A train pulls into its final station and a hobo hops from a freight car. A young man who escapes the clutches of a murderous hitchhiker is subsequently stalked by the hitcher and framed for his crimes. It was a part of a great rutger hauer tribute triple feature, alongside prints of the hitcher and nighthawks. Hobo with a shotgun red band trailer hobo with a shotgun. Rutger hauer, pasha ebrahimi, robb wells, brian downey, gregory smith, nick bateman, drew ohara, molly dunsworth. Recommendation engine sorted out rough, suspenseful, serious and realistic films with plots about vengeance, revenge, crimes, violence, murder, rivalry and blood mostly in action, thriller and crime genres. Hobo with a shotgun 1011 movie clip you gotta get a shotgun 2011 hd duration. Some may argue that hobo with a shotgun encapsulates a joke worn thin, but the bmovie energy that pulses through the veins of this beast is not to be denied. Hobo with a shotgun synopsis a homeless vigilante blows away crooked cops, pedophile santas, and other scumbags with his trusty pumpaction shotgun.
A homeless vigilante blows away crooked cops, pedophile santas, and other scumbags with his trusty pumpaction shotgun. Ive never seen a film more enjoyable and more easy to make fun at how bad it is. Hobo with a shotgun synopsis a train pulls into its final station and a hobo hops from a freight car. A vagabond with a 20gauge shotgun changed to a 12gauge for the actual movie who becomes a vigilante. Hobo with a shotgun nude scenes naked pics and videos at. Originating as a fake trailer during the promotional campaign for robert rodriguez and. Bobs bad movie blog bad movie bob box office magazine steve ramos brian vs.
It seems like pretty much every genre flick coming down the pike anymore especially all the grindhouse and 70s throwbacks wind up looking the same. Its palette is bright and hypersaturated, and you wont need to tune into hobos audio commentary to pick up on the influence of suspiria or. The fauxgrindhouse amuse bouche that calls itself hobo with a shotgun illustrates a modern bmovie principle. Amidst the chaos, the hobo comes across a pawn shop window. A hobo rutger hauer blows into a lawless town, arms himself with a shotgun, and decides to take down a ruthless crime boss in this violent, neoexploitation throwback that began as a fake trailer for the grindhouse trailer competition at the 2007 south by southwest film festival. Watch the next episode of escape to the movies a week early, only on the escapist. The 2011 film hobo with a shotgun started out as a fake movie trailer in grindhouse, but thanks to independent filmmakers from dartmouth, nova scotia, it became the second grindhouse trailer after machete to get converted into a featurelength film an elderly, nameless hobo rutger hauer arrives in the city of hope town, a rundown dystopian sprawl. By james crypticpsych lasome the trailer for hobo with a shotgun didnt hit american theaters, but it did play in canada. Hobo with a shotgun has some great scenes, and some big laughs, and it certainly wrings more life out of its premise than the onejoke black dynamite.
Realizing that hope town needs justice, he buys the shotgun, costing the same as the lawnmower, and kills dozens of criminals, including the filmmaker, a pimp, a coke lord, and a pedophile dressed as santa claus. You and me are going on a car ride to hell, and im riding shotgun. From one of the freight cars jumps a wearyeyed transient with dreams of a fresh start in a new town. Everything you need to know about hobo with a shotgun. Perhaps only rutger hauer could have brought the correct nuance to the role of a righteous hobo who shows up in some lawless, post. Aficionados of exploitation know the disappointment of gathering with drinking buddies to watch some choicesounding trash, only to be let down by a movie with just a few juicy scenes and corny lines between long stretches of tedium. Director jason eiseners hobo with a shotgun is built to be an exception.
Then again, an audience that queues up for a movie called hobo with a shotgun probably has a pretty good idea of what its in for. Rutger hauer dispenses street justice as a homeless vigilante in hobo with a shotgun 2011. Regardless, i missed this in theaters in canada, unfortunately, but i think its on dvd now. Its a shame that rutger hauer was making one movie, which was pitch perfect, while the others involved seemed to be making another far less interesting one. The hobo grabs a shotgun from the shelf and kills the robbers. Hattip to devin its kind of a shame that the studios have woken up to the notion that being a bighit at comiccon doesnt mean its going to make money, because otherwise knights of badassadom would probably already have a distributor. Hobo with a shotgun is the perfect neoexploitation movie. Hobo with a shotgun was seen as one of the fake trailers in grindhouse, but unlike the other fake trailers, this one wasnt directed by someone famous, but was the result of a contest.
Hobo with a shotgun 2011 hoping for heaven but finding an urban hell, a homeless man rutger hauer takes aim at a crime boss and the mans sadistic sons gregory smith, nick bateman. Read the hobo with a shotgun movie synopsis, view the movie trailer, get cast and crew information, see movie photos, and more on movies. Austin, texas hobo with a shotgun, the outrageously bloody movie spawned by a grindhouse trailer, is about to blast its way onto ios devices in the form of a retrostyle game with a unique back. A hobo jumps from a freight car, hoping for a fresh start in a new city. No, i just wanna go to the zoo and see the bears with you. Hobo with a shotgun shrugs off just about all of that. The director is joe lynch whod be more reverred among horror fans if only his excellent wrong turn 2 wasnt tainted by being a sequel to. He also contributes to the escapist, having been previously let go on february, 2015 but later coming. Im as big a fan of the bloated 70s80s action aesthetic as anyone. Just by the title, i could always tell that hobo with a shotgun was going to be a fun bloody action movie, and i was completely right. The 2011 film hobo with a shotgun started out as a fake movie trailer in grindhouse, but thanks to independent filmmakers from dartmouth, nova scotia, it became the second grindhouse trailer after machete to get converted into a featurelength film. Hobo with a shotgun tells the story of an earnest, older transient hobo played with gravity by the ever awesome and always game rutger hauer who goes from town to town looking for a break and a means to begin living his humble dream of making a decent living as a landscaper. An incredibly faithful homage to the notsoclassic output of cannon films and troma that rises above its.
He has dreams of a fresh life in a new city, but finds himself trapped in an urban hell instead. Seeing an urban landscape filled with armed robbers, corrupt cops, abused prostitutes and even a pedophile santa, the hobo goes about bringing justice to the city the best way he knows howwith. Hobo with a shotgun originated as a mock trailer contest promoting the roll out of the tarantinorodriguez double feature. With rutger hauer, pasha ebrahimi, robb wells, brian downey.
Films discussed by moviebob all the tropes wiki fandom. Its like the room, but without the pathetic sad cloud that is wisneau and guys fighting over an unattractive girl. Hobo with a shotgun on dvd july 5, 2011 starring rutger hauer, gregory smith. If you set out to parody junk, you will more than likely end up with junk. Basically, its a trailer for a movie about a hobo who takes it upon himself to. A hobo jumps from a freight car hoping for a fresh start in a new city. Its since been put onto the american bluray ofgrindhouse. It all began in 2007 with an announcement on aint it cool news, of a grindhouse trailer contest. Cosponsored by the sxsw film festival and robert rodriguez, the contest gave a threeweek deadline to come up with a grindhouse style trailer for a fake movie. A hobo jumps from a freight car, hoping for a fresh start. Hobo with a shotgun is just too troma, which is not a great surprise given that just like troma movies it is a copy of the real thing.
You just need to watch this film to appreciate its true nature. Retro hobo with a shotgun game blasts onto ios wired. The new, nsfw action movie hobo with a shotgun is so extreme even star rutger hauer thinks it goes too far. The film is violent, stylistic, and has a great deal of authenticity to it. Bob moviebob chipman, also known as the game overthinker, is a. Hobo with a shotgun by jason eisener jason eisener. Instead, he lands smackdab in the middle of an urban. Released may 6th, 2011, hobo with a shotgun stars rutger hauer, gregory smith, molly dunsworth, brian downey the movie has a runtime of about 1 hr 26 min, and received a score of 55 out of 100. Hobo with a shotgun is a 2011 canadianamerican black comedy action exploitation film directed by jason eisener, written by john davies, from a story by. Aint it cool news has delivered the first unrated trailer for jason eiseners bloody exploitation film, hobo with a shotgun. Everything that would make a film unwatchable is used superbly to create an epic masterpiece of faux drivein cinema.
Hobo with a shotgun, starring rutger hauer as a homeless canadian vigilante who wishes we could all just mow a lawn, is a more honest. This is a city where crime reigns supreme, and the man pulling. Has to be my favorite film of the year, just because of how horrible it is. Hobo with a shotgun 2011 directed by jason eisener. A train pulls into the station its the end of the line. A blind vietnam vet, trained as a swordfighter, comes to america and helps to rescue the son. Stay tuned on fridays for new episodes of escape to the. Movies like hobo with a shotgun if you like hobo with a shotgun you are looking for rough, stylized and serious movies about with brutality, vigilante, vigilantism, violence spree, social decay, violence and anti heroes themes of action, comedy and horror genre shot in canada. Most similar movies to hobo with a shotgun the list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Stranded in scumtown, which is crawling with sadistic street toughs, corrupt cops, and even a screwy santa claus, a man only known as hobo hauer decides to take justice into his own hands with the help of his trusty doublebarreled shotgun, of course. Instead, he finds himself trapped in an urban hell. Not everyone who saw the film in theaters saw the trailer, but it was popular enough with those who did that it became the second grindhouse spinoff. This film is not a cormanesque piece of exploitation trash one that utilizes nudity and violence to make a profit, but a postmodern loveletter to.