While Space Jockey Reviews planned to spread more bloody-good news about Rabid (2019), we now have some not-so-good news. Recently, Twisted Twins Jen & Sylvia Soska were suspended from Twitter for simply posting images from their upcoming film. Particularly, the suspension involves a festival banner (featured above) upon which a screenshot from their movie is featured. Unbelievably, one small image on a banner also promoting five other films gets the girls punished. Even Facebook has allowed the same image to be posted and shared already, more times than we can count, without consequences. (Good for you, Facebook!) It’s even been on the covers of Rue Morgue and Fangoria magazines, without outcry from a single watchdog group for decency in horror. Decency in horror? Imagine that anyway!
“Sucks to get shut down on Twitter for sharing an image of our star, Laura Vandervoort, wearing prosthetics from our team at Masters FX Toronto, on the banner for FrightFest who are giving us our World Premiere.” ~ Jen Soska
But, apparently, asking for Twitter rules, polices, and punishments to be fair and reasonable is like asking for blood from a paper cut. Instead, this suspension gushes blood red with something amiss, something incompetent at least, but biased for sure. Perhaps an overzealous worker in the censor department made the decision. Perhaps it’s not company policy to be punitive for such petty reasons. Let’s hope so! But, as the suspension continues, we doubt it.
This image (thanks to the awesomeness of Master FX) gets the twins suspended from Twitter.
Cutting deeper in the anatomy of the offending image, what do we see? It features the face of Rose (Laura Vandervoort), injured in a car accident, with most of her lips and external mouth missing. Exposed bloody gums and teeth make Rose a gory sight indeed. However again, this is a screenshot from a horror film, on a movie festival banner, with what are (although amazingly realistic) only special effects and prosthetics. (We’ve seen far worse posted on Twitter by others, with no consequences we’ve noticed.) Kudos again to the artistry of Master FX, but the results are bittersweet with such censorship and bias from Twitter.
“It has been a big disappointment and so weird for Twitter to shut us down for images that were cool enough to be on the covers of two huge publications,” Jen said on her Facebook page. “That image has been reposted so many times. Why punish the filmmakers who are just announcing their film’s world premiere?” she added. “If you could be Rabid on Twitter in our absence, we would appreciate it.”
Perhaps this still from the latest trailer would offend Twitter too! Not at Space Jockey Reviews!
Indeed, the support that has come as a result has been incredible. “We’re not a big studio, so all the press and support means the world to us and gives this film a life it couldn’t have otherwise,” says Sylvia. “While we’re in twitter jail, please tell your friends about the film! Check out our newly-released trailer too.”
Speaking of the new trailer, we have it below! Trust us! There’s some extra goodies in this one that Twitter would really like to ban…if they could. But, at Space Jockey Reviews, we are forever fair, balanced and unafraid to tell it (and show it) like it is, in all its gory goodness! Do your part, and get #Rabid on Twitter, Facebook, and everywhere else! News is spreading like a pandemic already, but every microbe counts!
For more SJR news and stories related to the Soska twins, their RABID remake and the suspension, check out the links below:
