Jimmy and Stiggs, the bloody bonkers new alien horror from Joe Begos (Bliss, Christmas Bloody Christmas), gets a wild new trailer today before it hits theaters – unrated!- on August 15.
The first new feature from Eli Roth's newly-founded label The Horror Section, Jimmy and Stiggs follows a down-on-his-luck filmmaker (Begos) who claims he was abducted by aliens, vowing to bring them down alongside his friend (Matt Mercer).
Debuting today's new trailer, Collider also provided some choice quotes from Roth, especially regarding the creation of the “low budget 16mm insane splatterfest”:
“We all look at the first Evil Dead and picture Bruce Campbell covered in blood and them making it for almost a year, and then I learned that Joe spent four years on and off making the film and he had to live covered in that goo. It’s remarkable. In the same way we saw those shots on the motorcycle in Evil Dead and had no idea how they did them, Joe does something similar in Jimmy and Stiggs. There were shots in the movie I truly had never seen before, and had no idea how he pulled off, especially shooting on 16mm film. The camerawork and art direction and overall direction is so wildly creative you watch this movie in awe and just get lost in the insanity of it. It’s almost like he made a horror movie with Gaspar Noe operating the camera.
Roth also goes on to explain why Jimmy and Stiggs, which took Begos four years to make, makes the perfect first movie for The Horror Section:
“The person who made truly loves the film and the genre and went for it, or they’re just making a movie for a paycheck. Now, there are plenty of great movies that the director made for a paycheck, don’t get me wrong, but for The Horror Section I want to spotlight filmmakers who risked everything. Joe was completely in credit card debt making this movie and he never gave up. He’d shoot until he ran out of money, then he’d raise some money, and shoot some more until he ran out of money and do it again on and off for four years.”
Watch the new trailer for Jimmy and Stiggs below:
