NOTE: The below Blu-ray captures were taken directly from the Blu-ray disc.

ADDITION: Kino Blu-ray (August 2024): Kino have transferred Philip Kaufman's Twisted to Blu-ray. It is cited as being from a "Brand New HD Master – From a 4K Scan of the Original Camera Negative". Unfortunately there is digitization here. It looks very smeary and has softness, compression artifacts / banding. I don't know where in the process that this occurred but, regardless, it is quite noticeable. HERE is an example. 

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On their Blu-ray, Kino offer the option of DTS-HD Master 5.1 surround of stereo tracks (24-bit) in the original English language. Twisted has aggression and there is some head-turning separations. The score is by Mark Isham ( Fire in the Sky, Short Cuts, Little Man Tate, Of Mice and Men, Crossing Over, In the Valley of Elah, A River Runs Through It). It suits the film's twisty thriller moods very well. We also get James Brown's Get Up (I Feel Like Being Like a) Sex Machine and Papa Don't Take No Mess - One More Nite by Johnny Nitro - tunes by Roberto Aguilar, Sandy Rogers and Tierney Sutton. Sounds clean and lively. Kino offer optional English (SDH) subtitles on their Region 'A' Blu-ray.

The Kino Blu-ray offers a new commentary by director Phillip Kaufman from the 2004 DVD. He narrates quite a bit and pauses. There is not as much on the production details as we usually get. He identifies actors in their roles from David Strathairn (as Doctor Frank) to Camryn Manheim (as Lisa.) Also repeated from the DVD are three featurettes running about 1/2 hour in total; Creating a 'Twisted' Web of Intrigue, The Investigators - Clues of Crime and San Francisco - Scene of the Crime. There are also a 1/4 hour of deleted scenes with optional commentary - also from the DVD - and lastly a theatrical trailer.

Philip Kaufman's Twisted is kind of a poor cousin to Ashley Judd's superior neo-noirs like High Crimes, Kiss the Girls, Heat and Double Jeopardy. Personally, I've always preferred her in Eye of the Beholder and The Passion of Darkly Noon. Twisted received mostly negative reviews so I'm not that bothered by the flawed image transfer and, essentially, no new extras. Philip Kaufman is an excellent director and I've been waiting a long time for his The Unbearable Lightness of Being to come to Blu-ray - please Criterion? This Kino Blu-ray gets a pass. Weak film and image.

Gary Tooze