1 Time Film Excess Nominee:
Best Score: Adam Burke, Darius Holbert, Russ Howard III (lost to Cliff Martinez for Drive)
+ Best Canadian Movie of the Year
+ Best Gore Movie of the Year
+ Best Lines in a Movie of the Year
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| One of the many cool, funny throw-back style posters for Jason Eisener's Hobo with a Shotgun |
Based on a trailer that won a competition to be shown in some venues along with Robert Rodriguez' (2007) and Quentin Tarantino's grindhouse-revival movies (Planet Terror and Death Proof (both 2007), is a fast-paced, Canadian homage to 80's grindhouse flicks like The Toxic Avenger (1984), directed by Jason Eisener (The ABC's of Death (2012), segment).
An avenging homeless man in the guise of a glass-chewing, rattling Rutger Hauer (Soldier of Orange/Soldaat van Oranje (1977)) goes all-in to defeat local mob Drake (played with even more crazed glee by Brian Downey (Snow Angels (2007)) and his demented sons.
The film is obviously made for very little money, but the blood bath impresses all the more in its radicalism and ingenuity. Hobo with a Shotgun goes over the top within minutes, proceeds overboard and takes outrageous violence to deranged new heights. The music is spot-on, by Adam Burke (Game (2013) short), Darius Holbert (Assassins Tale (2013)) and Russ Howard III (Her Infidelity (2015)), the enormously heavy tint-like color grading gets pushed to extremes, and the performances are equally over-the-top. Hauer is delightfully brisk and clench-teethed in the title role.
John Davies (V/H/S/2 (2013), segment) wrote the screenplay and came up with some hilarious lines in it, like:
"Mother Teresa was a god-damned saint!"
"Live, you fucking whore!"
And "You can't solve all the world's problems with a shotgun!" - They are all very hard not to enjoy, spoken with the enthused gusto in this fun and wild hyper-violent movie.
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Here's the competition-winning original ('fake') trailer
And here's the trailer for the actual movie, Hobo with a Shotgun
Cost: 3 mil. $
Box office: 748k $
= Huge flop
[Hobo premiered at Sundance and later on very few screens (peaking in the US on just 15) in Canada and USA as well as on VoD. It has also played the Sydney Film Festival, but has far from recouped its costs theatrically. It made 703k $ (94 % of the total gross) in the US.]
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