"This is a DayGlo-hued, heavy metal-spackled horror film that clearly hopes to provoke nausea in viewers with its abundant scenes of dismemberment and plentiful use of shaky-cam first-person point-of-view footage. But given that the blood being spurted out is mostly bright orange and belongs to extraordinarily fake-looking alien creatures, the effect is neither gross-out nor even the slightest bit engrossing; it is just boring and headache-inducing."
"Made over several years in a single scuzzy apartment, Jimmy and Stiggs is the brainchild of writer-director-producer-star Joe Begos, who made the marginally better Christmas Bloody Christmas a few years ago and who plays title character Jimmy here. Having made a bunch of horror films with his lifelong friend Stiggs (Matt Mercer) we see fictional trailers of them at the beginning, definitely the high point from which it all goes downhill"
Jimmy and Stiggs is a DayGlo-hued, heavy-metal-spackled horror film that emphasizes dismemberment and first-person shaky-cam footage. The onscreen blood is mostly bright orange and emanates from clearly fake alien creatures, producing a boring, headache-inducing effect rather than gross-out or engrossing horror. The film was made over several years in a single scuzzy apartment and was conceived and led by Joe Begos, who also plays Jimmy. The plot follows alcoholic filmmaker Jimmy and his sober friend Stiggs as aliens invade and alcohol turns out to be poisonous to the invaders. The film releases digitally on 16 February.
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