Are you familiar with Joe Begos? If not, I highly recommend Christmas Bloody Christmas – check it out immediately. The writer/director/actor is about as close to rock and roll frights as you can get in the modern age. I was lucky, I was able to see his holiday horrors on the big screen. And thanks to Eli Roth and his crowd-funded studio, The Horror Section, frights are going to a wide audience.
Bego’s Jimmy and Stiggs will be hitting 1,500 theatres on August 15. The new flick brings back a little bit of what Peter Jackson brought in Bad Taste and Dead Alive. You can even find some Raimi Evil Dead action. Starring Begos and Matt Mercer, alongside a bunch of aliens, Jimmy and Stiggs is hilariously gory. It’s the kind of movie that you will need to see with an engaged, raucous crowd on opening weekend. Vicious, brutal, messy, and ridiculously charming, it’s a great beginning for Mr. Roth’s latest genre endeavor.
Earlier this week, both Joe and Eli graciously took the time to speak with JoBlo. Happily, I’ve spoken to Mr. Roth several times throughout the years. One thing is for sure: the man has such incredible knowledge about horror. Having a career that spanned from Cabin Fever to Hostel to the recent Thanksgiving, he is an extremely talented fellow. He’s offering genre filmmakers a place to make the kinds of movies that no studio would touch. Horror has always been inventive. And both Roth and Begos seem to understand that the genre can challenge the norm. It takes risks like no other type of storytelling. I’m thrilled at the prospect of The Horror Section. Jimmy and Stiggs is the perfect beginning to an exciting new vision. Our review drops tomorrow – buy your tickets to see it HERE!
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