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When Joe Begos‘s holiday horror film Christmas Bloody Christmas was released back in December of 2022 (you can read an 8/10 review from our own JimmyO Here), the writer/director let it be known that he was hoping to make two sequels to that movie. But first, he intended to wrap up a horror project he had been working on since the early days of the Covid pandemic lockdowns: an alien invasion horror movie that he stars in, because the alternative would have been to cast someone who was in the Screen Actors Guild, which would have added thousands to the budget. Now we know that his sci-fi horror project is called Jimmy and Stiggs, and Variety reports that The Horror Section, a company that was just launched by genre regular Eli Roth last month, has acquired the distribution rights to the film. The Horror Section is teaming up with Iconic...

The new horror movie from indie filmmaker Joe Begos is titled Jimmy and Stiggs, and Variety reports that Eli Roth has come on board the film.

Eli Roth’s new venture The Horror Section has acquired the distribution rights to Jimmy and Stiggs, with a planned theatrical release from Iconic Events Releasing (Terrifier 3).

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).”

Iconic Events brings Jimmy and Stiggs to theaters on August 15.

“Rarely does a film stop me in my tracks the way Jimmy and Stiggs did,” Eli Roth said in a statement shared by Variety. “I grew up on Sam Raimi and Peter Jackson’s low budget over the top splatter fests, and very few filmmakers have ever achieved that level of insanity. Horror fans have not had an experience like this...

Eli Roth’s The Horror Section has acquired “Jimmy and Stiggs,” marking the horror company’s first major deal since launching earlier this month, Variety can exclusively report.

Directed and written by Joe Begos, “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). The film originally played at Beyond Fest and the Sitges Film Festival, and is now set for wide theatrical release on August 15 through Iconic Events under The Horror Section banner.

“Rarely does a film stop me in my tracks the way ‘Jimmy and Stiggs’ did,” The Horror Section’s Founder and Cco Roth said in a statement. “I grew up on Sam Raimi and Peter Jackson’s low budget over the top splatter fests, and very few filmmakers have ever achieved that level of insanity. Horror fans have not had an...