A true story of a director's dream film Hobo With A Shotgun started off as a faux trailer for a Grindhouse contest which ended up seeing Jason Eisener's trailer attached to the Canadian prints of Grindhouse (Death Proof & Planet Terror). Later the director found himself with the money and cast to make a full length film. Starring Rutger Hauer (Blade Runner) the exploitation film focuses on a Hobo who arrives in a town run by psychotic crime family which is littered by all the filth and grime you can imagine. He ends up getting his hands on a shotgun and delivers his own brand of justice "one shell at a time".
I think if you go into a film like this thinking it's going to amazing your going to be disappointed. On the other hand if you're a fan of exploitation films and genre homages you'll have fun with it. My biggest issue is that there were too many Canadian references in this film to reach a broader audience. The film proudly filmed in Nova Scotia is purely made for the Trailer Park Boys crowd not really made for American audiences. Two things the film had going for it was it's amazing score along with the inventive death and violence scenes that at times out shine Robert Rodriguez. Yet the first twenty minutes are sort of terrible and don't give you the impression the action will ramp up which it does. It's an uneven gore fest but it was still fun for a new director's first film. I hope that Hollywood comes calling because Jason could have an interesting career in studio horror and action films if given the chance. If I had to compare it to a recent film it would be Machete, a movie with problems but forgotten with entertaining action sequences.
C
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
Blog Archive
-
▼
2011
(1067)
-
▼
May
(99)
- New Captain America Promo Posters
- Warner Bros. & Legandary Pictures Developing Hango...
- RUMOR: Leonardo DiCaprio Playing Villain In Django...
- Hobbit Films Get Official Titles & Release Dates
- REVIEW: Source Code
- RUMOR: Idris Elba Meeting Tarantino For Django Unc...
- Orlando Bloom Reprising Legolas For The Hobbit
- Alice Braga Joins Niell Blomkamp's Elysium
- Screen Grabs From The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo ...
- Red-Band Trailer For David Fincher's Girl With The...
- Touching First Trailer For 50/50 (I'm With Cancer)
- Updates & Images From The Guillermo Del Toro Produ...
- Matthew Vaughn Gives An Update On Bloodshot & A Ru...
- RUMOR: Loki Not The Only Villain In The Avengers
- John Cho Joins Len Wiseman's Total Recall
- FIRST LOOK: Pixar's Brave
- Adam McKay Teases Cast For Farrell/Wahlberg Comedy...
- Zach Braff In Talks To Join Oz, The Great & Poweful
- TRAILER: The Decendants
- Hangover 2 Inspired Muppets Teaser Trailer
- David O'Russell Ditches Uncharted: Drake's Fortune
- Director Albert Hughes Leaves WB's Akira
- Child Actress Joey King Lands Roles In Dark Knight...
- Jeff Bridges Confirmed To Join Ryan Reynolds In R....
- Bill Nighy In Talks For Len Wiseman's Total Recall
- Kate Beckinsale & Jessica Biel Confirmed For Total...
- 8 Directors In The Running For The Wolverine
- David Fincher's Dragon Tattoo Remake Trailer Comin...
- Vin Diesel Says Riddick 3 Shooting This Summer & W...
- Matthew Vaughn Lobbies For Michael Fassbender To P...
- ILM Will Handle VFX For Avengers
- Stephen Fry & Benedict Cumberbatch Join The Hobbit
- RUMOR: Dark Knight Rises Teaser Attached To Harry ...
- RUMOR: Felicia Day Playing A Known SHIELD Agent In...
- REVIEW: Hobo With A Shotgun
- REVIEW: Burke & Hare
- REVIEW: Your Highness
- REVIEW: On Stranger Tides
- Amazing Final Trailer For Green Lantern
- Matthew Modine Joins The Dark Knight Rises
- Tom Cruise Confirmed For Oblivion/Horizions & Circ...
- FIRST LOOK: Tom Hardy As Bane In The Dark Knight R...
- More Hunger Games Images
- Could This Be Black Widow's Avengers Costume?
- FIRST LOOK: Jennifer Lawrence As Katniss In Hunger...
- Michelle Williams Confirmed As Glinda In Sam Raimi...
- RUMOR: Thor 2 Coming 2013 & Possible Villains?
- TRAILER: Adventures of Tintin
- Warner Bros. Developing The Lost Years of Merlin
- Seth MacFarlane & Fox Resurrecting The Flintstones
- U.S. Poster For Tintin
- Milla Jovovich Gives An Update On Resident Evil 5
- First Poster For Adventures of Tintin: The Secret ...
- Justin Lin's Highlander Reboot One Step Closer To ...
- Jim Jarmusch Making Vampire Film Starring Michael ...
- Gemma Arterton & Saoirse Ronan Starring In Neil Jo...
- New Green Lantern Posters
- Final Batch Of X-Men First Class Stills
- Annapurna Pictures Outbids Lionsgate For Terminato...
- Chris Hemsworth Confirmed For Snow White & The Hun...
- Jamie Vanderbilt Hired To Write Ridley Scott's Red...
- Marvel Reveals The Items In Odin's Vault Quickly S...
- Space Nazi Invasion Film "Iron Sky" Coming April 2012
- Jaimie Alexander & Olivia Wilde Talk Tomb Raider
- Derek Luke Reprising Howling Commando Gabe Jones I...
- Fright Night Poster
- TRAILER: Fright Night
- TRAILER: Straw Dogs
- Origins Of Black Widow & Hawkeye
- Teaser Poster For Expendables 2
- FIRST LOOK: Bruce Willis In Time Travel Thriller "...
- True Legend Trailer
- New Conan Poster
- Charlie Hunnam Could Star In Guillermo Del Toro's ...
- RUMOR: Jean-Claude Van Damme A Villain In Expendab...
- Clip From Nicolas Winding Refn's Drive
- FIRST LOOK: Official Stills & Promo Poster From Ni...
- Leonardo DiCaprio Turns Down Another Tarantino Role
- FIRST LOOK: Brad Pitt In Cogan's Trade
- Michael Fassbender In Talks For Danny Boyle's Trance
- Will Smith Frontrunner For Lead In Tarantino's Dja...
- Joel Edgerton Signs On For Kathryn Bigelow's Bin L...
- Tomb Raider Reboot Gets Decent Writers
- Keanu Reeves Also In The Mix For Akira
- TRAILER: Colombiana
- TRAILER: Green Lantern Trailer #2
- TRAILER: Conan The Barbarian
- Thor's Jamie Alexander Wouldn't Mind Playing X-23
- Sam Claflin Joins Snow White & The Huntsman, Offer...
- Danny Boyle's Next Film Will Be "Trance" Coming 2013
- Rachel Weisz In Talks For Sam Raimi's Oz, The Grea...
- Bokeem Woodbine Joins Total Recall
- REVIEW: Thor
- Marvel's Kevin Feige Talks Black Widow, Hawkeye & ...
- Kevin Feige Sets Don Payne To Start Writing Thor 2
- Promo Poster For Cobra: The Space Pirate
- Pope Beatifies John Paul II In Rome Before 1.5 Mil...
- Five Films That Likely Will Inspire Django Unchained
- CAST EM'!: Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained
-
▼
May
(99)
0 comments:
Post a Comment