After years of work and struggle, the Twisted Sister movie, We Are Twisted Fucking Sister!, is now getting its World Premier at IDFA (International Documentary Film Festival) in Amsterdam, known the biggest documentary festival in the world.

 

 

Featured as part of IDFA’s Music Documentary series, the Twisted movie’s first showing, on Sunday, November 23rd, will be a special presentation in the Rabozaal theater at the Melkweg. It’s an early bird show at 10:30 but the “special” part means that there will be a featured discussion with Twisted band leader and guitarist, Jay Jay French, along with director, Andrew Horn. Jay Jay and Andrew will also appear at the Monday evening show (November 24th) for a Q&A; afterwards. Two more shows follow on November 29th and 30th. More info here.

Special for all German SMFs... Simultaneously, the film will also have it’s German premier at Soundtrack Cologne, in Cologne on November 23rd and 26th. Director Andrew Horn will be present at the November 26th show.

Trailer:

Synopsis: Some considered Twisted Sister a joke, but others called them the greatest bar band in the world. While the microcosm of punk/new wave was being born in Manhattan, Twisted Sister was battling their way to the top of a working class, suburban, cover-band bar scene, that surrounded NYC in a 100 mile radius, yet existed in a parallel universe.

Twisted were the Grand Funk of Glam and the NY Dolls of metal, channeling youthful fury, and a wicked sense of humor, into a sort of blue collar performance art in a vast scene that boasted monster clubs, attracting audiences of up to 2-5000 a night. It was both a great living and a dead end, offering no future outside the suburban enclave. If you think you know them from their hit songs, the MTV videos and massive stadium shows, this is the untold story of how they became that band - full of strange, and often hilarious, twists and turns.

It's about rock 'n roll and the business of rock 'n roll. It's about perseverance and things blowing up in your face. It's about finding yourself, finding your audience and doing literally anything, however wild, to connect with them. A mesmerizing, and wickedly funny story of a 10 year odyssey to overnight success. Dress like women, talk like men, play like motherfuckers!