produced by Canadian studio Filmline International (in conjunction with The Movie Network), with American studio Paramount Pictures later acquiring distribution rights. Filming occurred in Montreal, Quebec and Léry, Quebec. The cast consisted of local actors from Quebec and other parts of Canada, aside from the first segment, which features American actress Jennifer Rubin, who had notably appeared in the horror film A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors ten years prior in 1987. Martin Neufeld, who appears in the second segment "The Clinic", later recalled that he was nervous to be working with veteran actor Nick Mancuso, saying on his website, "I had always been a fan of Nick Mancuso since his Stingray days, a show that I enjoyed immensely and watched regularly. So when I found out that I would be working with Nick I was very excited. Because 'The Clinic' was pretty much going to be a three hander between Nick, Jayne Heitmeyer and myself. But for some reason, I was extremely nervous on the first day of shooting. I only had small scene that day with Nick, and yet I kept missing my mark. I wasn't getting into my light, I was struggling to remember my dialogue, I was sweating bullets, it was horrible. I felt terrible. And of course the worse I felt the more self conscious I became. And that is death for any actor. Thankfully Nick was really cool about the whole thing. We finally got the scene in the can and then I was fine. The rest of the shoot went extremely well." Release Twists of Terror premiered on The Movie Network in its native Canada on July 2, 1997. Later in 1997, the film was released on video in Germany and Australia (where it received an R18+ rating for an explicit sex scene in the third segment), and then in the UK and Japan in April 1998. It made its television premiere in the US, October 17, 1998, on Showtime. It would continue to be aired heavily during the early 2000s, on both The Movie Network and Showtime. After getting released on VHS by Paramount in the US, a DVD was released in Canada on November 26, 2003. Reception Twists of Terror is included in the 2000 book Creature Features: The Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror Movie Guide, with author John Stanley writing "This loosely knit trilogy of horror stories, lifting