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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 mother's 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.

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.'.

Was an Honor Roll Student through all her years of school, as was her twin sister.

Oh my gosh! You won't believe what we do to penises in Mary! We're doing horrible things to penises in this one. You're going to be begging us to just do a forked penis instead (laughs). Our friends reading some of the script have said "Why don't you like men, penis this, penis that."(laughs) We love men, they're fun."

With Dead Hooker in a Trunk (2009), we knew what our limitations were. It was El mariachi (1992), go out and film a movie style. It was loose and crazy, so we made a story that would adhere to that style of filmmaking. That's the romance about grind-house, because that's how they made their movies too. It worked very well and I'm really proud of the insanity that DHIAT is.

[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.

Hannah and us have a very special relationship. We were introduced by mutual friend, feminist, and film maker, Eli Roth - he thought we'd get along and it's seriously like we were separated at birth. It was our first interview and a great friendship came from it.

We've been acting since we were little girls. It's an extremely difficult and often disappointing industry and, as we got older, the roles that we were offered consisted of twin girl, stereotypical, sexpot roles. Not that we have anything against that - just in a proper time and place with some justification in the script. It got to the point that we were just going out for roles that we didn't really want in the first place and we realized that we needed a change.