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UXB Created for ‘Maddening’ and ‘Suicide Solution’
The Cannes market is loaded with surprises that range from random acquisitions (Magnet nabbing Rubber) to bizarre announcements (Romero directing Deep Red 3D). As a horror fan the best of news comes when a new label is created with the sole purpose of delivering a mass amount of genre films. Announced this morning is UXB (Unexploded Bomb), a new genre arm to Jinga Films that has two new horror films lined up for production later this year.
Jinga Films is setting up a new genre label UXB (Unexploded Bomb).
UXB’s first project will be action horror The Maddening about an American rock band, who are stranded in Serbia during an outbreak of mass hysteria caused by a biological weapons leak.
Craig Fairbrass (Dead Cert, Devil’s Playground) has joined the project to play a former SAS soldier who comes to their rescue. The Maddening will be produced by Julian Richards and Nikola Pantelic with Milan Todorovic (Zone of the Dead) directing.
It is also working on psychological horror Suicide Solution about a father and daughter who embark on a murder spree in Austin, Texas. It will be produced by Bob Portal and directed by Julian Richards (The Last Horror Movie).
Released by Eli Roth’s label The Horror Section last year, Joe Begos (VFW, Christmas Bloody Christmas) horror movie Jimmy and Stiggs is getting an official spinoff movie.
Variety reports that director Sebastián De Caro has acquired the Argentine spin-off rights to Jimmy and Stiggs from The Horror Section, and he’s not planning a straight up remake.
“The film will follow new characters facing the same extraterrestrial threat in Argentina, expanding the universe Begos created into new territory,” Variety details in their report.
Eli Roth and Joe Begos will Executive Produce the upcoming spinoff movie.
“Working with Eli Roth and Joe Begos is an incredibly exciting adventure,” De Caro said. “Jimmy and Stiggs struck me as a brilliant kind of madness — it blew my mind with its energy and humor — and the chance to expand that universe in my own country is the biggest creative challenge I’ve ever taken on.”
Eli Roth said in a statement shared by Variety this afternoon, “Horror is truly global, and any story can be applied to local culture. I cannot wait to see how this film honors and expands the universe of a wildly original film by the one and only Joe Begos.”
Meanwhile, you can watch Joe Begos’ Jimmy and Stiggs on Digital outlets now. The drug-fueled, neon-soaked alien invasion splatterfest is written and directed by Begos, who shot the film in his apartment during the pandemic.
A perfect storm of lousy news sees out-of-work filmmaker Jimmy spiral into a bender, during which he claims to have been abducted by aliens. Fearing their return, he contacts his old friend Stiggs to help him gear up for war. Begos stars alongside Matt Mercer (Contracted), practical alien puppets, and a whole lot of gore captured on 16mm film.
Daniel Kurland wrote in his review, “The world needs more playful, gonzo small-scale-yet-apocalyptic horror films like Jimmy and Stiggs. It’s a movie that has constant tricks on display and perpetually sprays blood in the audience’s face, but there’s an earnest center to it all.”
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