Jason Eisner won the SXSW competition to have his grindhouse style trailer featured in some territories as part of the GRINDHOUSE package. Now Eisner gets to expand that wonderful exploitation trailer into the film that never was.
The premise is simple enough, Rudger Hauer is the titular down and out who comes to town a rather fucked up almost post-apocalyptic Nova Scotia where he is trying to mind his own business and gather up a few bucks to buy a lawnmower and earn an honest living but this dis-honest town won't let him. From the broadcast "bumfights" in the street to the wanton prostitution and drug dealing this hobo has had enough so he buys a shotgun...
HOBO WITH A SHOTGUN is a wack job of a movie and a delightful one at that. Eisner is more of the generation of crappy VHS movies than grindhouse cinema and the garish colours and pulsating synthised soundtrack testify to this as much as the inclusion of 80's action star Rudger Hauer. Shooting in his home town of Nova Scotia invokes a totally different world than the LA and Hollywood scenes we are used to seeing on the big screen and lends HOBO that home made feel like in Rodriguez EL MARIACHI. Troma style gore and the inclusion of the bizarre bounty hunter team The Plague who look like a set of Doctor Who villains take this ode to movies gone by down a route that Happy Horror Hard On never expected.
It's a fun movie if you are sick, twisted and abnormal, which we all are.
A semi-erection for HOBO WITH A SHOTGUN.
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