TWISTED

TUESDAY 28 OCTOBER AT 5PM UGC SHAFTESBURY AVE SCREEN 2

Country UK Running Time 83 mins Format DV Director Nick Ralph Prod Felix O'Keefe S'play Matthew Lucey DoP Dermot Fontain Cast Paul Money, David Money, Melina Fereirra, Victoria Nelson, Iannis Bogris Print Source No Logo Films E nicholas_ralph@yahoo.co.uk

Jamie and Jody are identical twin brothers and they're, well, twisted. In addition to sharing the same visage, they also share a rather twisted relationship with Candy, Jody's high school sweetheart, and a passion for killing other highschoolers. While Jody carries on with Candy, Jamie dreams up innovative ways to market himself and his brother as sympathetic serial killers to the increasingly inquisitive media - he decides to place the blame for their sordid extracurricular activities on Hollywood action hero Vincent Fox and his shoot 'em up movies. In the mean time Candy's confidante, Kristina, gets a bit too suspicious and the twins add her to their burgeoning list of murders, but not before Candy unexpectedly walks in to witness her best friend's decapitation. Unfazed, Jamie and Jody successfully kidnap Fox and escort him to their prom. In front of a panicking police force and the frenzied media, Jamie and Jody make their last twisted demand. In 1995 eighteen-year-old Sarah Edmonds and her boyfriend Benjamin Darras blamed Oliver Stone and his film, Natural Born Killers, for the trail of death they left after a rampage in the American South. Twisted takes a critical, tongue-in-cheek look at this, and the rash of copycat killings blamed on the media by victims and the killers themselves in a uniquely British film about America. DS

A veteran of the documentary world, Nicolas Ralph cut his teeth at the BBC and pioneered the rise of reality TV. In 1999 he began a four-year stint editing over 15 features films before returning to the UK to direct Twisted, his first feature.