with the director on both movies mentioned above; 'Penetration Angst' and 'Lovesick: Sick Love'. She seems to get into both her roles fine, and during the whole movie, I never really though of the two sisters being played by the same person, even though I knew they were. That's a huge thing and makes all the difference, and I'm happy it didn't work the other way around. As for the other actors, some did an ok job while some could've been (a lot) better. The two police officers who throughout the movie were chasing the crazed killer were a bit lousy to watch at first, since it felt like they were reading the lines someone else had written for them, rather than the feeling that they were actually saying things in a more natural way. So their performances were a bit stiff, although, later on I thought it got better, but on the other hand, maybe I just got used to it. I'm not sure.
 
The title kinda says it all here; Twisted Sisters, well one of the two sure is twisted, going around killing men and cutting their genitalias off, ouch! It has some gore to offer which works quite ok, although it's far from being really nasty, and the gore scenes will probably not make you cringe. It's still somewhat enjoyable though and at least it makes for things to happen. There's especially one scene which must be quite original (can't say I've seen it elsewhere) when the psychopatic sister Norah kills a guy using fireworks. Other than that, it's pretty standard, at least if you watch horror flicks on a regular basis. It had some little twist to offer at the end, but it's nothing that's gonna blow you away.
I have absolutely no idea what kind of budget they had to work with, but it looked pretty low-budget, and while some of those movies manages to be so interesting (Joshua) that you tend to forget about what they look like, Twisted Sisters didn't make it all the way there. On the plus side of things, it used some cool angles and wasn't poorly shot or anything, it was just that it looked and felt a bit too low-budget at times, which sometimes made it a bit hard to focus on the actual story itself. No big thing though really, and at least it moved at a fast pace which made it seem better and provided some entertainment. The score wasn't so bad that it became irritating, but it sure could've been a helluva lot better.
Twisted Sisters was an ok but not very memorable thriller that featured some over-the-top death scenes and some gore as well. The acting had its ups and downs, but the main characters, the two sisters, were totally ok, and even if some actors could've been a lot better, it was never so bad so it became too much of a mess to watch. Except for the original death by fireworks scene, there were one scene right after killing the guy that was pretty bizarre but in a good way. When Norah had killed the guy, she noticed that he had a drum kit at home and sat down and started hammering away for a brief moment, and when she left his home, some neighbour came asking what the noise was all about. In the end Twisted Sisters was nothing special really, but it had pretty good pacing and worked quite ok as a low-budget flick.
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MOVIE YEAR: 2006
DIRECTOR: Wolfgang Büld
WRITING CREDITS: Wolfgang Büld
GENRE: Thriller, Horror
CAST: Fiona Horsey, Andrew Southern, Paul Conway
COUNTRY: Germany, UK
RUNTIME: 97 min
RATING: 5/10
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