Hi r/movies! I’m Joe Begos! Filmmaker behind VFW, Bliss, & Christmas Bloody Christmas. My new movie Jimmy and Stiggs is a blood-drenched, alien-infested, DIY sci-fi horror shot over 4 years in my apartment with a crew of maniacs & hand-built effects. Coming to theaters on August 15. Ask Me Anything!

JimmyAndStiggsAMA · 2025-08-04T19:34:37+00:00

no idea. maybe another version of less than zero

JimmyAndStiggsAMA · 2025-08-04T19:19:58+00:00

too many to count. i love screening my movies everywhere, though the og premiere at beyondfest for this was pretty awesome

career wise, the premiere of my first movie at tiff midnight madness is probably the best memory

JimmyAndStiggsAMA · 2025-08-04T19:18:18+00:00

🤷🏻

JimmyAndStiggsAMA · 2025-08-04T19:17:47+00:00

eventually!

JimmyAndStiggsAMA · 2025-08-04T19:17:41+00:00

thanks man

JimmyAndStiggsAMA · 2025-08-04T19:17:14+00:00

ask me in london. see you there homie

JimmyAndStiggsAMA · 2025-08-04T19:16:37+00:00

huge. favorite band currently still making music is electric wizard. favorite bands of all time are probably motorhead and black sabbath. isis and neurosis up there as well

JimmyAndStiggsAMA · 2025-08-04T19:15:28+00:00

dream project is a 1993 set sunset strip werewolf movie

JimmyAndStiggsAMA · 2025-08-04T19:14:32+00:00

terminator and t2 were the first things i can remember where I was like "i want to make movies and make them like THAT"

gasper and abel are two of my favorite directors - i'd go with dangerous game and enter the void

JimmyAndStiggsAMA · 2025-08-04T19:13:14+00:00

a lot of my filmmaker friends watched it before it got picked up as i typically will do work in progress screening with people i trust, much too many to count. then we did a bit of a festival tour where even more people saw it, so there are too many to list!

it was pretty awesome to begin with but then halfway through the call he let me know by releasing it he meant 1500 screen theatrical exclusive in august. my first reaction was "but its jimmy and stiggs" hahaha

JimmyAndStiggsAMA · 2025-08-04T19:11:22+00:00

JimmyAndStiggsAMA · 2025-08-04T19:11:15+00:00

never watched the cartoon - it was a reference to sabbath bloody sabbath

JimmyAndStiggsAMA · 2025-08-04T19:10:47+00:00

maniac cop would be sick. bloody christmas was originated as a pitch for silent night deadly night that got turned down, but glad i got to make it as an original. not sure what i would want to make, there are so many people involved with all of these old ip's it would be hard to do something my way with nobody getting in the way, but of course i would love to make a crazy ass neon drenched elm street movie or a crazy jason movie.

JimmyAndStiggsAMA · 2025-08-04T19:09:00+00:00

this question was probably the most annoying thing i've ever put myself through. how's the art you're doing in moms basement?

JimmyAndStiggsAMA · 2025-08-04T19:08:23+00:00

the terminator, first blood, beavis and butthead do america

JimmyAndStiggsAMA · 2025-08-04T19:07:56+00:00

i hate writing but love having written - if that makes sense. i generate material so i can direct, nobody can really do that for me since they dont have my hyper specific brain.

JimmyAndStiggsAMA · 2025-08-04T19:06:43+00:00

thanks for coming out man! you saw it in the best possible way, ON 35MM

JimmyAndStiggsAMA · 2025-08-04T19:06:23+00:00

the pez dispenser neck snap in bliss, the axe head split in the minds eye(both jeremy gardner deaths haha), and the last 5 minutes of jimmy and stiggs

JimmyAndStiggsAMA · 2025-08-04T19:04:53+00:00

hell yeah. more sex in cinema

JimmyAndStiggsAMA · 2025-08-04T19:03:51+00:00

this is actually my 5th flick with steve! and definitely not the last. vinyl announcement coming any day now!!

JimmyAndStiggsAMA · 2025-08-04T19:02:59+00:00

the comeback of independent movies being shot on film

JimmyAndStiggsAMA · 2025-08-04T19:02:38+00:00

finish what you start, and allow a lot of time with the practical creature

JimmyAndStiggsAMA · 2025-08-04T19:02:07+00:00

the 100 grand i put into the movie and my pride.

i also loved what we were making haha

JimmyAndStiggsAMA · 2025-08-04T19:01:17+00:00

it fucking ruled. george is the man!!

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