{"id":9411,"date":"2007-09-22T02:27:32","date_gmt":"2007-09-22T06:27:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=9411"},"modified":"2007-09-22T02:27:32","modified_gmt":"2007-09-22T06:27:32","slug":"hobo-with-a-shotgun-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/22\/hobo-with-a-shotgun-2007\/","title":{"rendered":"Hobo with a Shotgun (2007)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"hobowithashotgun\"<\/a>Now living as an online cult gem, \u201cHobo with a Shotgun\u201d has an interesting history. Around the time the craze for the Tarantino-Rodriguez \u201cGrindhouse\u201d rolled around, there was a lot of excitement. Fake trailers, the Grindhouse feel, and two big movies, and then they offered young filmmakers at SXSW a chance to create their own fake trailer to be featured during the actual movie. \u201cHobo with a Shotgun\u201d won out. Granted, it only was featured in a few theatrical showings across the US, it was praised as one of the few entries to capture that truly trashy atmosphere that made Grindhouse so much fun. And shockingly, Eisener captures the time much better than Rob Zombie\u2019s trailer did.<\/p>\n

David Brunt stars as a homeless man who is watching too much crime going on in his city. Child molesters, domestic abuse and even police corruption run rampant, so what\u2019s a hobo to do? He buys a shotgun and kills the shit out of bad guys. That\u2019s all. And that\u2019s all I want. David Brunt, who hasn\u2019t had much experience with acting, is perfectly over the top as this street vigilante who is merciless with his twelve gauge and isn\u2019t afraid of blood splatter. Jason Eisener perfectly captures the feel of the Grindhouse and exploitation genre, and shows without a doubt why this deserved to win.<\/p>\n

The plot in the title? Check. Over-the-top performances? Check. Neon lighting? Check. And of course, there\u2019s my favorite and yours, a shotgun used as a whipping stick to take down some criminals. \u201cHobo with a Shotgun\u201d is that time capsule that almost topples everything that was achieved in \u201cGrindhouse,\u201d because Eisener simply understands the cartoonish nature of the sub-genre. He doesn\u2019t try to stylize his trailer, he simply vies for a trashy gritty setting, amidst trashy characters who go to war, and the man who finds himself rattling the cages of some colorful and vicious gangsters.<\/p>\n

Would I see a feature film? Yes, but even the best of them can fuck up something good. If Eisener can keep the pace here and establish a decently lengthened feature, then bring on the Hobo with the Shotgun; that crazy bastard will win us all over, and maybe Eisener will show these Hollywood fat cats how it\u2019s done. At only two minutes, it\u2019s hard to find a flaw with this. It\u2019s compact, fast paced, and captures the time period in a purely dynamic sense. \u201cHobo with a Shotgun\u201d is one of the many gems of the Grindhouse movie craze, and Eisener really rises to the challenge to stay on par with Tarantino and Rodriguez.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Now living as an online cult gem, \u201cHobo with a Shotgun\u201d has an interesting history. Around the time the craze for the Tarantino-Rodriguez \u201cGrindhouse\u201d rolled around, there was a lot of excitement. Fake trailers, the Grindhouse feel, and two big movies, and then they offered young filmmakers at SXSW a chance to create their own […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,12],"tags":[58,433,438,501,840,938,1087],"class_list":["post-9411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-indie","category-movie-reviews","tag-action","tag-grindhouse","tag-h","tag-indie-film","tag-revenge","tag-short-film","tag-thriller"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9411\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}