Twisted is a 2004 American psychological thriller directed by Philip Kaufman, written by Sarah Thorp, and starring Ashley Judd, Samuel L. Jackson, and Andy García.

Shepard discovers a third murder, Cutler's defense attorney Ray Porter, whom she also had previously had sex with, who had summoned her via note to meet him that morning.

Furthermore, as he himself had an illicit affair with Shepard's mother, Mills felt the need to kill her lovers, ashamed that he helped destroy his partner's marriage and drove him insane.

In February 2002, it was announced producer Arnold Kopelson and Paramount Pictures were in the process of negotiating a just under seven figure purchase of Sarah Thorp's spec script Blackout about the daughter of a serial killer who now works as a cop and comes to fear she might be a suspect in a rash of killings she’s investigating.

[2] In August of that year, it was announced Philip Kaufman was set to direct (and had provided some uncredited rewrites to the script) with Ashley Judd, Andy Garcia and Samuel L. Jackson as the leads with shooting taking place in San Francisco, California.

The website's critical consensus states: "An implausible, overheated potboiler that squanders a stellar cast, Twisted is a clichéd, risible whodunit."