East Coast Premiere

Trying to navigate his way around a career-stalling controversy, filmmaker Jimmy is also at odds with lifelong best friend Stiggs, who resents Jimmy’s constant boozing and drug use. One possible path to reconciliation: Battling an army of aliens while trapped inside of Jimmy’s Los Angeles apartment. Deeming this answer to lo-fi splatter films like The Evil Dead and Bad Taste, Joe Begos taps back into his down-and-dirty-and-nasty Bliss energy for this single-location exercise in madcap insanity, wall-to-wall viscera and virtuoso camerawork. -Matt Barone