Eli Roth and Snoop Dogg team for Don’t Go in That House, Bitch faux trailer, attached to Jimmy and Stiggs in theatres
After creating the Thanksgiving faux trailer for the Robert Rodriguez / Quentin Tarantino double feature Grindhouse back in 2007, Eli Roth wanted to make an entire feature out of faux trailers, a project he called Trailer Trash. Trailers he teased for that included Nascar Dog, Bear Witness, and Farmageddon, plus collaborations with Edgar Wright, Robert Rodriguez, Peter Berg, Howard Stern, and Greg Nicotero, among others. Sadly, Trailer Trash never happened – but we did get a Thanksgiving movie eventually, and now it looks like Roth has found a roundabout way to make his Trailer Trash dreams come true. Last week, he released a faux trailer called The Piano Killer, which will be playing in theatres with the bonkers splatterfest Jimmy and Stiggs. Now, he has released another faux trailer! This one is called Don’t Go in That House, Bitch and will also be attached to Jimmy and Stiggs in theatres. You can watch it in the embed above, and be treated to the sound of voiceover and music by Snoop Dogg.
Earlier this year, Roth launched a company called The Horror Section with plans to produce all things horror, including movies, TV shows, games, podcasts, and more. The Horror Section picked up the distribution rights to writer/director Joe Begos’s Jimmy and Stiggs and is teaming up with Iconic Events to give the film a wide theatrical release on August 15th. Now I’m hoping that Roth will make faux trailers to accompany every Horror Section release. Maybe we’ll even get to see Nascar Dog, Bear Witness, and Farmageddon someday!
The Don’t Go in That House, Bitch trailer is a reunion for Roth and Snoop, as they previously worked together on the 2012 “La La La” music video, which Roth directed. Roth had this to say: “I love Snoop so much, and when I made this trailer I heard his voice over and over in my head. Something was in the air because he called me the day after I shot it, and I told him about it and right away he got it and sent me the voice over and then the theme
song. I kept singing it over and over. I had to add a singalong for the audience to do the same.“
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). Here’s how Begos previously described the project while speaking with The Boo Crew podcast (with thanks to Bloody Disgusting for the transcription): “I play a coked out filmmaker who is at the edge of his wits. Everybody around him has cut him off, and the opening scene is him just melting down. His manager hangs up the phone, it’s all shot in POV for the opening scene, and then he gets abducted by aliens, in this really f*cking crazy scene. And then he wakes up and he can’t really remember, but it starts to come back to him. So he convinces a friend to come over. His friend comes over and starts telling him, ‘Dude, you have a drug problem.’ And then while his friend’s there, they come back. And then his friend gets abducted. And he’s locked in the apartment because they start to control his mind and everything’s bricked off and it becomes this hallucinatory battle where he’s constantly doing a bunch of cocaine and painkillers because they put an implant in him, but he also needs to stay awake. So he’s doing coke and painkillers while blowing away these aliens. The lights are getting all f*cked up and the place gets covered in neon blood and the camera’s just spinning. And then his friend comes back but he’s infected with an alien and then I get abducted again.“ Begos originally thought he could knock out this alien invasion movie on a 35 day shooting schedule, but production stretched far beyond that and was broken up into multiple different filming periods. The filmmaker also told The Boo Crew that the aliens in the film are animatronic.
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